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Speaker 1: Vikings podcast and the Vikes are twelve and four after

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Speaker 1: a forty one to seventeen lost to the Packers on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: I'm Tadam Everett alongside Gabe Henderson Jay Nelson under the

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Speaker 1: weather this week, but Eric Davidson is our producer today.

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Speaker 1: Jalen Naylor will be our guests later on in the

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Speaker 1: show after his first career touchdown. But Gabe, it's not

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Speaker 1: the outing we wanted to see by any means. And

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Speaker 1: we had to witness a first hand in person. That loss,

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Speaker 1: coupled with the forty nine Ers win, means Minnesota is

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Speaker 1: now the number three seed the NFC playoffs And your eyes,

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Speaker 1: is that a huge difference from the number two seed. No,

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Speaker 1: simply because the fact that the two seed will get

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Speaker 1: I think the fans really would have loved to have

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Speaker 1: I know everyone will be on the edge of their

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Speaker 1: that I want to ht that text. That would be cool.

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Speaker 1: But that's great. I mean, I think being part of

431
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Speaker 1: this team has been it's such a different ride like game,

432
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Speaker 1: and I we can't. We have a hard time coming

433
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Speaker 1: up with how to describe how this season is gone

434
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Speaker 1: so far. So how how would you describe what the

435
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Speaker 1: ride has been like in your rookie year. I feel

436
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Speaker 1: like it's been kind of a roller coaster like throughout

437
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Speaker 1: all our games. You know, it's been ups and downs

438
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Speaker 1: on both sides all three phases. Actually it's been ups

439
00:21:50,160 --> 00:21:53,000
Speaker 1: and downs. But we all just come together collectively as

440
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Speaker 1: a unit and just lean on one another. That's what

441
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Speaker 1: coach preaches all the time, just to lean on one another.

442
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Speaker 1: Good things that happen. What's something that you that you've

443
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Speaker 1: leaned on or something that you focused on this year

444
00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:09,720
Speaker 1: during this process with special teams and your snap count

445
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Speaker 1: getting up, I guess getting up from the offensive side

446
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Speaker 1: of the ball. That's one thing that you really tried

447
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Speaker 1: to hone in on them. Okay, I want to get

448
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Speaker 1: better at this. UM. I would say just getting used

449
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Speaker 1: to the speed of the game. UM, just really getting

450
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Speaker 1: that rhythm because I'm more of a rhythm player. I

451
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Speaker 1: like to feel things out at first, Like things might

452
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Speaker 1: be going fast for me at first, but then it

453
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Speaker 1: will slow down then really start like getting the feel

454
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Speaker 1: of the game and really start vibing. You got an

455
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Speaker 1: example of like when a moment kind of got fast

456
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Speaker 1: and you had to out. I mean at the beginning

457
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Speaker 1: of every special team kickoff, kick return, whatever it is,

458
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Speaker 1: it's definitely different. It's definitely way faster. So that that's

459
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Speaker 1: that's just a big thing I gotta work on, just

460
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Speaker 1: just that first play, just getting them jitters out. What

461
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Speaker 1: was the message today, Um, after you're the Packers game,

462
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Speaker 1: and now that you guys are heading into the final

463
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Speaker 1: game of the regular season, you've got a home playoff game, kamanatcha,

464
00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:09,280
Speaker 1: what was the message from coach? Offensive wise? We just

465
00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:12,760
Speaker 1: gotta execute better. We can't shoot ourselves in the foot

466
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Speaker 1: and just playing bad ball, you know. But that's something

467
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Speaker 1: that we can work on, definitely improve on. Just lean

468
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Speaker 1: on one another, of course, and just trusting, trusting the

469
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Speaker 1: play called, trusting the coaches, trusting our technique, things like that,

470
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Speaker 1: that technique is only going to get you to where

471
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Speaker 1: you know, where we need to be. And just being

472
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Speaker 1: out with us bank home games this year. I never

473
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Speaker 1: experienced in a playoff game. I think that I don't

474
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Speaker 1: know for how how it was for you guys. But

475
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Speaker 1: like last the white out game against the Giants, that's

476
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Speaker 1: probably the loudest I've ever heard US Bank Stadium. Have

477
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Speaker 1: you kind of envisioned what the first playoff game would

478
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Speaker 1: be like once we continue to I guess build some

479
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Speaker 1: wins back up, hopefully it'll be like that that white

480
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Speaker 1: out game, because that that game was little in college,

481
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Speaker 1: right yeah games? Yeah, okay, okay, you know what it

482
00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:03,640
Speaker 1: was about. Yeah, Um, and being and being a rookie out.

483
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Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you what veteran has really made

484
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Speaker 1: a difference to you, kind of taking you under its

485
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Speaker 1: under their wing, whether it's on the field, off the field.

486
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Speaker 1: Who's someone that you've really kind of gotten along with

487
00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:16,680
Speaker 1: and has really helped you in this journey. Um, I

488
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Speaker 1: say Adam Thieland and CJ. Ham those two guys on

489
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Speaker 1: the field Adam and off the field. With Adam, you know,

490
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Speaker 1: just being able to talk to him and just release

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Speaker 1: the stuff that's going on in my head and just

492
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Speaker 1: he's just helping me just be like just focus on

493
00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:36,760
Speaker 1: and just calmed down, like think things will be fine,

494
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Speaker 1: just take it one day at the time. The same

495
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Speaker 1: thing with CJ. You know, CJU, he's a father, and

496
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Speaker 1: I'm a father as well a little baby girl, so um,

497
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Speaker 1: i'd be having problems just trying to see her anything's

498
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Speaker 1: going on with her, and he just keeps my head

499
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Speaker 1: up and just tells me he's always there for me.

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Speaker 1: That's awesome, man. Um, and you got two Minnesota natives

501
00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:03,720
Speaker 1: to that, it can be a shorter to Lano. What's

502
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Speaker 1: been the process of getting adjusted to Minnesota having those

503
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Speaker 1: guys that's that's that's been here, that's done, and that's

504
00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:10,800
Speaker 1: grew up here. What's that process has been? Like, I mean,

505
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Speaker 1: the process hasn't been that bad for me because I

506
00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:16,360
Speaker 1: was at Michigan State, so the Midwest is I feel

507
00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:19,440
Speaker 1: like it's all the same. It feels the exact same

508
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Speaker 1: as Michigan, So I mean like it wasn't much of

509
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Speaker 1: a change. Got Yeah, Well, we are very excited to

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Speaker 1: see more of you, Jalen, and I know it's been

511
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Speaker 1: a fun season. We can't wait for this Bears game,

512
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Speaker 1: can't wait for the playoffs and uh best a lot.

513
00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:33,959
Speaker 1: Hopefully we'll see a little bit more this coming up

514
00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:38,040
Speaker 1: weekend too. Seen them on special teams and on offense.

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Speaker 1: So now it's just getting the fumble recovery on defense

516
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Speaker 1: and thank you so much for being on the podcast.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, guys. A big thanks to Jalen Naylor for

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Speaker 1: joining the podcast. Sunday's Game once again. If you haven't heard,

519
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Speaker 1: it's set for noon at Soldier Field. Stick with Vikings

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Speaker 1: dot Com and the Vikings App to get ready for

521
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Speaker 1: the final game of the regular season. I can't believe

522
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Speaker 1: I'm saying that. I remember we were week one talking

523
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Speaker 1: about playing the Packers at home, like just the energy,

524
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Speaker 1: and I mean it lets you know how how fast

525
00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:14,440
Speaker 1: time goes by. It feels like it was five years ago. Though,

526
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Speaker 1: Like I think back to like that day and I'm like, wait,

527
00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:19,680
Speaker 1: that wasn't five years ago. It's like five years but

528
00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:24,119
Speaker 1: also five five minutes, five minutes too. But like I mean,

529
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Speaker 1: we did just play. It feels like we played the

530
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Speaker 1: Packers a week ago also, which we did. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's it's interesting. But yeah, hopefully we can make this

532
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Speaker 1: run and make this season more magical than the regular

533
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Speaker 1: season was. Yeah, no, most definitely, this is hopefully only

534
00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:42,239
Speaker 1: the beginning and our content is continuing. Yeah, we got

535
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Speaker 1: the audible this week game. Yes, Bob Hagen called me

536
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Speaker 1: and I gotta called it back. Oh okay, Well, I'm

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Speaker 1: excited to see who we will get lined up. Thanks

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Speaker 1: to mister Hagen for always being there for us and

539
00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:55,720
Speaker 1: getting some guests. Speaking of Bob Hagen, this is his

540
00:26:56,600 --> 00:27:00,320
Speaker 1: last year working in our PR department for the Minnesota Vikings.

541
00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:04,200
Speaker 1: He's been here for decades, knows his Vikings team through

542
00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:07,640
Speaker 1: and through. The Vikings honored him the last regular season

543
00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:10,359
Speaker 1: home game. Yeah, and I just want to give a

544
00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:13,120
Speaker 1: quick shout out to him. He's been such a mainstay

545
00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:15,320
Speaker 1: for this Minnesota Vikings team. I think he's moving into

546
00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:19,160
Speaker 1: a consultant role with the team. So yeah, I don't

547
00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:20,560
Speaker 1: know why I just thought about that, but yeah, this

548
00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:24,280
Speaker 1: is his last regular season game being in OURPR department.

549
00:27:24,359 --> 00:27:27,359
Speaker 1: We have a great PR team Carly Bank, John Xstrom,

550
00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:29,560
Speaker 1: Sam Newton, Taylor Garner, so on and so forth. But

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00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:32,720
Speaker 1: kudos to Bob hagenum just a great guy. So yeah,

552
00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:35,600
Speaker 1: it'd be good. Super welcoming, never made you feel like

553
00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:38,920
Speaker 1: an outsider coming in, Always ready to sit and help

554
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:41,280
Speaker 1: you and talk with you about setting up you know,

555
00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:42,919
Speaker 1: interviews and things that because a lot of a lot

556
00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:44,560
Speaker 1: of what Gabe and I do, I don't think many

557
00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:47,000
Speaker 1: people might know this is connecting with the players and

558
00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:51,240
Speaker 1: trying to talk them into being on content with us. Honestly,

559
00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:53,640
Speaker 1: that's a job and the more that we could. Yeah,

560
00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:55,960
Speaker 1: I actually tell people a lot of times that like

561
00:27:56,359 --> 00:27:59,560
Speaker 1: half my job is logistics, Yeah, because I'm always just

562
00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:02,879
Speaker 1: like getting people where they need to go, setting things up,

563
00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:06,200
Speaker 1: being constant contact. Like it's it's half our job is

564
00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:08,840
Speaker 1: logistics and half is on air. Yeah, oh for sure.

565
00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:13,400
Speaker 1: I mean, if you of our job is probably logistics.

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Speaker 1: But I think that's what makes it for me, that's

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Speaker 1: what makes the best because like that's what really matters.

568
00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:20,879
Speaker 1: I just landed is what matters. Oh for sure. I

569
00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:24,480
Speaker 1: just landed on that word, like a few weeks ago. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I always tried to explain, let's talking to a lot. No,

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Speaker 1: it wasn't. It was hard for me to like explain

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00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:33,000
Speaker 1: to people, Okay, like this is what I do. This

573
00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:35,680
Speaker 1: is like you know, you only see part of it

574
00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:38,280
Speaker 1: kind of thing. But now I'm like, see that's the

575
00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:40,760
Speaker 1: corporate word I'm need to use for what I do

576
00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:45,840
Speaker 1: half of the day. So logistics anyway, logistics. Logistically speaking,

577
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Speaker 1: the vikings are twelve and four and that's all that matters.

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Speaker 1: We have for Network Talent interview this week. Fred Taylor

579
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Speaker 1: from the Pivot Future Hall of Fame running back for

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Speaker 1: the Jacksonville Jaguars. Um he's been in the news as

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00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:00,160
Speaker 1: of late the past couple of weeks. Oh, okay, or

582
00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:04,560
Speaker 1: I guess not giving the Vikings some I guess good publicity.

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00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:06,959
Speaker 1: Oh so you're gonna was it's gonna be like one

584
00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:13,400
Speaker 1: of those uh spring some really cool with Ryan Clark

585
00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:16,320
Speaker 1: from ESPN, and Ryan was like, dude, you got to

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Speaker 1: get Fred Taylor on. So also Fred Taylor was it's

587
00:29:19,080 --> 00:29:22,680
Speaker 1: best friends with Keenan McCardell. Oh cool teammates in Jacksonville.

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00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:26,400
Speaker 1: And apparently Fred loves the Vikings, so he loves that.

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00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:28,240
Speaker 1: He loves the Viking. Oh I thought you said that

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Speaker 1: he was saying bad things. That's why. I mean, well,

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00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:34,560
Speaker 1: he said some things that roversial things. Yeah. Yeah, so

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00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:36,880
Speaker 1: to Vikings fans at least. So he's got to come

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00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:39,240
Speaker 1: on our content and stay at his case. There we

594
00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:42,360
Speaker 1: go make your claim, your claim, if you could do it,

595
00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:44,000
Speaker 1: if you could do it on your podcast, why don't

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00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:45,680
Speaker 1: you say it to us? Stay it for our faces.

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Speaker 1: He said it on first take, which everywhere that was him. Yeah,

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00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:52,920
Speaker 1: that was him. Oh, we talked about him last week,

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00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:59,280
Speaker 1: so so yeah, JJ JJ will not want to know

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Speaker 1: he's on Network Talent. No, but but I mean Fred,

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00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:06,680
Speaker 1: Fred's a good guy. They have like a top five

602
00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:10,240
Speaker 1: podcast in the world, so they're just I feel like

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00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:12,560
Speaker 1: this is good to first take though, right right, like

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00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:15,880
Speaker 1: they're it's always hot takes, it's debates like and at

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Speaker 1: the end of the day, they probably have mad respect

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Speaker 1: for everyone they talk about. It's just it's good television.

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00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:24,920
Speaker 1: Totally understand that. Speaking of good television, the Game Day

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Speaker 1: Live Interview will be back again this week. No confirmation

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Speaker 1: on guests as well. Sometimes takes a little while to

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Speaker 1: get these things going, so we'll get that confirmed soon hopefully.

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Speaker 1: And then Friday exactly hashtag logistics Friday Football Feast is

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Speaker 1: this week. It's in the Egan. I think they you know,

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Speaker 1: go all around the state and then they bring it

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00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:46,840
Speaker 1: back to right next door to the facility. So I'm

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00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:49,360
Speaker 1: excited about that because I don't have to go very far. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: especially in this weather, you definitely want to stay as

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Speaker 1: close to home as possible. But hopefully the roads are

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Speaker 1: clear by the time the football fas so I mean

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Speaker 1: we're driving in the bad weather in the next couple

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Speaker 1: of days. Anyways, just wish us luck, godspeed. Everyone be

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Speaker 1: safe all right while we have that big game on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: Everyone stay safe this week. Make sure you check out

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Speaker 1: Vikings dot com and the Vikings app for everything you need.

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Speaker 1: Headed into the Bears game. I'm Tatum Everett. That's Game Henderson.

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