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Speaker 1: This new venue was so electric. The Vikings fans turned out,

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Speaker 1: the Saints fans turned out, The NFL fans of any

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Speaker 1: type of player or team turned out. It's really incredible.

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Speaker 1: I think that if you were assigning percentages to win responsibility,

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Speaker 1: and the special teams. You know. This is the Minnesota

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Speaker 1: official soft drink of the Minnesota Vikings. From a double

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Speaker 1: digit deficit, comeback to a double dooin victory as time expire.

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Speaker 1: The Vikings are now in a two game win streak

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Speaker 1: following a twenty eight to twenty five victory in London

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Speaker 1: over the Saints. I'm Tatum Everett. We've got Gabe Henderson,

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Speaker 1: Jay Nelson, and our producer Eric Davidson. You know you

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Speaker 1: two guys, Jay and Eric are very well arrested. Gabe

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Speaker 1: and I are a wee bit tired from our troop

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Speaker 1: across the pond last night. Yeah, my bed felt great

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Speaker 1: last night. Arrested just so did mine. Pretty good, so

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Speaker 1: did mine. But at three am, I'm still like jealous

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Speaker 1: that Tatum you slept at three am because my adrenaline

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Speaker 1: not at all. I did go a little bit of

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Speaker 1: Z's on the plane, you know, the neck pillow came

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Speaker 1: in clutch, watched some TV things like that to watch

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Speaker 1: uh this, uh this like Netflix girl flick show that

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Speaker 1: a girl who's a badass lawyer. I just like that

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Speaker 1: kind of stuff because I can like watch it and

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Speaker 1: there for all you gentlemen, but pretty good for all

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Speaker 1: you ladies who are interested. Actually, this is perfect timing

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Speaker 1: because I can now bring in our special guest Craig Peters,

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Speaker 1: who is the Vikings dot Com senior editor and the

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Speaker 1: guest of our podcast today. Hey Craig, Creig, what's going on?

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Speaker 1: Not much? We are literally recording when you called when

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Speaker 1: we were talking about how well rested and unrested some

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Speaker 1: after you've just made the trip back from London? You know,

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Speaker 1: and I feel like, as Tyler Williams was explaining all

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Speaker 1: I don't do that. I don't do that. It's almost

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Speaker 1: like you go to the dentist and you're like, you know,

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Speaker 1: mind going forward. But the upshot of that is I

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Speaker 1: I mean I did sleep a bit more than Gabe

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Speaker 1: now doing a great job with the Chargers, and I

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Speaker 1: It'll be interesting to see with a couple of matchups

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Speaker 1: down the road on where that goes. But I just

432
00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:33,639
Speaker 1: feel like it's it's gonna keep jelling and maybe you

433
00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:36,720
Speaker 1: just start with situational improvements, all right, we really need

434
00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:38,879
Speaker 1: to target third downs and have a good plant for

435
00:21:38,920 --> 00:21:42,560
Speaker 1: those this week. That's been lacking for the first couple

436
00:21:42,600 --> 00:21:45,439
Speaker 1: of weeks. And then the red Zone Sunday against the

437
00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:48,200
Speaker 1: same Just that's flirting with danger right there. That's the

438
00:21:48,320 --> 00:21:50,359
Speaker 1: kind where you walk in and you're like, how do

439
00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:52,520
Speaker 1: we lose that one? Oh? Yeah, we were two for

440
00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:54,840
Speaker 1: five in the red zone. You know that can come

441
00:21:54,840 --> 00:21:57,200
Speaker 1: back to bite you in a future game, and we've

442
00:21:57,240 --> 00:22:00,320
Speaker 1: we've seen some of those in years past too. I

443
00:22:00,359 --> 00:22:03,119
Speaker 1: think that it's all taken shape. I feel like the

444
00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:06,000
Speaker 1: run game is starting to get more and more involved.

445
00:22:06,359 --> 00:22:10,160
Speaker 1: I feel like having the absence of the run game

446
00:22:10,320 --> 00:22:14,760
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia be so glaring has kind of created this

447
00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:19,479
Speaker 1: emphasis and this important aspect of making sure you commit

448
00:22:19,520 --> 00:22:22,160
Speaker 1: to it, you build off play actions from it because

449
00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:25,560
Speaker 1: it's so good with play actions and usually very effective

450
00:22:25,760 --> 00:22:29,000
Speaker 1: on those type of plays. So I feel like that's

451
00:22:29,040 --> 00:22:32,880
Speaker 1: all coming together, marrying the runs the past, and then

452
00:22:33,119 --> 00:22:36,520
Speaker 1: Kurt either through scheme or like being able to have

453
00:22:36,680 --> 00:22:39,720
Speaker 1: time to work with progressions understanding that this so line is.

454
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Speaker 1: They didn't have their best game of the season either.

455
00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:44,920
Speaker 1: I mean there's a couple of tough matchups Cam Jordan

456
00:22:44,960 --> 00:22:48,680
Speaker 1: and justly great player. He won a few times, I

457
00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:52,000
Speaker 1: would say against Brian O'Neill, who is also a great player.

458
00:22:52,520 --> 00:22:54,240
Speaker 1: But I think Cam had a little bit better of

459
00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:58,119
Speaker 1: a day, so handling kind of that pressure, still knowing

460
00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:00,800
Speaker 1: where to go with the ball, still finding ways to

461
00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:03,600
Speaker 1: get receivers. The ball is going to pay dividends in

462
00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:05,880
Speaker 1: the long run. So it's the important thing is you're

463
00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:08,160
Speaker 1: putting all these things together. You're learning on the fly,

464
00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:11,080
Speaker 1: but the bottom line is you're still adding to that

465
00:23:11,119 --> 00:23:13,800
Speaker 1: wind column. And three and one is so much better

466
00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:16,600
Speaker 1: than two and two or one and three, like when

467
00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:19,879
Speaker 1: we're last years and four. Yeah, and with that, Craig, like,

468
00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:21,680
Speaker 1: you know, even just looking at some of the stats

469
00:23:21,760 --> 00:23:24,560
Speaker 1: when you're trying to figure out first downs, I mean,

470
00:23:24,600 --> 00:23:27,640
Speaker 1: we had fifteen first downs passing and only three rushing.

471
00:23:28,119 --> 00:23:30,880
Speaker 1: That feels a little wonky as far as being out

472
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Speaker 1: of balance there, and I think that just speaks volumes

473
00:23:33,320 --> 00:23:35,000
Speaker 1: to the fact you only had eighty one rushing yards

474
00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:36,960
Speaker 1: and you only got three first downs from the rushes.

475
00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:39,600
Speaker 1: I think that that is something that if they can

476
00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:42,520
Speaker 1: finally solidify that part two, it helps take some of

477
00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:44,760
Speaker 1: the pressure off of having to hit all of those

478
00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:48,400
Speaker 1: passes consistently, because defensively then they're going to basically rush

479
00:23:48,440 --> 00:23:51,399
Speaker 1: for drop seven and be trying to do some ballhawking

480
00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:56,160
Speaker 1: versus having to honor that run with Alexander and Delvin

481
00:23:56,200 --> 00:23:58,000
Speaker 1: being able to try and keep them honest. I just

482
00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:01,280
Speaker 1: feeling like, you know, those extra penalties first downs that

483
00:24:01,359 --> 00:24:04,280
Speaker 1: we got yesterday, we're super helpful in order to extend drives.

484
00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:06,600
Speaker 1: But you got to have a little better balance than

485
00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:09,480
Speaker 1: fifteen and three if you want to be consistent with

486
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Speaker 1: this offense. That's a great point, Jay, and probably trying

487
00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:15,800
Speaker 1: to get a little more certain manageable. Um, it didn't

488
00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:18,400
Speaker 1: seem like they had too many certain ones up there,

489
00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:21,199
Speaker 1: but yeah, you're you're you're spot on with Dad. I

490
00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:24,080
Speaker 1: feel like the best thing I thought New Orleans did

491
00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:26,480
Speaker 1: for itself was keeping the game close enough to keep

492
00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:28,959
Speaker 1: its entire offense the playbook open, you know, so they

493
00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:33,000
Speaker 1: could get some of those runs with Murray and Hill,

494
00:24:33,119 --> 00:24:37,639
Speaker 1: and you know, they would have enough time as long

495
00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:39,320
Speaker 1: as they were moving the ball where they didn't just

496
00:24:39,359 --> 00:24:42,800
Speaker 1: have to drop back times. You know, now, I agree

497
00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:44,840
Speaker 1: with you on that. I just moved to the defensive

498
00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:46,480
Speaker 1: side of the ball. I think like one of my

499
00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:50,199
Speaker 1: big concerns right now is Zadarius Smith not being one

500
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Speaker 1: hundred percent, and there were a few times in the

501
00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:56,119
Speaker 1: second half where he wasn't in for our one or

502
00:24:56,160 --> 00:24:58,600
Speaker 1: two drives, and you can tell that was probably due

503
00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:01,760
Speaker 1: to him taking himself out because his knee probably wasn't

504
00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:04,479
Speaker 1: one hundred percent. So one thing that I noticed was

505
00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:06,840
Speaker 1: these Saints, we're starting to pick up on that, and

506
00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:10,240
Speaker 1: they started double teaming Daniel Hunter, so the Neil Hunter

507
00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:12,480
Speaker 1: was getting double team on pass, double team on runs,

508
00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:16,520
Speaker 1: and they were running directly suicide. How important is Zadarius's

509
00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:20,440
Speaker 1: health to us getting a solid pass rush going forward,

510
00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:22,960
Speaker 1: especially against the Chicago Bears team. Yeah, I think that

511
00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:27,280
Speaker 1: that's a tremendous observation game, and that's why of the

512
00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:30,760
Speaker 1: emphasis is on having two edge rushers that are their

513
00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:33,600
Speaker 1: top tier and the experienced in it. I feel like

514
00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:37,280
Speaker 1: Zadarius kind of helped set the tone early for that game,

515
00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:39,760
Speaker 1: did record a sack, was able to give it a go,

516
00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:42,640
Speaker 1: And that's not to be discounted by any means. Given

517
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Speaker 1: the fact that the week was what it was with

518
00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:47,480
Speaker 1: travel and all the adjustments it had to be in

519
00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:49,919
Speaker 1: the final couple of days, you're not preparing in your

520
00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:53,320
Speaker 1: own training facility where you have all of the equipment

521
00:25:53,359 --> 00:25:55,360
Speaker 1: you're used to getting yourself ready for a game four.

522
00:25:55,560 --> 00:25:57,439
Speaker 1: So I feel like there's a flight tip of the

523
00:25:57,440 --> 00:26:00,720
Speaker 1: half there for Zadarius as well, and cooked by the

524
00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:04,400
Speaker 1: way for the gritty rushing that he did put in

525
00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:08,040
Speaker 1: yesterday as well. But yeah, I think that being able

526
00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:11,439
Speaker 1: to free up either one of those guys and design

527
00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:14,440
Speaker 1: something will be a key going forward. I feel like

528
00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:18,159
Speaker 1: the biggest fan frustrations in the mailback right now or

529
00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:20,879
Speaker 1: the defense not going forward off the ball when it

530
00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:23,600
Speaker 1: snapped as much as they'd like to see, whether it's

531
00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:27,640
Speaker 1: blitzes or you know, just just really finding a way

532
00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:29,840
Speaker 1: to get to the quarterback. I do think Andy Dalton

533
00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:32,480
Speaker 1: played pretty fast yesterday and was able to get the

534
00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:35,960
Speaker 1: ball out several times to kind of skirt that as well.

535
00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:39,159
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, if you're double teams, there's not

536
00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:41,440
Speaker 1: a lot that you can do in that situation. So

537
00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:44,639
Speaker 1: pressure either needs to come from elsewhere where they have

538
00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:48,439
Speaker 1: to stop double teaming Daniel Hunter, or you know, just

539
00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:50,399
Speaker 1: something's got to give the right Yeah, you got a

540
00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:52,760
Speaker 1: good point, Yeah, Craig. One other thing, and I think

541
00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:55,880
Speaker 1: it was super important given the way that everything went yesterday,

542
00:26:55,960 --> 00:27:00,520
Speaker 1: was just how insanely important special teams was and just

543
00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:03,160
Speaker 1: seeing you know, essentially your kicker having to kick seven

544
00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:06,520
Speaker 1: kicks in the game, five field goals and two extra points.

545
00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:08,560
Speaker 1: He missed the one extra point, which made it a

546
00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:11,000
Speaker 1: little more nail BITEI there at the end of the game.

547
00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:13,600
Speaker 1: But even with the way Ryan Wright was playing the

548
00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:17,359
Speaker 1: fake punt, having to convert on those and having to

549
00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:19,560
Speaker 1: hit your five field goals in order to get that win,

550
00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:24,359
Speaker 1: and literally winning by a double doink hitting off the uprights,

551
00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:27,040
Speaker 1: like you know, you only go two or five in

552
00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:30,480
Speaker 1: the red zone, yet you're still converting those field goals.

553
00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:32,359
Speaker 1: It just shows you how razor thin it is if

554
00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:34,000
Speaker 1: you're not able to convert when you get into the

555
00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:36,880
Speaker 1: red zone so for me, or when you're not able

556
00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:39,360
Speaker 1: to convert in the red zone so for me. It

557
00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:43,040
Speaker 1: was just super important to show how much this special

558
00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:45,639
Speaker 1: teams group has really grown and geled together this season

559
00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:47,600
Speaker 1: so far in the first quarter of the year. It's

560
00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:51,040
Speaker 1: really incredible. I think that if you were assigning percentages

561
00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:54,960
Speaker 1: for win responsibility, I feel like that special teams unit

562
00:27:55,359 --> 00:27:57,560
Speaker 1: like would have the biggest piece of HIE out of

563
00:27:57,560 --> 00:28:00,159
Speaker 1: the offensive events and the special teams, you know, And

564
00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:02,720
Speaker 1: it was just really impressive with the kicks that Greg

565
00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:05,760
Speaker 1: made the execution on the fake punt. You got to

566
00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:09,199
Speaker 1: credit the Vikings for kind of spotting that and knowing

567
00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:12,240
Speaker 1: the right time to deploy that and then having a

568
00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:15,600
Speaker 1: speeding nailer out there as a gunner and just ready

569
00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:19,920
Speaker 1: to roll. And you know, they've been practicing fake punts practices,

570
00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:22,479
Speaker 1: and it's been you know, a couple of weeks now

571
00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:25,959
Speaker 1: where we've seen a look or two and then, like

572
00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:28,120
Speaker 1: they it's one thing to have that in your playbook,

573
00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:30,560
Speaker 1: it's another thing for you to know the right time

574
00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:33,560
Speaker 1: to call it and then execute it too. And then

575
00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:37,240
Speaker 1: also to finish that drive whip point because it was

576
00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:40,200
Speaker 1: the first fake punt executed by the Viking since the

577
00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:44,120
Speaker 1: Baltimore game last year. And that drive, if I remember correctly,

578
00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:47,160
Speaker 1: did not yield points. So like any now, you you know,

579
00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:50,640
Speaker 1: you shoot your shot with a fake punt, you want

580
00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:52,760
Speaker 1: to be able to finish that drive a point because

581
00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:57,320
Speaker 1: chances are an opponent's gonna not leave that door open twice, right,

582
00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:02,680
Speaker 1: And then Chris Boyd just screaming down the pressure on

583
00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:07,680
Speaker 1: Deonta Hardy was really good returner. Boyd like Slade right

584
00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:10,600
Speaker 1: by like doing like a top gun fly by or whatever.

585
00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:14,800
Speaker 1: He gets up faster than I think anyone like just

586
00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:17,880
Speaker 1: brings back up off the turf comes back in Josh

587
00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:22,000
Speaker 1: Man tell Us has hardy stopped Boyd can exclusively go

588
00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:24,560
Speaker 1: for the punch to the football move and he does

589
00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:28,560
Speaker 1: gets it. I mean, that's another huge momentum swinging play

590
00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:30,960
Speaker 1: keeps the offense back on the field, let's the defense

591
00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:35,000
Speaker 1: rest a little more. It's just really neat to see

592
00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:40,200
Speaker 1: a special teams group value their their potential impact on

593
00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:44,080
Speaker 1: the game so much. You know, they take every snap

594
00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:47,160
Speaker 1: like it's gonna be the one that can play the game.

595
00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:50,480
Speaker 1: And I feel like, you know your punt return team,

596
00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:53,280
Speaker 1: your kickoff return team, or kind of extensions of your offense,

597
00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:56,280
Speaker 1: your punt coverage and kickoff coverage or extensive to have

598
00:29:56,360 --> 00:29:59,400
Speaker 1: your defense. So like, I feel like all this stuff

599
00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:02,120
Speaker 1: that coach A Tonal talked about about building a connected

600
00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:05,600
Speaker 1: team and connected roster, I feel like the wise the

601
00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:10,400
Speaker 1: significance of being extensions of the other unit is really

602
00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:14,320
Speaker 1: coming through paying dividends greatly. It's been a few years

603
00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:17,440
Speaker 1: since the special teams played that much of a role.

604
00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:20,560
Speaker 1: If you asked me, in the outcome of the Vikings game,

605
00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:23,520
Speaker 1: in a great way, Craig for me, there was two

606
00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:25,880
Speaker 1: nuggets that at the very end of the game were

607
00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:27,960
Speaker 1: so important to me when it came to the special teams,

608
00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:30,400
Speaker 1: and I thought it was just showed a very good

609
00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:33,440
Speaker 1: cohesive nature of this locker room. One was in the

610
00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:36,880
Speaker 1: TV feed when after Joseph had missed his extra point

611
00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:38,840
Speaker 1: and we were potentially have to go down and kick

612
00:30:38,840 --> 00:30:41,400
Speaker 1: a field goal, they cut to him sitting there doing

613
00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:44,240
Speaker 1: his practice kicks on the sideline and you saw Patrick

614
00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:47,680
Speaker 1: Peterson standing next to him talking to him basically saying like, hey,

615
00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:49,320
Speaker 1: let this one go. You know you're going to get

616
00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:51,840
Speaker 1: a shot, and he basically gave him a shot on

617
00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:54,480
Speaker 1: the shoulder pads and kind of walked away. And it

618
00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:57,240
Speaker 1: was seeing a veteran like that walk over and be like, hey,

619
00:30:57,240 --> 00:30:58,959
Speaker 1: put that out of mind, we're gonna need you here

620
00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:01,480
Speaker 1: kind of a thing. And then after the fact, when

621
00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:04,560
Speaker 1: he saw the locker room speech by Kevin O'Connell basically

622
00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:07,760
Speaker 1: reiterating that exact same sentiment of saying, hey, you know

623
00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:09,600
Speaker 1: what did I tell you? And Greg said you're going

624
00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:12,560
Speaker 1: to get one more. You know that mentality from a

625
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:16,080
Speaker 1: coaching staff, from a veteran leadership on this team going

626
00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:18,880
Speaker 1: and looking at guys saying, hey, that happened before, let

627
00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:20,880
Speaker 1: it go. We got to play this next one. You're

628
00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:22,640
Speaker 1: going to get your shot to win it, and he did.

629
00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:25,880
Speaker 1: I think that helps validate those guys knowing that you

630
00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:27,520
Speaker 1: don't have to be perfect, you just have to be

631
00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:29,920
Speaker 1: right when we need you. And that was something that

632
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:33,280
Speaker 1: was very encouraging watching not only during the game, but

633
00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:36,240
Speaker 1: then seeing that follow up in the locker room afterwards. Yeah,

634
00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:38,920
Speaker 1: and it's it's proof positive, right, you know, and just

635
00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:43,000
Speaker 1: just continuous positive thinking, even when in the midst of challenges.

636
00:31:43,040 --> 00:31:45,120
Speaker 1: I feel like there's there's a lot to be said

637
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:48,040
Speaker 1: for the you know, culture gets thrown around a lot.

638
00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:52,719
Speaker 1: But last couple of weeks of the comeback against the Lions,

639
00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:55,240
Speaker 1: when on a day when not much was going too

640
00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:59,040
Speaker 1: splendidly to just just find it and find things that

641
00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:02,400
Speaker 1: would solve the problems and then just you know, having

642
00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:06,840
Speaker 1: enough to outlast a tremendous challenge from the same And

643
00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:09,640
Speaker 1: there's a lot to be said for the way that

644
00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:13,200
Speaker 1: teammates really appreciate Greg. I mean, he had a tremendous

645
00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:16,840
Speaker 1: training camp, Like everyone on the roster is all in

646
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:19,640
Speaker 1: for him. It was just so fun. I mean, y'all

647
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Speaker 1: were out there. He saw the reactions at the end

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Speaker 1: of practice when he's drilling fifty eight sixty things like that.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's like the offense and defense after grinding

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Speaker 1: against each other's whole practice, you know, and they're all

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Speaker 1: like celebrating together. So it's really interesting to see that

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Speaker 1: come to fruition. He's kicking the ball great still, you

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Speaker 1: could hear it yesterday again, Coach o'connells talked about the

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Speaker 1: sound that just springs so true. So I heard that

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Speaker 1: a couple of times the Sunday on his kicks and

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Speaker 1: it really had a nice stump. And then just again

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Speaker 1: that belief that amongst the special teams, and cred to

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Speaker 1: Matt Annuals and Ben cut Week for their leadership of

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Speaker 1: that unit and as well as the players for buying

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Speaker 1: in on it. And we haven't brought this up yet,

661
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Speaker 1: but for Lewis scene to suffer the bad injury that

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Speaker 1: he did, and we're all thinking about him, wishing him

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Speaker 1: all the best in his recovery. But you know that

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Speaker 1: happened on a on a return play, and so that

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Speaker 1: special team's group seeing one of the guys that they

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Speaker 1: worked so closely with suffer suffer such a frightening injury

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Speaker 1: and have to be carted off. They did not lose

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Speaker 1: their focus on that either, and they're clearly going to

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Speaker 1: But to also just be able to have the focus

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Speaker 1: to not make mistakes and to make good positive plays

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Speaker 1: down the stretch was pretty impressive too. It was really

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Speaker 1: that was an emotional moment, I think too, and also

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Speaker 1: a testament to how close this particular locker room is

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Speaker 1: when you saw them all go out in the field

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Speaker 1: and you know, everyone wanted to say, like, you know,

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Speaker 1: hanging there, but and I thought that was a really

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Speaker 1: you know, I thought it was a pivotal moment as

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Speaker 1: you could see, it just kind of demonstrated like the

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Speaker 1: strength of this locker room, which I thought was great.

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Speaker 1: And obviously I think a little bit we're recording this

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Speaker 1: podcast just before Kevin O'Connor will be making a statement

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Speaker 1: on Lewis's recovery and what's going on with that situation,

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Speaker 1: so we won't really address that side of things just yet.

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Speaker 1: But I'm happy you brought it up, Craig, because it

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Speaker 1: definitely was something that you know, you just really hate

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Speaker 1: to see Lewis go through. Yeah. Absolutely. The leg injury

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Speaker 1: that Lewis suffered reminded me of one that Mark Maryanne

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Speaker 1: seventh round picked with the Titans more than a decade

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Speaker 1: ago actually now, but he had gone to the Pro

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Speaker 1: Bowl and to the kick returner is rookie and then

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Speaker 1: he I don't remember what year it was, but he

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Speaker 1: suffered a fractured lower leg as well during a kickoff

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Speaker 1: return in a preseason came and you know, he battowed

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Speaker 1: his way all the way back, made it, made it

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Speaker 1: back and is still like he did really well and

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Speaker 1: show that determination. I think teammates in that situation lifted

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Speaker 1: Mark up a lot. You know, he was another beloved

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Speaker 1: long shot locker room guy. Now Lewis the first round

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Speaker 1: pick is not a long shot by any means. But

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Speaker 1: you could just see how much care that the teammates

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Speaker 1: you could hear it in social Kune's voice and in

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Speaker 1: postgame press conference. And I'm sure that that genuineness is

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Speaker 1: the hope that we all have here for Lewis is

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Speaker 1: that he realizes just how much people here care for

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Speaker 1: him and are thinking about him while he's still in

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Speaker 1: the UK doing his surgery. Yeah, yeah, that's very unfortunate.

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Speaker 1: But because it definitely took a lot of energy out

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Speaker 1: the stadium, because I believe that happened right in the

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Speaker 1: second quarter, and I believe the Vikings only had sixty

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Speaker 1: six yards right after that. I mean, I think it

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Speaker 1: was an interception in two plays later, a punt the

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Speaker 1: following drive, and then two field goes to in the half,

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Speaker 1: so you can tell it took something out of the

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Speaker 1: locker room. But I think at the same time, trying

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Speaker 1: to put a positive spin to this is this Vikings

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Speaker 1: team was very resilient. They fought back, they got through

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Speaker 1: that adversity and eventually I ended up getting a win.

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Speaker 1: You never want to hear plays or see plays like

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Speaker 1: this happened, but the fact that the Vikings were able

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Speaker 1: to bounce back and get the I guess the train

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Speaker 1: back on the tracks was really encouraging to see. Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: All Right, well, Craig, before we wrap things up, we

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Speaker 1: learn more, and Craig we went with the play in

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Speaker 1: the four late in the fourth quarter where the Saints

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Speaker 1: had just kicked a field goal to take the lead

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Speaker 1: with a minute just about all over a minute and

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Speaker 1: a half left in the game, Justin Jefferson Kirk Cousins

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Speaker 1: connect for a big time play to set the game

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Speaker 1: winning field goal to go in the game, We're tied

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Speaker 1: to twenty five. Will wats hit a sixty yard field

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Speaker 1: goal to tie it. Now, sense shotgun, He's gonna praw

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Speaker 1: fade to JJ left side and he's taken down at

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Speaker 1: the twenty five. Jjy got marsdown Lattimore again. Again, that

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Speaker 1: was a huge play. Great to see Justin Jefferson out

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Speaker 1: there making plays against his hometown team. But I think

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Speaker 1: more importantly, it was awesome to see him kind of

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Speaker 1: make a bit of a return after being a little

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Speaker 1: quiet the last couple of weeks. It seems like the

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Speaker 1: Saints really were just like, hey, Marcus Lattimore, we want

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Speaker 1: to see you stop JJ. And obviously at that time,

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Speaker 1: I know you alluded to that a little earlier. Craig,

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Speaker 1: but it was nice to see, you know, when they

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Speaker 1: wanted to try and shut JJ down, you know, Feeland

751
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Speaker 1: would come up with a big catch or kJ Osbourne

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Speaker 1: on a pivotal moment. What do you what do you

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Speaker 1: make of how teams are approaching justin this season. Well,

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Speaker 1: we've seen the Peckers kind of go the zone route

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Speaker 1: and the Vikings able to find holes throughout game and

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Speaker 1: never stop him. We've seen the Eagles used the combination

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Speaker 1: of Slay and some some extra defense. We've seen the

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Speaker 1: Lions go double and triple team and the Vikings signed

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Speaker 1: a way to get the ball elsewhere. And then we've

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Speaker 1: seen perhaps the most balanced distribution. I guess that included JJ,

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Speaker 1: if they got that look with a one on one

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Speaker 1: with JJ and Marshawn Lattimore going down the middle, they

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Speaker 1: were going to take it. And they definitely did. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think alluded to it earlier. It was like, I

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Speaker 1: you know, go into a shell or anything when it

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Speaker 1: was time to go like win the game. They went

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Speaker 1: for it, you know, and that that ball by Kirk

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Speaker 1: with Gabe I thought gave Jatum. I thought it was

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Speaker 1: the best Jay. I thought it was the best throw

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Speaker 1: made all day. Hit him in stride, just undefendable, right,

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Speaker 1: So like just just even with good coverage, even even

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Speaker 1: the talent on both ends of the play that do

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Speaker 1: exist and when those can line up and form that connection.

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Speaker 1: We could see some several nights impressive completions like that.

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Speaker 1: It was great to see them just go ahead and

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Speaker 1: get the chunk that's immediately in field goal range. And

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Speaker 1: then this situation is always also you exhaust the other team.

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Speaker 1: So what happens after that New Orleans has to go

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Speaker 1: through all three of its time out right, and then

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Speaker 1: like the Vikings are able to just run a little

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Speaker 1: bit more clock work that down. They felt very comfortable

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Speaker 1: with Greg tacking a forty seven yard which isn't it,

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Speaker 1: you know, a six inch put by any means, right,

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Speaker 1: So that yeah, they felt great by that. And then

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Speaker 1: that way they're only giving the ball back to the

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Speaker 1: Saints with twenty four seconds, you know, the one down

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Speaker 1: the middle of the field, that's probably the only spot

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Speaker 1: that's going to be open. In that situation on New

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Speaker 1: Orleans's drive because they have no time out. But but

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Speaker 1: if you hadn't made New Orleans exhaust all of its

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Speaker 1: time out, you know, that becomes even more of a

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Speaker 1: detriment if you give that one up. So I think

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Speaker 1: that being able to go and get it and take

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Speaker 1: that chance on a first and ten and just really

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Speaker 1: see the look, know it's coming, go for it, deliver

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Speaker 1: that to manage the late game scenario. That should be

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Speaker 1: something that stands are pretty excited about. Well, thank you

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Speaker 1: so much to Viking Senior editor Craig Peters for being

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Speaker 1: on the podcast today. I hope you can get a

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Speaker 1: little bit of extra sleep today as we head into

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Speaker 1: a week, a big week actually another division home game

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Speaker 1: when the Bears come to US Bank Stadium on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: No buy for us this week, Craig, No no buy

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Speaker 1: straight into the playbook for the Bears game. So a

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Speaker 1: lot of fun there, a lot of getting ready for

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Speaker 1: another home game, and it's it's a heck of a

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Speaker 1: chance to improve to three no in the division, close

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Speaker 1: out the home division schedule by mid October, which is

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Speaker 1: so rare. You know another good one, and I'd just

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Speaker 1: like to say how much and so y'all having me

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Speaker 1: on and how fun this has been. Hey, Craig, before

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Speaker 1: we get out of here, should the Vikings play every

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Speaker 1: Sunday in London because we're three and oh right now,

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Speaker 1: so that means would never lose any more games. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's that's pretty good. Um, you know, like the Saints

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Speaker 1: war two and oh in regular season games there. The

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Speaker 1: Vikings also won a preseason game there, won a preseason

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Speaker 1: game in Sweden back in eighty eight, a preseason game

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Speaker 1: in Germany and ninety three and one in Tokyo in

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Speaker 1: nine four. So international travels have fared very well when

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Speaker 1: it comes to the scoreboard for the Vikings. Interesting take

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Speaker 1: the show on the road more often. I for one,

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Speaker 1: will volunteer to go back to Tokyo at this point,

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Speaker 1: I would I would be all in on that one.

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Speaker 1: Leave me there. That'll be great. Well, thanks Craig, We

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Speaker 1: appreciate you again. This has been awesome and looking forward

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Speaker 1: to the playbook this week at us Being Stadium and

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Speaker 1: also all the great content you guys are churning out

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Speaker 1: on Vikings dot com. Thanks so much, all right, thank

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Speaker 1: you again to Craig Peters for coming on the podcast

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Speaker 1: this week. He was also with us super early in

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Speaker 1: the morning on the bus. I remember talking to him

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Speaker 1: and I was like, you know, we should probably ask

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Speaker 1: him to be on the podcast, and that's kind of

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Speaker 1: how that happened. So just really happy to have him

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Speaker 1: on here. We try to give the players a little

841
00:42:11,480 --> 00:42:13,880
Speaker 1: bit of a break since it is a long and

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Speaker 1: quick well a long week after and now a quick

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Speaker 1: turnaround as we head into As we mentioned with Craig,

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Speaker 1: a Division game against the Bears at home at us

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Speaker 1: Being Stadium on Sunday. Just because Gabe and I are tired,

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Speaker 1: that doesn't mean that we're not going to have content

847
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Speaker 1: for a year later This week, all week, we are

848
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Speaker 1: here all week and we're going to get things going

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Speaker 1: with the audible on Wednesday. I feel like we haven't

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Speaker 1: quite confirmed yet who we're going to have on it. No,

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Speaker 1: not yet, let's working. We have four guests in mind

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Speaker 1: in pairs, so we got a Plan A and a

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Speaker 1: Plan B. So like it, stay tuned Vikings dot Com

854
00:42:45,520 --> 00:42:50,400
Speaker 1: the ultimate tease. Yeah right, you never know, stay tuned.

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Speaker 1: It might announce today, might announce tomorrow, but yeah, it'll

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Speaker 1: be on Vikings dot Com on Thursday and on Vikings

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Speaker 1: YouTube that day also, so tune in and it should

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00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:01,799
Speaker 1: be a great show. I also have my asks in

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Speaker 1: for a Game Day live interview. We're just a bit behind, folks,

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Speaker 1: but that doesn't mean we're not going to make them happen.

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Speaker 1: We also will have another episode of this MVP min

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Speaker 1: sort of Vikings podcast on Friday, and yeah, I think

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Speaker 1: you know. Just keep make sure you like subscribe the channel,

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Speaker 1: checkout Vikings dot com in the app Frozing that drops

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Speaker 1: this week XS and knows Kevin O'Connell that'll be back.

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Speaker 1: Everything that we normally do will be right on schedule

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Speaker 1: despite this crazy weekend. I mean, ever, you guys don't

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Speaker 1: think it's crazy. Y'all are on the normal body. I

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Speaker 1: know I'm sitting here being like, wait, how do I

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Speaker 1: have to motivate myself? No, that'll be fine. Yeah, we

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Speaker 1: got a lot going on this week. I'll sleep in

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Speaker 1: the buy and it's Chicago week. It's great. It's the Bears.

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Speaker 1: It's always another nail biter. That's the way these Vikings

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Speaker 1: Bears games tend to go. Why should we think anything

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Speaker 1: less After the last couple of weeks and just enjoy

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Speaker 1: your Chicago Bears week coming up here. It's always fun

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Speaker 1: and I for one, always love Bears Week. Yeah, the

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Speaker 1: Green Bay one there's a little more blood and guts

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Speaker 1: to it, but Chicago is always the fun test. Their

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Speaker 1: defensive line has always given us fits. Offensive tight ends

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Speaker 1: have always been something that's eating us up across the

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Speaker 1: middle on this Bears team. So again, I feel like

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Speaker 1: the way that their offense is going, they're running game,

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Speaker 1: they're tight ends. Everybody else the same kind of thing

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Speaker 1: is going to be coming in the door. So I

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Speaker 1: assume getting ready for Bears Week, barring something crazy going on,

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Speaker 1: we can expect another crazy one this Sunday. Yeah, I'm

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Speaker 1: not looking at the line like the number line because

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Speaker 1: whether it's five, six or seven. Like JJ said, the

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Speaker 1: Bears always play us close and they're two and two,

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Speaker 1: so they're going to come in with a chip on

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Speaker 1: their should or trying to get back on track, so

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Speaker 1: this will be a fun one. I'm just I'm just

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Speaker 1: excited to be back at home. I think everybody is right. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, you love the fact that it's home cooking. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it'd be nice to be on the road as far

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Speaker 1: as game prep goes for us for the stadium and everything,

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Speaker 1: but being back at home after that one and still

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Speaker 1: having a three and one record with the excitement that

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Speaker 1: comes with that. If you can push it to four

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Speaker 1: and one and be three and now with the division

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Speaker 1: after the first five weeks, that's like one of the

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Speaker 1: best starts you can think of as a as a fan.

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Speaker 1: I even think that if it is four and one

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Speaker 1: in your three other division, that might be what a

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Speaker 1: lot of people expected this team to do within the

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Speaker 1: first five games. But to live up to that is

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Speaker 1: another thing, right, And that's like we had talked about

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Speaker 1: before the the and finishing out games at the end

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Speaker 1: of a half. I think that Week one showed you

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Speaker 1: what it potentially could be and this is where we're at.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm just looking forward to players week. Yeah, seriously,

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Speaker 1: this is Yeah. You hit a rod and that's all

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Speaker 1: I got. I think it's gonna be loud thing, It's

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Speaker 1: gonna be crazy. Can't wait for another Division game in

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Speaker 1: US Bank Stadium for Jay and Gabe and Eric. I'm

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Speaker 1: Tatum and we will see you guys, or you can

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Speaker 1: listen to us again on Friday. Hey, Viking Spans number

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Speaker 1: ninety six, Brian Robinson is bringing NYC's cheesiest food stand

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Speaker 1: to the US Bank Stadium. Visit Mactruck, Mac and Cheese

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Speaker 1: on Minnesota Vikings game days for a new game time

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