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Speaker 1: The Minnesota Vikings defeated the Tennessee Titans twenty three thirteen,

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Speaker 1: and I'm Paul Allen joined by Vikings radio network analyst

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Speaker 1: Pete Persich ten point victory from Nissan Stadium, and the

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Speaker 1: Vikings have swept the AFC South and did so today

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Speaker 1: with Sam Darnold throw him for a couple of touchdowns.

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Speaker 1: He also plunged ahead for one, meaning his first rushing

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Speaker 1: touchdown wearing the Vikings colors. But the big story today

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Speaker 1: ten tackles for loss by the Vikings and five sacks,

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Speaker 1: including two by Andrew Van Ginkel and two by Patrick Jones.

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Speaker 2: You know, and you take a look at the numbers

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Speaker 2: after the game, and they had thirty three yards of rushing,

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Speaker 2: eighteen of which came by the legs of Will Levis.

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Speaker 2: So between their two running backs, yeah, they had fifteen yards.

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Speaker 2: My point, their offense had to be one sided. And

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Speaker 2: when you have the situation like they have at right

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Speaker 2: tackle where they have trotted out four different right tackles

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Speaker 2: in the last two weeks, Yeah, it just goes to

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Speaker 2: show that the vice, you know, again, it's having a

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Speaker 2: weakness and then having the ability and the scheme to

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Speaker 2: be able to take advantage of that defensively, I thought

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Speaker 2: today minus you know, a couple of simple mistakes won

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Speaker 2: by Mattellis and then Shack Griffin getting caught flat footed obviously. Uh,

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Speaker 2: the defense played another gem of a football game.

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Speaker 1: Well you you mentioned the uh the Valley Hood rushing

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Speaker 1: defense for the Vikings. Uh, the the Titans ran for

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Speaker 1: thirty three yards, like Pete said, just a quick look

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Speaker 1: here at Pittsburgh and Baltimore. The Steelers ran for well

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Speaker 1: over one hundred. And why I bring that up is

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Speaker 1: because the Vikings were second in the NFL rushing yards

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Speaker 1: allowed a game, not that far behind Baltimore. Uh, they

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Speaker 1: might have cut into that and have the number one

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Speaker 1: rushing defense in the NFL. And you know you mentioned

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Speaker 1: you mentioned Will Levis and that long pass you said

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Speaker 1: minus whatever that ninety eight yard touchdown to Nicholas Westbrook

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Speaker 1: a kine. Okay, so josh Joshua and Mattellis was on

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Speaker 1: the coverage. I mean that that's a tough spot for Joshua.

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Speaker 1: I mean he's not a corner. You know, he singled

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Speaker 1: up against a guy with five touchdowns. What could he

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Speaker 1: have done better?

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Speaker 2: Well, he just could have taken a better angle. To

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Speaker 2: the football. I mean the way the route, the way

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Speaker 2: the route transpired with the inside guy, you know, running

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Speaker 2: an out route and Steffan Gilmour was sitting right there

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Speaker 2: for that. The vertical routes really just a clearing route

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Speaker 2: in that in that aspect, and Mattellas saw it. He

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Speaker 2: was right on top of it. Again, he just took

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Speaker 2: a bad angle to the football. So you know those

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Speaker 2: you know, those things happen. You don't see mattelis playing

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Speaker 2: a lot of deep half safety right so usually that's

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Speaker 2: the area where Harrison Smith or cam Byn them live.

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Speaker 2: And I think if it had it been Harry or

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Speaker 2: cam bind him, that would have been a different type

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Speaker 2: of a play. But because of disguise and a number

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Speaker 2: of other things, you're gonna have some people playing a

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Speaker 2: little bit out of position. And I'm sure it's a

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Speaker 2: play Mattellus wishes he had back to come out with

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Speaker 2: a win. I'm sure makes it more a little more

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Speaker 2: tolerable for him. But yeah, just a bad angle to

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Speaker 2: the football resulted in a touchdown.

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Speaker 1: A week after, Sam Darnold threw three interceptions and no touchdowns,

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Speaker 1: but the team beat Jacksonville. He finishes this game against

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Speaker 1: the Titans twenty of thirty two for two forty six,

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Speaker 1: had a forty seven yard touchdown to Jordan Addison, then

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Speaker 1: a shorter one a little later to cam Akers. But

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Speaker 1: the a topic here was after going oh for five

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Speaker 1: in the red zone inside the twenty at Jacksonville, five trips,

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Speaker 1: zero touchdowns, let's put that in perspective. Yeah, through Kevin

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Speaker 1: O'Connell's first forty four games as head coach, they were

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Speaker 1: oh for five on touchdowns in the red zone in

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Speaker 1: a combined forty four games. Then in the Jacksonville game,

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Speaker 1: they went oh of five strictly in that game and

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Speaker 1: two for two today.

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Speaker 2: That's that's that's huge. And you know, again the turnovers

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Speaker 2: a bad one, and then you know, I don't know

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Speaker 2: if we had another one on offense. It was ruled down.

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Speaker 2: They ruled down my contact. But you know, if Jalen

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Speaker 2: and then it's an unbelievable day career. Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 2: an unbelievable day. So great job by Sam Donald. The rebound.

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Speaker 2: He looked good, you know, going after the middle of

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Speaker 2: the field. This is a very very good defensive front,

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Speaker 2: better than you're gonna see in a week and a

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Speaker 2: kind of worried me going in this game was the

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Speaker 2: record and what you saw in film didn't match up.

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Speaker 2: Right two and seven, You're expecting to see a really

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Speaker 2: bad team, but defensively, very solid, the number one passing

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Speaker 2: for our offense. And you know, I thought they did

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Speaker 1: Let's hear from Minnesota Vikings head coach Kevin o Connall.

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Speaker 3: I knew it was gonna be a tough, hard fought game,

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Speaker 3: especially against their defensive side. I was proud of the

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Speaker 3: way we kind of responded whenever it seemed like they

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Speaker 3: you know, they did make a play against our defense. Obviously,

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Speaker 3: the big one over the top when they were backed up.

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Speaker 4: You know, that.

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Speaker 3: Position could have you know, really could have swung the

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Speaker 3: the way we played relatively clean. I know we had

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Speaker 3: the early turnover, which was frustrating because those types of

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Speaker 3: things can't happen, But I thought Sam Darnold played really well.

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Speaker 3: I thought you know, to get to close it out

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Speaker 3: really important. And then the turnover on downs, you know,

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Speaker 3: making it hard there in the second half. I thought

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Speaker 3: Tried to stay aggressive and and you know one down

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Speaker 3: there to speedy, but he'll make that play.

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Speaker 4: Total confidence and trust in him.

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Speaker 3: And now we've got to continue to build on another

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Speaker 3: road challenge next week against a good Bears team that's

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Speaker 3: gonna be a tough place to go play. Yeah, a

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Speaker 3: lot of the things we really talked about, you know,

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Speaker 4: I thought his feet and eyes were really good.

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Speaker 3: I thought, as he's done most of the season, his

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Speaker 3: There's gonna be some times where you need to move

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Speaker 3: give us some earned first down ops to then activate

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Speaker 3: I thought Sam was a really driving force behind us

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Speaker 3: offensively pass game, and and wanted to commit against a

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Speaker 3: Wanted to commit to it and try to possess the

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Speaker 3: We did win the time of possession, I believe, don't

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Speaker 3: like felt like it was, you know, a game that

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Speaker 3: we maybe uh maybe could have you know, just compressed

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Speaker 3: it's a talented team, tough, physical team. So proud we've

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Speaker 3: been able to go on the road and win to

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Speaker 3: in a row. Now we got to do it again.

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Speaker 5: Making the response after the first turnover, with all the

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Speaker 5: the big one come back in there to what's I

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Speaker 3: Think I think it speaks to kind of where he's

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Speaker 3: how he played in those moments was a huge indicator

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Speaker 4: So I think any we are on the road, it's

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Speaker 3: But I do want to say I thought the turnout

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Speaker 3: know when we got the best fan base in the

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Speaker 1: Kevin, how do you reflect on the last three weeks just

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Speaker 1: finding wins anyway you can?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, look, I know that it would probably

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Speaker 3: to go, which also, in my opinion, provides a lot

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Speaker 3: and and just constantly chase that progression. Knowing that we're

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Speaker 3: a good football team. Through ten games, we've won eight

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Speaker 3: believe our you know, hopefully our best football is ahead

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Speaker 3: So proud of that, proud of our group, proud of

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Speaker 5: Wedding margin like today, how much of a factor with

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Speaker 5: their thirteen penalties that they took versus your three?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, i'd have to Obviously, penalties are a

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Speaker 3: our favor today, you know, I've had some dialogue about

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Speaker 3: does not matter. They're trying to do the best they can.

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Speaker 3: The game's happening fast out there. REPLACE says stepping in

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Speaker 3: correct some things that happened fast. But they got a

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Speaker 3: tough job and fortunately some of those players were big.

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Speaker 3: But I do know that we still did execute and

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Speaker 2: The decision to move at Inger for Dalton.

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Speaker 3: Reiser today, yeah, just you know, I thought I wanted

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Speaker 3: I just it's Russian coverage working together, whether we're sending

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Speaker 1: Bears are next. But this this was a game where

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I did, and mainly because it was very difficult

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Speaker 6: Obviously a really exciting win, you know for us as

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Speaker 6: you know, the scout teams this past week were unbelievable

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Speaker 6: with that kind of stuff, with some of their pressures

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Speaker 6: and different coverages that they play with those pressures. So yeah,

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Speaker 6: just a really overall I just felt like this as

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Speaker 6: an organization, this was a great win for us.

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Speaker 5: Say, how do you reflect on the last three weeks?

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Speaker 3: Then a whole just biding wins anyway, anyway gets game.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that's this league.

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Speaker 6: You just got to find a way to win, you know,

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Speaker 6: And we're just going to continue to to try to

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Speaker 6: do that. And uh, you know, take it one week

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Speaker 6: at a time and take it one day at a time,

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Speaker 6: and and we're just going to continue to you know,

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Speaker 6: watch the tape from this, grow from it, and then

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Speaker 6: get ready for uh for Chicago next week. He obviously

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Speaker 6: from this state.

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Speaker 4: What's tends up the most felt being around that guy,

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Speaker 4: and I thank you, got bet.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, he's a special player, you know, but an even

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Speaker 6: better person. You know, he's just a great, you know,

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Speaker 6: steady presence in the locker room. Obviously he's been in

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Speaker 6: this league for a while, been on that team, been

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Speaker 6: on this team for a while, and uh, yeah, he's

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Speaker 6: just he's an incredible teammate. Like I said, Like even

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Speaker 6: when he makes a huge play, he's just right here

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Speaker 6: every time. You know, he's so steady, and that's what

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Speaker 6: we love about him.

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Speaker 4: All Right.

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Speaker 1: The Vikings are going to conclude a three game road

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Speaker 1: trip where they're looking to go three and oh with

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Speaker 1: thectories at Jacksonville, at Nashville, and then at Soldier Field.

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Speaker 1: And no matter how much turmoil the Bears have, no

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Speaker 1: matter how up and down their rookie quarterback Caleb Williams

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Speaker 1: is firing offensive coordinators the whole thing, it's just really

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Speaker 1: difficult winning a Soldier Field.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's very, very difficult to win there. And you're right,

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Speaker 2: you got the turmoil now, normally teams. When someone gets fired,

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Speaker 2: you get a good week bump out of them, right,

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Speaker 2: and then you kind of settle back in. But they

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Speaker 2: played the Packers down to the wire from what I've

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Speaker 2: seen or from what I've heard. So, but you know,

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Speaker 2: two home games in a row for the Bears, they've

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Speaker 2: got they've got some issues internally, and maybe they've worked

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Speaker 2: them out. We'll see, but you can't let them get

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Speaker 2: healthy this week this coming week, right, And we've in

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Speaker 2: the past, we've had success against young quarterbacks Will Levice.

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Speaker 2: I think this is the only sixteenth game as a starter. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: so they let you know, just these inexperienced even though

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Speaker 2: they're athletic, but inexperienced quarterbacks. We seem to do really

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Speaker 2: well on because the looks and different things that we

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Speaker 2: do upfront. So hopefully that bodes well for the Vikings.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, it's going to be a tough, tough game

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Speaker 2: to go into Chicago.

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Speaker 1: The Vikings have improved to eight and two, still trailing

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Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions in the NFC North, but eight and

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Speaker 1: two wonderful record. After ten and they beat the Tennessee

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Speaker 1: Titans from Nissan Stadium twenty three to thirteen for Pete

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Speaker 1: ursache I, Paul Allen. This is an Eric Davidson production.

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Speaker 1: It's the postgame report, and we had good news on

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Speaker 1: this Sunday