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Speaker 1: Another week of Vikings football is upon us as we

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Speaker 1: welcome you inside the TCO Studios for another edition of

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Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings Podcast. Presents it by PEPSI. I'm Gabe Henderson,

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Speaker 1: Jay Nelson's Herretatum Everett is here, so is our special

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Speaker 1: guest of the show, our friend from the from the

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Speaker 1: athletic mister Alec Lewis, and Alec. Before we look forward

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Speaker 1: to the Carolina Panthers this week and what's on the

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Speaker 1: horizon for this Minnesota Vikings team, we have to look back. Finally,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep this brief because when you lose twenty

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Speaker 1: eight to twenty four, and for the third straight week

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Speaker 1: you lose the turnover battle, how do you make sense

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Speaker 1: of what this Viking season can be?

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Speaker 2: First, thanks for having me. It's been an interesting ride

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Speaker 2: obviously thus far. But I mean you have to start

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Speaker 2: with the turnovers because if you do any study slash

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Speaker 2: research on what stat leads to winning games, it's turnovers.

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Speaker 2: The team that wins that margin typically has a better

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Speaker 2: chance of winning the game. And the Vikings obviously I

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Speaker 2: think they're minus eight far maybe minus seven.

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Speaker 3: Through three games.

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Speaker 2: I mean it's historic at this point. We're just splitting

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Speaker 2: hairs on that specific number. It's been brutal. And I

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Speaker 2: told you this walking up here, Gabe, like the timing

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Speaker 2: of these turnovers could not be worse. In fact, if

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Speaker 2: you look at some of the advanced metrics, I mean,

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Speaker 2: they're the first three games of the season, you'll find

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Speaker 2: very few teams in the history of the NFL that

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Speaker 2: have had such worse turnover luck in terms of the timing.

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Speaker 3: And so, yeah, it's been brutal.

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Speaker 2: You start there, I think offensively, you've got some really

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Speaker 3: I think defensively.

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Speaker 2: Trying to throw curveballs at these offenses in different ways.

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Speaker 2: And so it's been a really fascinating attempt at trying

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Speaker 2: to analyze this thing because they've been in all three

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Speaker 2: of these games, and you could conceivably have seen them

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Speaker 2: win all three of these games.

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Speaker 4: It feels like last season. But the coin has flipped.

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Speaker 5: And that's a lot of question that I asked the

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Speaker 5: players a lot after the game this past week, was

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Speaker 5: you know what has changed?

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Speaker 4: What's made that flip at all?

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Speaker 5: The CJ hand was like, it's just football, Like that

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Speaker 5: stuff happens. I just don't know if this group has

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Speaker 5: ever really felt like it was all happening at one time.

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Speaker 4: It's like a title wave that.

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Speaker 5: They just can't escape from right now, as opposed to

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Speaker 5: like last year where you were just like.

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Speaker 4: Wow, how did that just happen? Oh my god, all

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Speaker 4: just this way exactly.

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Speaker 5: So it's kind of like everyone last season was like

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Speaker 5: waiting for the shoe to drop. I didn't guess, it

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Speaker 5: just took a little longer than we all expected.

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Speaker 2: And the weird thing is there is some weird psychology

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Speaker 2: stepping up at the right times and they've built this

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Speaker 3: And I mean it's true.

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Speaker 2: They start the game against the Chargers and run the

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Speaker 2: ball five times. They prioritize this, it's been a priority

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Speaker 3: They are effective at running, and then TJ.

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Speaker 2: Hockinson, who you just paid a gigantic contract for, rightfully

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Speaker 2: fumbles the ball and it's just you could feel the

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Speaker 1: Just because it's the one thing that Vikings fans said

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Speaker 1: don't turn the ball over, we're going to win this game.

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Speaker 1: So in the first drive of the game, it's like TJ,

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Speaker 2: And I mean he had said probably it felt like

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Speaker 2: forty seven times last week. He had said, when you

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Speaker 2: prioritizing ball security. And I'll tell you just talking to

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Speaker 2: they they gave it everything they had to prioritize this

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Speaker 2: crazy to really see that happen again and again.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, there's a thing that I keep seeing retweeted over

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Speaker 6: win probabilities were a guy named Tom Bliss. Again, haven't

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Speaker 6: basically show that last year we were the fifth best

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Speaker 6: currently at a minus thirty nine percent, So like as

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Speaker 6: close as we've been, I mean, every game has been

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Speaker 6: within a score. It's that little tiny detail and that

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Speaker 6: I think that's the thing that's been getting harped on

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Speaker 6: over and over again, whether it's just you know, former

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Speaker 6: to take. It's literally just the minor details of just

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Speaker 6: that that are going to help get this team their

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Speaker 2: I saw that too, and Tom I believe works with

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Speaker 2: next Gen stats, and my initial impression was like, well,

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Speaker 2: that's what it felt like. So to see the numbers,

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Speaker 2: whatever the heck, these numbers are validate what.

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Speaker 3: It seems to have felt like to me made sense.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, it's it's what makes analyzing these NFL games

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Speaker 2: hard is because there are just so many variables in

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Speaker 2: so much randomness. Yeah, and it's you want to grab

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Speaker 2: on to some narrative and blame somebody like that's our psychology,

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Speaker 2: but it's it's hard to figure out how to do

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Speaker 3: That many times.

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Speaker 6: I for one, would like to ask for a rewrite

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Speaker 6: from the NFL script makers. So far, in the first

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Speaker 6: three weeks, I'm just saying the first three weeks, I

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Speaker 6: do not like the script so far.

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Speaker 5: It really does go to show like you know, you

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Speaker 5: never know what the NFL wee get and week out.

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Speaker 5: I mean, there are so many things that happen each

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Speaker 5: week that I'm always like, there's no way, there's no way.

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Speaker 5: I go through my pick'em's and I pick who I

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Speaker 4: And it's just that's just the anomaly that it is.

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Speaker 4: And I don't know who made what.

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Speaker 5: Deal with what voodoo doctor down in Bourbon Street to

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Speaker 5: make all of this always be so different and the

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Speaker 5: parody and everything. But we're feeling that right now after

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Speaker 5: you know what, over the last like eight months, we

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Speaker 5: felt that parody.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you just want to get in the win column.

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Speaker 1: And that's something that Kevin O'Connor has enforced, especially earlier

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Speaker 1: this week he said, if the Vikings, I'm gonna preface

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Speaker 1: this by saying, in so many words, he said, the

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Speaker 1: guys who don't want to hold onto the ball for

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Speaker 1: this Vikings team will not be playing going forward. So

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Speaker 1: there is a statement made. When you hear that statement, Alec,

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Speaker 1: what does What are the first things that come to mind?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, I'll start by saying this.

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Speaker 2: I mean, Kevin was probably it seemed as exhausted and

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Speaker 2: frustrated as I've seen him in his time here. And

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Speaker 2: I started covering the team a week before last season.

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Speaker 2: I don't think he was upset in the summer before

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Speaker 3: I can't imagine he'd slept very much.

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Speaker 2: And I think, ever, the way he was formulating ords

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Speaker 2: I understand what he said, and I think it was

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Speaker 2: the right thing to say. When your team's zero and

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Speaker 2: three and you have expectations coming in the year, it's

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Speaker 2: this is the most important thing. Prioritizing the ball is

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Speaker 2: something that Kevin O'Connell has talked about since he got here,

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Speaker 2: done that. So whatever they have to do to do that,

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Speaker 3: Get across and he did. Obviously, what does that mean.

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Speaker 2: I mean we could talk about specific players and issues

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Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to this weekend to see how much

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Speaker 2: cam Akers, who they recently traded for, plays, and how

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Speaker 2: much Dalton Reisner plays as well. I think both those

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Speaker 2: that they can kind of inject some kind of just

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Speaker 3: To be about.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it makes sense with that move that you talk

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Speaker 1: about with cam Akers finally getting to play, because it

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Speaker 1: was announced on Vikings dot com earlier this week that

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Speaker 1: the Vikings have terminated the contract of Males Gaskin. So

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Speaker 1: for someone who is reading into that, that ultimately says

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a really interesting thing.

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Speaker 5: And I do think for a guy like cam Akers,

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Speaker 5: this is the opportunity. I mean, I think that there's

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Speaker 5: like small things throughout the games that you can really

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Speaker 5: whatever you want to call it, gonna just all come

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Speaker 2: The two things real quick that just come to my

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Speaker 2: mind listening to you. The first is I think it's

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Speaker 2: easy to take those words that Kevin said and it's like,

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Speaker 2: we're gonna I think it's easy as a media external

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Speaker 4: This like theatest thing he's ever said is right.

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Speaker 3: It is so easy probably apologize, and I think I.

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Speaker 2: Think on radio you'll hear it and pie like it's

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Speaker 2: it's just ripe for analysis when a team's own three.

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Speaker 2: So maybe it makes me ridiculous not to be doing that,

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Speaker 2: given that is my job, But I just I think

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Speaker 2: I don't totally see it as some grand statement. They

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Speaker 2: going to have to do that, and they want to

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Speaker 2: hold onto the football However, the heck that Kevin O'Connell

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Speaker 2: can find a way to do that at this point

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Speaker 2: being oh and three, he's gonna do it. And I

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Speaker 2: don't know if any grand statement needed to be said

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Speaker 2: to really be behind that, regardless, I think it is.

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Speaker 1: I think that statement is needed though.

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Speaker 6: Jay, Oh for sure. And I think part of it

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Speaker 6: for me is I look at it as the king

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Speaker 6: of making those kind of statements and following through is

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Speaker 6: Bill Belichick. You know, the idea on that team of listen,

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Speaker 6: if you start fumbling or any of that kind of stuff,

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Speaker 6: that is quote unquote within your control to handle that

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Speaker 6: and is so detrimental you do that, and you're on

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Speaker 6: the sideline, and it's just like I think they're getting

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Speaker 6: to the point where they're going, listen, we're running out

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Speaker 6: of room for error. We're running out of room to

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm glad we finally got all of this offer

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Speaker 1: All right, we are back. This is the Minnesota Vikings

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Speaker 1: Podcast presented by Pepsi. Alex Lewis from the athleticis here,

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Speaker 1: so is Tatum everetting Jay noteson. My name is Gabe

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Speaker 1: Henderson and the number one goal right now for this

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Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings team is get a one in the win column.

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Speaker 1: And Alex, when you look at just this bike, this

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Speaker 1: What stands out to you this week?

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Speaker 1: Whether the Panthers are two different offenses with both quarterbacks playing.

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Speaker 2: right on, Tom, Would you expect anything else? I mean,

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Speaker 3: You say, how many people care about your game?

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Speaker 2: Jay said, you know who do we want at quarterback? Selfishly,

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Speaker 5: Panthers offensive line has allowed sixty pressures in three weeks.

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Speaker 4: A big game for that front.

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Speaker 6: Basically we've been executing, but we're just not finishing the

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Speaker 6: the way you need to. So for me, it's one

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Speaker 6: Let's get to Kirk tober, Let's have him go even

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Speaker 6: more nuts than he has been, and we'll be in

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Speaker 1: Yay.

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Speaker 5: I love that you mentioned that just a nick of

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Speaker 5: time rightly, like one.

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Speaker 2: Day you don't get to Gabe doesn't have the pressure

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Speaker 3: I'll do, Okay, I do.

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Speaker 1: I'm just I was going to give you my phone

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Speaker 1: so you could, okay start it for me.

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Speaker 3: I was gonna say, if you if you got to escape. Okay,

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Speaker 3: the same player.

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Speaker 1: Player fair So jay I was looking at some of

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Speaker 1: the Kirketober stats. Since Kirk has been the quarterback of

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Speaker 1: the Viking, he has a seventy four percent win percentage

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Speaker 1: in the month of October.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, it is Kirktober.

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Speaker 6: He's fourteen and five since twenty eighteen when he got

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Speaker 6: He's fourteen and five, fifty two d and fifty nine yards,

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Speaker 6: thirty four passing touchdowns, two rushing touchdowns, and eleven picks.

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Speaker 6: So like, there's something about you get to that week four,

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Speaker 6: something that I think, you know, Sparks wise, that that's

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Speaker 6: what we're looking for.

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Speaker 1: Love it all right, I guess I got my forty

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Speaker 1: seconds coming up, and since we are starting now, I'm

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Speaker 1: going to go with our run defense. I like our

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Speaker 1: look at that, their offensive coordinator is basically going to say,

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Speaker 1: let's be like the Vikings let's run the ball five

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Speaker 1: straight times to open the game. And if you're Brian

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Speaker 1: Fluor as defense, you're looking at that and saying, Okay,

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Speaker 1: if we can stop the run, we should be able

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Speaker 1: to do anything that we want to do. Granted, the

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Speaker 1: Panthers ran for one hundred and forty four yards week,

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Speaker 1: one hundred yards week two, and then only forty four

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Speaker 1: yards last week. Running the ball is going to be

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Speaker 1: a point of emphasis for that team, and I'm looking

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Speaker 1: forward to seeing how we stop the Panthers or pound

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Speaker 1: those Panthers with our trenches and our guys up front,

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Speaker 1: well done.

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 4: Just are room for professionals. This is great.

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Speaker 1: But this is this is going to be a big

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Speaker 1: week for this this Vikings team. I know we always

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Speaker 1: throw around the word must win, but when you're on

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Speaker 1: in three and you got the Chiefs on the horizon,

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Speaker 1: this is a must win, especially on the road.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean there's no question. I mean you mentioned

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Speaker 2: the Kirk Toober stats and they do play the Bears,

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Speaker 2: which is gonna be a nice thing to have on

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Speaker 2: the horizon. But I mean the forty nine ers are

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Speaker 2: going to come in and play on Monday night, so

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Speaker 2: it's not I mean, this schedule was always gonna be tough.

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Speaker 2: I thought at the beginning of the show, you might

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Speaker 2: you might bring up whatever record I guess that the

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Speaker 2: Vikings would be before the season from our last podcast,

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Speaker 2: and I was going to be pretty embarrassed by that.

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Speaker 2: But no, it's they really do need to win this weekend,

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Speaker 2: and I think just to kind of send a pulse

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Speaker 2: of electricity through this building again as it was all

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Speaker 2: last year. I mean, it existed and you could feel it,

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Speaker 2: and I think to bring that back I think going

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Speaker 2: set up fairly nicely.

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Speaker 3: I think for this team to do it, just got

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Speaker 3: to go out on the field and make it happen.

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Speaker 1: Well, two winless teams in Charlotte, North Carolina this week

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Speaker 1: at Bank of America Stadium, Vikings at Panthers. The boom

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Speaker 1: is at noon right here on the Vikings Radio network,

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Speaker 1: and it will be a pleasure to consume that game

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Speaker 1: and hopefully get a Vikings win alongside my guy mister

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Speaker 1: Alec Lewis and Tatum Everett and Jay. I know you'll

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Speaker 1: be watching on TV, cheering us on, probably texting us,

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Speaker 1: and hopefully with some I guess, great news back here

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Speaker 1: at TCO. Well for Alex Lewis Tatum, Everett, Jay Nelson.

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Speaker 1: My name is Gabe Henderson. Thank you guys again for

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Speaker 1: tuning into another edition of the Minnesota Vikings Podcast presented

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Speaker 1: by PEPSI. We'll talk to you next week, hopefully after

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Speaker 1: we pound those panthers,