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Speaker 2: Big News, Big News, Big mus This preseason, he definitely

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Speaker 2: was jumping out on making plays and amongst everybody else

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Speaker 2: he was somebody that was jumping.

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Speaker 3: Out game after game, making catches and moving the sticks.

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Speaker 1: The Minnesota Vikings have invested heavily in their secondary. We

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Speaker 1: talked about eight offensive linemen, five defenses of lineman. There's

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Speaker 1: eleven guys from the secondary that made the initial fifty

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Speaker 1: three man roster.

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Speaker 4: No passes cock.

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Speaker 1: The initial fifty three man roster is set, and we

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Speaker 1: break it all down right here today on the Minnesota

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Speaker 1: Vikings Podcast. My name is Gabe Henderson. I'm alongside Vikings

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Speaker 1: dot Com statum Everett and j Nobson and guys, the

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Speaker 1: cream has risen to the top in a Vikings fifty

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Speaker 1: three man I guess initial fifty three man roster, and

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Speaker 1: I want to emphasize initial because there's going to be there, yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 1: There's gonna be a lot of moves made by this

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Speaker 1: team between now and Week one but as we stand today,

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Speaker 1: fifty three man roster is kind of divided equally offensive defense,

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Speaker 1: twenty five on offense, twenty five on defense, and then

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Speaker 1: three specialists. Jay, I'll start with you. When you look

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Speaker 1: at this initial roster, YEP, what excites you about it?

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Speaker 3: The fact that there is a fun influence of younger

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Speaker 3: a bunch of younger talent actually getting to shake here

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Speaker 3: offseason and some of the moves, and I think these

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Speaker 3: And so for me, it was fun to see a

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Speaker 3: earned that spot make this Vikings roster, and.

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Speaker 5: You're really starting to feel like this is this front

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Speaker 5: office's team. Yeah, it's a lot of guys that they

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Speaker 5: brought in from their connections throughout the league for the

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Speaker 5: past few years and seasons and new talent that they're

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Speaker 4: I mean, you know, it's funny.

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Speaker 5: How many times do we talk about these like, oh, rafted,

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Speaker 5: undrafted rookie free agents, like these guys are going to

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Speaker 5: But then you have Ivan Pace Junior and Andre Carter,

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Speaker 4: They can make a roster and both of them do,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, three undrafted guys actually make the rosters year, including

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Speaker 1: to start there first. I want to start with the quarterbacks.

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Speaker 1: Because there are three quarterbacks that actually made the roster,

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Speaker 1: and when you look and Tatum, I'll start with you.

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Speaker 5: I think that if you would listen to what Kevin

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Speaker 5: And I think that's exactly what Kevin O'Connell talked about.

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Speaker 3: And I think having a head coach who is a

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Speaker 3: But it was at least exciting to see that you've

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Speaker 1: Before we get to the offensive line, and I'm going

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Speaker 1: Ham makes the team. He's listed as a fullback, but

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Speaker 1: we all know what that means. And then when you

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Speaker 1: The Vikings decided to go four tight ends, TJ Hockinson,

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Speaker 1: Josh Oliver, Nick Muse, and Johnny Munt. I just named

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Speaker 1: three position groups. Were there any surprises in those three

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Speaker 5: Big Mus, Big Mus, Big Muse, And that's and I

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Speaker 4: That was really cool to see.

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Speaker 5: I think he just you know, I listened to one

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Speaker 5: and he was just very open about how like last

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Speaker 5: He the NFL was a lot, Like it was a

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Speaker 5: lot for him to understand, to comprehend, to like wrap

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Speaker 4: And you can see that. And whether or not it's

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Speaker 5: The room and being a good, uh someone to bounce

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Speaker 4: I mean, he's in such a great room.

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Speaker 5: And you can even argue that a couple of Titans

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Speaker 4: The Titian group was awesome.

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Speaker 5: But it is nice to see, like a guy that

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Speaker 5: really turning a corner here in year two. Potentially he

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Speaker 5: wants to get more involved in special teams and that's

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Speaker 5: that's what they'll count on him as. But if they

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Speaker 5: I think people were like, how do they have room

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Speaker 4: Sure, but they made room for.

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Speaker 3: Him, and that's just it. It feels like with him,

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Speaker 3: he was somebody who came in as a six foot

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Speaker 3: this preseason he definitely was jumping out on making plays

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Speaker 3: special teams. It just feels like being able to retain

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Speaker 3: I think it was kind of known at least four

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Speaker 3: And the fact that they've got all three of those

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that that is a really good, really good receiving corps.

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Speaker 1: You got six guys there that can all make plays.

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Speaker 1: They all made plays whether that was in training camp

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Speaker 1: or preseason. And just that wide receiver room is I

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Speaker 1: mean we talked about it before, is the deepest position

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Speaker 1: really enjoy our running back committee. Alexander Madison finally getting,

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, speaking of trades, the Vikings did trade tackle

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Speaker 1: Oh, it would be a lot of fun. September tenth,

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Speaker 1: Week one against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. But before we

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Speaker 1: get there, we talked about the guys who can stop

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Speaker 1: the rhyme, But what about the guys that can stop

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Speaker 1: the pass? The Minnesota Vikings have invested heavily in their secondary.

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Speaker 1: We talked about eight offensive linemen, five defenses of lineman.

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Speaker 1: There's eleven guys from the secondary that made the initial

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Speaker 1: fifty three man roster.

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Speaker 4: No passes co.

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Speaker 1: I mean you could just fly might as well just

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Speaker 1: line them all up. We got to start an eleven

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Speaker 1: right there on defense just just Treo needs pressure, right,

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Speaker 1: But when you got Makai Blackman, Andrew Booth, Junior Cam

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Speaker 1: buying them, Lewis c and Caleb Evans, Theo Jackson, Josh

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Speaker 1: Mantelis Bier Murphy Junior, Harrison Smith, now G Thompson, and

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Speaker 1: Jay Ward, that makes for a very very I guess,

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Speaker 1: wide range of experience when it comes to people who

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Speaker 1: are trying to stop the pass for opposing teams.

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Speaker 4: Tatum, I just.

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Speaker 5: Feel like the cornerbacks. Cornerbacks have a lot to prove

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Speaker 5: this season. I think that they are a bit of

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Speaker 5: an unproven group. I know that Bier Murphy Junior obviously

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Speaker 5: is probably the one with the most experience, and we

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Speaker 5: know how talented he is, so I don't feel like

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Speaker 5: that necessarily is descriptive of him.

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Speaker 4: But I know that when you look at Andrew.

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Speaker 5: Booth or Caleb Evans or Najie Thompson, Makai Blackman, these

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Speaker 5: are guys that are what first second year players right

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Speaker 5: now that I mean, you've got no it is it's

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Speaker 5: a true second year players and two rookies.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so that entire group, there's only three guys that

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Speaker 3: have more than two seasons in the NFL.

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Speaker 5: That's that's that's why I think this is a very

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Speaker 5: very unproven group and and really not being thrown into

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Speaker 5: the fire by any means, but.

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Speaker 4: But definitely something for me to watch.

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Speaker 5: I think that's that's, you know, going to be a

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Speaker 5: huge factor in the way this defense and this is

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Speaker 5: this all comes back down to the linebackers and the

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Speaker 5: line being able to put enough pressure so that makes

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Speaker 5: their jobs they can play a little more loose and

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Speaker 5: stuff so uh yeah, I mean that to me is

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Speaker 5: a real big group to watch because I'm excited about

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Speaker 5: this safety room. I almost have more confidence in that

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Speaker 5: just because of the proven talent there. But yeah, quarterback

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Speaker 5: is a big question mark for me.

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Speaker 3: To me, this is the chaos core of just these

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Speaker 3: eleven guys. I think this is the group that typically

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Speaker 3: Flores leans on to be the ones that cause havoc

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Speaker 3: from his defense and to have the youth and the

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Speaker 3: athletic talent. But these guys. The thing that jumped out

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Speaker 3: to me was we were talking. There's eleven guys, but six

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Speaker 3: of them are safeties. Normally you have less safeties, more cornerbacks,

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Speaker 3: and this is flipped, which to me tends to feel like, man,

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Speaker 3: you're gonna be playing a lot more kind of your

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Speaker 3: Nichols and dimes and just kind of crazy cloud coverage

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Speaker 3: type pieces with all of those guys. And you know,

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Speaker 3: a guy like Harrison Smith, he's the veteran. Everyone's going

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Speaker 3: to look at him and say you're the leader. But

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Speaker 3: at the same point, you've got some crazy talent there,

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Speaker 3: and you know Jay Ward would be in the rookie

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Speaker 3: coming in. I think there's the sack fumble that he

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Speaker 3: had showing him coming off the edge and making some

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Speaker 3: plays there. Then you've also got your Mattellus, your Theo Jackson,

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Speaker 3: I mean, Mittellus is somebody that you know stepped up

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Speaker 3: in some big spots as well, and then cam bydam

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Speaker 3: and Lewis Scene. I mean, we're expecting a lot of

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Speaker 3: those guys as well to continue to step up and

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Speaker 3: be those proven guys. Even though we're at a point

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Speaker 3: where as we said, there's only three guys on the roster,

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Speaker 3: He's been here for more than two years. So hopefully

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Speaker 3: this younger, crazy talent group solidifies because so much whether

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Speaker 3: it's a linebacking corps or a secondary or something, there's

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Speaker 3: second there's just unwritten rules. You can hopefully look at

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Speaker 3: each other and know exactly what the other person's thinking,

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Speaker 3: Like you get this, I get that, we're good, and

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Speaker 3: it doesn't there's just unspoken language there between that group.

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Speaker 3: And as long as those guys solidify throughout the season

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Speaker 3: and feel like they're all on the same page, I

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Speaker 3: think they can definitely be a deadly group. So I'm

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Speaker 3: again it's fun to see the youth really popping in

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Speaker 3: these different groups.

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Speaker 1: It'll be fun to see the youth because we were

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Speaker 1: calling all campers to join head counselor Josh Ta Mili

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Speaker 1: Six teams, the best Buddies battle it out, and the

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Speaker 1: ultimate summer camp throwback Buddy Games. A new series starts Thursday,

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Speaker 1: September fourteenth on CBS, rounding us out for the fifty

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Speaker 1: three man roster. The initial fifty three man roster are

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Speaker 1: this specialist no surprises here. The kicker would be Greg Joseph,

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Speaker 1: the punter would be Ryan right and our long snapper

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Speaker 1: will be Andrew Depaula. Do you do you suspect any

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Speaker 1: type of competition battles between now and Week one? I mean,

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Speaker 1: we've seen it here. We've seen crazy stories happen in

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Speaker 1: the past couple of years with this Minnesota Vikings team.

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Speaker 1: But just from what we've seen from the three of

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Speaker 1: those guys, Jay, do you expect any type of last

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Speaker 1: minute competition to come in and try to derail any

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Speaker 1: of those guys from their spots?

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Speaker 3: Not like right off the bat. In my opinion, looking

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Speaker 3: at these guys, one of the things you tend to

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Speaker 3: want and your specialist group as consistency, feels like these

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Speaker 3: guys all have a rapport with each other. Ryan Wright

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Speaker 3: has been absolutely bombing kicks all preseason, and you know

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Speaker 3: Greg has been hitting fifty plus in different scenarios and

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Speaker 3: stuff too. So like having the veteran group there, having

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Speaker 3: all those guys feel like, you know, the snap, the hold,

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Speaker 3: the kick, all of them having their roles that they play.

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Speaker 3: It feels like, as of now, that is a solidified group.

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Speaker 3: So hopefully a group that tends to give vikings, fans,

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Speaker 3: angst over the years is something that can be just

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Speaker 3: an afterthought and they can go out and do their job.

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Speaker 3: If something does change, I mean, that'll be something that

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Speaker 3: will definitely be a headline. But as of now, I

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Speaker 3: think you know the fact that these guys are a

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Speaker 3: cohesive group. I think you probably look at them and

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Speaker 3: this is what it's going to be for the year.

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Speaker 4: Consistency. Consistency, consistency.

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Speaker 5: I mean we talked about with the offensive line, no

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Speaker 5: new friends, no new faces, like that's a good thing

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Speaker 5: when it comes to this. And then you have the

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Speaker 5: consistency of having Matt Daniels back at coordinator. You know,

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Speaker 5: I think you have an all pro long snapper, and

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Speaker 5: your punter, like you said, is booming kicks, and your

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Speaker 5: kicker is reliable.

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Speaker 4: What else do you really want? I mean, yeah, you know,

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Speaker 4: if it ain't broke, don't fix it exactly.

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Speaker 3: And at this point just let that be the consistent

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Speaker 3: piece of it that they can go through, go through

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Speaker 3: their routine, go out there, do their jobs, and then

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Speaker 3: get off the fields everybody else and keep scorn points.

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Speaker 1: Well, this was fun. As we all know, we did

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Speaker 1: not want to speculate too much because this roster is

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Speaker 1: very fluid. And with that said, we will have another

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Speaker 1: podcast on Thursday of this week with updates from the

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Speaker 1: fifty three man roster. But in the time between now

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Speaker 1: and then, Kevin O'Connell, Quisiodolfo Mensai they will address the

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Speaker 1: media this upcoming Thursday and provide analysis on the what,

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Speaker 1: the why, the how and the when of this fifty

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Speaker 1: three man roster, and I guess in between now and then,

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Speaker 1: the full practice squad list will be located on Vikings

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Speaker 1: dot com. So for Eric Davidson, Tatum Everett, Jay Nelson,

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Speaker 1: and our fifty three man roster. My name is Gabe Henderson.

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Speaker 1: Thank you again for tuning into the Minnesota Vikings podcast

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