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Speaker 1: Ho League Cow. Welcome to the postgame report with Minnesota

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Speaker 1: Vikings radio network analyst Bet Bursa. I'm Paul Allen. The

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Speaker 1: Vikings beat the Jaguars twelve to seven, and I'm just

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Speaker 1: gonna let you take it away here because this was

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Speaker 1: such a zany game. The Vikings didn't score a touchdown

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Speaker 1: for the first time since December of last year. It

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Speaker 1: was the Dobbs game at Vegas. They won that game

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Speaker 1: three zero, didn't score a touchdown today, and Parker Romo

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Speaker 1: making his National Football League debut kicking. He went four

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Speaker 1: for four on field goals. There's so much more, but

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Speaker 1: your Minnesota Vikings are seven and two after a five

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Speaker 1: point victory from Jacksonville.

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Speaker 2: And you know, Paul, you look at this game and

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Speaker 2: I have I haven't seen a game this one sided

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Speaker 2: in so long. Four hundred and two yards of offense

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Speaker 2: for the Vikings and only one hundred and forty three

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Speaker 2: for Jacksonville. Time of possession forty two minutes and nineteen

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Speaker 2: seconds for the Vikings. The Jaguars wait to seventeen forty one.

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Speaker 2: You've called games since O seven. You played for more

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Speaker 2: than a handful of years for the Vikings. You coach

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Speaker 2: for half a decade. Have you ever come across anything

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Speaker 2: time of possession wise close to this? No, not close

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Speaker 2: to this. I've seen. I have witnessed maybe some thirty

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Speaker 2: seven to thirty eight the twenty twos, but nothing, nothing,

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Speaker 2: this one sided Paul, And I think the other key

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Speaker 2: thing too, is you look at the last you look

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Speaker 2: at the last couple of weeks. This defense given up

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Speaker 2: the last two weeks, given up twenty points. Wow, that's

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Speaker 2: only ten per game. Now. Are we having trouble putting

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Speaker 2: points on the board. Absolutely, But the defense today absolutely

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Speaker 2: came through to be down three, to take gift going

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Speaker 2: in in halftime, and then to finish this game back

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Speaker 2: at zero. Man, what a great effort by that group

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Speaker 2: we talked about at the close of the game. I

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Speaker 2: think Blake Cashman made a very very big difference. Not

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Speaker 2: that you know he yeah, he got after the quarterback,

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Speaker 2: he had a couple, you know, got some pressure, but

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Speaker 2: just overall just settling down this defense, getting everybody lined up.

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Speaker 2: They look fantastic on that side of the football.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back Cashy, Eden, Prairie go Crazy. Blake Cashman hadn't

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Speaker 1: played in three games and he came back and he

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Speaker 1: had I believe he had the Vikings first sack, and

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Speaker 1: then we thought he had the second his second sack,

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Speaker 1: but there was a face mask on on Mac Jones

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Speaker 1: that nullified had kept the Jags in the game. Cashman

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Speaker 1: had a lot of pop today and after last night

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Speaker 1: chatting with Kevin O'Connell for the pregame on KFAM. When

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Speaker 1: when I learned Cashman was going to play, the number

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Speaker 1: one thing that O'Connell kept talking about was communication. And

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Speaker 1: it's not like Ivan Pace Junior has been with the

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Speaker 1: Green dott He hasn't. But now when you get cash

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Speaker 1: Men with Ivan Pace Junior, Van Ginkole gets to go

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Speaker 1: to the outside. He had a sack. Grenard didn't have

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Speaker 1: a sack, but he disrupted the running game the entire day.

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Speaker 1: Having Cashy back, He's like the heart and soul of

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Speaker 1: this defense.

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Speaker 2: He really, yeah, he really is. Just they operated it

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Speaker 2: seemed at a much higher level. Not a lot of confusion,

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Speaker 2: guys getting in and out. That's settling that swagger. It

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Speaker 2: gives the defense more of a swagger when they're out there.

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Speaker 2: And now you know more numbers for you. Donald was

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Speaker 2: twenty four to thirty eight for two forty one, zero tds,

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Speaker 2: three interceptions for forty eight point two rating, not to

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Speaker 2: be out done by Mac Jones, who had only one

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Speaker 2: hundred and eleven yards throwing, two interceptions, no touchdowns and

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Speaker 1: Three Well coach, that's another astounding part of this game.

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Speaker 1: Jacksonville plus three in the take give in the first half,

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Speaker 1: Vikings plus three in the take given the second half.

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Speaker 1: The Jags have now gone ten games this season where

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Speaker 1: they have not won the turnover battle, and they were

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Speaker 1: plus three at one point.

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Speaker 2: You're absolutely right, and you know the early touchdown and

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Speaker 2: they believe it was the second drive of the game.

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Speaker 2: After that they had they had absolutely nothing. And that's

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Speaker 2: kind of the beauty of playing defense. I think today

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Speaker 2: is a great lesson in this regard. It didn't matter

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Speaker 2: how many times they had to take the field after

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Speaker 2: an interception or after a turnover. They went out and

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Speaker 2: took care of business. Now granted, our offense never really

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Speaker 2: still they answered the call. The defense absolutely answered the call.

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Speaker 2: They were aggressive all day. They stayed aggressive all day.

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Speaker 2: That's the thing. That's one thing I love is it's

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Speaker 2: so when you get that one score game. You're getting late.

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Speaker 2: Coordinators want to just keep everything in front of them

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Speaker 2: and pull some things back. Not flores Man. He kept

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Speaker 2: and mac Jones really finished where he started. He had

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Speaker 2: maybe one series where it was you know, and it

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Speaker 2: was really not even it was run after the catch

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Speaker 2: that got us. We had a couple of mistackles on

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Speaker 2: that series. We had one coverage blunder and that resulted

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Speaker 2: in their in their touchdown drive. But outside of that,

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Speaker 2: Holy cow, this defense played lights out.

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Speaker 1: And before we hear from Kevin O'Connell and quarterback Sam Darnold,

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Speaker 1: who threw three interceptions for the first time since twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty one when he played for the Carolina Panthers. Covenant colapse,

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Speaker 1: however you want to celebrate it. Aaron Jones, I mean

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Speaker 1: Jones was on one knee, tried to get up and walk,

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Speaker 1: the field. Ben Lieber told us from the sideline that

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Speaker 1: he went back to the locker room. It looked like

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Speaker 1: he was all done. Lo and behold. Late in the game,

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Speaker 1: there's Aaron Jones grinding away to help the Vikings to victory.

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Speaker 2: One hundred and sixty nine yards on the ground, Paul,

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Speaker 2: And you know that's when you talk about balance offensively.

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Speaker 2: That's why you can't be a one sided offense because

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Speaker 2: there are going to be days where you know, if

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Speaker 2: your team that loves to throw the football, it's just

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Speaker 2: not there. Quarterbacks having an off day, right, But this

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Speaker 2: type of a scenario, the time of possession, the whole thing,

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Speaker 2: our offensive line, in our running game being able to

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Speaker 2: put up one hundred and sixty nine yards on the

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Speaker 2: ground absolutely huge, absolutely huge.

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Speaker 1: Do it with me one time, two in a row,

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Speaker 1: four ko in a row, four KO. Kevin O'Connell said

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Speaker 1: this after the twelve seven victory.

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Speaker 3: Only real injury update, Aaron Jones was just evaluated for

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Speaker 3: some ribs but did return. Took a hit right there

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Speaker 3: and he was able to tough it out and come back.

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Speaker 4: Really resilient team win.

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Speaker 3: I cannot say enough about our defense, the way they

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Speaker 3: battled and after time and time again answering the call,

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Speaker 3: getting the ball back in the in the second half

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Speaker 3: and clearly tons of time of possession, tons of yards

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Speaker 4: But not good enough offensively.

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Speaker 3: If we're we're not scoring points, and even then to

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Speaker 3: turn it over the way we did, We've got to

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Speaker 3: find a way to execute and find a way to

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Speaker 3: end the ball with the possession in our hands and

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Speaker 3: the snap with the possession in our hands. I know

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Speaker 3: we will rectify that problem and go back to putting

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Speaker 3: points on the board when we get down there. But

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Speaker 3: just you know, just looking even the interesting I don't

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Speaker 3: know if I've been a part of one of these

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Speaker 3: stat lines wise with that kind of time of possession

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Speaker 3: eighty two plays, you know, getting that many run attempts off.

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Speaker 3: But it's proud of the way the guys just kept

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Speaker 3: on you know, on Tuesday and with McQuaid and Ryan

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Speaker 3: right had a couple of nice holes in there as well.

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Speaker 3: It looked like from the blind's eye, So execution of

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Speaker 3: that's a team win. These guys can have a lot

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Speaker 5: How do you walk up the field think in those SAMs?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you know, the first interception ball gets

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Speaker 3: And and maybe, you know, I just think there's times

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Speaker 3: his confidence in guys is is maximum to take some

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Speaker 3: You know, execution was you know, really gonna come down

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Speaker 3: to those three plays when you look at the when

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Speaker 3: thought the uh, I thought that the second you know,

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Speaker 3: the last two interceptions are more so him just trying to.

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Speaker 4: Make a play.

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Speaker 3: And he's a competitive guy, but when you're in the

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Speaker 3: scoring zone. I think one of them was on a

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Speaker 3: Either as as space shrinks, you either have to anticipate

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Speaker 4: And he knows that we'll go.

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Speaker 3: Back to we'll go back to just emphasizing those things throughout,

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Speaker 3: But I did think he you know, he can't have

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Speaker 3: So we can improve as an offense starts with me.

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Speaker 3: I'll find a way to make sure we're able to

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Speaker 3: execute some plays without turning the football over and activate

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Speaker 3: our playmakers and rely on our team to continue to

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Speaker 3: find whatever ways we need to win a game. Proud

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Speaker 3: And I'm proud of that, but absolutely a lot of

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Speaker 6: It looked like I think after the interception where he's

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Speaker 6: on the return, he came off the field kind of

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Speaker 4: Yeah, just I.

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Speaker 3: Think it was on the return of the interception, you know,

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Speaker 7: Could you feel his confidence weighing at all to the

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Speaker 7: like as he wrote.

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Speaker 3: That no, you know, I didn't, and I think we

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Speaker 3: you know, it was one of those days. I mean,

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Speaker 3: ninety plus shell coverage. They're just not going to give you,

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Speaker 3: you know, a chance to really if you're taking chances

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Speaker 3: things are gonna happen because they're just putting a roof

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Speaker 3: many rush attempts off tight ends, you know, leading us

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Speaker 3: in receptions because there's a lot of space.

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Speaker 4: In the middle of the field.

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Speaker 3: But when you throw the ball in the middle of

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Speaker 4: But they weren't going to allow us to, you know,

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Speaker 4: So it was it was, it was really good. We

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Speaker 2: I guess the problem is it's not getting down there.

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Speaker 2: Hockinson and Josh Oliver, those two guys had a phenomenal day.

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Speaker 2: That's exactly how you want to really attack this Jaguar

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Speaker 2: defense that plays at umbrella type two deep coverage. You

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Speaker 2: got a lot of room underneath to operate and we

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Speaker 2: took advantage of that. So it didn't take us long,

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Speaker 2: you know, And Kevin O'Connell stayed true to who he is.

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Speaker 2: He wants to throw the football, he wants to be

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Speaker 2: aggressive through the air. We unfortunately the players did not

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Speaker 2: answer that call. They did not execute the way you'd

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Speaker 2: want him to. But you know, you stick with who

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Speaker 2: you are and that's what we did offensively and defensively.

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Speaker 1: Hockinson nine targets, eight catches, more than half of them

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Speaker 1: for first down seventy two yards. Josh Oliver after a

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Speaker 1: five to fifty eight and one against Indy, Oliver goes

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Speaker 1: four catches fifty two yards. Well done, eighty four. Justin

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Speaker 1: Jefferson five catches forty eight yards and justin by the way,

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Speaker 1: past Adam Thielen for the fourth most receiving yards in

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Speaker 1: the history of Minnesota Vikings football with his effort today.

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Speaker 1: And speaking of Sam Darnold, here's what he had to

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Speaker 1: say following the game.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, obviously, you know, a great job by first and

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Speaker 9: foremost our whole team just getting a win. You know,

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Speaker 9: Jags are a tough team, and uh, you know, our defense,

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Speaker 9: special teams, man, they stepped up today. I gotta do

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Speaker 9: a lot better job to take care of the football.

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Speaker 9: I think that's obvious, and just just being situationally aware

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Speaker 9: of kind of where we're out in the field and

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Speaker 9: first and second down, like just being able to put

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Speaker 9: the ball in play and let our guys go run

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Speaker 9: with it. You know, I thought I could have done

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Speaker 9: a lot better job of that today, But we'll just

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Speaker 9: you know, look at the tape and learn from it

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Speaker 9: that way.

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Speaker 5: So Kevin talked a lot about them playing shell coverage

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Speaker 5: early on. I mean, how how did you feel like

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Speaker 5: that affected you guys?

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Speaker 4: Maybe early?

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Speaker 9: Yeah, just gotta you know, continue to stay patient in

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Speaker 9: the moments when you know they're playing shell coverage or

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Speaker 9: they're playing you know, whatever type of shell man they

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Speaker 9: want to play. Just got to continue to be patient

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Speaker 9: and take what they give.

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Speaker 8: Me from those interceptions where they're I mean, I don't

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Speaker 8: know if you've looked back at them or just in

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Speaker 8: your mind, like where there are other places you couldn't

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Speaker 8: slash it, have thrown it or just run it or

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Speaker 8: throw away or what do you think?

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Speaker 9: Yeah, I think, you know in some of those instances

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Speaker 9: like just being able to you know, like the first

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Speaker 9: one was a tough play, you know, ball gets tipped

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Speaker 9: up and picked off by by the linebacker. And then

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Speaker 9: the last two, you know, just like to have a

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Speaker 9: better ball location, you know, I think the I think

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Speaker 9: the one to Jets in the right corner kind of

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Speaker 9: giving him, you know, if I am gonna throw it,

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Speaker 9: give him a chance. And if he doesn't, you know,

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Speaker 9: get the ball, have the ball hit the ground, you know, don't.

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Speaker 9: We can't put the ball at risk, especially on second

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Speaker 9: down like that. So I just got to continue to

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Speaker 9: manage those situations and and be better that way.

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Speaker 6: And that one was the decision making or the ball

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Speaker 6: come off differently than you wanted to put it. How

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Speaker 6: did you feel about the accuracy.

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Speaker 4: On that one?

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Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, it was just not not the place

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Speaker 9: that I wanted to put the ball. You know, I

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Speaker 9: think with that, just got to continue to be better

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Speaker 9: and work on stuff like that.

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Speaker 5: So you've talked a lot about next play, keeping the

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Speaker 5: mindset that you want to keep consistently. How what what

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Speaker 5: goes through your head after you after throws occur like that, Like,

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Speaker 5: what is your kind of process?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 9: I think you know, whenever you turn the ball over it,

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Speaker 9: especially during the course of a game, you have to

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Speaker 9: have a you know, next play mentality and you know,

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Speaker 9: being able to understand what happened, you know, and just

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Speaker 9: moving on.

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Speaker 4: It's as simple as that.

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Speaker 9: And you know, when those things do happen in the

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Speaker 9: course of a game, uh you know, I know, I

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Speaker 9: have full faith that our defense is going to go

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Speaker 9: out there and get a stop and uh you know,

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Speaker 9: we'll get the ball right back and and go down

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Speaker 9: and get a score. So you know, that's kind of

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Speaker 9: my mindset when when things like that happen.

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Speaker 7: Same, how do you balance that that aggression with the

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Speaker 7: other side of maybe drawing into it, Like, how do

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Speaker 7: you balance that in real time?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 9: You just gotta you know, I think, like I said

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Speaker 9: on first and second down, play smart football. Give our

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Speaker 9: guys if I am gonna you know, try to thread

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Speaker 9: the needle and and make a tough throw, put it

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Speaker 9: in a place where just our guy can catch it.

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Speaker 9: And then on third down, Uh, just being able to

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Speaker 9: understand that, you know, in the red zone we do

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Speaker 9: have points. So just continue to you know, understand situations

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Speaker 9: during the flow of a game, and we'll just you know,

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Speaker 9: continue to look at the tape and get better through

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Speaker 9: those things.

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Speaker 5: What was it like to have TJ on some of

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Speaker 5: those third down opportunities?

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Speaker 9: Yeah, TJ was great today. Just his presence out there,

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Speaker 9: being able to you know, run the routes that he's

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Speaker 9: able to run, find find kind of those zones, uh,

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Speaker 9: you know in there if they do want to play

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Speaker 9: zone coverage on third down. You know, TJ's a TV

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Speaker 9: is a great football player, and I'm happy to have

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Speaker 9: him back.

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Speaker 6: You on the interception, you came off trying to make

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Speaker 6: a tackler. It looks like it came out kind of

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Speaker 6: squeezing your hand. And how did your hand feel after that?

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Speaker 9: And to be able to finish it, Yeah, hand felt good,

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Speaker 9: good enough to be able to finish it, and it

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Speaker 9: feels pretty good.

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Speaker 4: Right now.

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Speaker 9: So, yeah, you're.

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Speaker 4: Nothing You're worried about going forward there now?

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Speaker 9: No, I'm not worried about it.

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Speaker 7: You mentioned the defense, like, just what is it like

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Speaker 7: to have that side of the ball that you can

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Speaker 7: rely on if if you don't.

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Speaker 6: Have your best game?

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Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean hopefully we don't have to do that

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Speaker 9: every single game, but yeah, it's it's awesome to be

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Speaker 9: able to have a defense like that, to be able

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Speaker 9: to go out there and play the way that they do.

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Speaker 9: You know, I've said it, you know, ever since you know, April,

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Speaker 9: ever since the spring. You know, I've understand the kind

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Speaker 9: of players that we have over there, and it's a

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Speaker 9: special group and I'm you know, very fortunate to have

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Speaker 9: them as teammates.

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Speaker 7: You were trying to get the ball to justin a

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Speaker 7: lot of type.

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Speaker 1: What were your conversations like with him during the game

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Speaker 1: about whatever?

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Speaker 9: Yeah, I think the biggest thing was, you know, some

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Speaker 9: games are going to be different than others. You know,

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Speaker 9: I think it's just about keeping the energy and keeping

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Speaker 9: you know, throughout the course of a game, you know,

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Speaker 9: all the ebbs and the flows. You just got to

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Speaker 9: continue to have a consistent mindset. And you know, I

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Speaker 9: feel like as a as an entire offense, as a team,

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Speaker 9: I feel like we do a really good job with

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Speaker 9: that of just being able to stay the course of

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Speaker 9: a game and finish until the last whistle.

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Speaker 4: All Right.

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Speaker 1: The Vikings are three and zero against the a f C. South.

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Speaker 1: They wrap up the games against the a f C

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Speaker 1: South next week against Tennessee.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 1: And this was a physical game today too, so there

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Speaker 1: there could be some some bodies that are sore early

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Speaker 1: in the week into that Titans game, right.

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Speaker 2: I think so. I mean mainly offensively because those guys

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Speaker 2: are on the field for such a long time. And

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Speaker 2: the main thing there is Aaron Jones and and how

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Speaker 2: he's feeling. He's definitely going to be sore tomorrow. Cam

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Speaker 2: Akers has been has been playing very very well, and uh,

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Speaker 2: you know that running back room. It's why you got

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Speaker 2: to have some depth. You've got to find a way

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Speaker 2: to take care of business, regardless of who's back there.

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Speaker 2: So the main concern right now is just this accuracy

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00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:14,239
Speaker 2: thing with Donald and some of the throws you know,

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00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:17,600
Speaker 2: miss reads if you will or whatever, but if you know,

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Speaker 2: give him time. This is his first full season, so

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Speaker 2: you're gonna have these dips in the roads. It's the

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Speaker 2: first time he's really in his career having to overcome

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Speaker 2: right a couple of games like this, So hopefully he'll

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Speaker 2: spring back, he'll get back on it. Another outdoor game

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Speaker 2: coming up this weekend. I mean, it's a perfect opportunity

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Speaker 2: for him to turn it back around and just make

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Speaker 2: himself that more resolute.

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Speaker 1: Great job today, brother, Thank.

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Speaker 2: You, it's fun.

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Speaker 1: Pete Bercich analyst for the Vikings Radio Network, and I'm

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Speaker 1: Paul Allen. The postgame report is an Eric Davidson production,

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Speaker 1: and we have good news. The Vikings behind four field

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Speaker 1: goals by new guy Parker Romo beat the Jacksonville Jaguars

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Speaker 1: twelve seven. Thank you for listening.