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Speaker 1: a call to day topic team. Biggest surprise of twenty nineteen.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Minnesota Vikings podcast. I'm Adam Dealing

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Speaker 1: cousin Green Bay, Rusha's four Cousins Passes is he en? Hey?

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Speaker 1: This is Kirk Cousins and the Minnesota Vikings. You're listening

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Speaker 1: to the Minnesota Vikings podcast. Welcome to the Minnesota Vikings

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Speaker 1: Podcast with your host Mike Wabshaw and Chris Corso. Alright,

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Speaker 1: Episode two of the Minnesota Vikings podcast is here and

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Speaker 1: you are listening to it. We are glad you're doing so.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host Wabi from TCO Performance Center in Egan.

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Speaker 1: Jam Packed episode two of the Minnesota Vikings podcast coming up.

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Speaker 1: Before we preview it, let's bring in the producer, the

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Speaker 1: co producer, and the co host Chris Corso. What's up man?

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Speaker 1: What's going on? While we have a jam packed episode.

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Speaker 1: I'm really excited for our new feature and that's the

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Speaker 1: voicemails that we got from the fans. This right, God,

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Speaker 1: the imagination. So the listeners are most excited for the

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Speaker 1: guest because it's number thirty three on the top one

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Speaker 1: hundred players of twenty eighteen list. It's Adam Feeling. Yes,

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Speaker 1: Vikings wide receiver. Coming up. In a moment, we'll have

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Speaker 1: term of the Week. We'll get to Chrissie's new favorite segment,

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Speaker 1: fan voicemails. You're gonna hear from Vikings team reporter Eric Smith.

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Speaker 1: He'll tell us what he's seeing out on the practice

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Speaker 1: it begins with a little bit of levity from unsurprisingly

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Speaker 1: defensive end Everson Griffin. I was just curious, though, what

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Speaker 1: So you think Everson Griffin is just the sack daddy,

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Speaker 1: Top wide receivers that I have on my list. Obviously

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Speaker 1: perspective on the field, Hey, guys, have the going good man,

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Speaker 1: what was your like when you were grown up and stuff?

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Speaker 1: What did people call you? What was your nickname. I

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Speaker 1: just call you Eric all the time. My dad called

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Speaker 1: me eman Eman. Okay, that makes sense. I call I

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Speaker 1: call Leo big man. He's my big man. Yep, that

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Speaker 1: makes sense. I get that, and then my mom gets

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Speaker 1: called me e. Okay. How about your friends? Were you smitty?

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Speaker 1: Because you do the you do the weekly chat in

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Speaker 1: season and the occasional chat offseason, and it's sup smitty?

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Speaker 1: Right yeah? Okay, so does anyone call you smitty? A

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Speaker 1: few people? Yeah, not many of do you think. I

435
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Speaker 1: think that's more of like an old school thing. People

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Speaker 1: called my Grandpamitte all the time. Okay, but not really me?

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Speaker 1: All right, all right, yeah, well we're gonna keep working

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Speaker 1: on a nickname for you. Then, Okay, it's about time

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Speaker 1: you have one, you know one, you know. The king

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Speaker 1: of nicknames around here is Tom West, who's in the

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Speaker 1: Vikings Public relations department, has been here for a long time,

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Speaker 1: over twenty years. He knows how to come up with nicknames. Now,

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Speaker 1: they're not always you know, flattering nicknames or not, so

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Speaker 1: you gotta be careful. Yeah, it's a double ed sword there,

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Speaker 1: so I don't think you should ask him for one,

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Speaker 1: but we'll come up with a nickname, we'll try. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: all right. Um, first of all, the weekly chats, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: when do they start up again? It just started, okay,

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Speaker 1: So the one you just had was the first of

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Speaker 1: them starting up again, pretty much, Yeah, for one of

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Speaker 1: the twenty nine. And you're gonna do them on Tuesdays

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Speaker 1: again every two day, one o'clock Viking dot Com. Okay,

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Speaker 1: and folks can log on to the site ahead of

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Speaker 1: time and submit questions, or they can log on right

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Speaker 1: at one o'clock as you guys get going, right. They

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Speaker 1: can also, as you said, use the hat taget smitty

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Speaker 1: on Twitter. Yeah, and simmy questions. All right, and I'd

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Speaker 1: take it all. Okay, So you do three observations from

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Speaker 1: practice for the day. We've had as of this recording,

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Speaker 1: four full team practices. Two of them have been in pads.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna have another one today that you're gonna go

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Speaker 1: out to and watch in a minute. We're gonna have

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Speaker 1: two more on Thursday Friday before the annual night practice

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Speaker 1: on Saturday, August third, So folks want to come out

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Speaker 1: and check out the team under the lights. You can't

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Speaker 1: get out here on a weekday. You can't get out

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Speaker 1: here and during business hours. Come on Saturday night, watch

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Speaker 1: the night practice. It's always really fun and even though

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Speaker 1: it's just a practice, just a practice and air quotes,

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Speaker 1: you can't help but feel like the intensity is a

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Speaker 1: little bit more, maybe than than a normal practice. Right,

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Speaker 1: it's a good lead up to that for preseason gag. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: kind kind of get that game like atmosphere. Yeah, all right,

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Speaker 1: So you've seen a bunch of practice, you've written a

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Speaker 1: bunch of observations, and let's let's not be long winded here.

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Speaker 1: Let's let's give the folks. Let's hit him hard with

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Speaker 1: a couple of succinct observations that you have from camp

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Speaker 1: so far. What's number one? Okay, the first one, it's

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Speaker 1: not going to be at the Pride if you paid

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Speaker 1: attention the thought season, But I think the Viking they're

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Speaker 1: going to run the ball a lot. Okay. So you've

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Speaker 1: seen that in practice, you've seen that, we've heard it

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Speaker 1: in words, and you're seeing it in action. Even in

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Speaker 1: the installation period where the guy take their helmets off

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Speaker 1: and they're kind of jogging or walking through plays, it

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Speaker 1: is almost always running the ball. Okay, So you believe

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Speaker 1: in the um the emphasis on running the ball. You

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Speaker 1: believe in that? All right? Heavy? Okay? Dalvin? All right, yeah, Dalvin, Alexander,

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Speaker 1: Alexan and Madithon had looked great. Yeah. He the first

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Speaker 1: day of pads, I thought he was a standout. He

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Speaker 1: had very smooth Yeah. And Kennedy Paulamalo, the running backs coach,

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Speaker 1: like he'll let you have it if he doesn't like

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Speaker 1: what you're doing, and he was like he was happy

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Speaker 1: with Alexander Madison in the one on one pass Pearls linebackers.

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Speaker 1: So I was cool, all right, number two, number two.

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Speaker 1: I've been interested to watch the depth at defensive tackle. Okay,

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Speaker 1: two presumptive starters are out. They're not practicing right right

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Speaker 1: if Linamon pop and there's a whole host of guys.

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Speaker 1: They're younger guys who are trying to kind of make

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Speaker 1: their name. Um. I think all of them have been

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Speaker 1: a little bit up and down. Um. I think we'll

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Speaker 1: maybe find out more when the preseason game get going.

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Speaker 1: But that's just an area that I've had my eye on. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think it's a really interesting position battle, not for

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Speaker 1: the starting spots because if they're healthy, it's Lindvall and

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Speaker 1: it's Chamar correct Um what I think is interesting is

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Speaker 1: a how many do we keep? How many tackles do

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Speaker 1: we keep? Four? Five? If it's If it's four, you know,

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Speaker 1: that's a little light. The competition's super intense. Probably gonna

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Speaker 1: be fine. I would think, maybe you think about it

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Speaker 1: being five. If that's the case. The real battle is

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Speaker 1: not who's who's who's number three? Who's number five? That's

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Speaker 1: the real battle because you're gonna get a good player

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Speaker 1: that you're gonna try to sneak on through waivers onto

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Speaker 1: the squad practice squad, right, you know, and you might

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Speaker 1: not be able to do that. So that's the real

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Speaker 1: position battle. Who's four and five? Correct, not who's three

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Speaker 1: and four. We made some predictions last week, and we

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Speaker 1: talked about Jalen Holmes, We talked about Jalil Johnson, who

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Speaker 1: actually spoke to the media today. Yeah, there are a

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Speaker 1: lot of candidates. Yeah, who stood out to you And

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Speaker 1: I've always I wrote about him in the spring, but

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Speaker 1: Hercules there, you know, he's flashed here and there. Um,

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Speaker 1: you kind of have my eye on him going forward. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Zima likes him too, yep. Um, all right, number three. Uh,

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Speaker 1: the kicking game had been an area of focus. Um,

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Speaker 1: kind of with the long knappers and multiple holders I

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Speaker 1: get in practice. Um in the chat, people are freaking

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Speaker 1: out about it, but it's early, you know, there's a

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Speaker 1: long way to go. I think as long as they

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Speaker 1: get it cleaned up in the preseason and they're ready

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Speaker 1: to go for week one, then it'll be fine. I'm

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Speaker 1: not sweating Dan Bailey, No, not at all. Yeah, I'm

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Speaker 1: not sweating that. I think you said the word. The

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Speaker 1: word is the operations. That's what the key is is

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Speaker 1: the synergy among the kicker, holder and long snapper, you know,

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Speaker 1: and being sharp in those other areas besides just kicking

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Speaker 1: the ball. That's what has to be looked at and

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Speaker 1: analyzed here during the preseason. I think it figuring out

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Speaker 1: who the long snapper is going to be as we

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Speaker 1: go along, and it's getting that person comfortable with Matt

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Speaker 1: Wile and then getting Dan comfortable with him, and it'll

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Speaker 1: get better. And we love Kevin McDermott. I mean he

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Speaker 1: was a long snapper last year and it's not like

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Speaker 1: we had like bad snaps last year. I mean Kevin

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Speaker 1: McDermott is as tough as nails. Lost finger keeps playing

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Speaker 1: or part of a finger keeps playing, so we don't.

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Speaker 1: We're not a problem with them. It's just there are

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Speaker 1: two in camp, so by definition it's a position to watch,

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Speaker 1: right because we drafted the other one, Austin Cutting from

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Speaker 1: Air Force. Yeah. No, big fan of Kevin Matine toughness rating. Well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm backed on the team. Yeah. He left a piece

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Speaker 1: of his finger on the field and kept going. I

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Speaker 1: mean I'd be in the fieldal position, crawled up. We

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Speaker 1: always ask him for shugs to come take me off

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Speaker 1: the field, take care of me, all right, anything else,

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Speaker 1: no to take that h get back to work. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: So am I all right? Man, thanks for coming into

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Speaker 1: the podcast. We appreciate it. Cool. Thank guys. All right.

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Speaker 1: So that's Eric Smith, Viking Steam reporter, giving us the

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Speaker 1: lowdown on camp. Now, you and I have been at

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Speaker 1: every practice too, Chris, that's right. Like you see Inside

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Speaker 1: Training Camp live NFL Network going around all different team

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Speaker 1: training camps, and like the Cleveland Browns have Baker Mayfield

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Speaker 1: and O b J and a new head coach, and

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Speaker 1: it's just like Super Splashy and the Dallas Cowboys. Ezekiel

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Speaker 1: Elliott's holding out and Dak Prescott is he gonna get

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Speaker 1: a new deal or not. Amari Cooper and is he

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Speaker 1: gonna get a new deal or not? Like big big

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Speaker 1: Newsy Meaty, the Oakland Raiders that are on hard knocks

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Speaker 1: and John Gruden and Mike Mayock and in the trading

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Speaker 1: fans and a hot take. Yeah, Like there's just like

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Speaker 1: there's these these things that are just so like you

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Speaker 1: know what you're talking about when you go to that

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Speaker 1: team's camp. Yep, like the Vikings in a positive way,

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Speaker 1: we kind of don't have that. Coach Zimmer loves to

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Speaker 1: be the team not being talked. Yeah, and I'm not

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Speaker 1: saying we're a boring team, but not by any stretch.

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Speaker 1: We have a lot of really good players and we

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Speaker 1: have a quarterback, um you know who had a good

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Speaker 1: season last year, but the team's record wasn't good. So

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Speaker 1: a lot of people are like should like was that

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Speaker 1: a good contract or not. It's like, it's not like

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Speaker 1: we're boring. There's nothing to talk about with us, and

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Speaker 1: you shouldn't come and watch training camp. You should, But

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Speaker 1: I'm just saying like we're not like we're not up

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Speaker 1: there with the Browns, the Raiders, the Cowboys with those juicy,

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Speaker 1: sexy storylines. So it's kind of Camps kind of got

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Speaker 1: that like just that businesslike whole hum feel to it.

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Speaker 1: So far, I'm that I'm gonna have a hot take

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Speaker 1: here and say last year we were that, oh for sure,

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Speaker 1: cousins first year, Yeah, first year at the new facility,

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Speaker 1: coming off the Nfldan richardson big signing. I mean we

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Speaker 1: had all those flashy things coming off such a good

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Speaker 1: season the year before. This year, I love it. I

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Speaker 1: think you have a second season with Kirk here, which

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00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:15,520
Speaker 1: is going to be night and day, with his receivers,

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Speaker 1: with the offense, with Kubiak alongside Stefanski, I think everything

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Speaker 1: working together. I just like what's going on here so

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Speaker 1: much more than last year. Now. One thing that Eric

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Speaker 1: talked about his first observation was, you know, he believes

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Speaker 1: in the team emphasizing the run like he sees the

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Speaker 1: team doing that. I love the practice. That was a

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Speaker 1: great first. A big part of that is going to be,

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Speaker 1: you know, if you go back and look at Gary

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Speaker 1: Kubiak in his history and this offense, there's lots of

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Speaker 1: two tight end formations right right, And I think we're

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Speaker 1: gonna use a fullback a lot. And I think Zim

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Speaker 1: wants to be a physical team, and that includes being

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Speaker 1: a physical offense with your offensive line, your tight ends

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Speaker 1: at fullback, running the ball, establishing the run, and being

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Speaker 1: able to run. So two tight ends, we know we

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Speaker 1: got Rudy. The second one a lot of the times

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Speaker 1: is gonna be IRV Smith. That's right, all right. We

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Speaker 1: have Irv who's going to be on the podcast next week.

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Speaker 1: Next week, which is going to be super cool. And

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Speaker 1: part of the tie in for that is that we

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Speaker 1: have a preseason game next week. And where is that

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Speaker 1: preseason game. It is being played in New Orleans, where

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Speaker 1: he grew up, and that's IRF Smith's hometown, and that's

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Speaker 1: where his dad played right in the NFL. And it's

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Speaker 1: gonna be on his birthday. So episode three of the

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Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings podcast. Is that a trifecta or is that

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Speaker 1: four things or five? I don't know. It's gonna be

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Speaker 1: pretty cool because we're gonna have Irv in here and

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Speaker 1: get his dad in here, and we're gonna talk to

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Speaker 1: those two about it. As before. You know, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: be playing a preseason game, which is hard hard to believe.

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Speaker 1: That's games a little a week away. I mean that's

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Speaker 1: crazy to think, like all you Vikings fans should get

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Speaker 1: excited because games are coming. It's awesome. Um, okay, term

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Speaker 1: of the day is hot route. You hear quarterbacks, receivers,

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Speaker 1: offensive coordinators, head coach coaches during press conferences, postgame interviews.

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Speaker 1: They talk about a hot route and we could explain

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Speaker 1: it to you. We could do an okay job. Who's

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Speaker 1: somebody who could like do a really good job. How

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Speaker 1: about like a wide receiver. A wide receiver. I mean

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Speaker 1: we have a few of them, but we got a

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Speaker 1: really good one. There's one guy, well he was on

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Speaker 1: the podcast earlier. Oh yeah, we did it and explain

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Speaker 1: what a hot route is, all right, the infamous hot route. UM.

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Speaker 1: I think it really became popular from a movie and

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Speaker 1: people really wanted to figure out what the actual hot

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Speaker 1: route was. Um. But there's every offense has a different,

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Speaker 1: uh type of hot route. UM honestly, UM, I've been

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Speaker 1: in a lot of different offenses that have treated it

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Speaker 1: completely different. Um. But but really now, in our offense,

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Speaker 1: a hot route is really just just getting your eyes

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Speaker 1: ready if it's if it's a full on pressure look

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Speaker 1: and uh, you know that you gotta get you know,

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Speaker 1: in aud of your break quicker. Um, you gotta get

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Speaker 1: to your break quicker. Um. I mean you gotta make

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Speaker 1: sure that you're you're, you're available for the quarterback to

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Speaker 1: get it out quickly so he doesn't get sacked. But

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Speaker 1: I've also been in offenses where it completely switches your route. Um,

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Speaker 1: so if if a blitz comes off your side, you

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Speaker 1: gotta run quick to the flat. Um. So there's different

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Speaker 1: definitely a lot of different variations, but um, but they

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Speaker 1: all they all find a way to be able to

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Speaker 1: basically just protect the quarterback from getting smacked. All right,

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Speaker 1: let's go, let's get out of here with one more thing.

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Speaker 1: And it's something that we're excited about here at the

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Speaker 1: Vikings Entertainment Network and it's another example of new programming

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Speaker 1: from the ven. It's the Vikings Voyage, which is a

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Speaker 1: never before seen type of content here from the Vikings

666
00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:45,000
Speaker 1: Entertainment Network. Folks really love behind the scenes stuff like

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Speaker 1: they like they love ninety six Questions with Brian Robinson

668
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Speaker 1: when they get to see a personal side of players

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Speaker 1: and a behind the scenes look as a player grabs

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Speaker 1: a mic and goes around the locker room, something that

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Speaker 1: we wouldn't normally do yeah, Okay, folks love our meat.

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Speaker 1: The Pick series where we go behind the scenes on

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Speaker 1: draft day with the GM the head coach. Our draft

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Speaker 1: pick lands at the airport and we're with them. We

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Speaker 1: got them miked up and we got cameras on the

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Speaker 1: phone calls. People love that stuff. Okay, Well this the

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Speaker 1: Voyage is that time's a hundred. The Voyage is in

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Speaker 1: house network Vikings Entertainment Network type hard knocks or all

679
00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:25,480
Speaker 1: or nothing type of programming. And I've had people emailing

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Speaker 1: me asking me, hey, and I see the Browns are

681
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Speaker 1: doing this thing. I see the Chargers are doing this thing.

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Speaker 1: Are the Vikings gonna do it? Yeah, We're doing it.

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Speaker 1: And it started today. It started this week with the

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Speaker 1: first episode of The Voyage. That's what it's called a

685
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Speaker 1: debut on the Vikings YouTube channel and on the Vikings

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Speaker 1: Facebook page. And it's going to end up being on

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Speaker 1: all of our digital properties. It's going to be on

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Speaker 1: our social media channels, it's gonna be on dot com,

689
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Speaker 1: it's probably gonna be on the app, it's gonna be

690
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Speaker 1: everywhere you're gonna notice it. It's the Voyage, and there's

691
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Speaker 1: it's it's multiple episodes throughout the season going behind the

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Speaker 1: scenes with players and coaches and staff of the first

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Speaker 1: one featured a lot of Dalvin Cook. Did you get

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Speaker 1: a chance to watch it, Chrissy, Yes, I was just

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Speaker 1: gonna feed to that sound bite because we want to

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Speaker 1: give the fans a little bite of it here on

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Speaker 1: the MVP. So let's hear Dalvin Cook as he enters

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Speaker 1: the facility for the first time. Rights from a year

699
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Speaker 1: ago to today. I mean, it's gonna be a long offseason.

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Speaker 1: I'll day that the Kings of the North, the Chicago Bears,

701
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Speaker 1: beat the Minnesota Vikings and end their season twenty four ten. Chicago,

702
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Speaker 1: it's Viking football. Now. You always carry it because you

703
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Speaker 1: gotta know what you gotta build from and what's the

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Speaker 1: goal that we headed to and how we could have

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Speaker 1: got down and the things that we could have did

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Speaker 1: last year. So you always carried in your back pocket.

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Speaker 1: But you know it's a fresh start, unless a new beginning,

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Speaker 1: low begin, a new identity for this team that we

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Speaker 1: got to find out. But you know, you always keep

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Speaker 1: that in your back pocket that you know that's what'll

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Speaker 1: be left off that and you know that's what we

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Speaker 1: got to build fund. You know you're gonna try to

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Speaker 1: estabis ode identity and what we want to be and

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Speaker 1: what we're looking towards. And it's early, you know, obviously early,

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Speaker 1: but you know because them being on a smart physical

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Speaker 1: you know, people that make good decisions on the field

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Speaker 1: and off the field. That's type of teaming off. So

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Speaker 1: it's crazy to go, man's grady to go. Okay, all right,

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Speaker 1: We've got a couple couple of things we need to

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Speaker 1: talk about. You know, every year in the NFL, things change,

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Speaker 1: a lot of different staff changes, a lot of different

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Speaker 1: player changes. So I want to go through that real quick. Um,

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Speaker 1: and you know the guys all right, you already know

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Speaker 1: some fans and Gary Kubacks. It's just name coach, offensive advisor,

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Speaker 1: Rick Dennison, the words Gary, stand up Gary, so they

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Speaker 1: all see you, all right, that's Gary Brick Jennison is

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Speaker 1: right there, all right. M Kennedy, y'all know. Brian Periani

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Speaker 1: right there, he's coaching tight ends. Thank Fubiak is coaching

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Speaker 1: the quarterbacks. Okay, Drew Petson, you know, he's moved to receivers,

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Speaker 1: Andrews still with the offensive line. So that's the offensive guys,

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Speaker 1: all right. Defensive guys are all the same, right, and

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Speaker 1: then special teams you got a new special teams coordinator,

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Speaker 1: bar One maloof spanning right back there. All right, so

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Speaker 1: you know, everybody says we want to win the division,

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Speaker 1: everybody says we want to win a super Bowl. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna give him some more specific things where if we're

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Speaker 1: good in these areas that uh, that we'll have an

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Speaker 1: opportunity to do that. All right, So that's just a

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Speaker 1: little taste. That was cool. Yeah, that's really cool. It's

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Speaker 1: a little bit. It's a little taste like in that

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Speaker 1: first step in the car with Dalvin Cook. I mean,

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Speaker 1: does it get better? Yeah, that's cool the way the

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Speaker 1: way with Van does it in Nate Vaughan is the

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Speaker 1: one head in the project does a great job with

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Speaker 1: all this stuff. Is you're in the car with Dalvin

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Speaker 1: for the first day of the offseason program. Ye, and

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Speaker 1: then you end up going into the team meeting room

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Speaker 1: where head coach Mike Zimmer is introducing the new coaches

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Speaker 1: to all the players and is talking about how the

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Speaker 1: season begins anew for us. Right now, forget about last

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00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:17,440
Speaker 1: year and let's go forward to twenty nineteen. So really

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Speaker 1: awesome accessing the stage. It's awesome access. You guys are

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Speaker 1: gonna love it. It's called The Voyage. It's produced by

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Speaker 1: the Vikings Entertainment Network. Many more episodes coming up throughout

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Speaker 1: the course of the season. All Right, that's gonna do it.

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Speaker 1: For episode number two of the Minnesota Vikings Podcast. Our

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Speaker 1: thanks to Eric Smith, Vikings team reporter, for joining, as

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00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:37,920
Speaker 1: well as Vikings wide receiver Adam Thalan who was our

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Speaker 1: guest today, and our thanks to everyone behind the scenes

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Speaker 1: at the Vikings Entertainment Network for producing the Minnesota Vikings Podcast.

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Speaker 1: Episode number three of the podcast coming up next week.

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Speaker 1: It's going to feature IRV Smith Junior, and we're also

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Speaker 1: going to preview the Vikings first preseason game at the

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Speaker 1: New Orleans Saints. That and many more things coming up

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Speaker 1: on episode number three of the Minnesota Vikings Podcast. For now,

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Speaker 1: I'm a be signing off school vits