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Speaker 2: Week one of regular season Minnesota Vikings football is back

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Speaker 2: in action as we welcome you to the Minnesota Vikings

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Speaker 2: Podcast presented by PEPSI. My name is Gabe Henderson. I

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Speaker 2: am inside the TCO Radio studio alongside the talented trio

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Speaker 2: of Vikings Entertainment Network. Folks. I got Tatum Everett here,

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Speaker 2: Jay Neltson and our producer mister Eric Davidson. And guys,

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Speaker 2: this is a week that we have talked about for

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Speaker 2: so long. If fans have been tuned into our podcast

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Speaker 2: post January tenth last year when the Viking season ended,

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Speaker 2: we're finally back. The New York Giants are on the horizon,

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Speaker 2: and for me, I can officially tell when football season

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Speaker 2: is back when the Vikings finally released their Week one

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Speaker 2: unofficial depth chart.

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Speaker 3: Jay, I love the fact that we are here welcome everybody.

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Speaker 2: To the season.

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Speaker 4: It feels like it its official, feels.

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Speaker 3: Like it, I got to say in the building. I

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Speaker 3: was talking with a couple of coaches too, and just

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Speaker 3: the idea of it feels like you can tell it's

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Speaker 3: regular season when everything feels like it's already in warp speed.

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Speaker 3: You show up at nine am. Next thing you know,

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Speaker 3: it's lunchtime. The next thing, you know, it's five o'clock.

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Speaker 3: So we're all in good point, and so we're all

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Speaker 3: at the point where everyone's just realizing how precious a

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Speaker 3: commodity time is at this point and being able to

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Speaker 3: see things like depth charts and injury reports and different

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Speaker 3: things because there's you know, different teams that are playing

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Speaker 3: earlier this week as well. NFL is back, and it's

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Speaker 3: a lot of fun to be able to officially see

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Speaker 3: where the coaching and those guys want to at least

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Speaker 3: slate those positions for the players, and I think for

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Speaker 3: the fans it's always just another sign of something fun

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Speaker 3: got sitting in the number ones and the number two's.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I thought today it was Friday, you know, I

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Speaker 4: really did.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: No, it's one of those things where your schedule gets

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Speaker 4: like so overloaded. You are looking at things from a

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Speaker 4: whole different lens because you have a matchup to talk about,

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Speaker 4: you have depth charts that you can analyze who's ones

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Speaker 4: it is an exciting time. Like, you know, the guys

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Speaker 4: as we're itching to talk about real football for a change.

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Speaker 2: Well, real football is finally here and kickoff is set

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Speaker 2: for noon at MetLife Stadium against the New York Giants.

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Speaker 2: And just thinking about the history between these two teams,

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Speaker 2: the Vikings have won four out of the last five matchups,

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Speaker 2: but the Giants won the most recent matchup in twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty two, thirty one to twenty four in the wildcard game,

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Speaker 2: which essentially ended the Viking season in Kevin O'Connell's first

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Speaker 2: And I believe there are twenty players that are on

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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty two, and out of those twenty players,

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Speaker 2: Tatum four of those were starters on the defenses side

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's the most interesting part. That was

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Speaker 4: my one thing to like what I well, I don't

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Speaker 4: it is part of my point to make in our

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Speaker 4: one knows what this team really is going the unveil.

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Speaker 4: It is so many so much newness. You know there

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Speaker 4: obviously there's some continuity there for the last three seasons.

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Speaker 3: That's always the weird thing about the beginning of the

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Speaker 2: Coming up later in the show, Minnesota Vikings owner Mark

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Speaker 2: Wolf will join us to give his thoughts on his

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Speaker 2: twentieth season as owners, last team president of this team.

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Speaker 2: But before we get there, we're going to jump into

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Speaker 2: our first PEPSI that's what I like segment where we

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Speaker 2: put forty seconds on the clock and each of us

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Speaker 2: gives the fans one thing we like about the Vikings

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Speaker 2: upcoming matchup heading into Sunday and Ted and we'll start

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Speaker 2: with you, so forty seconds on the clock. There's a

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Speaker 4: So I might actually take about twenty seconds, okay, and

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Speaker 4: I'll give I'll read I'll give my twenty seconds to

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Speaker 2: You're yeah, basically I am.

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Speaker 4: I am because I feel like I did kind of

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Speaker 4: and so yeah, so that's that's what I think is

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Speaker 4: Right now, that thirty.

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Speaker 2: Five seconds I rambled, I love it, Jay, I think

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Speaker 2: take seconds made a really good point. There's so many unknowns,

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Speaker 2: starting now. What do you like about this Week one

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Speaker 3: One thing that I am most interested in seeing is

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Speaker 3: the hype that is currently surrounding mister Malik Neighbors for

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Speaker 3: the New York Giants. For me, the piece is going

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Speaker 3: to be how does the Viking's new look secondary focus

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Speaker 3: as far as the veterans that we've added in, guys

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Speaker 3: We all kind of know what we have in the

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Speaker 3: something that I'm very interested in seeing on Sunday, Wow,

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Speaker 4: Nice, you didn't even need it.

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Speaker 2: I know Tatum is probably thinking LSU when you hear

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Speaker 2: Malik Neighbors. Yeah, of course you never never.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I am still team. Might be on a fantasy

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Speaker 2: There you go.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And that's the thing like for me, just looking

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Speaker 3: a guy like that too, seeing what Justin's done in

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Speaker 3: curious to see just how we attack him and try

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Speaker 2: Point, a lot of question marks, and the one thing

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Speaker 2: the one thing that I like about this Minnesota Vikings

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Speaker 2: So a lot of positivity, a lot of excitement for

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Speaker 2: How did those guys you know work their way into

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Speaker 2: know we talked about some things that we liked about

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Speaker 2: But keys to success, Tatum, what's one key to success

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Speaker 4: For me, it's a big one, and I feel like

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Speaker 4: it's very cliche. It is probably word to say, so

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Speaker 4: I feel really, you know, maybe weird saying it, but

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Speaker 4: this team has got to start fast. I feel like

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Speaker 4: with the schedule set up up the way that it is,

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Speaker 4: and then you go and play the Jets and the Packers,

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Speaker 4: then you play the favorites the Lions after your bye week.

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Speaker 4: I mean, it's just a juggernaut in the beginning, and

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Speaker 4: I don't think it gets any easier. So you need

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Speaker 1: We know our opponents particular division are not sleeping there.

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Speaker 1: They're working hard and on the same front too.

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Speaker 2: So we have.

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Speaker 1: Probably one of the highest competitive divisions in the league.

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Speaker 1: And we feel again Coach Kyle's had a very tough,

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Speaker 2: I love that. My final question for you is, you know,

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Speaker 2: the season opener Week two at home next week. Can

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Speaker 2: you just describe how the Will family has consistently worked

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Speaker 2: to create and maintain that world class fan experience at

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Speaker 1: Well, it's something we owe always are evolving to make

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Speaker 1: whether that's showtime, pregame, or training camp or all the

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Speaker 1: content you guys at VN produce, and we just want

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Speaker 1: to keep the fans close. We want them to be

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Speaker 1: energized because when we come to us Bank Stadium the

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Speaker 1: week two this year to open, the energy is unsurpassed

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Speaker 1: the NFL. So our job as stewards of this great

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Speaker 1: franchise is to provide the resources, have some fun cement

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Speaker 1: we're excited, can't wait to see everybody this week via

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Speaker 1: television and hopefully Week two at us Bank to be

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Speaker 1: loud and proud as we always are.

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Speaker 2: So Skull Vikings, Skull Vikings, thank you so much, Mark,

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Speaker 2: looking forward to it and hopefully this twentieth year results

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Speaker 2: in some magic for this Minnesota Vikings team. Ay Man, Well,

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Speaker 2: that was Minnesota Vikings' owner Mark Wilf providing us with

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Speaker 2: some time talking about out the future of this Minnesota

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Speaker 2: Vikings organization. Well, the future starts now. That starts this

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Speaker 2: upcoming Sunday against the New York Giants twelve pm kickoff

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Speaker 2: Central Time, right here on Kfan one hundred point three.

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Speaker 2: So much to get into. You can listen to that

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Speaker 2: pregame show at ten am with Mike Mussman. And after

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Speaker 2: a long in a very long offseason, Vikings regular season

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Speaker 2: football is back. So with that said, for Mark Wolf Our,

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Speaker 2: producer Eric Davison, Jay Nelson, and Tatum Everett, my name

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Speaker 2: is Gabe Henderson. Thank you guys again for tuning into

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Speaker 2: another edition of the Minnesota Vikings Podcast presented by PEPSI