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Speaker 1: Yo, what's going on? It's your play by play voice

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Speaker 1: Paul Allen with the analyst Pete Bersich from us Bank

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Speaker 1: Stadium for the Vikings postgame report. Your Minnesota Vikings have

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Speaker 1: started three to oho for the first time since twenty sixteen.

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Speaker 1: And they didn't just beat the Houston Texans today who

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Speaker 1: were undefeated, they smashed them. The final score was thirty

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Speaker 1: four to seven. There's a lot too unpacked, but let's

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Speaker 1: let the analyst analyze thirty four to seven against CJ.

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Speaker 1: Stroud into what's going on?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, I mean, I think first of all, you

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Speaker 2: got to give a tip of the cap to the

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Speaker 2: defense to be able to take a guy like CJ.

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Speaker 2: Stroud off of his game. Again, he faced a very

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Speaker 2: good defense a week ago in the Chicago Bears and

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Speaker 2: they were still He's still very efficient. But to get

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Speaker 2: him to throw his first two inner options of the

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Speaker 2: season right, one off a tip ball, you know, and

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Speaker 2: the other one it just I believe it was buying

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Speaker 2: them that got the other one.

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Speaker 3: Just a great day of just keeping.

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Speaker 2: And we've seen it two weeks in a row now

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Speaker 2: that quarterbacks just can't get into a rhythm, they can't

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Speaker 2: feel comfortable, and when you need someone to make a play,

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Speaker 2: you've got Jonathan Gernard, you got Andrew van Ginkel, You've

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Speaker 2: got Cashman, You've got all these other these guys just

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Speaker 2: making plays when they need to make them. Josh Mattelis

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Speaker 2: so defensively, have been extremely impressed. And our identity is

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Speaker 2: being aggressive. Our identity is getting after the quarterback. We

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Speaker 2: did it all the way to the end. We had

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Speaker 2: backups in there. You know when Jalen Redman is sacking

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Speaker 2: the quarterback, you know that you're putting pressure on this

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Speaker 2: quarterback when that guy's on block. So they stuck to

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Speaker 2: who they were and they came up thirty four to seven. Now, offensively,

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Speaker 2: what I love the most really was our ability to

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Speaker 2: run the football and that big explosive run by Aaron

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Speaker 2: Jones to set us up for the last touchdown, just

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Speaker 2: four minute drill. Everybody in the stadium knew you were

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Speaker 2: running it, and you still were not only to move

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Speaker 3: Right and the season.

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Speaker 2: Throughout the season, you're gonna need to have balance, and

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Speaker 2: I think this offense has more balance now than it's

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Speaker 2: had in years, maybe you know, since maybe the Dalvin

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Speaker 2: Cook days, where you can either run or throw the football.

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Speaker 2: So we're seeing all that emerge, and you know, you win.

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Speaker 2: You win the turnover battle, you win the penalty battle.

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Speaker 2: I mean, this is what happens.

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Speaker 1: I was chatting with elite football mind TJ. Abbott before

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Speaker 1: the game, who was celebrating his birthday, and he reminded

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Speaker 1: me CJ. Stroud had gone two hundred and sixty six

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Speaker 1: consecutive passes without throwing an interception. He threw three against

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Speaker 1: Arizona last year. He threw two today. And in calling

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Speaker 1: the game, there were myriad times we'd see CJ go

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Speaker 1: back and he would look like, say right, and he'd

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Speaker 1: be like, well, I saw that I filmed fifteen times

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Speaker 1: this week, but it's not the same, right, And then

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Speaker 1: he would get hit and then he like would duck

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Speaker 1: and I mean that's the off that's the offense. Rookie

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Speaker 1: of the year from last year. This Vikings defense just confused,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's he who hesitates in this game is

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Speaker 2: dead right, I mean, and we saw that with Daniel

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Speaker 2: Jones week one. He never never got out, never got

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Speaker 2: do that last week and then this week you come

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Speaker 2: in again. I think the best quarterback we faced so

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, brock Perty is a good quarterback, but

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Speaker 2: c J. Stroud with his ability to avoid blitz is

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Speaker 2: to get free to extend plays to all those things

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Speaker 2: that I was worried about middle of the field and

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Speaker 2: take that away was was huge. We knew the Texans

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Speaker 2: were gonna have a hard time running the football, right,

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Speaker 2: being without Joe Mixon. But you know, they got nothing

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Speaker 1: And the Vikings finished with five sacks for a third

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Speaker 1: and five today on c J. Stroud. Jonathan Garnard the

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Speaker 2: I mean, I can't even imagine, and he catches Pat

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Speaker 2: the impact that he's had as a pass rusher getting

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Speaker 2: not how the Texans drew that up.

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Speaker 3: You do not block a guy like.

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Speaker 2: Jonathan Garnard one on one with the tight end when

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Speaker 2: you're doing a five to seven step drop, and you know,

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Speaker 2: Garnard just just ran them over like a freight train.

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Speaker 2: So he was just where he needed to be at

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Speaker 1: And Green Bay is the next opponent. By the way

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Speaker 1: next week from lambeau Field. They beat the Titans thirty

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Speaker 1: to fourteen. You're gonna hear from Vikings head coach Kevin

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Speaker 1: O'Connell shortly and also quarterback Sam Darnold. Sam finished seventeen

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Speaker 1: So Sam on the season has thrown eight touchdowns against

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Speaker 1: the two picks, and this is just the second time

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Speaker 1: in his career he's had a four touchdown game. The

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Speaker 1: last was twenty nineteen with the Jets against Washington. Kevin

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Speaker 1: O'Connell was the offensive coordinator for the Washington team that year.

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Speaker 1: What do you think? What do you think of Donald

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Speaker 1: so far? Or shall I say? What are you just loving?

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Speaker 2: And you know Donald, I think his comfort zone is

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Speaker 2: Jalen Naylor came up with it. So his confidence and

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Speaker 2: I think that's where Donald needed to grow. He needed

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Speaker 1: Let's hear from Minnesota Vikings head coach Kevin O'Connell following

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Speaker 1: a thirty four seven victory over the Houston Texans.

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Speaker 5: Awful empty in here. That's good. That means they're talking

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Speaker 5: because this place is special. This building was special today.

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Speaker 5: I thought our fans were phenomenal. For budget reasons, we

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Speaker 5: but they certainly deserve it and really really appreciate the

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Speaker 5: They're part of the formula here at US Bank Stadium.

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Speaker 5: They deserve to be able to show up and hopefully

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Speaker 5: to be a tough, physical team to really two weeks

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Speaker 5: I thought Jonathan Grenard was absolutely fantastic, Excuse me, fantastic

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Speaker 5: great to see him ring the bell three times right

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Speaker 5: draw the penalty and then we're not punching it in there.

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Speaker 5: even when his number is not called, Will record with

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Speaker 5: the fifty eight yarder. Total complete win. Proud of our team.

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Speaker 4: On to the next.

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Speaker 6: What does it say about Ryan Flores and your defense

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Speaker 6: that you've done this to two excellent teams the last

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Speaker 6: and excellent offense is the last two weeks.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we have a lot of respect for everybody. We

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Speaker 5: We know any Sunday in the NFL, you're gonna line

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Speaker 5: I said, you know has been calling really really good games.

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Speaker 5: Balance keeping us balanced while keeping our opponents off balanced

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Speaker 5: is the best way I can describe it. And you know,

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Speaker 7: Challenge this team to prepare, you know, to not go

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's just it stresses communication and your tools to

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Speaker 5: just in the formations and the shifts and and ultimately

437
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Speaker 5: the quarterback's ability to command the ship and run it all.

438
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Speaker 5: And Sam's doing all those things right now.

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Speaker 9: At halftime, they uh, they showed Justin kind of like

440
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Speaker 9: doing gripping his hand and putting his glove on and office.

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Speaker 5: Is he having any issue? Yeah, justin Jefferson, I'm not aware.

442
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Speaker 5: I'm not aware of anything in that regard, but I'll

443
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Speaker 5: definitely keep you guys posted throughout the week if anything

444
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Speaker 5: else comes up.

445
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Speaker 4: How much fun do you feel like Flow is having?

446
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Speaker 5: Yeah, he's uh, he's he's definitely having some fun. The

447
00:21:21,080 --> 00:21:24,159
Speaker 5: players are, you know. I've been trying to spend a

448
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Speaker 5: little bit more time with that that unit this year,

449
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Speaker 5: either on Saturday mornings or you know, throughout the week.

450
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Speaker 5: We got a bunch of great, great guys on that

451
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Speaker 5: side of the ball, smart, tough, love football. New additions

452
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Speaker 5: like JG and Blake and Shack and and Van gink

453
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Speaker 5: and and just and then the guys that are I'm

454
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Speaker 5: hoping they don't get tired of me the Harrison Smith

455
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Speaker 5: Mattel is buying them phillips, you know, because I'm having

456
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Speaker 5: an absolute blast coaching this team, and I think we're

457
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Speaker 5: made of the right stuff and we just got to

458
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Speaker 5: keep proving it because that's what this league is all about.

459
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Speaker 5: As as great as this feels for our team to

460
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Speaker 5: start out three and zero and beat some really good

461
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Speaker 5: football teams and win at home every week is going

462
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Speaker 5: to be a challenge. How disciplined can we be to

463
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Speaker 5: you know, have the best possible Wednesday practice. We can

464
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Speaker 5: this coming Wednesday and then worry about Thursday next. And

465
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Speaker 5: it sounds like a cliche, but you know, if your

466
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Speaker 5: players are willing to commit to that process and demand

467
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Speaker 5: it of each other, you know we're gonna We're gonna

468
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Speaker 5: be okay. All right.

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Speaker 1: So the Minnesota Vikings now are twenty and oh with

470
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Speaker 1: O'Connell at the helm when they win or push, the

471
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Speaker 1: take give battle, and I mean, you played the game

472
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Speaker 1: and you coached it, and you know we've called together

473
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Speaker 1: for quite some time. We know the importance of taks

474
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Speaker 1: and Gibbs turnovers. But to be twenty and oh when

475
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Speaker 1: you win or push, I mean, that's a heck of

476
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Speaker 1: a mark right there.

477
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Speaker 2: It is, And you don't have to go any further

478
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Speaker 2: back than a year ago at this exact time. The

479
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Speaker 2: way we started last year and the number of turnovers

480
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Speaker 2: that we had going through the first three games, it's

481
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Speaker 2: it's the complete, really reversal of that. And these are

482
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Speaker 2: the results. So we want to make this. We sometimes

483
00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:08,920
Speaker 2: want to make this game complicated, and then at its

484
00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:11,560
Speaker 2: core it really isn't. And that's one of the core

485
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Speaker 2: things that that matters. It's possessions, right and our ability

486
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Speaker 2: to turn offenses over. But then again, in the same time,

487
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Speaker 2: outside of cj Ham's fumble, you know on opening Day,

488
00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:28,600
Speaker 2: we've been good since then and hopefully this offense will

489
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Speaker 2: continue that. I mean Aaron Jones again, and what a

490
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Speaker 2: difference maker. I think Blake Brandell as a blocker and

491
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Speaker 2: just a huge body in the way he and Bradberry

492
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Speaker 2: are working together on double teams and those things in

493
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Speaker 2: the running game. But Aaron Jones, and you know, almost

494
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Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty total yards today has just been

495
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Speaker 2: so impressive. I think he's rubbing off on Ty Chandler

496
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Speaker 2: and his running style. So Aaron Jones was an unbelievably

497
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Speaker 2: good get in the offseason.

498
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Speaker 1: Jones finished with one hundred and forty eight total yards.

499
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Speaker 1: He had five catches for forty six yards and his

500
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Speaker 1: first receiving touchdown for the Vikings, and he ran for

501
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Speaker 1: one oh two and today was the one hundred regular

502
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Speaker 1: season game in the career of Aaron Jones. Before we

503
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Speaker 1: hear from Sam Darnold, just chew on this for a moment.

504
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Speaker 1: The Vikings are three and oh and are you know

505
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Speaker 1: they're they're I don't want to say the talk of

506
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Speaker 1: the league, but when you blow out the Texans a

507
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Speaker 1: week after beating the NFC team that just went to

508
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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, nationally and locally, everybody's going to be

509
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Speaker 1: throwing Baucaesia way and I'm sure O'Connell and or Flores

510
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Speaker 1: we'll talk about that this week. But but here's the

511
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Speaker 1: thing on which to chew. Jordan Addison's coming back very soon.

512
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Speaker 5: TJ.

513
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Speaker 1: Hockinson is on the horizon. Dalton Reisner is also on

514
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Speaker 1: the horizon. Just chew on that, analyst, right, And so

515
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Speaker 1: you you have, you're just adding so much more talent

516
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Speaker 1: and route running ability.

517
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Speaker 2: And I think that's something that's impressed me about Jalen

518
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Speaker 2: Naylor is how how he's mature and his route running.

519
00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:04,080
Speaker 2: You know, he's able to stay healthy. And then to

520
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Speaker 2: throw Addison in the mix, right, and Jordan Addison, being

521
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Speaker 2: as as good of a rout runner as he is,

522
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Speaker 2: is going to give Donald even more options. And then

523
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Speaker 2: we talked about the middle of the field and what's

524
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Speaker 2: better for a quarterback in the middle of the field

525
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Speaker 2: than a TJ.

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Speaker 3: Hockinson.

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Speaker 9: Wow.

528
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Speaker 2: Right, So all those things, all those things are yeah

529
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Speaker 2: there you talk about positives on the horizon. Yeah, I

530
00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:27,880
Speaker 2: mean that's that's something that this team to play as

531
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Speaker 2: well as it has been without all of its talent,

532
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Speaker 2: with all the bullets and it's gun proverbially is unbelievably impressive.

533
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Speaker 2: And the coaching job offensively, defensively, special teams are doing

534
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Speaker 2: the little things right, you know. It's it's just so impressive.

535
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Speaker 2: These guys are taking pride in their work and it

536
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Speaker 2: shows on the field, and that's kind of something that's

537
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Speaker 2: been missing. I think it's just that that that killer

538
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Speaker 2: attitude of when you have the lead to just be

539
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Speaker 2: able to run the ball and finally put a game away.

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Speaker 3: It's just starting.

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Speaker 2: I'm starting to see that upfront, especially with that offensive line.

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Speaker 5: Right.

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Speaker 1: I love it and I am glad you said that

544
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Speaker 1: because the Minnesota Moving Company was getting a lot of praise.

545
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Speaker 1: During the broadcast on KFA and Today, Christian Darra saw

546
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Speaker 1: Blake Brendel, Garrett Bradberry at Ingram and Brian O'Neil. The

547
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Speaker 1: right tackle David Questenberry had to come in for a

548
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Speaker 1: few plays and he represented well too. But here's the point.

549
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Speaker 1: And I know it's a team game, so pass protection

550
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Speaker 1: is not only unto the offensive line. You need backs

551
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Speaker 1: who can pick up tight ends, a quarterback who doesn't

552
00:26:29,119 --> 00:26:31,440
Speaker 1: hold it too long, the whole thing. But you can't

553
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Speaker 1: dispute however it's happening, and the offensive line will give

554
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Speaker 1: most of the shine here. Game one, we talked about

555
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Speaker 1: Dexter Lawrence, Brian Burns and cave On Thibodeau all week.

556
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Speaker 1: All right, Lawrence gets a sack right out of the gate,

557
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Speaker 1: welcome to the twenty twenty four season. Well, then he

558
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Speaker 1: got shout out. The rest of the game, Thibodeaux and

559
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Speaker 1: Burns had a combined one tackle. Thibodeaux had zero. The

560
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Speaker 1: next week, you're running play action out of the end

561
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Speaker 1: zone with O'Neill singled up against Nick Bosa, and it works.

562
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Speaker 1: And then you get Aaron Jones picking up bred Warner.

563
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Speaker 1: You get Brad Berry, I think, picking up Javon Hargrave

564
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Speaker 1: long enough for Donald.

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Speaker 3: To go ninety seven. Very good pass rusher as.

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Speaker 1: Well, right ninety seven to Jefferson. Then today former Viking

567
00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:17,040
Speaker 1: Daniel Hunter eighty seven and a half sacks, when he

568
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Speaker 1: was here, third most in the history of the team,

569
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Speaker 1: behind John Randall and Chris Dolman. On the other side,

570
00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:25,520
Speaker 1: the defensive rookie of the Year last year, Will Anderson,

571
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Speaker 1: Derek Barnett, the former Eagle, who's full of fire, and

572
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Speaker 1: yet you held them at bay. Holy cow.

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Speaker 2: Well, let me let me lay this stat on you.

574
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Speaker 2: A week ago, the Chicago Bears threw the ball forty

575
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Speaker 2: two times. Caleb Williams was pressured thirty six come on

576
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Speaker 2: of those forty two attempts, thirty six out of forty two.

577
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Speaker 2: And we saw Donald today being able to go on

578
00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:52,960
Speaker 2: two to three extend plays. I mean this offensive all number.

579
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Speaker 2: You know they had the credit. Got to give credit

580
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Speaker 2: where credit's due. And you're right, Paul, though, those five

581
00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:00,680
Speaker 2: guys up front are really doing a great job. They're

582
00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:03,840
Speaker 2: scheming things the right way. Protections are good, they're executing

583
00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:06,760
Speaker 2: those protections. You're not seeing the mistakes, you know, like

584
00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:11,120
Speaker 2: when when again, when we see someone like Jonathan Gernard

585
00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:13,879
Speaker 2: just beat Cad Stover one on one with a tight end,

586
00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:16,960
Speaker 2: who was a rookie. I mean, that's a mistake. That

587
00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:18,919
Speaker 2: can't have drawn that up that way.

588
00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:20,800
Speaker 3: We're not seeing that on our side of the ball,

589
00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:22,720
Speaker 3: so you know, and Tunsil.

590
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Speaker 1: Let just let somebody go.

591
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Speaker 3: Remember Laromie Tunseel. Yeah, just inside.

592
00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:29,919
Speaker 2: A lot of issues at the interior with them with

593
00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:33,240
Speaker 2: those guys hand again, you see it on film. Their

594
00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:35,520
Speaker 2: offensive line. They ran the ball well, they run the

595
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Speaker 2: zone very well. They had over two hundred yards on

596
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Speaker 2: the ground against the Indieapolis Colts. But they don't they

597
00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:42,800
Speaker 2: don't handle the stunts well. The guys like Shaq Mason,

598
00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:46,160
Speaker 2: the right guard, Juice Scrugs coming back, they struggled today

599
00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:48,840
Speaker 2: in getting a beat on these defensive linemen who were

600
00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:50,800
Speaker 2: moving all over the place and.

601
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Speaker 3: We were just a step ahead of them.

602
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Speaker 2: And very very impressive win for the Minnesota you know,

603
00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:59,000
Speaker 2: jahad Ward getting in there and jumping a snap and

604
00:28:59,320 --> 00:28:59,960
Speaker 2: getting a pressure.

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Speaker 3: I mean it's it's.

606
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Speaker 2: Like all these free agents that we brought in, all

607
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Speaker 2: these guys are making an impact.

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Speaker 1: The demise of Sam Darnold has been greatly exaggerated. Let's

609
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Speaker 1: hear from him after this impressive Minnesota Vikings victory.

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Speaker 10: Guys, I think, like I said last week, you know,

611
00:29:21,040 --> 00:29:24,920
Speaker 10: defense balled out today. Special teams balled out, did their thing.

612
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Speaker 10: You know, obviously we were able to execute, execute at

613
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Speaker 10: a high level in the red zone. You know, hit

614
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Speaker 10: a little bit of a lull in the third quarter there,

615
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Speaker 10: but we'll clean those things up. But obviously, very happy,

616
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Speaker 10: very happy with the win and the way that you know,

617
00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:44,320
Speaker 10: besides those those couple possessions, the way that we were

618
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Speaker 10: able to execute today.

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Speaker 7: Say about the offense, that you can score thirty four

620
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Speaker 7: points on the defense, that's as good as theirs is.

621
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Speaker 7: But last week it was all this explosive place.

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Speaker 1: She really kind of did it today without that explosive play,

623
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Speaker 1: it was just sort of a sustained, small, great pressure.

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Speaker 10: Yeah know, I think it's it's a lot of credit

625
00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:04,440
Speaker 10: obviously to the big guys up front, the old line

626
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Speaker 10: to be able to you know, run the football the

627
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Speaker 10: way that we were able to late in the game

628
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Speaker 10: especially and and obviously you know the first possession, our

629
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Speaker 10: defense given us the ball there with great field position

630
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Speaker 10: and then able you know, being able to take advantage.

631
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Speaker 4: Of that also with the touchdown was huge.

632
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Speaker 6: What was going on with your knee and what what

633
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Speaker 6: did it mean to you that the fans reacted so

634
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Speaker 6: strongly when he went down.

635
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Speaker 10: Then when he came back in Yeah, the fans reaction

636
00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:32,920
Speaker 10: meant everything to me, just the way that you know,

637
00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:36,760
Speaker 10: just not not only that, but my entire time here

638
00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:39,880
Speaker 10: in Minnesota has been amazing with with the fans and

639
00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:42,640
Speaker 10: they've been great. And then you know, just with you know,

640
00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:47,920
Speaker 10: you know, just to Neil just kind of you know,

641
00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:51,440
Speaker 10: obviously he's he's you know, a great player and not

642
00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:55,400
Speaker 10: a not a dirty player whatsoever. But you know, just

643
00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:59,400
Speaker 10: getting hit low there and you know, we'll evaluate it,

644
00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:02,400
Speaker 10: we'll look at it, but you know, felt good enough

645
00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:03,560
Speaker 10: to be able to go back in the game.

646
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Speaker 4: So how is how is it now? It feels good?

647
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Speaker 4: You know, just again, like I said, we're just gonna

648
00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:12,360
Speaker 4: look at it tomorrow.

649
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Speaker 9: You don't anticipate it being something that keeps you from

650
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Speaker 9: practicing your playing or anything on else.

651
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Speaker 4: I'm not sure.

652
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Speaker 10: I'm not going to speak about specifics like that. I

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Speaker 10: think just evaluating it tomorrow is is. Uh, you know,

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Speaker 10: obviously we'll be able to have more information tomorrow.

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Speaker 8: So what did you feel like just helped you so

656
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Speaker 8: much in terms of the success you had in the

657
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Speaker 8: red zone today?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think a lot of it goes into our preparation.

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Speaker 10: The way you know that we prepared on on Friday,

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Speaker 10: our red zone day and then even you know on

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Speaker 10: Saturday being able to rep some of those plays and yeah,

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Speaker 10: again it's just the preparation that that we put in

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Speaker 10: throughout the week allows us to go out on the

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Speaker 10: field play fast and confident.

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Speaker 1: Kind of you.

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Speaker 8: Evaluate your own personal when you look at a game,

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Speaker 8: I know you have four touchdowns tying.

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Speaker 1: A clear high to.

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Speaker 3: Say that this lo on my best or how do

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Speaker 3: you evaluate yourself and me.

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Speaker 10: End No, I think it's at the end of the day,

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Speaker 10: it's you know, did I do everything that I could

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Speaker 10: to to put our offense in a really good position.

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Speaker 4: For the most part, Yes, I feel like I could have.

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Speaker 10: You know, done a little bit better in that regard

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Speaker 10: on those couple of drives that I mentioned in the

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Speaker 10: third quarter. And so again there's there's room for improvement,

678
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Speaker 10: which is great, great for us. But you know that's

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Speaker 10: I feel like that's it's it's gonna be that way

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Speaker 10: every single game.

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Speaker 4: You know, you always have room for improvement, and.

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Speaker 10: You know we'll just uh go from there.

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Speaker 1: Games and it's gone well, Like what has sort of

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Speaker 1: jumped out to you just about the.

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Speaker 5: Kind of live and the chemistry of this team has gone.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, you know, I love those guys in the locker room.

687
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Speaker 10: You know the way that they've been able to, like

688
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Speaker 10: I keep mentioning the way that we've been able to

689
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Speaker 10: prepare throughout the week, and you know, the looks that

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Speaker 10: we're getting from the scout team, like everything is is

691
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Speaker 10: you know, high level football right now. I think, you know,

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Speaker 10: we just we've got to continue to you know, push

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Speaker 10: each other on Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays to to

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Speaker 10: be able to go out there on Sunday and and

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Speaker 10: perform at a high level because you know, there's still

696
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Speaker 10: room for improvement. Even you know, the scoreboard doesn't tell

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Speaker 10: the whole story. You know, there's there's a lot of

698
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Speaker 10: room for improvement. We're gonna continue to.

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Speaker 4: You know, reach for that improvement.

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Speaker 6: We went against that defense a lot in the targeting game.

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Speaker 1: Just how much stress does everything they do pre snap, postnap.

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Speaker 1: How much stress can app.

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Speaker 10: The auto Yeah, I mean, you know, with the different

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Speaker 10: looks that our defense presents it, it can cause a

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Speaker 10: lot of thinking at the quarterback position, and that's you know,

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Speaker 10: that's that's always hard.

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Speaker 5: So yeah, when it was.

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Speaker 9: Third and nineteen at your own seven after the two

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Speaker 9: pre snap penalties.

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Speaker 5: You had gotten the first down, you know, and then

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Speaker 5: had the two penalties.

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Speaker 8: You're backed up and you dirt the ball so quickly

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Speaker 8: that they a flag and then they pick it up

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Speaker 8: because you weren't under duress.

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Speaker 5: Is that you.

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Speaker 6: Taken coaching and making sure that you don't make mistakes

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Speaker 6: that maybe you've made.

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Speaker 5: In a pass.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just it starts with communication.

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Speaker 10: You know, got to communicate better and.

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Speaker 4: And yeah, I think it's just not making a bad

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Speaker 4: play worse.

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Speaker 5: You saw that immediately. I mean it was whatever you

724
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Speaker 5: were looking for was something wasn't there, and you just.

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Speaker 10: Immediately yeah, yeah, notice it wasn't there, wasn't gonna be there.

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Speaker 10: So just wanted to get the ball out of my

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Speaker 10: hand and you know, and the drive with a kick.

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Speaker 8: Say what has it been like communicating and sitting with

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Speaker 8: and talking with Josh in game just these first three weeks.

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Speaker 4: Josh McCown. Yeah, it's been. It's been great, man.

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Speaker 10: You know, just to be able to have a guy

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Speaker 10: you know in there that's been in our shoes plenty

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Speaker 10: of times, and you know, just like I mentioned, all

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Speaker 10: the experience that he has, it helps us a lot

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Speaker 10: of quarterbacks.

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Speaker 11: Sam, I know you might to Nardi the defense balling out,

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Speaker 11: but just specifically with Kim of getting that interception right

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Speaker 11: away and being able to start where you guys did.

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Speaker 11: Just how much of a spark did that create immediately?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 10: Huge spark, you know for our defense to be able

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Speaker 10: to go out there and create a turnover on the

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Speaker 10: first drive and then, like I said, for us to

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Speaker 10: go go and capitalize on that.

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Speaker 4: You know, that kind of set the tone for the

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Speaker 4: whole game.

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Speaker 2: How do you strike the ballots and going through your

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Speaker 2: progressions just going that they do have some active rusher's comings.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you know that's that's football, right.

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Speaker 10: It's like, you know, when when do you continue to

751
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Speaker 10: go through your progressions and check the ball down versus

752
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Speaker 10: when do you drop back, you know, go through your

753
00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:44,839
Speaker 10: first read and feel pressure and try to escape or or.

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Speaker 4: Do something you know off schedule.

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Speaker 10: You know, that's that's always I feel like the battle

756
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Speaker 10: you fight as a quarterback when you.

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Speaker 4: Have the ability to get up and escape.

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Speaker 10: So yeah, we're just I'm just going to continue to

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Speaker 10: you know, play with play with instincts, but play smart

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Speaker 10: as well.

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Speaker 1: Donald goes for one to eighty one, and four. Jefferson

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Speaker 1: finishes six eighty one and one. He scored the first

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Speaker 1: touchdown of the game. Now he had six targets and

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Speaker 1: six catches at one point, finished with eight targets and

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Speaker 1: six catches. I mean, the only weird thing from the

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Speaker 1: game is that justin Jefferson actually dropped two passes that

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Speaker 1: should have been first down.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, had he caught the head he

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Speaker 2: cut both those, he would have been right right at

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Speaker 2: one hundred yards. So you know, a couple of he

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Speaker 2: had a couple of unbelievable catches today. The one he

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Speaker 2: caught across the middle when Donald just put a he

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Speaker 2: had a zip on that thing, nothing but a vapor trail,

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Speaker 2: and he was able to come down with it. So

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Speaker 2: he had some impressive catches. I don't think you want

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Speaker 2: to end the game, you know, the way he did

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Speaker 2: with two drops. But yeah, again, Paul, you you're not

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Speaker 2: one handed on offense. When you're able to run the

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00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:53,880
Speaker 2: ball like we can like we have, it gives you

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Speaker 2: some options and that then you get in the play

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Speaker 2: action game, which helps protection and gives you time to

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Speaker 2: get some of these deep routes. It's I like that

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Speaker 2: shot that Darnold took down down the field early.

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Speaker 3: I believe it was Josh Oliver.

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Speaker 2: Now, you know you have to do that every once

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Speaker 2: in a while, right to keep these these defensive backs.

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Speaker 2: And by the way, how about the play calling too.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you know, Kevin O'Connell's feeling it when he

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Speaker 2: when he's calling double passes and he's calling out and

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Speaker 2: ups and wheel shot. It's that drives defense as nuts too,

791
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Speaker 2: because they have to try to account for all that.

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Speaker 2: You saw it on films, So they're you know, they're coaches.

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Speaker 2: It's just their nature. They want to try to cover

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00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:33,799
Speaker 2: and now you're chasing ghosts. So yeah, you know this

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Speaker 2: Kevin O'Connell, I think, is having just the time of

796
00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:38,200
Speaker 2: his life calling plays for this offense.

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Speaker 1: Likewise, for Brian Flores, the defensive coordinator. Into the game,

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Speaker 1: the Vikings were giving up eleven points a game and

799
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Speaker 1: they held the Texans to seven today. And we cannot

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Speaker 1: leave the postgame report without providing some accolades to Camu

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Speaker 1: rouge Hill. He replaced Ivan Pace Junior today who was

802
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Speaker 1: scratched due to injury, and again Stroud had gone two

803
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Speaker 1: sixty six in a row without a pick. His very

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Speaker 1: first pass hit by Harrison Phillips picked off by the

805
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Speaker 1: former Texan a Camu gruge Hill and he finished with

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Speaker 1: a couple passes defense that was fantastic. Oh, another ho

807
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Speaker 1: hum day for Andrew van Genkel. Six tackles, a sack,

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Speaker 1: a quarterback hit, a tackle for loss. I mean, ben

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Speaker 1: g Yeah, everything's humming right now and we get Green

810
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Speaker 1: Bay next time.

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Speaker 3: Your floor is when you see when you see I

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Speaker 3: having pace on Monday in the training room, You're like, Okay,

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Speaker 3: I just take a time with that ankle, buddy. Oh,

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Speaker 3: come on, take a time, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 3: Back in the day, that's how they would have handled that.

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Speaker 1: Great job today. Brother. That's Pete Versus joannalyst for the

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Speaker 1: Vikings Radio Network, and I'm Paul Allen. The postgame report

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