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Speaker 3: Now on Kfan and the Minnesota Vikings radio network, I'm
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Speaker 3: Right after this, you're going to hear the Minnesota Wild
Speaker 3: hosting the Saint Louis Blues at the AX puck Drop
Speaker 3: shortly after seven pm.
Speaker 4: Where you're home not just for Vikings.
Speaker 3: Football, but Wild hockey as well, and as that team
Speaker 3: goes through some changes, the Vikings trying to figure out
Speaker 3: how to navigate changes over the last month at the
Speaker 3: quarterback position. The Vikings lose last night twelve ten to
Speaker 3: the Chicago Bears under the bright lights of Monday night football.
Speaker 3: Vikings now six and six, and while they're firmly still
Speaker 3: in a playoff position in the NFC Wildcard race, things
Speaker 3: continuing to get dicey as the Vikings went from winning
Speaker 3: five straight to now losing a couple in a row
Speaker 3: by a combined three points.
Speaker 4: And later on you're going to hear from the head coach.
Speaker 3: He does an exclusive KFA and interview after each and
Speaker 3: every game win or lose. Kevin O'Connell chats with Bett
Speaker 3: Leeber and I'm going to play that back for you.
Speaker 3: But first let's rewind to the action. And well, when
Speaker 3: I say that, during Vikings rewind, usually there's a plethora
Speaker 3: of highlights that are to be played kind of shortly
Speaker 3: following that. But last night at US Bank Stadium, frankly,
Speaker 3: the first half not a lot of highlights. But I
Speaker 3: will start with this. The offense was a problem. In
Speaker 3: the first quarter last night. The Minnesota Vikings totaled just
Speaker 3: three plays. They had the ball for one minute and
Speaker 3: thirty nine seconds of the first quarter. That's a massive problem.
Speaker 3: They totaled minus seven yards, part of a sack on
Speaker 3: Josh Dobbs three and out. They punt and the Bears
Speaker 3: had two possessions that completed the rest of the first quarter.
Speaker 3: Tatum Everett Vikings dot Com, Vikings Entertainment Network. She chatted
Speaker 3: with running back Alexander Madison after the game, and the
Speaker 3: first thing she asked him is, what are some reasons
Speaker 3: that the offense struggled so much tonight? Turnovers four of
Speaker 3: them aside, what's going on with the offense?
Speaker 4: Why were there some struggles?
Speaker 3: And let's play that interview back for you here to
Speaker 3: kick things off.
Speaker 5: Just you know, all eleven have to do their job
Speaker 5: on every single play. We have to execute the players
Speaker 5: that are called. I don't think that we were able
Speaker 5: to do that snap in a snapout. You got to
Speaker 5: give credit to the defense on the other.
Speaker 2: Side of the ball and how they played as well.
Speaker 5: But I think you know, it comes down to turnovers
Speaker 5: as well, you know, us beating ourselves and we just
Speaker 5: have to clean that up. We can't let that be
Speaker 5: a case of why we're losing football games. And that's
Speaker 5: really what it's been all season long. You know, our
Speaker 5: losses have come at our own hands, and we understand
Speaker 5: what we have in this locker room where we're capable of.
Speaker 2: We should have to continue to try and live up
Speaker 2: to that.
Speaker 6: What is something that you guys do weekly to try
Speaker 6: and shore those issues up.
Speaker 5: It's all about executing. It's all about just make sure
Speaker 5: that we understand. You know, what it takes to win
Speaker 5: a football game, what it takes, and sometimes, you know,
Speaker 5: on Sunday, the ball just bounce away. Sometimes some stuff
Speaker 5: happens and you just have to live with them. You
Speaker 5: have to try and bounce back and play complimentary football.
Speaker 5: Our defense did an amazing job today, but you know,
Speaker 5: we came up short a few times where we should
Speaker 5: have put some points on the board to reward them
Speaker 5: for the amazing defense that they played. So we should
Speaker 5: have to make sure we look at the tape and
Speaker 5: dissected and understand where we can be better at.
Speaker 6: There were a few different guys on the Chicago Bears
Speaker 6: front that were different. They were guys you hadn't seen
Speaker 6: the last kind of matchup. How did that change things
Speaker 6: for y'all?
Speaker 5: I mean we still we just we played them as
Speaker 5: the Chicago Bears, whoever they have lined up against us,
Speaker 5: whoever is in the front, whereas in the back end.
Speaker 2: We just have to make sure that we go out
Speaker 2: there and execute.
Speaker 5: So we didn't try and play too much attention to
Speaker 5: who was lined up against us, but just make sure
Speaker 5: that we go out.
Speaker 2: There and try and execute.
Speaker 5: And we aren't able to do that tonight, and it sucks,
Speaker 5: but you know that we have to just continue to
Speaker 5: push forward, put this one to bed, dissect it, and
Speaker 5: come off to bye week strong.
Speaker 6: What do you tell Josh Dobbs in a night late
Speaker 6: tonight that he probably wishes he could have done done better?
Speaker 5: Just supportive, nothing but support. You know, he's an amazing player.
Speaker 5: You see it every day that the way that he prepares,
Speaker 5: it's one of those things, like I said, you know,
Speaker 5: sometimes it doesn't bounce away.
Speaker 2: Sometimes it's not your day.
Speaker 5: It's not about you know him as a player, it's
Speaker 5: not about him as a person.
Speaker 2: It's not about any of that he gave us all.
Speaker 5: You see the effort snap in or snap out, the
Speaker 5: way that he leads his offense, the way that he
Speaker 5: encourages his teammates, it's it's nothing but love for him,
Speaker 5: and I know that he'll come back stronger after this
Speaker 5: this week, after we look at some tape and after
Speaker 5: we you know, put this put this one to bed.
Speaker 6: Well, you've got a little bit of time. Finally, it's
Speaker 6: the bye week, which I'm sure you players are pretty
Speaker 6: excited about just being able to rest your bodies and
Speaker 6: get back into you know, maybe fifty percent shape now
Speaker 6: I'm kidding, and just just to get back a little
Speaker 6: bit more right, So how do you attack the next
Speaker 6: five weeks when you return from the bye week?
Speaker 2: Four head of steam? This is the playoffs for us.
Speaker 5: We understand that we have to play that way every
Speaker 5: week so that we can make sure that we ensure
Speaker 5: you know the potential of what our future can hold.
Speaker 2: So come back off the bye week.
Speaker 5: Hit a song, and make sure that we just keep
Speaker 5: our head down, keep pushing.
Speaker 3: Alexander Madison with Tatum Everett following the game last night. Madison,
Speaker 3: by the way, ten carries fifty two yards, so you
Speaker 3: like that per carry clip team only ran the ball
Speaker 3: seventeen times. A lot of people wondering after that fumble
Speaker 3: that Madison coughed up against the Denver Broncos, would there
Speaker 3: be any panel to your punishment or accountability a punitive
Speaker 3: aspect to it, where maybe ty Chandler he's earning more reps,
Speaker 3: he's got that boost, he's got that spark. Ty Chandler
Speaker 3: just had four Carrigs, didn't play many snaps actually at
Speaker 3: all throughout the second half. So Madison's still getting the
Speaker 3: Lieons share of opportunities there. But as the issues for
Speaker 3: the offense were mounting, the defense came to play last night.
Speaker 4: The last two games, the.
Speaker 3: Vikings defense have surrendered just one offensive touchdown a total
Speaker 3: of nine field goals, keeping the Vikings in position to
Speaker 3: win two games that they have unfortunately lost. Bears got
Speaker 3: the ball first to start last night's game. They're driving,
Speaker 3: they're trying to make things happen. But Ivan Pace Junior
Speaker 3: had something to say about it. Defensive playmaking early on
Speaker 3: for this team. Second and eighth from the Vikings twenty
Speaker 3: four fields.
Speaker 4: He's hit.
Speaker 7: Justin fields is dat by Ivan Pace Junior, the first
Speaker 7: pull sack of his career.
Speaker 3: So where the offense was having problems last night, the
Speaker 3: defense was having no problems shut down justin fields and
Speaker 3: that Bears offense for almost the entire game. Cairo Santos
Speaker 3: he kicked a lot last night, but the first one
Speaker 3: he missed it.
Speaker 4: Santos is nineteen of twenty this year and.
Speaker 7: He's kicking to the west side of the US Bank Stadium.
Speaker 7: Patrick Scales as a long snapper in his one hundred
Speaker 7: and seventeenth game. Punter Trenton gill Hold snap spot Santo's
Speaker 7: right footed.
Speaker 4: Kit end over end.
Speaker 3: No good, Kyrie Santos missed. So it's good times bad times.
Speaker 3: That drive by the way, as I play the Madison interview,
Speaker 3: just kind of getting a vibe for the first half
Speaker 3: offense can't get it going. But the Bears started off
Speaker 3: the game with a nine minute drive and they come
Speaker 3: away empty.
Speaker 4: No points.
Speaker 3: Now, Vikings first possession, I laid it out for you
Speaker 3: at three plays they went backwards seven yards just a
Speaker 3: minute thirty nine of possession in the first quarter for
Speaker 3: the Vikings.
Speaker 7: Well, this is why scoreless Brandon powellin motioned to the
Speaker 7: right seventh consecutive game without Justin. Jefferson Dobbs on third
Speaker 7: down back to pass test that.
Speaker 4: Fall over him.
Speaker 7: Hanny sack him at the thirty loss of nine. Minnesota
Speaker 7: goes three and out.
Speaker 3: They punt, Bears get the ball back another five and
Speaker 3: a half minute drive.
Speaker 4: They make that field goal.
Speaker 3: Ten plays sixty seven yards so it's three to nothing,
Speaker 3: and now the Vikings they get a little turnover happy.
Speaker 3: So first half defense playing well, keeping them out of
Speaker 3: the end zone. Offense, well, they're giving it to the
Speaker 3: other team.
Speaker 7: Dobbs on second down, out of the shotgun.
Speaker 4: Poor man rush.
Speaker 7: He throws left in our Stepkin Addison was wide open,
Speaker 7: but Jalen Johnson picked it off, turns it up into
Speaker 7: Vikings territory forty five angles to the forty taking down
Speaker 7: at the thirty seven yard line. Second interception wearing purple
Speaker 7: and gold for Josh Dobbs. Third this season for Jalen
Speaker 7: Johnson and the Chicago Bears have turned over the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 4: But then they go three and out.
Speaker 3: Defense playing well, Vikings get the ball back six plays
Speaker 3: thirty seven yards in and another interception.
Speaker 7: Third and four from their own forty nine Dobbs out
Speaker 7: of the shot done. Three receivers right, Jordan Addison left,
Speaker 7: Bears blitch Dobbs straight drop fires.
Speaker 4: Over the middle. It bounces off the hands of.
Speaker 7: Jordan Addison and it picked.
Speaker 4: Off by Jakwan Brisker.
Speaker 7: The Chicago Bears have intercepted Josh Dobbs to White in
Speaker 7: the first quarter and a half of this Bears battle
Speaker 7: one twenty six.
Speaker 3: It looked like a great throw from Dobbs, kind of
Speaker 3: timing as Jordan Addison is making the turn that ball
Speaker 3: was out of Dobbs's hands and it just smacks Addison
Speaker 3: right in the helmet and goes right to the Bears defender.
Speaker 4: That's two picks in the first half for Josh Dobbs.
Speaker 3: And then but still defense forces a punt on the
Speaker 3: next possession for the Bears.
Speaker 4: Vikings offense goes.
Speaker 3: Three and out. Hey, that's better than a turnover. At
Speaker 3: least you're punting. Force another punt from the Bears, and
Speaker 3: seven plays sixty four yards of Vikings offense at the
Speaker 3: end of the first half. I have to play this
Speaker 3: highlight just to prove to you that the Vikings did
Speaker 3: indeed score points in the first.
Speaker 4: Half of last night's game.
Speaker 7: Thirty four yard try right hash by Greg Joseph to
Speaker 7: finish the first half snap spot Joseph right put it
Speaker 7: Kickings good h and is three to three at halftime.
Speaker 4: The Vikings get the ball to begin the second half.
Speaker 4: You heard that three to three.
Speaker 3: At the break, Vikings do get the ball, taking advantage
Speaker 3: of the middle eight, scoring on the back side or
Speaker 3: front side of halftime, getting points on the back side
Speaker 3: or the beginning of the third quarter. Vikings get the
Speaker 3: ball five plays thirty yards, but they're faced with a
Speaker 3: fourth and seven near midfield. Do they punt it? Kevin
Speaker 3: O'Connell says, nope, we need points. We feel good about
Speaker 3: this defense. We're gonna go for it.
Speaker 7: Three two Now, Chandler motions to the backfield.
Speaker 4: They get off the play on fourth down, tops straight, drop,
Speaker 4: fires right, and.
Speaker 7: It's caught by Hawkinson, who reaches the ball close to
Speaker 7: the first down.
Speaker 4: He didn't get it.
Speaker 3: I'm really split on this at the time. I just
Speaker 3: would have preferred a punt, but you're gonna go for it.
Speaker 4: TJ.
Speaker 3: Hawkinson needs seven yards. He ran a six yard route.
Speaker 3: There's something wrong with that. Additionally, if you watch the
Speaker 3: throw Dobbs, if he leads TJ closer to the boundary,
Speaker 3: it's an easy first down, probably plus an extra six
Speaker 3: seven yards after the catch. But in as it was
Speaker 3: another turnover this time on downs ensuing possession for the Bears,
Speaker 3: they're able to take advantage of a short field. They
Speaker 3: go ten plays, just thirty four yards, but another five
Speaker 3: minutes off the clock. A lot of possession for the
Speaker 3: Bears last night. As a matter of fact, they had
Speaker 3: the ball for thirty five minutes fifty seconds. The Bears
Speaker 3: had it last night, So some domination in time of
Speaker 3: possession for the visitors. They get another field goal, so
Speaker 3: now it's six ' three in favor of the Bears.
Speaker 3: And here's where the interception started happening again.
Speaker 7: Four through three from the Bears forty four third quarter.
Speaker 7: Dobbs straight drop, four man rush rolls over the middle,
Speaker 7: both houses.
Speaker 2: In the air.
Speaker 4: It's intercept it again. TJ.
Speaker 7: Edwards off Josh Dobbs, who has the first three interception.
Speaker 3: Game of his career. It was just ugly last night.
Speaker 3: And I know it's fourth down. It's fourth and three,
Speaker 3: so you move the sticks. You're going to turn the
Speaker 3: ball over on downs anyway, but you do have the
Speaker 3: right to complete a three yard pass. You have the
Speaker 3: right to use your legs pick up the first down
Speaker 3: with your feet instead trying to fit something into a
Speaker 3: window that wasn't open.
Speaker 4: And TJ.
Speaker 3: Edwards comes down with it, and if anything, you're almost happy.
Speaker 3: He picked it off. You know why, because line of
Speaker 3: scrimmage was at the Bears forty four. Edwards could have
Speaker 3: just batted it down and that's where the Bears take over.
Speaker 3: He picks it off, So it's good for the stat sheet,
Speaker 3: but they lose thirteen yards as they took over at
Speaker 3: their own thirty one yard line. The Bears would drive
Speaker 3: and they go eight plays thirty two yards. Know the
Speaker 3: three and a half minute or so drive that takes
Speaker 3: us into the early stages, less than a minute into
Speaker 3: the fourth quarter as Cairo santos from fifty five yards
Speaker 3: and it's good. So now it's nine to three early
Speaker 3: fourth for the Chicago Bears over the Vikings and the
Speaker 3: defense keeping them out of the end zone. All of
Speaker 3: this negativity, all of these turnovers, and the Vikings can
Speaker 3: score a touchdown and take the lead. Well, the one
Speaker 3: thing that you can't do is continue giving it to
Speaker 3: the other team. And at this stage three nothing in
Speaker 3: terms of takeaways for the Bears to the Vikings.
Speaker 4: Make it on the ensuing possession, four nothing.
Speaker 7: CJ Hamm the tailback dops Encountered crows it over the
Speaker 7: middle and it's intercepted. I believe, are they gonna stay
Speaker 7: incomplete or Bear's ball, Bears ball. It nearly was intercepted
Speaker 7: by defensive lineman Justin Jones, but then it popped out
Speaker 7: of his arms and into the arms of.
Speaker 4: Kyler Gorton, a cornerback.
Speaker 7: That's four interceptions for Josh Dobbs and the.
Speaker 4: Vikings are minus four in the take give.
Speaker 3: Minus four in the take give twenty four turnovers this
Speaker 3: season in twelve games by the Vikings offense, You're averaging
Speaker 3: two giveaways per game. How do you even win six
Speaker 3: games with numbers like that? Now, if this is any team,
Speaker 3: most teams other than the three win Bears operation, the
Speaker 3: Vikings are down double digits and the game is absolutely over.
Speaker 3: But it is the three win Bears, and they do
Speaker 3: make mistakes. And on the ensuing possession, Justin Fields made
Speaker 3: this thing interesting real quick.
Speaker 7: Second and ten for Justin Fields takes the snap, He's
Speaker 7: going to try to run it, right, he dropped, Fields dropted.
Speaker 7: Did the Minnesota Vikings recovery, Yes, yes we did. Justin
Speaker 7: Fields fumbled it and hey, the Vikings have taken the
Speaker 7: ball from the Chicago Bears.
Speaker 4: How about that?
Speaker 3: And with nine forty six left in the game, the
Speaker 3: Minnesota Vikings go on an eight play seventy seven yard
Speaker 3: drive and TJ. Hawkinson helps the Vikings take the lead.
Speaker 7: First and ten from the Bears seventeen clock runs top
Speaker 7: shot guns, short drop looks right, so he's not.
Speaker 4: He prosed the.
Speaker 2: Anti dude day.
Speaker 7: Hawkinson with a seventeen yard crab.
Speaker 4: Has tied the game at nine.
Speaker 3: And the extra point makes it ten to nine in
Speaker 3: favor of the Vikings with five and a half minutes
Speaker 3: left to go in the game, and then the Bears
Speaker 3: fumble again.
Speaker 4: Burned down for the Bears.
Speaker 7: Third and ten field shot gun, Minnesota rushes four justin
Speaker 7: steps up, He's gonna run, gets to the forty.
Speaker 2: Rugger.
Speaker 7: The Vikings welcome back Anthony Barr.
Speaker 4: That's a huge fumble recovery, massive moment.
Speaker 3: Two consecutive turnovers by the Bears.
Speaker 4: Vikings have a chance.
Speaker 3: Just move the sticks and you can either get into
Speaker 3: field goal range to force the need of a touchdown
Speaker 3: by the Bears, or you can ice this thing.
Speaker 4: And run the clock out.
Speaker 3: Two bad runs by Madison, a catch by Brandon Powell
Speaker 3: behind the line of scrimmage, a bad Ryan right punt,
Speaker 3: and the Bears are at the twenty three line with
Speaker 3: a chance to drive and kick a field goal.
Speaker 4: It's third down.
Speaker 3: Need this defense to stand tall one more time, but
Speaker 3: they couldn't bear.
Speaker 4: Seventy sixteen on per down.
Speaker 7: He's third and ten from the Vikings forty nine field,
Speaker 7: straight drop, trailing ten to nine. Fires over the middle,
Speaker 7: clot Dj Moore at the twenty five, bounce us off
Speaker 7: Firon Murphy at the twenty, drags Vikings inside the fifteen,
Speaker 7: and he's taken down at the twelve. It is a
Speaker 7: reception of thirty five yards per Dj Moore and.
Speaker 4: Just seconds remaining.
Speaker 3: Cairo Santos game winner Trenton gil Holtz Cairo Santos from
Speaker 3: thirty right hash snap spots.
Speaker 7: Tanto says kick is the band. He made it with
Speaker 7: ten seconds to go in the game. The Chicago Bears
Speaker 7: have a twelve ten league and that's your final score.
Speaker 7: Twelve ten and the Vikings defense keeps the team in it.
Speaker 7: Vikings offense not able to take it.
Speaker 3: The turnovers absolutely catastrophic for this squad right now as
Speaker 3: they fall to six and six in a much needed
Speaker 3: bye week. Is around the corner when we return. You're
Speaker 3: going to hear from the head coach Kevin O'Connell. He
Speaker 3: spoke with Ben Lieber after the game last night. But
Speaker 3: I do want to remind people it is a bye week,
Speaker 3: so there's no Friday Football Feast live and on site
Speaker 3: out of Buffalo Wild Wings. But you can go to
Speaker 3: Vikings dot com slash bww find the schedule for the
Speaker 3: remaining five weeks of the regular season and hopefully some
Speaker 3: playoffs as well.
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Speaker 4: King Lakes, I'm Nordo. Last segment, you heard some high
Speaker 4: lights and low lights.
Speaker 3: Last night's twelve ten Monday Night Football lost to the
Speaker 3: Chicago Bears. After the game, head coach Kevin O'Connell sat
Speaker 3: down with Ben Lieber and here they are chatting and
Speaker 3: KOC starts off by talking about those nasty turnovers.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's you know, all you know, interceptions tonight and
Speaker 9: you know, there were some tipballs, there were some breakdowns
Speaker 9: here and there. We'll take a look at some of
Speaker 9: the decision making that goes into it. Uh, the biggest,
Speaker 9: the biggest issue right now is, you know, between those
Speaker 9: turnovers just totally take away your ability to have a
Speaker 9: chance at time of possession to move the football, to
Speaker 9: get down into the red zone and have a chance
Speaker 9: for points in a game where our defense was playing
Speaker 9: lights out, you know, overcoming some adversity multiple times when
Speaker 9: we you know, turned it over, and I just we've
Speaker 9: got to find a way to play complimentary football. And
Speaker 9: tonight and last week, it's our ability not to turn
Speaker 9: the football over and sustain drives, and even if drives
Speaker 9: have to end in punts, that is still more of
Speaker 9: a winning formula and playing the field position game than
Speaker 9: turning the football over. It's never ever going to be
Speaker 9: something that you're just going to easily overcome with some
Speaker 9: of the things we have going on on offense, and
Speaker 9: we'll get some pieces back, hopefully we'll get the best
Speaker 9: receiver in football back, but that's not going to change
Speaker 9: the fact that we've got a limit giving the football
Speaker 9: away to the other team because it's catastrophic for your
Speaker 9: chances to win.
Speaker 10: You mentioned the defense, and that was a really bright
Speaker 10: spot in this game, and they absolutely gave you guys
Speaker 10: a chance.
Speaker 2: As a team.
Speaker 10: The four turnovers which I mentioned, but the statistics off
Speaker 10: the sudden change is incredible. Two three and outs, they
Speaker 10: held the into one field goal, and they got one
Speaker 10: takeaway as well with the Sheldon Day fumble recovery. I mean,
Speaker 10: they played outstanding. What else can you say about this defense?
Speaker 10: Give me a chance.
Speaker 9: You can't say enough about what they did over there.
Speaker 9: And then that's how you're able to have a you know,
Speaker 9: one successful drive. You know, with the we stack some
Speaker 9: plays together and you know, all eleven guys doing their
Speaker 9: job offensive, we score a touchdown defensively. We saw it
Speaker 9: all night long that they had our back. The one
Speaker 9: thing about this locker room is they're going to keep
Speaker 9: fighting all the way down to the very end. But
Speaker 9: the fact of the matter is, when you've lose, you
Speaker 9: lose the turnover battle like we have the last two weeks,
Speaker 9: and you're still within a point or still within two points,
Speaker 9: you know you don't get to play forever. Eventually the
Speaker 9: clock's gonna run out. They made one throw. You know
Speaker 9: they're in the two minutes to get down there in
Speaker 9: field goal range. And when you give yourselves no margin
Speaker 9: of error because of how the turnovers affect everything that
Speaker 9: the football game has to do with, you give them
Speaker 9: a chance to make one throw, and they made a
Speaker 9: throw down the middle to set themselves up for a game.
Speaker 9: But I told Flow, I told the defense, you know,
Speaker 9: they continue to play at a level that we can
Speaker 9: win with, we've got to find a way to limit
Speaker 9: the turnovers. And if we've got to, you know, be
Speaker 9: more conservative and and and limit our opportunities to generate
Speaker 9: some explosives.
Speaker 2: So be it.
Speaker 9: Because the way our defense is playing complimentary football has
Speaker 9: to be the starting point. It just has to bend
Speaker 9: to give ourselves a chance to win some of these
Speaker 9: football games.
Speaker 10: You know, every wishes you guys could go into the
Speaker 10: bye week with that winning taste in your mouth.
Speaker 2: But is it has been a long.
Speaker 10: Stretch from the started training camp to this season. You
Speaker 10: get a chance to get to the bye week, evaluate
Speaker 10: a lot of different things as as you typically do
Speaker 10: out of the bye week. You got five games left.
Speaker 10: What's your what's your mindset gonna be? What's your mindset
Speaker 10: right now for the for the final five game push?
Speaker 9: Yeah to me, it's about you know, evaluating everything offense, defense,
Speaker 9: and special teams. Take a look at what our self
Speaker 9: scouts look like, take a look at how we can improve.
Speaker 9: You know, I know the one metric that has to
Speaker 9: improve his turnovers, but there's other things that we'll look at.
Speaker 9: We'll take a look at whatever personnel we think gives
Speaker 9: us the best chance to win football games, and we'll
Speaker 9: come out of this thing ready to go to Vegas
Speaker 9: and go get a win.
Speaker 2: Last time, you know, we we felt like things.
Speaker 9: Were in a very dark spot, which is how all
Speaker 9: our guys are gonna feel. When we felt like we
Speaker 9: let one slip away tonight that you know, we really
Speaker 9: wanted to get going into the bye. Last time we
Speaker 9: felt like this, we ripped off five in a row.
Speaker 9: And if we can come off this buy with the
Speaker 9: right kind of mentality, which I know our guys will have,
Speaker 9: this locker room will stay together, and we'll take it
Speaker 9: one game at a time, starting in Vegas, and we
Speaker 9: got to go get a victory and then we'll worry
Speaker 9: about the next one after that and see where we
Speaker 9: can go this year. Because I believe in this team.
Speaker 9: I believe we can come together. I believe that there's
Speaker 9: a lot of things that I can do better, our
Speaker 9: coaching staff can do better. And ultimately that's what we'll
Speaker 9: figure out this week. Give our players a great plan,
Speaker 9: go in Vegas and we'll go play good football game.
Speaker 3: That's Kevin O'Connell with Ben Lieber after the game last night.
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Speaker 4: Vegas, just twelve days from now, I'm Nordo.
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