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Speaker 4: always recapping the Vikings game from the previous day, and
Speaker 4: in this case it was a border battle and it
Speaker 4: was a victory. The Vikings win twenty four to ten
Speaker 4: over the Green Bay Packers at lambeau Field, improving to
Speaker 4: four and four. The Vikings have now won three in
Speaker 4: a row. The Vikings are now currently a playoff team,
Speaker 4: believe it or not, after starting oh in three and
Speaker 4: all the negative things turnovers porous defense. They're running for
Speaker 4: a mile, then they're throwing for a mile on this defense.
Speaker 4: So many things have changed over the last five weeks
Speaker 4: as after starting oh in three, the Vikings have gone
Speaker 4: four and one as they end October and jump into November.
Speaker 3: Falcons next weekend in Atlanta.
Speaker 4: But the news of yesterday, the news of today, and
Speaker 4: really the news moving forward with this team is the
Speaker 4: injury to Kirk Cousins. You saw him limping off the field,
Speaker 4: then you would hear reports for the remainder of the
Speaker 4: day into the evening Kirk Cousins his season is over.
Speaker 4: He has an achilles injury, potentially a torn achilles. There'll
Speaker 4: be an MRI on Monday morning, just to confirm. But
Speaker 4: that's what all of the insiders were saying yesterday and
Speaker 4: unfortunately it was confirmed today. So Kirk's done for twenty
Speaker 4: twenty three and the team sent out an official release.
Speaker 4: Head coach Kevin O'Connell spoke at length with the media
Speaker 4: earlier this afternoon. As a matter of fact, I'm going
Speaker 4: to play that whole thing back for you in next segment,
Speaker 4: so you'll get to hear what the head coach had
Speaker 4: to say, not only in relation to Kirk and the immediate,
Speaker 4: the moment the injury itself, but what about Jaron Hall,
Speaker 4: this rookie BYU kid. Is he the answer just for
Speaker 4: this next game against Atlanta? Is he the answer six
Speaker 4: weeks from now? Maybe there are calls not Maybe there
Speaker 4: definitely are calls and text messages and conversations being had
Speaker 4: about players throughout the league. Maybe some guys getting off
Speaker 4: the couch and maybe being an answer. It's a significant
Speaker 4: problem that requires really a lot of work to be
Speaker 4: done in a very short period of time. As the
Speaker 4: trade deadline is tomorrow afternoon, so so many things to
Speaker 4: be figured out with this team, who, in very bittersweet ways,
Speaker 4: goes to Lambeau handles a team that just is having
Speaker 4: so many problems right now in the Green Bay Packers.
Speaker 4: Jordan Love having immense issues as he gets out a
Speaker 4: climated to being the starter of that operation, can't run
Speaker 4: the ball, there are injuries, a ton of penalties yesterday
Speaker 4: in particular, eleven penalties for ninety nine yards. That's helping nobody,
Speaker 4: and you go there and yet you handle business the
Speaker 4: way that you did. You dominate that team, but you
Speaker 4: lose by way of Kirk Cousins limping off the field
Speaker 4: as he did yesterday. So a lot of that stuff's
Speaker 4: gonna you get some get some thoughts from the head
Speaker 4: coach next segment, but so many good things to go
Speaker 4: over from that game. Now typical rewind fashion, not necessarily
Speaker 4: going to go play by play, the team wins twenty
Speaker 4: four to ten. I will play a few highlights for
Speaker 4: a just some things to be excited about with this
Speaker 4: team amidst all of the dark cloud hanging over us
Speaker 4: with Kirk's injury. But you know, I will say things
Speaker 4: like this like, hey, we we got a rushing touchdown.
Speaker 1: Yesterday, floor and floors, the quiet ramble crowd to get
Speaker 1: loud hand off back to ay Kirs up the middle
Speaker 1: of CROUSTI five to the goal line, touchdown Camakers with
Speaker 1: his first touchdown wearing purple and gold, and the first
Speaker 1: rushing touchdown of the season for the Minnesota Vikings is
Speaker 1: a six yard production and.
Speaker 3: Minnesota lead six to zero.
Speaker 4: Suddenly the Vikings are scoring points in the first quarters
Speaker 4: of games again.
Speaker 3: Love that Now.
Speaker 4: I don't love the two yards per carry in the
Speaker 4: sixty two total rushing yards.
Speaker 3: That's not good. But albeit eight.
Speaker 4: Games into the season finally getting a rushing touchdown, some
Speaker 4: thought it would never happen. Now the defense, how about
Speaker 4: the defense being feistier and more dominant?
Speaker 3: It seems each week.
Speaker 1: On second down, Love with an empty backfield, he's about
Speaker 1: to be hit.
Speaker 3: And he is sacked.
Speaker 5: Jay one of them up.
Speaker 1: DJ wanted him, and DJ got him. He now has
Speaker 1: three sacks this season, gets third and seventeen.
Speaker 4: Jordan Love just didn't have a chance yesterday. He was
Speaker 4: bouncing balls in the dirt. He was running for his life,
Speaker 4: under fire for most of it. The penalties weren't helping.
Speaker 4: A lot of third, third, and longs our part of
Speaker 4: that story as well, but getting after him. DJ Wannam's
Speaker 4: been on a tear for a month, d'il hunter. He
Speaker 4: had his tenth sack of the season yesterday. So he
Speaker 4: continues that high profile, splashy run that he's on in
Speaker 4: twenty twenty three. And when you're getting after the QB
Speaker 4: and you're forcing him into bad decisions, well he's gonna
Speaker 4: turn the ball over.
Speaker 1: Takes the Meyers snap in Minnesota rushes three lovestreet drop
Speaker 1: fires at center of the.
Speaker 3: Field, even enter step dead. It was picked up in
Speaker 3: front of Jayden red Hair.
Speaker 1: Comes Josh Mattelis to the fifty, to the party farce
Speaker 1: tide to the thirty five. Wait so vera packer at
Speaker 1: the twenty five. He is Josh Mattellis. Massive play by Mattellis.
Speaker 4: And now for the third consecutive game, the Vikings turn
Speaker 4: a takeaway into a touchdown.
Speaker 3: First and ten.
Speaker 1: From the Green Bay twenty cousins, It's gonna loop one.
Speaker 2: Right cot touchdown Chardin get us in with his seventh
Speaker 2: National Football.
Speaker 1: League touchdown, gives Minnesota a twenty three to three lead,
Speaker 1: And for Jordan that touchdown means he has the most
Speaker 1: in the history of the Minnesota Vikings through the.
Speaker 3: First eight games. Moments like that.
Speaker 4: You look back on that game and you're thinking, Wow,
Speaker 4: Jordan Addison and those touchdowns that just continue to come
Speaker 4: in waves and TJ. Hawkinson, great day for him, eighty
Speaker 4: eight yards in a score. kJ Osborne like a warrior
Speaker 4: out there with his ninety nine yards, receiving eight catches
Speaker 4: on ten targets. So many positive things that you can
Speaker 4: look back on from yesterday. Unfortunately in the end, this
Speaker 4: is what comes to mind for everyone.
Speaker 1: Cousins goes out of the shotgun on Thurdon nineteen from
Speaker 1: the Green Bay twenty two. He Jae Howkinson in motion
Speaker 1: to the left, Kirk facing a three man rush and
Speaker 1: he stacked come back to back plays that time it
Speaker 1: was Kenny Klar. Really Kirk kind of stumbled her amble.
Speaker 1: Now Herk's limping off the field. By the way, Kirk
Speaker 1: looks like he messed up his right ankle.
Speaker 4: So the Vikings dominate and win the game twenty four
Speaker 4: to ten over the Packers in a board, but in
Speaker 4: some ways have lost now given the injury to Kirk Cousins.
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Speaker 4: to Kirk. You're gonna hear from the head coach Kevin
Speaker 4: O'Connell spoke to the media earlier today. I'll play most
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Speaker 4: info in a full schedule. Last segment, you heard some
Speaker 4: highlights from the Border Battle, a victory that we keep
Speaker 4: kind of trying to remind ourselves. Twenty four to ten,
Speaker 4: Vikings improved a four and four. But the a topic
Speaker 4: with this team right now, of course, is is Kirk
Speaker 4: Cousins the Achilles injury?
Speaker 3: His season is over.
Speaker 4: Head coach Kevin O'Connell addressed the media earlier today let's listen.
Speaker 6: Learn that Kirk suffered an achilles ten and tear yesterday
Speaker 6: at up at lambeau Field. We're you know, in the
Speaker 6: process a determining kind of the next steps and timeline,
Speaker 6: you know, whatever, what's in the best interest for Kirk,
Speaker 6: and allowing that process to play out so we can
Speaker 6: make sure he gets the best possible medical.
Speaker 5: Care that he can.
Speaker 6: You know, me personally, our whole team, our whole organization,
Speaker 6: we're all, you know, hurting this morning for Kirk, just
Speaker 6: knowing just how much he's invested into this team and
Speaker 6: from a standpoint of his leadership and and and what
Speaker 6: he's you know, meant to every single guy in that
Speaker 6: locker room, and really what he's meant to me since
Speaker 6: my you know, my arrival here, you know, last year.
Speaker 6: And we're gonna miss him, There's no doubt about it.
Speaker 6: We're gonna miss him. But uh, you know, my expectations
Speaker 6: are and and I've in my dialogue briefly with Kirk,
Speaker 6: you know, since yesterday, he has every intent of still
Speaker 6: being a major, major part of our leadership, a part
Speaker 6: of the quarterback room, a part of our offense, you know,
Speaker 6: part of our plans each week schematically like he's been
Speaker 6: right there every step of the way, and quite honestly,
Speaker 6: I don't expect anything less from Kirk being the man
Speaker 6: and the leader that he is, regardless of the circumstances.
Speaker 6: Is tough of a break with the momentum we have
Speaker 6: as a team right now, you know, we have to
Speaker 6: move forward. Nobody feels sorry for anybody in this league,
Speaker 6: and we know that. I know that, and I know
Speaker 6: for one thing, I owe it to every player and
Speaker 6: coach and really every person in this building. They're going
Speaker 6: to get my best every single day, and we're going
Speaker 6: to move forward in the same kind of attack mode.
Speaker 6: We are going out and trying to get a win
Speaker 6: each and every week and continue to position ourselves to
Speaker 6: to you know, continue the pursuit of playing more games
Speaker 6: at the end of the season and getting the opportunity
Speaker 6: to compete until there are no opportunities left.
Speaker 5: I thought yesterday was encouraging.
Speaker 6: We wake up today two and oh in the NFC North,
Speaker 6: having one four out of our last five after what
Speaker 6: was a very difficult start to our season. Really have
Speaker 6: to challenged the team throughout my messaging throughout this you know,
Speaker 6: this stretch of twenty twenty three that you know that
Speaker 6: adversity has has really been a breeding ground for tremendous,
Speaker 6: tremendous growth within our organization that I think will help
Speaker 6: us for many, many opportunities to come. But more importantly,
Speaker 6: it will provide us.
Speaker 5: Some of the tools.
Speaker 6: Maybe not to the extent that it's that it will
Speaker 6: be coming off of losing our starting quarterback, but it
Speaker 6: will definitely be something that we'll all need to just
Speaker 6: do a little bit more.
Speaker 5: It will all need to be just a little bit better.
Speaker 6: And I know there's a thousand ways that I could
Speaker 6: do that for this team, and I will.
Speaker 5: So I'll open it up to you guys, and what
Speaker 5: are your plans short term, at least for this week
Speaker 5: A quarterback?
Speaker 6: Yeah, we're still working through that, Kevin. You know, I
Speaker 6: did want to see Jared go in the game and function.
Speaker 6: A lot of the feedback that I got from the
Speaker 6: guys in the huddle was he was outstanding. Call and plays, cadence,
Speaker 6: snap counts, you know, center quarterback has changed.
Speaker 5: Those are all things that go through your mind.
Speaker 6: And really knowing kind of our staff did a really
Speaker 6: nice job of kind of keeping me updated, probably long
Speaker 6: before anybody else on our sideline really knew.
Speaker 5: What was going on.
Speaker 6: So I was, you know, really using some of those
Speaker 6: opportunities to show Jared my confidence in him, but also
Speaker 6: give him some opportunities to play quarterback and and and
Speaker 6: you know, convert a big third down there, get out
Speaker 6: of the pocket a couple of times on some keepers,
Speaker 6: and and and really just kind of start, you know,
Speaker 6: giving him an opportunity when really all he's done his
Speaker 6: scout team reps up until this point throughout the season,
Speaker 6: and he's done a fantastic job getting our defense ready
Speaker 6: every single week for a lot of different offenses. And
Speaker 6: I credit Chris and Grant for having him ready to go.
Speaker 6: There wasn't one blink that I that I felt, or
Speaker 6: any kind of hesitation on his part.
Speaker 5: So we'll we'll we'll.
Speaker 6: Continue Jared's process of getting him ready to go each
Speaker 6: and every week if he ends up being the guy,
Speaker 6: I know, a lot of guy, every guy in our
Speaker 6: roster has confidence in Jaron.
Speaker 5: We're still working through some things.
Speaker 6: What that may look like to to potentially add another
Speaker 6: player here, you know, knowing that Nick is also gonna
Speaker 6: you know, still be out at least, you know, by
Speaker 6: the rules another week and and we'll see where he's
Speaker 6: at when that timetable starts.
Speaker 2: Bringing somebody else in, like at a level that they
Speaker 2: could play.
Speaker 5: Right away or soon.
Speaker 6: I think you wouldn't want to you know, you wouldn't
Speaker 6: want to say yes or no to that. I think
Speaker 6: it's all based upon what we feel gives us the
Speaker 6: best opportunity to beat the Atlanta Falcons. It's going to
Speaker 6: be a heck of a challenge. Really talented team on defense.
Speaker 6: They played incredibly fast. You know, I have a lot
Speaker 6: of respect for Arthur and his staff. Ryan Nielsen's a
Speaker 6: guy I got to know last offseason really well.
Speaker 5: Think the world to him, and uh, you know, so we're.
Speaker 6: Just gonna have to make the best decision based upon
Speaker 6: you know, the days of preparation we have and what
Speaker 6: that picture looks like will be determined throughout the week.
Speaker 3: Quickly to run the offense, you know they did they
Speaker 3: want You can look up the Josh Freeman table one
Speaker 3: year that went out and got him, you know, on
Speaker 3: the fight.
Speaker 5: Is it?
Speaker 3: How hard is it to teach even a.
Speaker 6: Veteran a new system?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 6: I think you know, we've we've really you know what
Speaker 6: we've done on offensively here, Uh, since we first arrived.
Speaker 6: I mean even somebody that played previously here, you know,
Speaker 6: in in last year's training camp. It's it's different, It's
Speaker 6: it's evolved, it's constantly evolving. Kirk has quite honestly given
Speaker 6: me the opportunity, uh, you know, to.
Speaker 5: To coach him hard.
Speaker 6: But we've kind of done it together in a way
Speaker 6: where the evolution of this offense is really kind of morphed,
Speaker 6: you know, in different directions based upon you know, the
Speaker 6: last few weeks with j J out or previously adding
Speaker 6: TJ middle of the season or you know, whatever it's been.
Speaker 6: So I think it is a challenge, but you know,
Speaker 6: that's our job as coaches is regardless of when a
Speaker 6: player arrives or if it's a player's rookie year, whatever
Speaker 6: the time tables you'd love to be able to be
Speaker 6: comfortable with. Very rarely do you get that gift mid
Speaker 6: season in the NFL.
Speaker 5: So that's that's our jobs.
Speaker 6: And I'm going to take it as my personal responsibility
Speaker 6: to make sure whoever goes out there to play quarter
Speaker 6: back for us is prepared and ready.
Speaker 7: Kevin, as you're looking for options, how far and wide
Speaker 7: do you look? Is this guys that you know that
Speaker 7: have played in a similar system guys to play in
Speaker 7: the league.
Speaker 5: You think about talking guys.
Speaker 7: Out of retirement, how far do you cast the net?
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, you you know, you wouldn't believe kind
Speaker 6: of some of the things on my cell phone I've
Speaker 6: received here in the last twenty four hours, in less
Speaker 6: than twenty four hours, but those that dialogue, it's it's
Speaker 6: what's going to be best for our ability to win
Speaker 6: football games. But also knowing we've been living in a
Speaker 6: world where we want to be as competitive as possible
Speaker 6: right now while also understand what we're building hopefully for
Speaker 6: the future at the same time and doing that just
Speaker 6: trying to make sure the football and what we do
Speaker 6: between what Flow has done defensively, what we do offensively,
Speaker 6: you know, is as top of the line as we
Speaker 6: can possibly make it for our guys, and then constantly
Speaker 6: be evaluating what's best for our team moving forward. And
Speaker 6: move forward means the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday. So it's
Speaker 6: been an interesting, uh you know, kind of period here
Speaker 6: since you know, about two thirty yesterday, two o'clock yesterday
Speaker 6: at Lambeau and we'll continue to work through that.
Speaker 5: Home considered you Quasi at a time like this.
Speaker 6: Yes, you know, we we have constant dialogue, communication and
Speaker 6: trade deadline and everything that's going on. We're uh there
Speaker 6: is probably no you know more you know, direct communication
Speaker 6: outside of uh, you know, us getting you know, just
Speaker 6: an open mic between his office and mind. It might
Speaker 6: be come in handy here, but I think I feel
Speaker 6: very very comfortable with our dialogue, you know, my ability
Speaker 6: to you know, express football wise, you know where I
Speaker 6: think we're at, where I think we're going. And then
Speaker 6: I think the important job for me as the head
Speaker 6: coach is to uh, you know, be open minded to
Speaker 6: you know, that dialogue and and Quasi and his staff
Speaker 6: and as we work towards what we think, you know,
Speaker 6: is the right possible thing for us, you know, really
Speaker 6: across the board, for our whole team, and that will
Speaker 6: continue to be ongoing. And quite frankly feel very comfortable
Speaker 6: with that process.
Speaker 1: And then you've spoken to Kirk this morning and what
Speaker 1: could he say?
Speaker 4: And how do you talk to a.
Speaker 5: Person on that line?
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know I have, And and just more so
Speaker 6: you know, as a friend and as somebody that I've
Speaker 6: become really close with him, it's more so about being
Speaker 6: in support mode for him right now. That's maybe getting
Speaker 6: him connected with with with you know, some people that
Speaker 6: might be able to at least give him some advice,
Speaker 6: players that have gone through it, maybe currently going through it,
Speaker 6: things like that that will allow him to have, you know,
Speaker 6: the best possible mindset that I don't worry about one
Speaker 6: bit because he was already you know, discussing timelines and
Speaker 6: when he'll be ready to go and and all those things.
Speaker 6: Kirk Cousins loves playing this game. He loves you know,
Speaker 6: he takes a lot of pride in playing this game
Speaker 6: and being as durable as he's been throughout his career.
Speaker 6: So this is going to be new for him him
Speaker 6: and that's what my job ultimately is for you know,
Speaker 6: every player on our roster, regardless of whether they're you know,
Speaker 6: it's the same for JJ throughout this time. It's the
Speaker 6: same for Marcus Davenport throughout some of the other players
Speaker 6: that we've either put on ir have been lost for
Speaker 6: the season since we've been here.
Speaker 5: I view that as a huge.
Speaker 6: Part of my job, the support and them understanding it's
Speaker 6: more than just you know, what can you do for us?
Speaker 5: Now? It's more what can I do for you?
Speaker 6: Guys, as you go throughout this process and feel kind
Speaker 6: of the most comfortable you can feel in a time
Speaker 6: where it's very very hard to do that. And I
Speaker 6: do think that's very important, no matter the energy or
Speaker 6: time that takes for me to do that.
Speaker 4: I mean, you talk about the growth that you've seen
Speaker 4: come from the rocky start, and you know, the whole
Speaker 4: organization some examples of that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think the you know you guys have heard
Speaker 6: me use the response word many many times over these
Speaker 6: last few weeks. There's example after example of our team.
Speaker 6: All the response is is is picking each other up
Speaker 6: and finding a way to make the next play, regardless
Speaker 6: of if you had anything to do with the previous outcome,
Speaker 6: good or bad, finding a way to go out there
Speaker 6: and and make make the play that could set the
Speaker 6: momentum in our favor for the rest of the day,
Speaker 6: for a two or three week stretch, whatever it is.
Speaker 5: But I think we've learned to deal with those things together.
Speaker 6: Looking inward and whether it's the defense picking up the
Speaker 6: offense after a you know, after a turnover, or the
Speaker 6: defense does turn the football over Josh mattelis yesterday, and
Speaker 6: then the offense goes out and scores on the next play,
Speaker 6: just maximizing our ability to play as one. The Minnesota Vikings,
Speaker 6: regardless of circumstance, play as one in a way that
Speaker 6: we become very.
Speaker 5: Difficult to compete for.
Speaker 6: Four quarters against by the things we're doing on the field,
Speaker 6: the talented players we do have, and the fact that
Speaker 6: collectively it's going to feel like you're playing against a
Speaker 6: team in its surest, purest form for three and a
Speaker 6: half hours on a Sunday.
Speaker 3: Brown and Neil talked yesterday.
Speaker 4: When things have got tough for this team, it's brought
Speaker 4: the best out of you guys.
Speaker 5: How much of that starts with Kirk? And you know
Speaker 5: where does it come from? Now?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think Kirk had, you know, a lot to
Speaker 6: do with it. I think all of our captains, all
Speaker 6: of our leaders. You know, our leadership extends well beyond
Speaker 6: our eight captains. And you know, I'd like to think
Speaker 6: the coaching staff plays a role in that as well.
Speaker 6: But you know, there's going to be a void of
Speaker 6: on field leadership when you lose a guy like Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 6: It's just a it's just a fact. Ignoring that would
Speaker 6: be naive by me. But there's also opportunity, just any
Speaker 6: adversity in life, regardless of whether you're playing playing a
Speaker 6: game or it's away from this building. I want our
Speaker 6: players to always look at adversity as an opportunity for growth.
Speaker 6: And it's easier said than done, quite honestly. And that's
Speaker 6: when you have to have a culture of guys that
Speaker 6: are collectively doing things together. There's there's never finger pointing,
Speaker 6: there's never blame, deflection of criticism and all that you know, absorb,
Speaker 6: you know, compartmentalize what you can, process what you can
Speaker 6: and then we got to move forward because, like I said,
Speaker 6: nobody's gonna feel sorry for us in any capacity.
Speaker 7: The offense in the last and without Kirk, you have
Speaker 7: to change the offense just to have a quarterback.
Speaker 5: Maybe it's not doing quite as much of the line.
Speaker 6: Of scrimmage or yeah, I think that it's going to
Speaker 6: be a natural thing for us to to to basically, you.
Speaker 5: Know, be aware.
Speaker 6: It's just about having awareness and understanding, communicating with whoever's playing,
Speaker 6: and then ultimately making the decisions that I think are
Speaker 6: best for our for our offense. As far as uh,
Speaker 6: you know, you can do a lot of things. You
Speaker 6: can get carried away sometimes with scheme, and we've seen
Speaker 6: some great examples of that being very beneficial down to
Speaker 6: the last little detail that we express to our players.
Speaker 6: And then we've seen just some playmaking ability as well
Speaker 6: of understanding never underestimate the power of just putting the
Speaker 6: ball in play, making good decisions, progressing in rhythm, and
Speaker 6: allowing you know, the core philosophies and kind of what
Speaker 6: we've built this offense around really through the quarterback, by
Speaker 6: the quarterback, and to help the quarterback in a lot
Speaker 6: of ways. I think those principles have to stay true
Speaker 6: even if you've got to take a couple of steps back,
Speaker 6: and I think through that process of doing so, you
Speaker 6: know where you might be in four or five weeks
Speaker 6: from a growth standpoint might be more beneficial than anything.
Speaker 5: And then you look back on it.
Speaker 6: And say, did we really change all that much or
Speaker 6: did we just once again morph and kind of figure
Speaker 6: out the best way to collectively move forward.
Speaker 5: So I think it's going to be a lot of that.
Speaker 6: Quite honestly, you know this is going to be a challenge, Ben,
Speaker 6: but it's one that I believe. This is why we're
Speaker 6: here to help navigate, you know, through tough times and
Speaker 6: ultimately challenge, develop, encourage and then have confidence that what
Speaker 6: we ultimately do when that ball gets kicked off, our
Speaker 6: guys can go play fast and have a lot of
Speaker 6: confidence to go do some good things.
Speaker 4: It's Vikings head coach Kevin O'Connell addressing the media earlier
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