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Speaker 1: Happy Friday, everyone, and welcome to the kfa N edition

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Speaker 1: of the Minnesota Vikings Podcast. I go by Dabe Henderson,

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Speaker 1: and as always, I'm joined by the super talented Tatum

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Speaker 1: Everett and producer Eric Davidson, both from the Vikings Entertainment Network.

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Speaker 1: And the temperature here in the Twin Cities is starting

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Speaker 1: to drop, but things are heating up here inside the

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Speaker 1: TCO Performance Center as the three and one Vikings gear

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Speaker 1: up for another division battle against the visiting Chicago Bears.

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Speaker 1: Today's show should be a good one. We'll be joined

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Speaker 1: by Voice of the Chicago Bears, Jeff Joniak, who will

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Speaker 1: give his insight on the Monsters of Midway who march

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Speaker 1: into us Being Stadium on Sunday trying to get their

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Speaker 1: third win of the season. The boom is at noon

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Speaker 1: and you can tune into Sunday's game right here on

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Speaker 1: CAFAM with Voice of the Vikings Paul Allen, Pete Bursch,

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Speaker 1: and Ben Lieber. And as always, the pregame show will

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Speaker 1: kick off at ten am with Mike Musman, so make

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Speaker 1: sure you tune in early for the full coverage of

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Speaker 1: Sunday's game. Tatum, I think it's safe to say that most,

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Speaker 1: if not all, of our bodies are adjusted to being

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Speaker 1: back to a normal I guess to being back to

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Speaker 1: normal after a week in London capped off by win

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Speaker 1: over the Saints on Sunday. However, out of the sixty

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Speaker 1: teams that have played in the NFL International Series, only

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Speaker 1: five teams have opted out of their bye week the

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Speaker 1: week following that game. Out of those five teams, their

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Speaker 1: records are two and three in the following week. And

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Speaker 1: I got to ask you, this jet lag or traveling

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Speaker 1: across continents concern you about this Vikings team heading into Sunday.

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Speaker 1: It always concerns me. I think you can't ignore what

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Speaker 1: just happened, right, But I think that was what the

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Speaker 1: staff went to the experts, and we've heard players say

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Speaker 1: this day in and day out. I mean, we just

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Speaker 1: heard Harrison and Pat Pete talk about this yesterday on

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Speaker 1: the Audible. They just are trying their best to keep

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Speaker 1: the body clock the same when they went over there,

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Speaker 1: and so when they come back here and they adjust accordingly.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't like it was really that difficult. I mean,

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Speaker 1: we got back early in the morning on Sunday, enough

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Speaker 1: really big help that we're going up against a division team.

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Speaker 1: You know, you always get up for those games. It's

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Speaker 1: at home, it's noon. It's finally back to that solid

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Speaker 1: routine that we have right like these first four weeks,

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Speaker 1: which is kind of been all over the place, and

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Speaker 1: so this is kind of kicking off that noon schedule. Now.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if maybe they were like, hey, if

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Speaker 1: you get the Bears after this, like, yes, we'll have

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Speaker 1: no buy because if you hadd like another team or

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Speaker 1: something like that, it would have been a little bit harder,

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Speaker 1: like hey, why don't you play the Packers after this?

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Speaker 1: Or the Bills or the Bills. But but no, it's

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Speaker 1: the Bears and they're coming in, you know. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think they're sneaky because they do have one strength.

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Speaker 1: But it's going to still be tough because I think, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that body clock is key. And speaking to that Bear strength,

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Speaker 1: they liked there. On the ball, they rush for over

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Speaker 1: six hundred yards in the past three games, and usually

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Speaker 1: legs are a thing of concern when you when you

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Speaker 1: talk about being tired and jet lag. And I want

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Speaker 1: to see if these Vikings players have their legs on

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Speaker 1: Sunday because they're going to need them because it's going

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Speaker 1: to be a tough division battle. It's going to come

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Speaker 1: down to the trenches. But speaking of our show, oh,

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Speaker 1: you know, sorry, So Minnesota could become the first team

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Speaker 1: but if they've won that next game, so that two

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Speaker 1: That would be great and be cool, and against the

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Speaker 1: the big talking points are going to be on Sunday

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Speaker 1: and Tatum, the floor is yours, all right. You kind

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Speaker 1: of touched on it a little bit ago. This team,

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Speaker 1: like I kind of really do think that they do

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Speaker 1: So I'm excited to see how we can get back

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Speaker 1: But our offense is our offense. We should be able

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Speaker 1: And then just how we lifted him, you know, how

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Speaker 1: my perspective, And you know there's all kind of math

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Speaker 1: I don't know. You guys might want to do that math,

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Speaker 1: but again, I don't care about that it's a home

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Speaker 1: in football, and you know you got to start fast.

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Speaker 1: You gotta quiet the masses, and you know, fans get

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Speaker 1: But you know whether they can pull that off, I

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Speaker 1: don't know. They got to be a quick starter, that's

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Speaker 1: for sure, and then see where it goes. It's going

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Speaker 1: to be a battle. It's going to be a battle.

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Speaker 1: And just speaking of the best stat the I guess

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Speaker 1: four and eighteen is correct. I think two and three.

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Speaker 1: So there's only been five teams that have opted out

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Speaker 1: I believe the Bears are the last team that is

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Speaker 1: off the buy. So I guess from Minnesota Vikings fans

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Speaker 1: that they're hoping that history does not repeat itself. But

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Speaker 1: Jeff zaf we appreciate your time today, man, I truly

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Speaker 1: appreciate no problem, all right, guys, you guys have a

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Speaker 1: great week. We'll see your Sunday. See you Sunday. Yea

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Speaker 1: and Vikings fans, we appreciate you for joining us for

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Speaker 1: another edition of the Minnesota Vikings Podcast. Presents it by Pepsi.

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Speaker 1: The Boom is at noon. We'll see you at us

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Speaker 1: Bank Stadium.