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Speaker 1: Hey, it's the Vikings postgame report, final one this preseason.

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Speaker 1: I'm your play by play guy Paul Allen, joined by

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Speaker 1: analyst Pete Bursich. The Arizona Cardinals beat the Minnesota Vikings

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Speaker 1: eighteen seventeen in the third and final preseason game. The

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Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings had the lead for quite some time in

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Speaker 1: the game, trying to win their first preseason game since

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Speaker 1: twenty nineteen against the Arizona Cardinals. They couldn't close on it.

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Speaker 1: And from a regular season standpoint, not really that there's

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Speaker 1: much that you can parlay or transfer or segue from

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Speaker 1: the preseason and a game like this to the regular season.

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Speaker 1: But kicker Joseph who had a fantastic preseason, making all

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Speaker 1: of his kicks until a fifty four yard try to

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Speaker 1: the east side of US Bank Stadium that would have

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Speaker 1: given the Vikings the lead and probably the victory. He

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Speaker 1: missed it wide right. I mean, where do you go

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Speaker 1: from there?

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Speaker 2: You know, good question, Paul, And I think the roster

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Speaker 2: is gonna change so much and it's gonna be so

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Speaker 2: great to see Dean Lowry and guys like you know,

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Speaker 2: Daniel Hunter and Davenport and those guys on defense to

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Speaker 2: get out there and see what they can do. So

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Speaker 2: the process, he's still two weeks away from the opener, right,

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Speaker 2: But the unfortunately for a lot of these guys, the

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Speaker 2: roster is gonna be cut down here pretty soon and

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Speaker 2: the scramble goes to who ends up where, and all

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Speaker 2: these NFL teams are gonna be looking to fill out

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Speaker 2: the roster with the best possible amount of depth they

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Speaker 2: could find. And for the Vikings, don't. I don't think

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Speaker 2: there were too many surprises or too many things that

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Speaker 2: happened this preseason that took us by surprise. And you know,

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Speaker 2: I think we're ready to go now.

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Speaker 1: Those are the thoughts of Pete Bersich and yours truly,

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Speaker 1: let's get the thoughts of Kevin O'Connell, head coach of

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Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings. Here is KOC with this postgame presser.

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Speaker 3: Alrighty, we did want to, you know, come out today

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Speaker 3: and there was a lot of guys fighting, whether it's

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Speaker 3: to make our fifty three man roster or you know,

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Speaker 3: possible practice squad consideration. Today was a lot of guys

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Speaker 3: playing a lot of snaps that you know, quite honestly,

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Speaker 3: I just have so much respect for the grit and

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Speaker 3: kind of the effort that we played with today. Would

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Speaker 3: have loved to win the football game today. You know,

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Speaker 3: got off to a really good start there, started making

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Speaker 3: some substitutions and you know, just didn't have the cleaner,

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Speaker 3: the cleanest execution late in the game to try to go,

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Speaker 3: you know, win that thing. I gave had one shot

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Speaker 3: at a field goal, would have liked to give g

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Speaker 3: one more, but just couldn't manufacture a lot there on

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Speaker 3: you guys an update, thy or Thomas, did you know

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Speaker 3: go into the concussion protocol on that punt return? Kind

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Speaker 3: of a secondary thing after the muffed catch and he

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Speaker 3: just took a helmet to helmet. There were a couple

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Speaker 3: be Juwan Williams, A saz A Nause and bo Plan

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Speaker 3: were the four guys that really were right up against it.

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Speaker 3: And then you know, just wanted to be smart with them,

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Speaker 3: not asking them to do too much being you know,

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Speaker 4: And you know.

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Speaker 3: Now we transition to really the toughest part of this

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Speaker 3: just not only from personal experience of being on the

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Speaker 4: You know, a lot of.

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Speaker 3: Guys have really laid it on the line and done

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Speaker 3: everything that they could to become Minnesota Vikings. But we've

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Speaker 3: got a very competitive roster, feel really good about our depth,

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Speaker 4: Will give us a lot to think about.

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Speaker 3: So we'll start that process here, you know, tomorrow with

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Speaker 1: Would you learn about Jaring All?

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Speaker 3: anytime you start the substitution processes and guys or maybe

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Speaker 3: with certain combinations up front, or skill guys, whatever it is.

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Speaker 3: But things that stuck out to me his athletic ability

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Speaker 4: So it's just finding out.

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Speaker 3: So many guys you have to coach that out of them,

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Speaker 3: but he's he's a guy that we don't want to

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Speaker 3: about the application of that as part of his skill set.

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Speaker 3: Because I thought he threw the ball really well today,

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Speaker 3: for him to lead us to another field goal op

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Speaker 4: Is he a guy that you want to keep around

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Speaker 4: ideally and continue to develop?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I would definitely like to keep him around. And

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Speaker 3: you know, I think you know my philosophy when you're

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Speaker 4: Development is a huge word.

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Speaker 3: But I love the fact that we got him as

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Speaker 1: You mentioned this situation two minute at the end of

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Speaker 1: Just how important are those situations to put him in

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Speaker 3: Yeah, really, when you think about those down the line guys,

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Speaker 3: moving forward to figure out you guys know who's who.

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Speaker 4: Kevin, how much have you seen Jay Ward progress over

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Speaker 4: the course of Okay, yeah, have you seen? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I think what shows up every time we play these

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Speaker 3: now you know THEO Jackson and Jay Ward. Probably if

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Speaker 3: So really happy with that whole safety group. And shoot,

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Speaker 3: we've got six of them, and we're gonna have some

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Speaker 2: Kevin, just from a big picture standpoint out the preseason over,

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Speaker 4: I know you got to make some roster customers. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Guys, and the work that you saw from them, even

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's where the joint practices are so critical.

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Speaker 4: Those are so critical for us.

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Speaker 3: We have such an unbelievable facility to host another team here.

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Speaker 3: I feel like that for the first groups on both sides,

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Speaker 3: little help from that ninety seven degrees last Wednesday just

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Speaker 4: It was a it was a grind of a day.

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Speaker 3: It was probably the most reps they've had all training camp,

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Speaker 1: Thank you, guys, koc. We are into the regular season

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Speaker 2: Well, that's that's exactly what everybody that when we saw

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Speaker 1: The BYU product to Jaron Hall, fifth round pick, the

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Speaker 1: Now with with the final preseason game, generally, speaking from

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