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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Two Minute Warning, presented by three M,

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Speaker 1: the official science partner of the Minnesota Vikings. I'm your

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Speaker 1: host Tatum Everett from the Vikings Entertainment Network, and Happy

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Speaker 1: Thanksgiving everyone. There was a lot of news coming out

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Speaker 1: of TCO Performance Center this week, none bigger than head

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Speaker 1: coach Kevin O'Connell announcing on Monday that quarterback JJ McCarthy

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Speaker 1: developed concussion symptoms after the game at lambeau Field on

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Speaker 1: Sunday afternoon, entering concussion protocol. Kao confirmed the media that

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Speaker 1: if JJ McCarthy wasn't cleared to play, undrafted rookie and

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Speaker 1: former Golden Gopher quarterback Max Brosmer would get the start

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Speaker 1: this week in the Emerald City as the Vikings take

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Speaker 1: on Sam Darnold at the Seattle Seahawks. Coach O'Connell spoke

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Speaker 1: on Wednesday about some players injury statuses and their expectations

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Speaker 1: for Brozemer this week.

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Speaker 2: Kevin, is there a zero hour for JJ McCarthy.

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Speaker 3: Does it have to be today?

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Speaker 2: Does it have to be Friday?

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Speaker 4: You know, he's cleared enough of the you know, the

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Speaker 4: protocol to at least participate in a limited capacity today.

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Speaker 4: That's kind of part of the next phases of it.

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Speaker 4: He's in the protocol and and kind of as it

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Speaker 4: as as that goes and as the medical kind of

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Speaker 4: process plays out. I think, you know, as far as

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Speaker 4: the zero hour, I don't necessarily know if we're we're

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Speaker 4: looking at you know, at it like that, but you

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Speaker 4: do want to take into account what has his preparation

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Speaker 4: been like, what is what has the practice week been

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Speaker 4: like with what he's able to do, while also knowing

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Speaker 4: that you know, ultimately this is this is not talking

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Speaker 4: anything like that. We're talking about his head and it's

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Speaker 4: obviously something that as a former player and just kind

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Speaker 4: of thinking about it from that context, we want to

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Speaker 4: for sure make sure we defer to the medical team.

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Speaker 4: But then also you know, what we what we feel

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Speaker 4: is best, and we're still not in a place to

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Speaker 4: declare anything yet, just kind of listening to where it's

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Speaker 4: at right now and where it could get to. But

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Speaker 4: we're obviously gonna going to be smart both for you know,

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Speaker 4: what's best for our team and what's best most importantly

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Speaker 4: for JJ.

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Speaker 3: How does that who you're working through that can't do.

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Speaker 5: The individual things yet how does that impact.

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Speaker 6: The prep and just knowing that you can't take first

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Speaker 6: team rest and you can't really have the pre time probably.

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Speaker 4: Like, yeah, I think the team's preparation is a is

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Speaker 4: you know, whether it's the plays, the you know, what

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Speaker 4: we think it's going to take to win the game.

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Speaker 4: You know, Max will take all the all the first

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Speaker 4: team reps and and John will take the scout team

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Speaker 4: reps and and that's kind of the plan for today

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Speaker 4: and and take it a day by day approach from there.

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Speaker 4: But as far as like the plan and being in

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Speaker 4: meetings and hearing the plan and all those things and

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Speaker 4: then being able to do individual is obviously critical for

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Speaker 4: you know, the continued belief that we're you know, stacking

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Speaker 4: a lot of hours in time on fundamentals and techniques,

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Speaker 4: so getting to do those things while all so knowing

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Speaker 4: we're kind of as far as schematics go, we're kind

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Speaker 4: of in a place in the season where if you're

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Speaker 4: doing new things, there's really not a lot of those things.

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Speaker 4: There's more tweaks and one off changes to plays that

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Speaker 4: maybe he's gotten some time on task on. So as

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Speaker 4: far as the team goes, I think our preparation is important,

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Speaker 4: and it's absolutely a huge part of hopefully what leads

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Speaker 4: us to play well this Sunday. But I don't think

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Speaker 2: At all with Parrisa and don and Jackson.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, both those guys, well, they won't will not participate today.

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Speaker 4: You know, Donovan obviously dealing you know with his uh,

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Speaker 4: there's there's we've had, we've we've had conversations about seeing

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Speaker 4: what the rest of his week looks like as possibly

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Speaker 4: being available for this week. But at the same time,

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Speaker 4: he'll have to you know, kind of improve from where

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Speaker 4: he's at right now to have a chance to play,

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Speaker 4: which is very possible. And then you know, Christian's working

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Speaker 1: The run game helped give the Vikings offense a spark

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Speaker 1: on Sunday against the Packers, but the Seattle defense has

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Speaker 1: been stout once again this season. They're currently ranked sixth

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Speaker 1: best in total yards allowed and give up the fourth

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Speaker 1: eight yards per game. One of the key contributors for

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Speaker 1: the Vikings offensive game plan this week is offensive coordinator

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Speaker 1: Wes Phillips. Coach Phillips spoke to the media this week

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Speaker 1: about his approach against the Seahawks defense. What are your

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Speaker 1: he can help JJ McCarthy along this season.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, we try to try to make the plan as

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Speaker 7: a quarterback friendly as we possibly can, and that goes

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Speaker 7: for anybody who's playing. But there's an aspect of, you know,

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Speaker 7: some things that we feel maybe if Max is playing

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Speaker 7: that that Max will will do well, you know, and

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Speaker 7: those things can change from player to player. I mean,

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Speaker 7: that's part of our job is to try to try

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Speaker 7: to put our guys in in the best position to succeed.

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Speaker 7: It is a challenging defense, not only talent talent level

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Speaker 7: really kind of at all levels, but very aggressive defense.

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Speaker 7: I think Mike McDonald does some of the best in

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Speaker 7: the league as far as understanding protection rules and attacking

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Speaker 7: your protections very they're they're very clear in what they're

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Speaker 7: doing and how they're trying to do it. Uh, They're

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Speaker 7: not just you know, kind of throwing off blitz is

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Speaker 7: They're trying to attack, attack protections, protection rules, those types

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Speaker 7: great job with all that. So it's going to be

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Speaker 7: a challenge for us, but uh, you know, we've got

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Speaker 7: to put together a great plan and and go out

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Speaker 8: Obviously, when you look back on last season, where do

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Speaker 8: you feel like he took the biggest strides in terms

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Speaker 7: Yes, I mean, Sam, I think you kind of remember

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Speaker 7: from the start, we kind of we're out there and

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Speaker 7: and some of the comments that we were all saying

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Speaker 7: and then there was an athletic ability that that he

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Speaker 7: he just needed need the right place, the right fit,

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Speaker 7: the right opportunity. And I think, you know, sometimes players

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Speaker 7: don't know that he was that player. Then players learned

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Speaker 7: lessons in this league. They they grow, they mature if

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Speaker 7: I think that was probably the case with Sam. He'd

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Speaker 7: you know, I'm happy for Sam. Obviously we hope to

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Speaker 7: the success he's having.

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Speaker 3: Just along those same lines. A lot of stuff that

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Speaker 3: Sam went through early in his career, JJ's kind of

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Speaker 3: going through here. How do you help him kind of

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Speaker 3: keep perspective on his own age experience and you know,

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Speaker 3: how long of a career he expects to have when

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, we'll do what we can to help

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Speaker 7: him through that. But but a lot of a lot

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Speaker 7: being mentally tough and being able to block out and

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Speaker 7: and not not look at uh the outside, you know, comments,

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Speaker 7: something I'm very conscious of as a coach. I mean,

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Speaker 7: there's just gonna be a lot of opinions out there,

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Speaker 7: a lot of negativity, especially when you're not winning as

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Speaker 7: many games as you like. So you got to you

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Speaker 7: got to put all that out of your head and

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Speaker 7: going to work and improving at your craft, or becoming

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Speaker 7: a better coach day in and day out, all those

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Speaker 7: smart people who work hard and have talent are going

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Speaker 7: I think that's where JJ, the path that he's.

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Speaker 1: On history could be made. On Sunday for Vikings running

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Speaker 1: back Aaron Jones, who's thirteen yards shy from hitting the

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Speaker 1: ten thousand yard mark. That's a huge milestone for the

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Speaker 1: undrafted veteran from the University of Texas El Paso. He

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Speaker 1: spoke at the media this week about the potential of

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Speaker 9: I know that Asmen declared that Max is starting yet

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Speaker 9: we're just starting to take practice Russ with him. What

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Speaker 3: Him when you had an ability to watch him either

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Speaker 8: Somebody who's dialed in, focused, just trying to take advantage

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Speaker 8: I've seen him do that all all training camp, just

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Speaker 8: after practice, running through the script again some practices I

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Speaker 8: and you never know, Uh, you never know what.

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Speaker 5: You see from him as the leader of the first

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Speaker 8: Uh, just he came to the huddle, commanded the huddle,

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Speaker 8: You could tell he's excited to be to be going

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Speaker 8: he's just down and he but he goes about the

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Speaker 8: same the same week every every week. Never know if

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Speaker 8: you're one guy down or two guys down, what can

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Speaker 8: happen in the game. That's kind of how my career

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Speaker 8: and I'm like, I never thought this would have happened.

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Speaker 8: So he always goes about his preparation the right way

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Speaker 8: and if his numbers called, I feel like he'll be ready.

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Speaker 10: KOs has talked about Max's superpower kind of being this

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Speaker 10: processing ability. I mean, how do you describe that with

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Speaker 3: Like, what does that mean? And what's the value of that?

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Speaker 8: Definitely a quarterback has to see a lot. I'm probably

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Speaker 8: out in to get it, identifying the front to get

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Speaker 8: us in the right protection calls, then to identify if

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Speaker 8: one coverage and drop to another. It's all of the

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Speaker 8: chess pieces of games within the game, and I feel

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Speaker 3: What do you see from the way Clint Kubiak is

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Speaker 1: There is football all weekend long. The Vikings don't play

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Speaker 5: Yeah, obviously they've they've got a good defense, but you know,

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Speaker 10: Just when it comes to Max. KFC has talked a

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Speaker 5: You know, that's what a lot of great quarterbacks are

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