WEBVTT - Vikings Postgame Report: Vikings Complete Historic Second Half Comeback, Win 39-36 In OT & The NFC North | INDY | Week 15 0:00:18.960 --> 0:00:23.840 Are You kidding Me? The laugh is by the analysts 0:00:24.560 --> 0:00:27.560 on the Vikings radio network, Pee Versa. The are you 0:00:27.680 --> 0:00:31.080 kidding Me? Is yours truly, Paul Allen, the play by Playboys, 0:00:31.760 --> 0:00:36.400 and the Minnesota Vikings beach the Indianapolis Colton overtime thirty 0:00:36.440 --> 0:00:40.080 nine thirty six whereg Joseph walked off from forty his 0:00:40.240 --> 0:00:43.479 third walk off winner for the Minnesota Vikings and first 0:00:43.520 --> 0:00:46.639 in fifty five weeks. And not only are the Minnesota 0:00:46.720 --> 0:00:50.479 Vikings NFC North champions with that victory, they completed the 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:54.600 greatest comeback in the history of the National Football League 0:00:54.960 --> 0:00:58.040 and had to overcome a lot of self inflicted wounds 0:00:58.480 --> 0:01:01.480 and a lot of things that went against them. The 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:05.560 last time the Minnesota Vikings beat the Indianapolis Colts, Pete 0:01:05.600 --> 0:01:07.959 Bursach was in his third year out of Notre Dame 0:01:08.680 --> 0:01:11.720 playing against the Colts at the Metrodome in nineteen ninety seven. 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:15.640 Coming up on the postgame report, you will hear from 0:01:15.720 --> 0:01:19.160 Kevin O'Connell and Kirk Cousins. You also will hear Kevin 0:01:19.200 --> 0:01:23.280 O'Connell's post game locker room speech with the T shirts 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:27.120 and the hats for winning a division title. Analyst just 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:32.240 stream your consciousness on the What an unbelievable game. I mean, 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:35.319 it's an unbelievable game. And it's really been an unbelievable season, 0:01:35.360 --> 0:01:39.759 and this game, it was every bit, if not more 0:01:39.840 --> 0:01:43.679 exciting than the game in Buffalo. But what a different type, 0:01:43.760 --> 0:01:46.080 what a different style, a different type of a game. 0:01:46.120 --> 0:01:50.440 The way this thing unfolded. You know, you have you 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:53.480 have Taylor out for the Colts. Yeah, you know, he 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:55.960 played maybe a player two in the beginning, ye and 0:01:56.000 --> 0:01:58.080 then came out and you're looking at this going, this 0:01:58.160 --> 0:02:01.280 is the best opportunity that you have against any team 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:05.120 in the league right now to win this division. And 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:07.480 then you go ahead and get a punt block for 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:10.919 a touchdown, right you just you you you fumble, You're 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:13.160 you're moving the football finally, and then you fumble it. 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:18.840 And you know, so much of today, though, unlike Buffalo, 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:22.600 was self inflicted. But the cool thing is is it's 0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:24.280 not in life what happened to see you, but how 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:27.840 you react to it. And despite all the mistakes, despite 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:31.760 all the bone headed plays, this team had enough fortitude 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:34.600 did not only just turn this thing around, but come 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:37.680 back and win a game that no one has ever 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:41.840 done before. No one, no team ever in the history 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:44.640 of the NFL had come back from where this team was. 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:47.840 I mean, and and then now you would you're ten 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:49.760 to oh and one score games. I mean, it's like 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:52.359 I forgot about the whole thing. The whole thing is 0:02:52.360 --> 0:02:58.000 is just is truly truly remarkable. Yeah, and you know, Tip, 0:02:58.000 --> 0:03:00.400 I mean, we can get We'll get six. I mean 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:04.480 considering considering we had, we had probably I think we 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:07.800 had somewhere around fifty yards of offense going in a halftime. 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:12.280 I mean, that turnaround is unheard of, right, I mean, 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:15.359 this it's everything. Everything today is unheard of. But um, 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:20.080 but this team, whatever that is that you need, the 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:23.560 you know, the never given up hanging in there. This 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:26.080 team has it, man boy. And then when they come together, 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:30.360 they come together. I mean justin Jefferson, kJ Osborne, Dalvin Cook, 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:33.560 the offensive line toward the end, I mean, just just 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:37.600 an unbelievable effort by everybody, you know, and um, and 0:03:38.000 --> 0:03:41.160 granted it's a regular season game that wins the NFC North, 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:44.600 but it had a Minneapolis miracle feel to it. You know, 0:03:44.640 --> 0:03:47.600 the team's down thirty three zero and the way the 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:50.880 fans were trying to jump into the radio booth banging 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:53.560 on the glass with the coaches next to us. I'm 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:56.080 just really happy that the fans at us Bank Stadium 0:03:56.400 --> 0:03:59.880 got to experience something like we got to experience at Buffalo, 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:03.400 you know, because I'd say ten thousand people left, you 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:06.160 know when easy right, Yeah, when they when they were 0:04:06.160 --> 0:04:10.960 down thirty three. And by the way, teams leading by 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:14.320 thirty points or more in a game in the history 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:17.159 of the National Football League were one thousand and five 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:20.720 forty eight and one into the game. It's now one 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:24.200 thousand and five, forty eight and two. The Minnesota Vikings 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:27.720 beat Indianapolis thirty nine thirty six in the one thousandth 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:29.800 game in the history of the team, and it was 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:32.279 one of the most thrilling games in the history of 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:36.039 the team. Gabe Henderson and Ben Lieber have winning formula 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:39.520 and here are their thoughts. Well, um, before we start 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:43.880 between the lines, fuel by get read these shirts pretty 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:48.560 much state that's sweet sleep. I mean we run the North. 0:04:48.680 --> 0:04:50.880 Zadarius Smith has walked by and said, who runs the North? 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:54.440 We run the North of Minnesota Vikings winners today thirty 0:04:54.480 --> 0:04:57.400 nine and thirty six over the Indianapolis Coats and Dib man, 0:04:57.880 --> 0:05:04.600 this was the wildest, greatest, craziest, I'm most unbelievable game 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:07.040 I've ever seen in my life. Um, the Bills game 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:08.600 back at you know a couple of months well back 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:10.800 in November, I was like, okay, I'll never see another 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:13.760 game like this. This game said, hold my beer? How 0:05:13.800 --> 0:05:15.800 do you Where do you start when it comes to 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:22.440 describing this unbelievable, largest comeback in NFL history when today 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:25.479 for the Minnesota Vikings, Well, I think that's where we start. Um, 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:30.120 it's historic. I mean there's there's no bigger, more, no, 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:33.159 no more grandiose word that you can think of. Was 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:37.719 it epic, yes? Was it unbelievable, Yes, it was historic. 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:41.799 I mean we've never seen this in NFL history. And 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:45.640 you know, a ton of props obviously to the players 0:05:45.640 --> 0:05:48.880 and the coaches, the fans here at the stadium, But 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:52.080 my goodness, I mean to go through what we watched 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:54.200 in the first half, which is maybe some of the 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:58.680 worst football I've seen any team play. To go three 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:00.760 and out on offense to start the third quarter, and 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:05.760 then all of a sudden, one series, another series, another touchdown, 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:09.280 another defensive stop. It was everything that could go right 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:12.800 went right, and we won a historic game. It was 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:16.080 a tell of two half. Yeah right. The Minnesota Vikings 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:18.320 had a block punt, Well had a punt block for 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:21.160 Indianapolis Colts touchdown, then to write again before the half, 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:24.680 Kurt Cousins stores a pick six down thirty three to zero. 0:06:24.760 --> 0:06:28.560 At halftime, the Minnesota Vikings kJ Osborne. They starts storming back. 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:31.840 kJ sixty five yard catch and it's like, oh, this 0:06:31.920 --> 0:06:34.400 is the kJ We've been asking for all Yeah, finish 0:06:34.480 --> 0:06:37.000 this game one hundred and fifty seven yards. How would 0:06:37.000 --> 0:06:39.240 you just describe the comeback? When did you know that 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:42.240 this comeback was in full throttle? I didn't know until 0:06:42.520 --> 0:06:44.520 really the end of the game. I mean it was 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:46.560 it was like late in the fourth quarter, Mike, We're 0:06:46.640 --> 0:06:48.680 really gonna do this, you know. I really think, in 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:51.920 all honesty, when we were down two scores and I'm like, 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:55.480 all right, we're moving the ball. They did get conservative, 0:06:55.560 --> 0:06:58.160 you know. I do think if I'm a Colts fan 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:00.599 and be like, guys, come on, like yeah, step on 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:03.120 their throats, all those proverbial things like but keep your 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:05.040 foot on the gas pedal a little bit. They did 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:07.000 get conservative. They tried to pick it back up, but 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:09.960 that whole momentum thing. This went against them. When we 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:13.200 got down two scores, I'm like, well, now we can 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:15.680 score another touchdown, and we can get another stop, and 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:17.320 then we can score and get a two point conversion. 0:07:17.360 --> 0:07:18.680 I mean, a lot of things still had to go right, 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:20.360 but when we were down two scores, that's when I 0:07:20.400 --> 0:07:23.640 thought it was very possible. Man. I'm most proud because 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:26.320 I'm most proud of this defense because of the fact 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:28.880 that we're down thirty three D zero and they only 0:07:28.920 --> 0:07:31.280 give up three points in the second half and halftime. 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:34.200 Going into the half, the Indianapolis Coats had two hundred 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:37.800 and nine first half yards, second half overtime one hundred 0:07:37.840 --> 0:07:40.680 and thirty one. Yeah, your thoughts on the effort in 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:42.920 the second half, I mean, I think that we didn't 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:44.800 do a great job on first down. I mean it 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:48.080 was it was four or five six yards on first down. 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:52.320 And the disheartening thing was we knew everybody knew watching 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:55.040 this game that they were gonna play a version of 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:57.360 four minute offense. We're gonna try to grind the clock out, 0:07:57.800 --> 0:08:00.280 and we still couldn't stop them on first down. I'm like, guys, 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:01.880 what are we doing? Like we know they're going to 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:04.640 run the football. But we get the second down and 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:06.960 we bowed up, and all of a sudden, now our 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:10.080 second down defense was was legit and we're stopping them, 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:12.760 and now we're like, okay, well, now the third and four, 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:15.400 third and five, you have a fighting chance at that. 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:19.480 So our second down defense in the second half was awesome, 0:08:19.760 --> 0:08:21.680 and that really was a difference in this game, and 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:23.880 we dialed up some pressures that actually got home. Yeah. 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:25.360 And then on the offensive side of the ball, you 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:27.800 just talked about the defensive schames, the offensive schames, the 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:30.840 fact that we caught a screenplay down one score thirty 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:33.040 six to twenty nine to Dalvin Cook that goes for 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:37.200 a touchdown. How would you assess Kevin O'Connell's and West 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:39.240 Phillips play calling on the offensive side of the ball 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:41.719 in the second half. Well, I actually just talked to 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:45.120 him for Kfan Radio and I asked him as a 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:48.480 very similar question, and his answer to me was, there's 0:08:48.520 --> 0:08:51.000 a point in the game where I stopped thinking about 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:55.040 plays and started thinking about players. Wow, And I started 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:57.839 he really had to focus on where do I want 0:08:57.880 --> 0:08:59.400 to get the ball? Who do I want to put 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:01.679 the ball? The ball on the hands of and then 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:03.920 we're gonna design plays. We're gonna come up with plays. 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:05.480 And he even made that, you know, said one time, 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:07.440 he's like, you know, there's a couple weeks drew up 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:10.040 in the dirt. Yeah, you know. So I think that 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:13.439 he really had to dig deep into the playbook and 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:16.360 even outside of the playbook to come up with ways 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:18.680 to get the ball in his playmaker's hands. And so, 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:21.880 you know, great job by him, great job by Wes 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:26.880 Phillips by staying present, you know, not mentally freaking out 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:29.480 thinking like oh, this game's over. You know, they just 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:31.640 kept their head down. They just knew, like, all right, 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:35.280 one more first down, one more big play. And for 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:37.600 those guys to stay present and stay positive, that was 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:39.640 that was big. That was a difference maker. People were 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:43.480 gonna go home talking about, you know, the Greg Joseph walkoff, 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:46.760 which without thinking about Justin Jefferson going for another hundred 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:49.440 yard game. kJ Osborne, we just talked about him. But 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:53.280 Dalvin Cook ninety five rushing yards, ninety five receiving yards. 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:56.000 I would like to say this is his best game 0:09:56.080 --> 0:09:58.280 this year as a Minnesota Viking. What were your thoughts 0:09:58.320 --> 0:10:01.880 just on his game change, game defining plays today. Well, 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:05.840 we've seen at times they used Dalvin in the passing game, 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:09.640 but I think all of us are clamoring to see more. Yeah, 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:11.679 you know, and and again I think this is one 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:14.080 of those situations. Going back to Koc's quote to me 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:16.560 was he knew he had to get the ball in 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:19.320 his hands and not so much in the run game 0:10:19.600 --> 0:10:22.240 because the game was lopsided. You are going to have 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:25.440 to throw to win. So I hope that that's a 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:28.280 recipe going forward. You know that we have a really 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:31.800 talented guy that has incredible vision, you know, elite speed, 0:10:32.240 --> 0:10:35.320 and he can break tackles. He's as good as any 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:37.120 wide receiver that we have on the field. And you 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:40.120 talk about the mismatches that creates. Let's see if we 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:42.480 have a little bit more Dalvin Cook spread out of 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:44.439 this offense. Man, I would love to see that because 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:47.200 that offers up so much. I mean, it puts the 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:49.240 defense on their toes because they had the count for 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:52.199 so many different guys and understanding that that gives Kirk 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:54.880 Cutsins more options again to throw the ball. Kirk Cousins 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:58.000 four hundred and forty seven passing yards today, fifty three attempts. 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:01.640 He's not stopping right now, He's on a roll. Right now, 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:05.040 do you put their hand? I guess my question for you, 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:07.600 do you give Kirk Cousin the keys and say, Kirk, 0:11:07.640 --> 0:11:09.240 you will take us as far as we as far 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:11.160 as we want to go. Yeah, I mean we saw him. 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:12.600 We saw him making a lot of checks at the 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:15.320 line of scrimmage. We saw him assessing the defense and 0:11:15.679 --> 0:11:18.839 trying to put our offense in the best possible situation 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:22.959 for success. Is as much this is as much freedom 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:25.080 as I've seen an ownership that I've seen out of 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:28.800 him in quite some time. And you know, again, our 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:30.800 offensive line did a great job. I know that we 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:32.760 give up some sacks and then and that's a really 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:36.400 good defensive front. Again. You know that's a top ten defense. Yeah, 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:39.400 you know, we played six top ten defenses this year, 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:41.720 so we got to give them a credit. They did. 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:43.720 They did a lot with They have a lot of talent, 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:46.000 a lot of skill over there. But when you are 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:49.400 asking a running back to step out of the backfield, 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:53.600 you're giving up some chip opportunities, some past protection opportunities. 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:56.319 You get hackets and split out. It just left our 0:11:56.360 --> 0:11:59.120 five guys to block their best guys and our guys 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:01.640 up front stepped up. So if we can get that 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:04.880 performance out of our offensive line and we get Bradberry back, 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:07.320 and we get and we get Kirk Cousins dealing like 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:10.600 he's dealing and getting this often spread out look out, oh, 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:13.360 look out, and look out next week because next week 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:16.400 is a white out game against the New York Giants, 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:18.760 so that the end zones would be painted white, the 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:21.240 Vikings would be wearing white jerseys the first time ever. 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:22.840 And now you got a white suit. I don't have 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:24.360 a white I don't have a white suit. I'm trying 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:26.640 to figure out what I'm going to wear, like a 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:29.760 white white polo. Maybe I don't know. We'll figure something out. 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:31.920 But one thing that we did figure out today was 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:36.120 how to win and the Minnesota Vikings again and understanding that, 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:39.280 you know, there's always these false narratives about who the 0:12:39.360 --> 0:12:42.360 Vikings are, their identity, blah blah blah blah blah. If 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:45.319 you go, if you went on Twitter during the first half, 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:47.640 that's what a lot of people thought about. The Vikings 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:52.280 now scoring thirty two straight points wearing this shirt, wearing 0:12:52.320 --> 0:12:55.280 the NFC Nord Championship hat, what do you have to 0:12:55.320 --> 0:12:57.560 say about this Minnesota Vikings stag. Honestly, don't don't care 0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:00.839 about any narratay wants to say. Right, they're winning games 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:04.600 and winning, winning is infectious, and winning sometimes it's hard 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:06.200 to do in this league. And we just keep winning 0:13:06.200 --> 0:13:07.959 and we're gonna find ways to win, and we're champs. 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:09.839 Maybe we're champs. So hopefully we can get another win 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:13.480 next Saturday, Next Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, I guess the New 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:16.760 York Giants, right, here's a white out. We already clinched 0:13:16.760 --> 0:13:18.719 the North. Let's continue to keep that two seed for 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:21.680 Ben Liebert, Ryan O'Neill. My name is Gabe Henderson, and 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:25.760 for this NFC North defending champ Minnesota Vikings team. Thank 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:27.880 you again for tuning into another edition of Between the 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:34.320 Lines fueled by Gatorade Schools go Ho kJ Osborne sixteen targets, 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:38.280 ten catches, a career best one hundred and fifty seven 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:42.880 receiving yards, and a touchdown that jump started the whole thing. 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:44.840 It did, and you know, and that's and that's kind 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:47.000 of the thing, you know, And I remember back in 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:48.720 ninety eight when we were fifteen and one and things, 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:51.320 you know, we weren't always going our way. I wouldn't 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:54.559 say it was as bad as today, but instead of 0:13:54.640 --> 0:13:56.280 kind of saying here we go again, we'd all look 0:13:56.280 --> 0:13:57.640 around and be like, all right, who's gonna be the 0:13:57.640 --> 0:13:59.280 person to pull us up today? Who's gonna be the 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:01.760 one that turned this thing around? Yeah? And I really 0:14:01.800 --> 0:14:03.200 got you really got to give a tip of the 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:05.520 captain kJ Osbourne. I mean he was he made some 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:09.720 key plays at some unbelievably key times early to get 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:12.400 this Viking team back in the swing. And once everybody 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:15.600 get back on board and jumped on it was, you know, 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:17.559 pedaled in the metal the rest of the way. And 0:14:17.840 --> 0:14:20.440 you know, for the Colts, they're they're in neutral, they're 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:22.320 just trying to burn the clock for three quarters of 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:24.520 this football game and then to get an overtime and 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:27.320 have to you know, revive an offense. That's not easy, 0:14:27.360 --> 0:14:29.520 that's not easy at all to do. Yeah, And so 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:34.040 but kJ uh, you know, he you know, he can 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:35.840 go put his head to his pill and I knowing 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:38.800 that not only did they leave a mark on, you know, 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:42.160 on the NFL in history of the NFL, but he 0:14:42.240 --> 0:14:45.280 had an unbelievably huge part of it. Yeah, and and 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:49.560 Justin Jefferson has an unbelievably huge part of everything the 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:52.200 Vikings do. He finished with one hundred and twenty three 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:55.120 yards in the touchdown. Now and getting that one twenty 0:14:55.120 --> 0:14:58.720 three with that Minneapolis miracle like feel to it. Who 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:02.520 caught the game winning the miracle winning touchdown pass from 0:15:02.600 --> 0:15:07.040 Kingdom Stefan Stefon Diggs Well with one hundred and twenty 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:12.160 three yards, Jefferson passed Diggs today for the ninth most 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:16.400 receiving yards in the history of the Minnesota Vikings. Dalvin 0:15:16.520 --> 0:15:20.160 Cook with then with ninety five yards receiving and a 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:24.040 sixty four yard touchdown. I mean, the way you explained 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:27.200 it on KFA end of the Vikings radio network inside 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:29.840 the fifteen, what he did, holy can it was. It 0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:33.560 was unbelievable. And and we've seen Dalvin do that where 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:37.320 he just refuses to go down, and that was that. 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:40.400 You know, that was not you know, schematics win in 0:15:40.440 --> 0:15:43.400 the day and this and then it was simple will. 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:48.400 It was just pure absolute will to not go down 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:50.920 and to bring that thing all the way into the 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:53.080 end zone. I mean, it wasn't he wasn't free and 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:56.200 clear those last twenty five yards probably he made about 0:15:56.240 --> 0:15:59.440 four or five you know, cults miss him before they 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:02.960 finally brought him down in the end zone. And you know, 0:16:03.120 --> 0:16:05.840 I've said it before, but Dalvin Cook, I think is 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:09.400 the heartbeat of this offense. He is the guy that 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:12.400 you can count on win loser dropped, however, any of 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:16.040 the He's going to be that that that pillar of strength, 0:16:16.800 --> 0:16:20.320 and he showed it on that play. I mean just 0:16:20.680 --> 0:16:22.040 it was one of those things where hey, just keep 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:23.720 feeding the ball. We saw him do kind of the 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:26.120 same thing at the end of that Buffalo goanme where 0:16:26.160 --> 0:16:29.360 he was basically unstoppable toward the end and he had 0:16:29.360 --> 0:16:31.640 just had a different level than everybody else around him. 0:16:31.960 --> 0:16:34.560 And the guy's on the sidelines see that, the defense 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:37.720 sees that, everybody sees that, the fan see it, and 0:16:38.120 --> 0:16:43.200 it just fuels the fire for a comeback that, you know, 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:46.880 like one of a kind. It's never happened. Kevin O'Connell 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:49.440 is two one o and overtime head coach of the 0:16:49.480 --> 0:16:54.440 Minnesota Vikings. Interestingly, was drafted the same year Colts quarterback 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:57.080 Matt Ryan was drafted two thousand and eight. Matt was 0:16:57.160 --> 0:17:00.560 the third overall pick ninety one picks later San Diego 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:05.120 State University, KOC was taken by Belichick. Well, now Koc's 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:11.560 coaching a Division champion Minnesota Vikings team. Here's this postgame presser. Sorry, guys, 0:17:11.640 --> 0:17:14.040 the water is an absolute necessity for me right now. 0:17:16.480 --> 0:17:18.760 All right, we'll let everybody file in here, But I 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:23.840 just want to commend our team, our entire organization. It 0:17:23.960 --> 0:17:28.000 took everybody today after playing, you know, our worst half 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:31.919 of football all season long. I'm trying to do everything 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:34.960 really in our power to lose the football game. We 0:17:35.080 --> 0:17:37.920 came back in at halftime, and our team had a 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:41.200 decision to make. Our coaches had a decision to make. 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:45.159 I thought our captains the way by the time our 0:17:45.200 --> 0:17:47.399 coaching staff, you know, came out to our players and 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:49.560 to give them the pseudo plan for the rest of 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:53.360 the half or for the second half. Guys like Patrick Peterson, 0:17:53.480 --> 0:17:59.120 Kirk Cousins, Eric Kendricks, Adam Feeling, Brian O'Neill, CJ Hamm. Really, 0:17:59.280 --> 0:18:04.960 I'm sure missing somebody, but Dalvin Cook to who I heard. 0:18:05.160 --> 0:18:07.560 I heard our leadership telling our guys we've been here before, 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:10.240 maybe not that much, maybe not the need for the 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:13.320 largest comeback in the history of our league. But this 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:15.200 team believes in each other and we just had to 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:18.159 go try to play good football regardless of score. We 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:20.119 just had to try to play good football and just 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:22.200 see if we could apply some pressure to our opponent 0:18:22.240 --> 0:18:24.320 before it was all said and done, and we were 0:18:24.359 --> 0:18:27.000 able to do that. So we set a goal to 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:29.679 win this division at the very beginning of training camp. 0:18:29.760 --> 0:18:33.000 We have not talked about anything else besides winning the division. 0:18:33.880 --> 0:18:36.000 We knew how important that would be for our organization, 0:18:36.119 --> 0:18:38.920 our team. Now we've got to take this moment both 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:41.960 the the things that we clearly need to correct early 0:18:42.040 --> 0:18:43.719 on in this football game, but see if we can 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:46.639 harness the energy that it takes to set a record 0:18:46.720 --> 0:18:51.240 like that and and compound that moving forward to have 0:18:51.720 --> 0:18:54.439 more complete performances, which is what this team is always 0:18:54.440 --> 0:18:56.200 on the strive to do. And I need to do 0:18:56.240 --> 0:18:59.080 a better job as a head coach, demanding, you know, 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:02.080 our standards for recorders to continue to give ourselves a 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:04.159 chance to continue playing as long as they'll allow us 0:19:04.200 --> 0:19:06.840 to play this year. Giving you guys an injury update 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:11.639 justin Jefferson. It was a rib chest contusion. He's feeling 0:19:11.640 --> 0:19:14.000 pretty good right now. Um, you know he was able 0:19:14.000 --> 0:19:16.680 to obviously come back in the game and help contribute 0:19:16.680 --> 0:19:19.120 in a huge way to winning that football game. Um, 0:19:19.240 --> 0:19:21.040 and we'll I'm sure he'll be sore, but we'll keep 0:19:21.040 --> 0:19:22.520 you guys posted how he does. And then we just 0:19:22.640 --> 0:19:26.560 had three players cramping Christian dare Saw, Patrick Peterson and 0:19:26.720 --> 0:19:30.680 kJ Osborne. Career day for kJ, a huge day for 0:19:30.880 --> 0:19:34.159 Christian dare Saw to come back and and be a 0:19:34.240 --> 0:19:36.639 major part of that being able to score like that 0:19:36.720 --> 0:19:38.680 in the second half. You need your offensive line to 0:19:39.440 --> 0:19:42.480 show up and and and handle their business, which against 0:19:42.480 --> 0:19:45.119 a really good front they were able to do. So 0:19:45.640 --> 0:19:48.000 with that, I'll open it up to you guys like 0:19:48.080 --> 0:19:49.840 this do for the Mint to shake up of your 0:19:49.880 --> 0:19:52.840 team going forward. Well, we've had a few, um that 0:19:52.920 --> 0:19:54.720 I think you can build on, and I don't think 0:19:54.760 --> 0:19:57.840 maybe we get it done today unless we had moments 0:19:57.920 --> 0:20:01.840 like Buffalo or Detroit or you know, Washington or you know, 0:20:01.920 --> 0:20:04.720 I could list off a few you guys know, um, 0:20:05.000 --> 0:20:07.960 and I just when you got the right kind of guys, 0:20:08.359 --> 0:20:11.000 you know. And we'll continue to improve and stress the 0:20:11.119 --> 0:20:16.000 importance of individual offense, defense, special teams, group improvement, and 0:20:16.080 --> 0:20:19.480 then our team understanding how we can avoid setbacks like 0:20:19.560 --> 0:20:21.760 we had early on. You know, we can we can 0:20:21.840 --> 0:20:23.760 list those. The list is very large from the things 0:20:23.800 --> 0:20:26.520 we did poorly in the first half. But I will 0:20:26.560 --> 0:20:29.800 never discount this team's ability to overcome and continue to 0:20:29.880 --> 0:20:32.960 play play for each other. Um. Sometimes the culture stuff 0:20:33.000 --> 0:20:36.040 gets challenged in our league, but you don't win a 0:20:36.119 --> 0:20:38.479 game like that without it. Now, we got to continue 0:20:38.520 --> 0:20:40.600 to work and continue to improve to be the best 0:20:40.640 --> 0:20:43.520 possible football team we can be through the rest of 0:20:43.560 --> 0:20:46.080 the month of December and now we know into January. 0:20:47.240 --> 0:20:49.000