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Speaker 1: Yo, what's going on? Welcome to the Week seven edition

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Speaker 1: of the Minnesota Vikings Podcast. My name is Gabe Henderson.

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Speaker 1: If we promise you guys earlier in the year that

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Speaker 1: Brian Assam why was gonna come and guest host a podcast?

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Speaker 1: And today is that day. We got Brian Ossam wis

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Speaker 1: our guest host. And then we got the NFC Defensive

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Speaker 1: Player of the Week the second time ever in his career,

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Speaker 1: mister Jordan.

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Speaker 2: Hick, Right, we need it. We need that man.

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Speaker 1: That's like, that's elite territory man, just getting that honor. Jordan,

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Speaker 1: we'll start off with that. Just how does that feel?

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Speaker 1: And Ba, you sit beside him a meeting room, so

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Speaker 1: you've seen this guy just work day in and day out.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's you know, I was telling the media just

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Speaker 3: a second ago. It feels good personally. But I think

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Speaker 3: what it is is a recognition for our defense because

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Speaker 3: you look at both of those plays. The first one,

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Speaker 3: the interception, the neil gets his hand on the elbow,

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Speaker 3: right boss fluttering in the air, would have never happened

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Speaker 3: if if we weren't we weren't able to get that

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Speaker 3: pressure by the neil.

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Speaker 2: And then the second woman.

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Speaker 3: Tell us getting the ball out, keeping it alive, probably

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Speaker 3: honestly wanted to pick it up himself, but keeping it alive, right,

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Speaker 3: And then you know, me having an opportunity. And so

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Speaker 3: what we've been talking about this whole season, right is

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Speaker 3: making most of the opportunities, and uh, you know we

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Speaker 3: were able.

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Speaker 2: To do that.

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Speaker 1: Being able to do that and see him witnessed that moment.

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Speaker 1: B A, What what was that like for you on

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Speaker 1: the field versus in the meeting rooms when he finally

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Speaker 1: gets that recognition.

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Speaker 2: First of all, I was super happy when he caught

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Speaker 2: the ball. It was kind of a weird catch, but

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Speaker 2: he definitely caught it. I was definitely happy for him.

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Speaker 2: Are you saying he can't catch n I'm he's a

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Speaker 2: good player. Well, he's been doing this for a long time,

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Speaker 2: a long time. The only thing I kind of get

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Speaker 2: on his head about is just like his speedy I

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Speaker 2: do call him a vet vet. But no, he definitely

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Speaker 2: made me happy and I was very ecstatic to see

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Speaker 2: him score that touchdown for our defense. So you know,

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Speaker 2: every day I sit by him in meetings. A great leader.

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Speaker 2: You know, the outfit of this defense been playing real

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Speaker 2: good ball this season, and it's just you know, fun

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Speaker 2: to watch and learn from him as well. I mean

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Speaker 2: he's a he's a great player, and uh, you know,

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Speaker 2: the sky's the limit for what he can do this

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Speaker 2: season for our team.

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Speaker 1: Jordan, there there was a moment I'm sure people have

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Speaker 1: seen the clip on Instagram of you know, the play

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Speaker 1: by play called Paul Allen making in the booth and

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Speaker 1: then you're running beside. There was a moment where we

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Speaker 1: were like, all right, this is Jordan will get tackled.

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Speaker 3: That your face now, I saw your face like, okay.

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Speaker 2: It was close. It was close.

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Speaker 3: Hey you type wrote that soundline wrote I think the

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Speaker 3: whoever that offensive linement number fifty eight, I think it

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Speaker 3: was didn't cut off the sideline right. So when I

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Speaker 3: picked the ball up, I looked for a second and

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Speaker 3: was like, oh, I got it, and so I just

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Speaker 3: ran as fast as I could.

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Speaker 2: That's huge. No, congratulations man on NFC Defensive Player of

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Speaker 2: the Week.

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Speaker 3: Your second time, second time, second time, both times in Chicago.

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Speaker 2: That's dope. That's dope. I'm super super happy for you,

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Speaker 2: but appreciate you. Do switch the topic. You know our

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Speaker 2: Alma Maters play two weeks ago, you was where the

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Speaker 2: hosting starts. You went to, uh, the University of Texas.

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Speaker 2: I did. I went to the University of Oklahoma, and

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Speaker 2: we've been going at it, you know, Red River Rivalry

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Speaker 2: showdown and unfortunately, unfortunately for who you guys that's okay,

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Speaker 2: you guys stuffered the terrible loss. Did you see me

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Speaker 2: going that a little bit?

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Speaker 1: Uh?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, man, I had total confidence in my Texas Longhorns

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Speaker 3: coming off of big wins for Bama, right.

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Speaker 2: Guys, guys, Yeah, they're struggling. They are struggling a little bit.

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Speaker 3: So that was nothing really knew that, come on, man, hey,

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Speaker 3: culmination leading up to that game, it was like, all right,

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Speaker 3: There was a there was a couple of questionable situations

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Speaker 2: Not situational masters.

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Speaker 3: Not situational masters, which is what you gotta pride yourself.

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Speaker 1: To describe that for our fans. What are situational masters?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Man, there was opportunities to run the clock out, you know,

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Speaker 3: and and and I'm not a coach, man, I don't

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Speaker 3: I don't sit here and study you know, game plans

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Speaker 3: just being a football player, you see some situations you're

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Speaker 3: like a minute and you know twenty seconds is way

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Speaker 3: too much time for a college offense who is very explosive.

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Speaker 2: Explosive, right, you got shot out to Jeff Levy, Right, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: he played his ass man.

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Speaker 3: So you know, for me, I'm just like you wish

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Speaker 3: you could run that ball, you know, run that clock

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Speaker 2: But you know, it was a tough loss for us

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Speaker 2: for sure. Glad you guys learned from that one.

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Speaker 1: I mean there was a I saw you posted some

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Speaker 1: of your social media bases of your Oklahoma shirt besides oh,

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Speaker 1: I mean you even brought the hat.

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Speaker 2: Wow the Boomers, Boomer. I wish I would have known

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Speaker 2: some Boomer.

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Speaker 1: I mean, did y'all have to trade shirts? Because I

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Speaker 2: So there's been a once you get to the league

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Speaker 2: care package, and mine has been sitting in my locker

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Speaker 2: for this entire year. So I'm like I was waiting

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Speaker 2: for the perfect time, and I knew it the come

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Speaker 2: like that he would have to wear the Boomer senior gear.

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Speaker 2: So I of course gave him, you know, two x

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Speaker 2: what's it called a Boomer Sooner t shirts that.

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Speaker 3: He put shorts in my locker.

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Speaker 2: Iwaged him. I swagged him out like he was on

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Speaker 2: his first recruiting It was It was funny, man, It

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Speaker 2: a Crimson and cream. It is just beautiful to see.

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Speaker 1: So what so I mean you you guys both played

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Speaker 1: in that rivalry, like you is that the biggest game

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Speaker 1: when you see the schedule, Like what what is that

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Speaker 1: actually get to that game.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's that if you don't win that game,

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Speaker 3: right for coaching staffs, for like I've seen coaches get

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Speaker 3: fired off of losing that game, right, that is like

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Speaker 3: it's it's in front of fifty to fifty. It's the atmosphere,

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Speaker 3: it's the tunnel of the cotton especially.

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Speaker 2: Go get we walk right past it, right next to

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Speaker 3: One way, in one way out right, you're driving in

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Speaker 3: you got you know, Oklahoma fans flipping you off on

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Speaker 3: the blood right like it's it's it's like that, right,

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Speaker 3: And so you feel that energy from the very moment

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Speaker 2: For us, I mean, I could we treat like another week.

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Speaker 2: Another week. Man. We know that it's supposed to stay

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Speaker 2: you know, it is a big week, but it's just

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Speaker 2: another week in college football, and we got to handle

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Speaker 2: our business. So that's how we kind of do that.

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Speaker 2: I mean, as far as I've been in college, that

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Speaker 1: I mean is that true? Think you were one in

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Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, I mean he came in a couple of

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you were twenty nineteen, a lot more years four

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Speaker 1: So you feel that energy like when you when you

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Speaker 1: go to that game, Like, how does that prepare you

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Speaker 1: once you start playing in big games in the league.

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Speaker 1: How does that game prepare you for some of those moments?

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Speaker 1: I mean even like Sundays, I mean Monday night football

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Speaker 1: San Francisco forty nine ers.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you're going to be seeing some of those guys

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Speaker 3: It's the energy, it's the it's the you gotta be

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Speaker 3: it's games like that where you know, it shows those

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Speaker 3: definitely different, without question.

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Speaker 2: He lined onto San Francisco. Yeah, you played in that

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Speaker 2: more about you know what you've seen Kyle Shanahan. You

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Speaker 3: So what makes their offense different and special is their

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Speaker 3: They're probably, if not the one of the most physical

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Speaker 3: So they create a lot of different elements. I think

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Speaker 3: Shanahan does a good job of scheming and getting understanding

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Speaker 3: I mean that's what it is.

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Speaker 1: For our fans who were just tuning in. We got

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Speaker 1: our Brian Osen why Minnesota Vika's lineback here as well

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Speaker 1: as Jordan Hicks, who was the NFC Defensive Player of

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Speaker 1: the Week this past week.

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Speaker 2: You got to play that need that next time.

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Speaker 1: My name is Gabe he Anderson. This is the Minnesota

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Speaker 1: Vikings Podcast presented by Pepsi NBA. Just on that same

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Speaker 1: topic of uh, you never played the forty nine ers

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Speaker 1: and you hear your vet talking about the physicality of

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Speaker 1: the game. How does that change your mindset? In meeting

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Speaker 1: rooms sitting next to him every day.

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Speaker 2: Physicality obviously is something that we also preach over here,

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Speaker 2: especially we want to dictate the terms on defense. So

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Speaker 2: you know, hearing him talk about what else to also

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Speaker 2: think about, it's like, okay, you know another thing we

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Speaker 2: got to check off the list. But at the end

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Speaker 2: of the day, man, it is just football. We've been

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Speaker 2: doing this for you know, our entire lives. So gotta

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Speaker 2: go out there and just play sixty minutes of football.

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Speaker 1: I'm Gabe Henderson, as said before our guest hosts of

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Speaker 1: the show of the night, mister Brian Assam wa Minnesota

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Speaker 2: We need that time I'm.

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Speaker 1: Bringing Please do BA. I know you have some questions

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so you're eight nine actually nine times fine it is,

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Speaker 2: But most point, what is your process? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: So first things first is taking care of your body?

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Speaker 2: Right? So I got injured? Sorry? Have I got injured? Yeah? Yeah? Young?

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Speaker 2: So I'm about to write that on my right my mirror.

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Speaker 3: No man, digging into your stuff that hurts, trying to work.

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Speaker 2: And then then I happened to come so I was nowhere,

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Speaker 2: Like I wasn't thinking about making money in college. But

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Speaker 2: it's also cool to see these kids, you know, profit

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Speaker 2: off their likeness because guys, you know, let's say they

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Speaker 2: So I just want them to focus on the ultimate goal,

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Speaker 1: Good correct me if I'm wrong, but I feel like

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Speaker 1: So I mean, I mean, if you're a backup, like

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Speaker 2: The guy and get a bag that's real and get

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Speaker 3: So I mean, what are you spreads talent out?

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Speaker 2: Is that a good thing?

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Speaker 1: That's a great question. I do think it spreads talent out.

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Speaker 1: I think it's it's harder for smaller schools because if

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Speaker 1: you're like, so I went to Liberty University, So like

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Speaker 1: we're a conference USA Georgia. No, that's out of Virginia,

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Speaker 1: like Central Virginia. We're not far from Georgia though, but

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Speaker 1: like a lot of those schools, like in our conference,

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Speaker 1: we bank off of guys getting kicked out of like

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Speaker 1: Oklahoma and Texas, and that's like that's like okay, like

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Speaker 1: we got this guy and then we got some some

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Speaker 1: as we wrap this thing up is the forty nine

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Speaker 1: a slug fest. You said it's going to be physical.

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Speaker 1: Just understanding where this team is at this moment, how

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Speaker 3: For sure, we found I believe we found an identity

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Speaker 3: in what we're good at.

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Speaker 2: Right now, everyone knows.

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Speaker 3: You know, applying pressure, right, and uh, I think I

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Speaker 3: talk I always talk to Ba about you know, flowing.

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Speaker 3: We got to be out there and we just gotta

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Speaker 3: be fee water man. We gotta be like water, right,

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Speaker 3: because like, you can't just blitz every time, right, and

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Speaker 3: we don't.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 3: We blitz a lot, for sure, but there's a lot

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Speaker 3: of times where it's Eagles game that, yeah, an Eagles game, right,

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Speaker 3: the Chargers game where we were coming after him, but

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Speaker 3: there's we've learned from that. I think there's a balancing

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Speaker 3: I think that when we're when we're doing that and

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Speaker 3: not our best.

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Speaker 2: Man.

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Speaker 1: This this episode felt like a blink man. That's twenty

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Speaker 1: five minutes going by right there. And I appreciate you

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Speaker 1: guys joining us. BA. I know you'll be back on

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Speaker 1: the show. Jordian, You're welcome anytime.

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Speaker 2: Get another player the week and we'll have great man.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate you, our guys also appreciate all of our fans

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Speaker 1: for tuning into this edition of the Minnesota Vikings Podcast.

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Speaker 1: It is going to be a big game on Monday

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Speaker 1: Night football e SPN lights can't get any brighter. You

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Speaker 1: got the San Francisco forty nine ers visiting the home team,

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Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings, and these two guys in the middle

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Speaker 1: of this defense are looking forward to stopping what they

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Speaker 1: got on the other side of the ball. See you

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Speaker 1: at the bank for Brian, not some wid Jordan Hicks.

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Speaker 1: My name is Gabe Panderson.

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Speaker 2: We'll talk to you next week.

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