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Speaker 1: Hey, Welcome to the Vikings postgame report with former player

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Speaker 1: and coach and analystp Bursige.

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Speaker 2: I'm Paul Allen.

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Speaker 1: The Minnesota Vikings basically trailed ninety eight and a half

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Speaker 1: percent of this game against the Arizona Cardinals today was

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Speaker 1: nothing but field goals from Shad Ryland and Parker Romo,

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Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, Aaron Jones, who had

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Speaker 1: kind of a nondescript day. In fact, some I wouldn't

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Speaker 1: say bad moments, but some moments of which he's probably

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Speaker 1: not super proud, like dropping a pass in the end zone,

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Speaker 1: a fumble that he lost to fumbles total. But Aaron

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Speaker 1: Jones from Sam Darnold tied it to twenty two. The

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Speaker 1: Vikings win twenty three to twenty two. They won five

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Speaker 1: in a row. They're ten and two. How did they

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Speaker 3: Well, you know, the crazy part is it just took

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Speaker 3: them a long time to find their groove. You look,

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Speaker 3: with eight and a half minutes left to go in

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Speaker 3: the third quarter, we had ninety two yards of offense

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Speaker 3: on twenty five plays, and then you turn around and

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Speaker 3: you look and we ended up with twenty three. So

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Speaker 3: we figured a few things out. Protection got better. And

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Speaker 3: I don't think that was necessarily just the offensive line.

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Speaker 3: It was the running backs and the tight ends and

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Speaker 3: all those other guys chipping in. It gave Donald the

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Speaker 3: opportunity to step up in the pocket, Paul, and when

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Speaker 3: our Donald on those last couple series able to step

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Speaker 3: up in the pocket, was absolutely firing bullets when he

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Speaker 3: had to the touch. On the throws, especially that one

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Speaker 3: over the fingertips of Jesse Luketta, I mean, just some beautiful,

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Speaker 3: beautiful throws. And credit Donald man. I think he really

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Speaker 3: put everything on his shoulders that we're a passing team,

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Speaker 3: that's who we are. And he answered the call today

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Speaker 3: so unbelievably impressed with Sam Donald toward the end of

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Speaker 3: this football game.

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Speaker 1: And you know, I think I think we would be

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Speaker 1: remiss to not also congratulate and thank kicker Parker Romo. Oh,

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Speaker 1: I mean, seriously, you don't talk about ers a lot

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Speaker 1: unless they go Blair Walsh on it at the College

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Speaker 1: stadium and all of a sudden, you don't have it tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: you're not playing anymore. But Romo, he you know, this

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Speaker 1: is certainly not speaking for the team, but the assumption

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Speaker 1: is the rookie will Reikert will return next game against Atlanta.

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Speaker 1: So Romo had a four game sample size. First three

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Speaker 1: outdoors on grass, Super Wendy and Jacksonville Wonky Turf and

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Speaker 1: Soldier Field. He got Wendy near the end of the game.

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Speaker 1: He walked off in overtime as a winner. And granted

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Speaker 1: he missed a field goal today, but that last extra

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Speaker 1: point kicked the Minnesota Vikings into the Winter Circle. Good

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Speaker 1: for Parker Romo. He's definitely earned himself the opportunity to

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Speaker 3: Else, right, And that's the life of a kicker man.

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Speaker 3: You get stuck in. It's a tough life to begin with,

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Speaker 3: and then to get your opportunity, you get stuck in

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Speaker 3: a very difficult situation, right, And he came in and

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Speaker 3: answered the call. He and Jake McQuaid, who you know,

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Speaker 3: did a fabulous job with the long snapping as well.

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Speaker 3: So the special teams element wasn't a huge part of today,

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Speaker 3: but the kicking game, you know, ended up being ended

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Speaker 1: Biron Murphy Junior a former member of the Arizona Cardinals.

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Speaker 1: You know, the Arizona Cardinals, like had been his favorite

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Speaker 1: team all of his life. Why he is from Scottsdale, Arizona,

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Speaker 1: taken in the second round out of Washington in twenty

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Speaker 1: nineteen by the Cardinals. Then at the end of his

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Speaker 1: first deal, they're like, hey, you can go ahead and walk.

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Speaker 1: So he came here to Minnesota and he made a

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Speaker 1: big difference today. Three passes defense, he had his fifth interception,

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Speaker 1: and he's two to zero against his former squad.

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Speaker 3: Right with Byron Murphy. When he's engaged and he is

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Speaker 3: giving and everything he has, he's a very very good corner.

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Speaker 3: There are some times when he'll drift. There's sometimes when

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Speaker 3: you know, some he looks like there's some indecision. But

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Speaker 3: a game like today played absolutely fabulous.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 3: I think Fabian Moreau actually stepped up. Outside of that

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Speaker 1: Yea.

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Speaker 3: I think he did a really good job. He had

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Speaker 3: a huge pass interference penalty. I was. I think in

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Speaker 3: that case they hung them out to dry a little bit,

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Speaker 3: meaning there was no deep mental help. So I don't

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Speaker 3: know why that wasn't there, But Fabian more stepped in

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Speaker 3: did I think a pretty good job. We saw theo

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Speaker 3: starting to get these these other legs in there as

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Speaker 3: that's important because you want to be playing your best

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Speaker 3: have it in the beginning, right. You can just feel it,

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Speaker 3: you you you felt it before the game too. It

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Speaker 3: they're You got to give them a reason to cheer,

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Speaker 3: and this team didn't really give them anything until the

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Speaker 3: secon you know, really the second half of the second

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Speaker 3: half almost right, So everybody leaves happy. But these are

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Speaker 3: games that in the past this team has lost, and

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Speaker 3: they found a way today to win.

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Speaker 1: Kevin O'Connell, head coach of the Minnesota Vikings, had this

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Speaker 1: to say following a one point victory over the Arizona Cardinals.

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Speaker 2: Injury updates for you guys, Steph gil Stefan Gilmore did

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Speaker 2: get a hamstring left hamstring did not return. You know,

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Speaker 2: I'm hoping we avoided a longer term issue there. He

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Speaker 2: was thinking about possibly coming back in but able to

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Speaker 2: hold on to the win there, guys making some play

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Speaker 2: stepping up and then Pat Jones did have the right

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Speaker 2: Proud of our guys. Got our tenth win you know

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Speaker 2: by December first, which I think is an accomplishment. Games

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Speaker 2: are hard to win. I do think that's a really

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Speaker 2: you know, well coached, playoff caliber football team in that

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Speaker 2: other locker room. Want to give the Cardinals a lot

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Speaker 2: of credit. They made it very hard on us. We've

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Speaker 2: got to be a lot better offensively, and you know,

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Speaker 2: see if we can not put ourselves in a hole.

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Speaker 2: But I will say, you know, when we absolutely needed

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Speaker 2: it to put those excuse me, to put those drives

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Speaker 2: the points and needed to win the game. Is obviously

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Speaker 2: the intent of everything here. But as we continue to

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Speaker 2: take a close look at at what we do, they'll

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Speaker 2: always be room for improvement. But very much looking forward

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Speaker 2: to attacking it with these guys. And I did congratulate

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Speaker 2: them on getting the ten wins. You know, as as

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Speaker 2: we kick off a very important month of December, what

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Speaker 1: This team they you guys seem to play your best

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Speaker 1: when the heat really turns on.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. One of our you know, one of our mottos

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Speaker 2: me personally. I feel an obligation as the play caller

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Speaker 2: and that's overcoming a lot of things. I mean, we,

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Speaker 2: you know, to take some sacks on third down. I

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Speaker 2: want to compliment the scheme and kind of forcing some

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Speaker 2: But with that type of you know, strong for much

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Speaker 2: and find ways to get explosives. I think we had

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Speaker 2: and we needed every single one of them. And love

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Speaker 2: the fact that even though it wasn't you know, Aaron's

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Speaker 2: that kind of designer kind of play, there didn't hesitate

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Speaker 4: I think Sam throws for one hundred some yards in

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Speaker 4: the fourth quarter. What can you say about him in

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Speaker 4: the second week in a row, in a tight game

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Speaker 4: making that kind of a performance.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I think we continue to learn things

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Speaker 2: about our team that will pay a lot of dividends

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Speaker 2: moving forward. And really two weeks in a row now

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Speaker 2: finding a way, you know when you know most really

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Speaker 2: last week, momentum was taken from us up eleven, and

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Speaker 2: they're able to kind of come back and tie it up,

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Speaker 2: not one time did anybody on our team flinch, And

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Speaker 2: we did what we had to do to get the

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Speaker 2: a lot of things throughout a four quarter football game

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Speaker 3: I came through or of an effort to get the

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there was an effort early too, and you know,

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Speaker 2: we had them, might have had them on a couple

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Speaker 2: Aaron Aaron's fumble on his catch was a checkdown and

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Speaker 2: had him there. We'll watch the tape and continue to

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Speaker 2: find ways to move them and and all the different

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Speaker 2: them on a really good defensive game plan. I talked

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Speaker 2: both in protection and in the run game. So you know,

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Speaker 2: process with Aaron Jones. He has a too early Yeah,

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Speaker 2: but as you said, you did never lost faith. You're

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Speaker 2: going to put them in at the end. Like I mean,

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Speaker 2: we've seen the way the league goes. We've seen lots

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Speaker 2: just kind of really if anything, you know, I have

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Speaker 2: total trust in Aaron. You guys can see it all

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Speaker 2: to find a way to fix it. And because we've

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Speaker 2: had too many times that the ball does end up

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Speaker 2: huge momentum play. Giving them such a short field, what

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Speaker 2: far enough that they miss a field goal. But listen,

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Speaker 2: there's a reason why I called the play I did.

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Speaker 2: In the end, he's one of our best players who

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Speaker 2: And there's not a guy in that locker room that

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Speaker 3: on the ascent over there. And they they got to

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Speaker 3: turn around now and play Seattle at home to try

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Speaker 3: to still maintain a shot I win in that division.

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Speaker 1: The Arizona Cardinals lost to the Vikings twenty three to

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Speaker 1: twenty two. Sam Darnold ended with two touchdown passes off

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Speaker 1: the best game he's had of his career at Soldier Field,

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Speaker 1: his only three hundred plus yard passing game with the Vikings.

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Speaker 1: He was sacked five times today and had a lot

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Speaker 1: to overcome, but he put it together be dutifully late

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Speaker 1: when they needed it most. Found Aaron Jones for what

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Speaker 1: ended up being the game tying touchdown. Then Parker Romo

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Speaker 1: hits the extra point the Vikings win twenty three to

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Speaker 1: twenty two. Here's Sam the Man after the game.

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Speaker 5: Another resilient win. Yeah, just you know, a first and

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Speaker 5: foremost man. The way the way our defense played, the

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Speaker 5: way that they were able to stop him to field

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Speaker 5: goals early on, even late late in the game as well.

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Speaker 5: You know, they continue to come up big for us,

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Speaker 5: and you know, just a resilient, resilient, you know, effort

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Speaker 5: by the offense man as a as a group. Obviously,

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Speaker 5: it wasn't the first half that we wanted. You know,

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Speaker 5: we got to get better in a in a lot

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Speaker 5: of ways and learning from that first half is going

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Speaker 5: to be huge. But the way we battled in the

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Speaker 5: second half was was awesome. And you know, I give

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Speaker 5: a lot of credit to to Arizona. You know, their defense,

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Speaker 5: their players, they played really really hard. Buddha Baker obviously

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Speaker 5: on the other side as a as a heck of

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Speaker 5: a player, the way that he flies around all game. Really,

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Speaker 5: you know, all their guys, you know, we're flying around

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Speaker 5: all game. And yeah, just a lot of credit to

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Speaker 5: the way Arizona came out and but yeah, just proud

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Speaker 5: of proud of all the guys in the locker room.

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Speaker 2: So what makes their defensive structure so tough?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I think just you know, some of

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Speaker 5: the way they mix up certain coverages, presenting different looks.

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Speaker 5: You know, it's obviously a lot of similarities between their

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Speaker 5: defense and the way our our defense plays. So yeah,

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Speaker 5: just uh, you know, you know, there were a couple

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Speaker 5: of times I felt like early on, you know, I

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Speaker 5: could have you know, made some calls that would have

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Speaker 5: changed some of the protections and kept me from getting hit.

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Speaker 5: But you know, in those situations, just got to continue

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Speaker 5: to protect the ball, which I felt like I had

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Speaker 5: a good job all day of when something wasn't there,

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Speaker 5: whether it was just taking a sack or throwing the

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Speaker 5: ball away. But yeah, I felt like their defense was

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Speaker 5: rolling today. And just again proud, proud of the way

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Speaker 5: we responded.

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Speaker 2: And what was your sense of how Aaron Jones was

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Speaker 2: dealing with a day and uh and just being ready

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Speaker 2: to make the catch that you know, on that final play.

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Speaker 5: I mean, you want to talk about a guy who's mature,

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Speaker 5: been through a lot in his career, you know, just

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Speaker 5: so so proud of him, you know the way obviously

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Speaker 5: he responded really really well in the Chicago game. He

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Speaker 5: did the same thing today, and uh, you know, we're

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Speaker 5: just going to continue to continue to trust him. I'm

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Speaker 5: gonna continue to trust him throw him the ball because man,

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Speaker 5: he's a heck of a player and he does a

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Speaker 5: lot of good stuff for us. Sam, what is your

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Speaker 5: mentality He's coming back on a field of three minutes

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Speaker 5: of play, seconds left, knowing you need to go to the

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Speaker 5: land to it. Yeah, just one play at a time,

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Speaker 5: you know. That's that's my been my mentality all year.

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Speaker 5: You know, I think early on in the drive, completions

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Speaker 5: that's another big one.

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Speaker 2: And and if you know they present.

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Speaker 5: Us with, you know, a look where I feel like,

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Speaker 5: I can you fit fit the ball in there or

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Speaker 5: you know, make a big play. Obviously I'm gonna take

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Speaker 5: it in time, you know, within the timing of my

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Speaker 5: feet in my eyes. But yeah, I think other than that,

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Speaker 5: if it's not there, just being able to get completions

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Speaker 5: to to start the drive, especially Justin said when the.

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Speaker 1: Play called for that fourth and five came in, he

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Speaker 1: thought he was going to be free. I guess just

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Speaker 1: what was your first impression of that call and then what.

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Speaker 2: You see on the plane.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I love the call obviously.

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Speaker 2: You know, it was just a really good job by Jets.

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Speaker 5: He did the same same thing in practice, just finding

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Speaker 5: that soft spot in the zone, and you know, we

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Speaker 5: connected on it really very similarly to the way we

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Speaker 5: did on Thursday and practice, and so you know, just

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Speaker 5: they brought they brought a really you know, a good

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Speaker 5: pressure on that play as well. But I was able

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Speaker 5: to get the ball out, you know, and uh and convert.

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Speaker 5: It was a huge play obviously by Jets, really by

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Speaker 5: all eleven to be able to execute on that fourth down.

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Speaker 2: So I definitely get them and challenges in the first half.

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Speaker 5: One of the adjustments trying to get a little quicker

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Speaker 5: hits and felt like, you guys, a lot quicker development

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Speaker 5: plays in.

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Speaker 2: The second half of that part of it.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, there there were a few adjustments that

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Speaker 5: we made in the second half. Not gonna go into

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Speaker 5: a ton of detail on that, but yeah, you know,

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Speaker 5: we made we made a few adjustments and you know,

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Speaker 5: I was very obviously happy with the way we came out.

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Speaker 5: I want to put the ball in the end zone obviously,

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Speaker 5: but you know, just the way that we responded, especially

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Speaker 5: when you know Arizona was able to take the ball back,

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Speaker 5: score get up to possessions, to be able to go

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Speaker 5: down and score a touchdown was absolutely critical. And just

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Speaker 5: uh yeah, I can say it a million times in

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Speaker 5: this press conference, but the way that our offense and

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Speaker 5: our defense, our special teams, our whole team just kept

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Speaker 5: our heads down and and you know, just just played

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Speaker 5: through that game all the way until the end. And

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Speaker 5: uh yeah, it was awesome to.

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Speaker 2: See you learned anything about yourself this year.

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Speaker 5: I haven't really had time to think about that, to

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Speaker 5: be honest, but dude, I'm just going to continue to

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Speaker 5: do my job every single day and we're just going

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Speaker 5: to keep it that simple.

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Speaker 2: How about having ten wins in December? First, you coach

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Speaker 2: made a pretty big deal about that post game.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, obviously, it's it's nice, you know, to be able

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Speaker 5: to get that tenth win in December, especially early, but

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Speaker 5: you know, we still, you know, we got a lot,

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Speaker 5: you know, a long way to go to be the

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Speaker 5: team that we want to be. You know that that

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Speaker 5: first half wasn't wasn't our brand of football, and you

560
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Speaker 5: know we're going to continue to learn, watch it and

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Speaker 5: grow as a team. But it's nice when you can play,

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Speaker 5: you know, like that in the first half and continue

563
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Speaker 5: to grind through it and get a win. It's awesome

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Speaker 5: when that happens, obviously.

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Speaker 1: So in closing what what Pete was referencing earlier with

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Speaker 1: the Vikings postgame report is when you play three consecutive

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Speaker 1: on the road, and Pete would know it better than

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Speaker 1: Nassi played and coach, when you run out of that

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Speaker 1: adversarial tunnel, you have ninety five percent of the crowd

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Speaker 1: hating you, cussing at you, booing you, and yelling, yelling

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Speaker 1: at you. Then you see the Vikings fans voluminous pretty

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Speaker 1: much everywhere we go, and it's a different form of

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Speaker 1: motivation into a game. You come home, it's cold outside

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Speaker 1: Minnesota fans not not chiding the fans at all. They'll

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Speaker 1: be loud early, but then they want to sit back

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Speaker 1: and be entertained. And when you get sacks or you

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Speaker 1: get touchdowns or long runs by Jefferson after catches, well

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Speaker 1: then they get out of their seats and they cheer,

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Speaker 1: but it definitely had some human nature to it today,

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Speaker 1: trying to motivate themselves through playing relatively poorly early, specifically offensively.

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Speaker 1: They got through it and they won by one.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they did. And that's something that you have to

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Speaker 3: be careful of because you have a comfort level at home.

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Speaker 3: Right when you're on the road, it's a it's a

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Speaker 3: different hotel, it's everything you know every week, it's something different.

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Speaker 3: But when you're back home, you kind of want to go, ah,

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Speaker 3: i'm home, just like we do every day when you

588
00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:01,240
Speaker 3: get home, right, like, oh, I'm fine, only home. Well,

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Speaker 3: you got to really really protect yourself against that, and

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Speaker 3: I think today was a great learning experience, you know

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Speaker 3: for this team. The offense in the first half, especially

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Speaker 3: being behind almost the entire game. Paul right, we'd been

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Speaker 3: ahead in the beginning of the season. It was like

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Speaker 3: completely the opposite way. So we found again find a

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Speaker 3: way to win. They did, and the Vikings, you know,

596
00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:27,080
Speaker 3: your two lost team, you're still a two lost team.

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Speaker 3: You're keeping the heat on Detroit. You're not letting the

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Speaker 3: Packers catch up to you. I mean Detroit looked human

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Speaker 3: the second half of that game against Chicago. I'm very

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Speaker 3: interested to see how they play this Thursday night. So man,

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Speaker 3: it's exciting. It's exciting. So we'll see.

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Speaker 1: The Vikings improved to ten and two with a twenty

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Speaker 1: three twenty two victory over Arizona for Pete Bursich. I'm

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Speaker 1: Paul Allen. This is an Eric Davidson production. And hey,

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Speaker 1: on Thanksgiving, if the feast on turkey wasn't good enough

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Speaker 1: for you, well your Vikings feasted on a bird of

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Speaker 1: a different variety today, the Arizona Cardinals. They only won

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Speaker 1: by one, but they got to the winner circle and

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Speaker 1: that matters most. Thank you for listening to the Vikings

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Speaker 1: postgame report at vikings dot com