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Speaker 1: Welcome into the fourteen and two Minnesota Vikings podcast. I'm

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Speaker 1: your host Tatum Everett from the Vikings Entertainment Network, and

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Speaker 1: what a game it was. On Sunday, the Vikings secured

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Speaker 1: their ninth straight victory by giving the old season sweep

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Speaker 1: to the Green Bay Packers. This is now set up

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Speaker 1: the biggest game in regular season history between the Vikings

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Speaker 1: and the Lions. Winner clinches the NFC North title and

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Speaker 1: NFC number one seed, which means a first round playoff

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Speaker 1: by and home field advantage throughout the postseason. So needless

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Speaker 1: just say, a lot on the line this weekend, and

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Speaker 1: as you may have seen, a game of this significance

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Speaker 1: means the NFL wants all eyes on it. Vikings take

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Speaker 1: on the Lions at Ford Field first Sunday Night football.

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Speaker 1: Let's give a big warm welcome to Ron Johnson. He's

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Speaker 1: one of our favorite Vikings analysts and the Twin Cities

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Speaker 1: we love. We see you on some of our Vikings content.

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Speaker 1: It is a week of New Year's of twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 1: Have you made any new resolutions or anything?

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Speaker 2: No.

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Speaker 3: I think my twenty twenty five resolution is gonna be

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Speaker 3: don't sweat the small stuff. I think oftentimes I worry

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Speaker 3: about the little things that don't really matter in the big,

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Speaker 3: grand scheme of life. So today I'm gonna have my

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Speaker 3: last days or hours or minutes of sweating small stuff

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Speaker 3: because it's not twenty twenty five yet. And then when

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Speaker 3: I wake up tomorrow, I'm gonna pray and try my

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Speaker 3: heart is to not sweat the small stuff.

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Speaker 4: There you go.

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Speaker 1: And when this airs, though, they will, we will already be

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five. So if you see Ron, make

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Speaker 1: sure you remind him to stay calm. Just kidding, because

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Speaker 1: that always works telling someone to calm, be calm, right.

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Speaker 2: Yes, stay calm. We're going to the playoffs. Don't don't

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Speaker 2: sweat the small stuff.

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Speaker 1: There you go, speaking of I mean, this might be,

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Speaker 1: and honestly, historically it is the biggest regular season game

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Speaker 1: the NFL has ever seen. Would you argue that point.

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Speaker 2: No, I would not argue that point.

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Speaker 3: And I'm blinking on the guy's name, but the NFL scheduler,

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Speaker 3: I think this is his last season. So what better

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Speaker 3: way to send him on his way out the door

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Speaker 3: than with the game two hundred.

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Speaker 2: And seventy two.

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Speaker 3: So this two hundred and seventy second game of the

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Speaker 3: season is going to be the Minnesota Vikings versus the

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Speaker 3: Detroit Lions, so one an NFC North rival in NFC rival,

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Speaker 3: but also for the number one seed. And so not

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Speaker 3: only is the world watching, but a lot of the

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Speaker 3: Rams or the Bucks, you're waiting to see who am

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Speaker 3: I playing? Am I playing the Vikings? Am I playing

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Speaker 3: the Lions?

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Speaker 1: Well?

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Speaker 4: Are hoping to get in the playoffs too?

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Speaker 1: I mean some of them still may have it out

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Speaker 2: Yep, Falcons need help right now.

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Speaker 3: It looks like the Bucks and if the Bucks, if

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Speaker 3: the Seahawks beat the Rams, the Bucks would get the

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Speaker 3: and then the five seed would travel to Glorious La.

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Speaker 3: And so if you're the Falcons, you're watching hoping that

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Speaker 3: Buccaneers to lose and for Michael Pennix to be because

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Speaker 3: I think that's the That's also another story where if

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Speaker 3: the Vikings travel back to Atlanta for Kirk Cousins to

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Speaker 3: be the backup for that game. I mean, that is

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Speaker 3: up losing in the end, and then Kevin O'Connell picks

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Speaker 4: It sounds like you've been dreaming about this for a

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Speaker 3: A movie script for this, you know, you know, and

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure. I don't I don't know who would

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Speaker 1: Sound darn Old Cambina might have to be himself so

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it would be cam Bina playing himself.

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Speaker 3: But when you when you look at the playoffs and

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Speaker 3: could not screw this any better. For one, the lions

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Speaker 2: It'd kind of be like lackluster, like oh, okay, it's over.

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Speaker 1: I mean it would be it would feel big, but

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Speaker 1: then you wouldn't have this like anticipation building up because

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Speaker 1: it's the twenty eight combined wins between two teams in

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Speaker 1: a regular season game is an all time record. The

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Speaker 1: previous record was twenty five wins. But teams that have

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Speaker 1: It's only happened five times in the playoffs.

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Speaker 3: And even for the Packers like to do everything they've

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean the NFC North's the winningest division in

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's what I'm saying, Like the Bears did

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Speaker 3: this is a huge game. Nothing's ever been this magnitude.

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Speaker 3: And the best part of this is the Vikings players

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Speaker 3: sitting in a hotel don't have to watch football and say,

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Speaker 3: oh if this happens when we're in If this happens

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Speaker 3: for number two, it's just let's relax, Let's watch our iPads,

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Speaker 3: lets get ready to go to the stadium, and then

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Speaker 3: when we lace them up, let's lay it all on line.

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Speaker 3: Because if we win this game, we don't have to

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Speaker 1: It's funny that you bring up scheduling and predictions and

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Speaker 1: your season prediction that you do every year for Vikings

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Speaker 4: And you know, admittedly we like to.

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Speaker 1: Give the Vikings a positive spin. We want our guys

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Speaker 1: Ron had it predicted well enough.

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Speaker 4: For what happened.

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Speaker 1: Ron, you had the Vikings going ten and six, which

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Speaker 1: still is very good, but for them to overachieve in

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Speaker 1: this way it is more than what you even expected.

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Speaker 1: So have you looked back on that and kind of

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Speaker 2: I have not.

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Speaker 3: I remember when we were first sitting down going over this,

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Speaker 3: I'm like, where where are some of these games gonna

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Speaker 1: Did you did?

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Speaker 4: I think it was the start of the season that

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Speaker 2: The start of the season threw me off.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, not just you, but everyone else.

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Speaker 3: Really forty nine Ers Buffalo Bills, Like a lot of

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Speaker 2: I think I said they would split.

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Speaker 3: I think even the Bears I thought about, like, man,

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Speaker 3: that early start for the Vikings going five and zero,

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Speaker 3: I don't think anybody in the world predicted that. And

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Speaker 2: So you you changed those three, I'm right there, thirteen wins.

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Speaker 1: It's understandable, Ron because so many of the things that

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Speaker 1: they didn't know what.

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Speaker 1: In Sam Donald, and I think that has completely changed

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Speaker 1: everyone's mind on what this team is capable of the

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Speaker 1: amount of resiliency and toughness that he has showcased. His

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Speaker 1: has been so much so that it's really driven him

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Speaker 1: to be this dark horse MVP.

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Speaker 4: Candidate late in the season.

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Speaker 1: I don't think that people are picking him as the

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Speaker 1: MVP yet, but I do think they're mentioning his name

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Speaker 1: right about now. Have you been hearing those conversations?

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 3: I mean I think Kevin O'Connell and Sam Donald both

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Speaker 3: deserve Year in awards. Like it's the trouble And here's

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Speaker 3: Tannehill was my rost recent tweet. I just saw somebody

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Speaker 3: say Ryan Tannehill led the Titans back to back. You know,

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Speaker 3: So I think that plays into it because it's a

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Speaker 3: popularity contest. I mean, speaking of high school musical That's

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Speaker 3: what this NFL voting is like. It's like, who's the

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Speaker 3: be the champion of the you know, quarterbacks and MVPs,

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Speaker 2: Who's the guy that everybody loves?

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Speaker 3: Well, Dan Campbell likes to bite kneecaps, and so yeah,

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Speaker 3: let's let's put him in this coner. I mean, last time,

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Speaker 3: I think it was Kevin Stefanski though because of all

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Speaker 3: does that give you enough to say, Man, this guy's

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Speaker 3: still doing it. Not having Jordan Nadisen for the whole season,

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Speaker 3: that's gonna help with some of these conversations. But I

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Speaker 3: mean we know the names and names. Everybody loves Patrick Mahomes,

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Speaker 3: it wasn't the Bills. I actually was the Texans. I

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Speaker 3: was another one that everybody assumed like CJ. Strow was

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Speaker 2: He's not. Right now.

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Speaker 3: The top five actually are very underwhelming names. And that's

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Speaker 3: what's so funny is I think somebody just tweeted that too.

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Speaker 3: You had Geno Smith, Sam Donald, Baker Mayfield, and I'm

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Speaker 3: drawing a blank on the other two.

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Speaker 1: Those are, like, I mean, Jared Goff because his numbers

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Speaker 1: are very similar to Sam Darnold right now.

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Speaker 2: Yep, Jared Goff, and then Joe Burrow.

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Speaker 3: So those five are the top five statistically quarterbacks right now,

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Speaker 3: and nobody wants to put them in the MVP conversation

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Speaker 3: for sure is the NFL MVP. He just hasn't won games,

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Speaker 3: and so it's tough for them to always argue, well,

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Speaker 4: Still to come.

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Speaker 1: Vikings Podcast. If you're just tuning in, I'm your host,

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Speaker 1: Tatum Everett, part of the Vikings Entertainment Network, and we've

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Speaker 1: been super busy getting you guys ready for the big

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Speaker 1: NFC North showdown in Detroit on Sunday Night football. That's right,

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Speaker 1: the fourteen in two Vikings will face the fourteen and

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Speaker 4: That twenty eight combined wins is an.

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Speaker 4: It's going to be huge.

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Speaker 1: And we have been talking to Vikings analyst Ron Johnson

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Speaker 1: to get us ready for Sunday's big game. I want

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Speaker 3: Don't chase the rabbit, which masically means keep your eyes

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Speaker 4: Most epic games. Ron.

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Speaker 1: I know that you are Michigan native, and you know

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Speaker 1: just speaking from that perspective, like how how is this

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Speaker 1: city going to handle this game this weekend? You've got

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Speaker 1: so much on the line, the margins razor thin between

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Speaker 1: the fifth seed and playing next week or the number

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Speaker 1: one seed and having the week off and knowing what

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Speaker 1: that city has been through, knowing what the Minnesota Vikings

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Speaker 1: organization and this or and this area has been through.

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Speaker 4: Like how is the city going to handle this on Sunday?

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Speaker 3: I think they're ready for I mean they've already been

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Speaker 3: to an NFC championship, so this is like year two.

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Speaker 4: Of this, so they not in their own place, not

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Speaker 4: in their.

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Speaker 3: Own place, but they're used to winning. They're used to

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Speaker 3: winning there used to be in there. But it's gonna

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Speaker 3: be packed, Like I will say that, like it's a holiday,

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Speaker 3: so nobody has to work until Monday most likely, or

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Speaker 3: go to school until Monday. Sorry, Like some people are

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Speaker 3: going to work this week, but they are going to

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Speaker 3: be amped up.

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Speaker 2: It's a night game now.

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Speaker 3: So the casinos, I've already saw posts because you know,

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Speaker 3: of course a lot of my Facebook is Detroit. The

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Speaker 3: casinos are doing like pregame stuff, so go right, you

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Speaker 3: can go gamble, you can drink, you can hang out.

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Speaker 3: They're gonna have NFL games on the casinos, in the

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Speaker 3: sports books. They're gonna have all kinds of like my

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Speaker 3: my sisters is telling me about an NFC uh you

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Speaker 3: know game, which is the Vikings Lions a watch party.

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Speaker 2: So they have all this stuff going on.

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Speaker 3: Downtown Detroit, and then you have a short walk if

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Speaker 3: you if you're going to one of the casinos, a

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Speaker 3: short uber, a short walk over to the stadium, and

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Speaker 3: it's gonna be loud.

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Speaker 2: It's gonna be loud.

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Speaker 3: People are again, people are super excited for this because

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Speaker 3: they know this is not.

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Speaker 2: The last game. They know this is just the game.

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Speaker 3: And then their hope is instead of having to go

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Speaker 3: to San Francisco, that the NFC North Championship or NFC

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Speaker 3: Championship goes through Detroit, which could be the Vikings and

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Speaker 3: the Lions. Again, if the way it plays out, because

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Speaker 3: I've drawn it up where I'm like, well, the Packers

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Speaker 3: might be able to knock off the Eagles, and so

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Speaker 3: then the Lions would draw the lowest seed, which would

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Speaker 3: be the Packers, and now the Vikings would get the

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Speaker 3: next winner, which could be the Commanders.

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Speaker 2: Or the Rams.

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Speaker 4: Thinking about it, and so now.

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Speaker 3: It could be the Vikings and the Commanders, or the

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Speaker 3: Vikings and the Rams, you know, or the Vikings and

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Speaker 3: the Bucks. And then the winner of that game goes

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Speaker 3: to play the winner of the Packers Lions game, which

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Speaker 3: could could easily be the Vikings going back to Detroit

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Speaker 3: to play for who goes to the super Bowl. So again,

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Speaker 3: if you're a scriptwriter, oh yeah, it could be. It

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Speaker 3: could be the Lions having to come to Minnesota. But

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Speaker 3: I know that Detroit and Detroit fans are hoping for

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Speaker 3: that there. They won an NFC championship game in Detroit inside.

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Speaker 2: No Weather's a factor, and I think that's the key.

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Speaker 4: That's a great point. No Weather's factor.

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Speaker 1: If you if the roles reversed and it's the Vikings there,

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Speaker 1: they don't have to worry about that too. I'm just

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Speaker 1: I think this is, for me, a different team than

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Speaker 1: the team we saw against the Lions the first time.

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Speaker 1: In both cases, so I'm just very interested to see

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Speaker 1: how both teams respond to what happened. I don't think

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Speaker 1: that the Lions feel like they have this easy setup.

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Speaker 1: I think that they are very much you know, they

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Speaker 1: respect what the Vikings have done this season. As far

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Speaker 1: as the atmosphere, Ford Field is low key, like one

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Speaker 1: of my favorites. I I think it's very underrated. The

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Speaker 1: atmosphere and there's awesome. I love the open air press box.

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Speaker 1: I like a closed stadium in cold weather. I'm not,

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Speaker 1: you know, interested in being outside and getting rained on

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Speaker 1: like I did in Seattle.

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Speaker 4: So I am. I'm very excited for that game. Ron.

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Speaker 1: I hope the best for you this weekend as you

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Speaker 1: will be covering that game. Tell us where we can

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Speaker 1: find you on game day. What does your schedule look like?

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Speaker 3: Uh So, game day, we're gonna have some of course

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Speaker 3: k fan hits here and there, but the main one

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Speaker 3: is gonna be on Fox nine.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna be doing the pregame show.

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Speaker 3: We're not sure yet if it's gonna be a thirty

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Speaker 3: ty'lock's gonna be pushed back to clock on Fox nine. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: so once they set the pre game because if there's

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Speaker 3: a game on Fox before the vikings line, yeah, that

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Speaker 3: goes into a factor.

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Speaker 2: So there's all kinds of things we have to deal with.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, we're gonna have some hits here and there

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Speaker 3: with Fox, and then of course we're gonna have some

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Speaker 3: stuff here and there on my Instagram and my my

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Speaker 3: Twitter because we will then send them over to YouTube

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Speaker 3: with does some shorts or some you know, here's some

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Speaker 3: interviews we've done, and then.

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Speaker 1: Fan line fan line it'll be January fifth.

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Speaker 3: Of course, after the game ends, we will be on

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Speaker 3: the fan line and look, people win, loser draw. Let's

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Speaker 3: just have a good fan line, like the world is

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Speaker 3: not over, the sky is not falling, because we know

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Speaker 3: when when the Vikings lose, people lose their minds, and

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Speaker 3: when they win, everybody.

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Speaker 2: Wants to steal nitpicks.

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Speaker 3: So let's just have a good fan line for twenty

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Speaker 3: the first fan line of TWI let's make it a

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Speaker 3: good one.

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Speaker 4: Make it a good one.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely, I love that.

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Speaker 4: And I think you'll have some very spirited folks being

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Speaker 4: that it's a evening time.

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Speaker 2: Okay, yes, yes.

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Speaker 4: Yes, some characters may come out to play.

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Speaker 2: Got to screen those calls, we know that. Well.

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Speaker 1: Thank you Ron so much for joining us, and we

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Speaker 1: appreciate your insight.

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Speaker 4: As always.

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Speaker 1: Let's do this again really soon because we have a

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Speaker 1: few more shows we'll have to crank out as the

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Speaker 1: Vikings make.

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Speaker 4: A playoff run.

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Speaker 2: Appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much to Ron Johnson for being our

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Speaker 1: guest on this episode of the Minnesota Vikings Podcast. If

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