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Speaker 1: Welcome into the Minnesota Vikings Podcast.

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Speaker 2: I am your host, Tatum Everett from the Vikings Entertainment Network.

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Speaker 1: The Purple are gearing up for a.

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Speaker 2: Huge NFC North showdown against the Chicago Bears this Sunday

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Speaker 2: at us Bank Stadium.

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Speaker 1: The Vikings come in at four and.

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Speaker 2: Five, looking to bounce back after a tough loss to Baltimore,

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Speaker 2: while the Bears are riding high at six and three

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Speaker 2: with Caleb Williams leading a string of late game heroics.

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Speaker 1: We've got a great lineup for you on this show.

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Speaker 2: ESPN's Courty Cronin checks in to chat about the Bears,

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Speaker 2: who have been four and one since the bye.

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Speaker 1: Plus, we have Eric Nordquist.

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Speaker 2: From nine to noon to give us a Roubs perspective

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Speaker 2: into Sunday's divisional game. We'll dive into key matchups and

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Speaker 2: all the storylines heading into Sunday's Mattenee matchup, bringing us

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Speaker 2: in on this lovely Thursday. Although we record this on

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Speaker 2: a Tuesday, it is Eric Nordquist from nine to noon.

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Speaker 1: I like to preface these with that because it's it

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Speaker 1: is so.

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Speaker 2: Hard sometimes to really focus on the game ahead when

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Speaker 2: we are sitting here recording on a Tuesday.

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Speaker 1: Do you find that a more difficult?

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Speaker 3: You mean, like we're still reeling a little bit on

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Speaker 3: a Tuesday, right, a little bit. Wow, everything that happened

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Speaker 3: against the Ravens game was within reach. But it is

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Speaker 3: theater of the mind though, because there are those out there,

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Speaker 3: wonderful listeners of the fan.

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Speaker 1: It's a Thursday for you.

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Speaker 3: So I'm going to say, happy Thursday.

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Speaker 1: Isn't it? All those beautiful weekend here?

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Speaker 2: Well, now that we're entering week eleven and I have

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Speaker 2: only played two division games, So as much as maybe

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Speaker 2: the four and five record isn't pretty.

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Speaker 1: They're not out. No, you're not, because you could still

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Speaker 1: win all these divisional games.

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Speaker 2: Get the birth right, So like that's the positivity optimistic

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Speaker 2: outlook right then and there. But when you think about

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Speaker 2: this Bears team that we've only faced, what ten weeks ago,

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Speaker 2: it feels like they have had a shift and identity

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Speaker 2: the more that they have played. How have you seen

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Speaker 2: that play out?

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Speaker 3: Well, not necessarily as much as shift, but an evolution

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Speaker 3: and the creation of an identity where Ben Johnson, you know,

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Speaker 3: what are you going to get week one out of

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Speaker 3: your team? First chance leading the team? What are you

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Speaker 3: know behind the scenes. He talked about tearing Caleb Williams

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Speaker 3: down to the studs and trying to rebuild him after

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Speaker 3: his rookie year last year with a different coach and

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Speaker 3: ebra flus. How much can you really take from Week

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Speaker 3: one in terms of the QB you saw on Caleb

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Speaker 3: Williams different, the running attack that you you know it was.

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Speaker 3: It was fine at times, they got swift down to space,

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Speaker 3: but overall really not very effective against the Purple Week one.

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Speaker 3: The only game that they lost to the Ravens was

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Speaker 3: the one game in which they weren't able to really

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Speaker 3: get things going on the ground. So the Bears we'll

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Speaker 3: see on Sunday are different than the Bears we saw

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Speaker 3: week one. But I think in the spirit of what

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Speaker 3: Ben Johnson wants to do, it's still going to come

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Speaker 3: down to some similar principles where if you can limit

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Speaker 3: the run, talked about that a lot this year. But

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Speaker 3: then then in terms of Caleb Williams, the playmaking ability,

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Speaker 3: second chance opportunities, He's making fewer mistakes, the play actions

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Speaker 3: working better, and they're finding some aggression through the air

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Speaker 3: with some explosives. This is a different team than what

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Speaker 3: we saw. It's also a team. I think specifically from

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Speaker 3: a yards perspective, I'm excited to see JJ McCarthy get

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Speaker 3: up and down the field nicely on Sunday against these Bears.

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Speaker 2: What did you make of Jalen Naylor's emergens in this game?

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Speaker 2: And can you how confident could you be at this

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Speaker 2: point to feel like the Vikings have may have found

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Speaker 2: their wide receiver number three?

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Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I think I think Jalen Naylor in some

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Speaker 3: ways it shouldn't be a new revelation, at least in

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Speaker 3: the regard where I think when when Jordan Addison a

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Speaker 3: year ago was out for a game, may have been

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Speaker 3: there early on where Addison missed. Naylor started the season

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Speaker 3: the season, and it felt like the season turned for

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Speaker 3: him with the Lambeau muff on the punt and in

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Speaker 3: that game late first half, teams up like twenty eight nothing,

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Speaker 1: So we dig that.

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Speaker 3: But then he just kind of he kind of disappeared,

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Speaker 3: and so you know, I think with JJ McCarthy, you

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Speaker 3: how about seven total catches for Addison and Jefferson this

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Speaker 3: last Sunday on twenty three targets. Meanwhile, right out of

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Speaker 3: the gates, how about Naylor? And and that's that's a

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Speaker 3: play by the way where the kid QB who's made

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Speaker 3: some mistakes, also does some cool things where he identifies

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Speaker 3: coverage sees he's going to have that opportunity Addison with

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Speaker 3: the legal yet kind of if you pick play to

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Speaker 3: just have to have the beautiful, gorgeous fade ball that

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Speaker 3: you saw that we would be lauding the Mahomes and

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Speaker 3: the josh Allens of the world for seeing the same

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Speaker 3: pass we saw that from JJ. And then he makes

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Speaker 3: the play Naylor does after the catch to to make

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Speaker 3: you know, a thirty yard catch sixty two. So you

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Speaker 3: dig that, Yeah, I mean I think he he right now.

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Speaker 3: And speaking of cricket sounders, in lieu of TJ. Hawkinson

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Speaker 3: JJ McCarthy absolutely is Jalen Naylor, a guy that the

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Speaker 3: coach is lauded, you know, and again he's he's not

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Speaker 3: lighting up the statue, but he's running the routes. I

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Speaker 3: would bet Jalen Naylor's probably been missed on three four

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Speaker 3: five touchdowns this year just by being in a just

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Speaker 3: a high end route runner, consistent production coverage being drawn

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Speaker 3: to number eighteen and number three, and Naylor's been that

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Speaker 3: guy and it was cool to see him have that

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Speaker 3: jump out game. Love it. Man, what a roller coaster this?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for your time, Marto. Thanks to you.

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Speaker 2: You can also catch him on fan line after the

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Speaker 2: games on kfan, as well as with Paul Allen on

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Speaker 2: ESPN's Courtney Cronin, who covers the Bears regularly, and she

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Speaker 1: Welcome back into the Minnesota Vikings Podcast.

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Speaker 2: I'm Tatum Everett from the Vikings Entertainment Network and the

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Speaker 2: Vikes are back in divisional play this week, so let's

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Speaker 2: get to it. It's Bears week, so that means we

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Speaker 2: get the pleasure of having ESPN's Courtney Cronin on our channels.

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Speaker 2: Courtney obviously used to cover the Vikings man now and

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Speaker 2: you cannot miss her on ESPN. She'll be covering the

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Speaker 2: Vikings Bears game at us Bank Stadium for ESPN NFL

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Speaker 2: countdown on Sunday, Courtney, wonderful to say you're excited to

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Speaker 2: come back to Minnesota.

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Speaker 4: Anytime I get to go back to Minnesota, which was

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Speaker 4: home for so long, and to play a game indoors

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Speaker 4: morning and freeze, I will sign up for that ten

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the one thing I'm sure you missed a

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Speaker 2: little bit about this place. But speaking of the Bears,

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Speaker 2: who have been really turned their season around, they only

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Speaker 2: led to their success in recent weeks.

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Speaker 4: Well, I think Vikings fans can resonate with this because

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Speaker 4: of thing that the Bears have given their fans over

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Speaker 4: Caleb Williams putting this team in position with four fourth

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Speaker 4: this team is winning games that it would have lost

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Speaker 4: has said just as much too, that you learn how

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Speaker 4: you might have let hang around far too long in

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Speaker 4: winning end of those, you're not going to apologize for wins.

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Speaker 4: Certainly they wish that they could, you know, and hopefully

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Speaker 4: for that their sake, to be able to carry this

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, how how much of that is the

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Speaker 4: I think that's a big part of it, And there

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Speaker 4: seems to be a different level of coaching acumen and

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Speaker 4: the play that I like to point out comes from

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Speaker 4: Cincinnati two weeks ago. It's not just that the defense

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Speaker 4: that fifty eight yard touchdown. To me, it's the plays

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Speaker 4: beyond that. In the final sequence for the Cincinnati Bengals,

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Speaker 4: they're aggressive, they're on the attack. That to me, is

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Speaker 4: emblematic of what this coaching staff is bringing to these

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Speaker 4: then taking into games. It's a competency thing that I

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Speaker 4: think boils down to the very nitty gritty level from

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Speaker 4: play to play, where they've got coaches that trust their players,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, even though it's a small sample size,

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Speaker 4: It's so interesting anytime the Bears played Brian Flores, and

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Speaker 1: Awesome.

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Speaker 2: Well, thank you so much, Courtney, and we appreciate you

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Speaker 1: Looking forward to seeing you on Sunday.

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Speaker 4: Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 2: and Pete Bursach. And we've just got so much great

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Speaker 2: and saying have a wonderful evening and let's skull Vikes

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Speaker 2: on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: Kickoff is at noon on Fox.

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Speaker 2: Hive is extending their support of local families by providing

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