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Speaker 4: a Vikings win the day prior, and I'm on a
Speaker 4: roll and the team's on a roll. Five consecutive wins,
Speaker 4: five in a row for the Purple. They beat the
Speaker 4: New Orleans Saints yesterday twenty seven to nineteen at us
Speaker 4: Bank Stadium. They are now six and four and firmly
Speaker 4: in the playoff mix. It was the first start for
Speaker 4: Josh Dobbs. We got to see him, unfortunately due to
Speaker 4: the concussion to Jaren Hall, but you got to see
Speaker 4: him beat the Atlanta Falcons.
Speaker 2: Now you got to see what a.
Speaker 4: Full week of preparation would do for Dobbs in this game,
Speaker 4: in this offense, and all he did was have a
Speaker 4: career high in passing, no fumbles, no turnovers. Another rushing
Speaker 4: TD had a throwing score as well. A beautiful day
Speaker 4: for that offense. And you'll get to hear from Josh Dobbs.
Speaker 4: He was interviewed after yesterday's game by Vikings Entertainment Networks
Speaker 4: Tatum Everett. You also get to hear from dj Wantam,
Speaker 4: who joined PA nine to noon earlier today. Fifth sack
Speaker 4: of the season accumulated yesterday by Wantam.
Speaker 2: But first let's rewind to the action.
Speaker 4: Vikings get the ball first yesterday against Derek Carr and
Speaker 4: those Saints, and they start out on what looks like
Speaker 4: a very promising drive eight plays fifty three yards, but
Speaker 4: it stalls out.
Speaker 2: Greg Joseph for the field goal.
Speaker 5: Thirteen of seventeen on field goals, snap spot from forty
Speaker 5: right hash and it is good.
Speaker 2: So three nothing early on for the Purple.
Speaker 4: Then the teams exchange a couple of punts and it's
Speaker 4: the Saints turn to kick for three.
Speaker 5: Forty eight yard try right hash snap spot Roopie the rookie.
Speaker 2: The kick is.
Speaker 4: Good three to three early on. And that was kind
Speaker 4: of the game that I thought. This would be a
Speaker 4: lot of settling for field goals, kind of a grinder
Speaker 4: of a game, and the idea that without Kirk, that
Speaker 4: this offense was going to have to win some ugly games.
Speaker 4: Both defenses, Saints and Vikings playing exceptionally well, so off
Speaker 4: to a slow start offensively, Boy was I wrong. As
Speaker 4: the Vikings on their ensuing possession eleven plays seventy five yards,
Speaker 4: just a handful of minutes into the second.
Speaker 2: Quarter, ty Chandler with his first touchdown.
Speaker 5: A couple of receivers left two out to the right,
Speaker 5: including Nikhil Harry ty Chandler. He takes the direct snap's Prince.
Speaker 6: Proble Lot.
Speaker 2: Touch down.
Speaker 5: Ty Chandler, his first National Football League touchdown, has given
Speaker 5: the Minnesota Vikings a nine to three lead, well.
Speaker 2: Ten three after the extra point.
Speaker 4: And this is kind of where I felt like this
Speaker 4: Vikings team was off to the races. They immediately forced
Speaker 4: a three and out that featured that sack from dj
Speaker 4: Wanham that I mentioned is fifth of the year.
Speaker 2: Love that Saints are punting.
Speaker 4: And then Vikings offense about nine plays eighty two yards
Speaker 4: like clock work, four and a half or so off
Speaker 4: the clock, just three minutes and change left in the half.
Speaker 4: Joshua Dobbs finding his legs yet again.
Speaker 2: I'll just shot gun.
Speaker 5: On third down, Cam Jordan got around the right tackle.
Speaker 5: Dobbs look sees nothing now he runs out to the left.
Speaker 5: He points to somebody, He turns no cob.
Speaker 1: Today town.
Speaker 2: In CRONI go.
Speaker 5: Shosh Dobbs with a rushing touchdown has run Minnesota to
Speaker 5: a sixteen three lead.
Speaker 4: So now seventeen to three, and then there's another three
Speaker 4: in out by the Saints and just inside the two
Speaker 4: minute warning chance for more points for the Vikings offense.
Speaker 4: How about seven plays seventy six yards just about a
Speaker 4: minute and a half. It took waning seconds of the
Speaker 4: first half. The blowout is.
Speaker 5: On Tom Shakes the snap out of the shotguns, three
Speaker 5: drop crows to the end zone and tohing.
Speaker 2: Hey twenty eight.
Speaker 5: Yard touchdown to t Jay Hawkinson. Wow, and Dobbs has
Speaker 5: beaten them by land and he just beat them by
Speaker 5: air twenty three three.
Speaker 4: Minnesota twenty four to three at halftime. Dobbs forty yards
Speaker 4: rushing at the half. Team has three hundred yards plus
Speaker 4: of total offense at the brake. So you like that,
Speaker 4: I use the term blowout right, Well, not so fast.
Speaker 4: Fights do force another three and out and they kick
Speaker 4: a field goal with the first possession of the third quarter.
Speaker 4: So it's twenty seven to three early third. But then
Speaker 4: things start to get weird. Sints ten plays, seventy five yards,
Speaker 4: about five minutes in total drive time. Derek Carr leaves
Speaker 4: with an injury. He wouldn't return. Jamis Winston comes in
Speaker 4: mid drive and immediately connects with Chris o'lave.
Speaker 5: Jameis Winston ovating the snap from veteran center Eric McCoy.
Speaker 5: Trailing by three touchdowns in a field goal, He's got
Speaker 5: to pass week.
Speaker 2: One of the m zone. Fo olave. He caught it.
Speaker 2: He came down for a touchdown. Wow, christ olave back
Speaker 2: right to the end zone. Well done, young man.
Speaker 4: It was the perfect throw and unfortunately Byron Murphy not
Speaker 4: able to win position in the back of the end zone.
Speaker 2: There Olave with the touchdown.
Speaker 4: Then Alvin Kamara plunges in on the two point conversion.
Speaker 4: It's twenty seven to eleven and the Vikings offense gotta
Speaker 4: struggling at times, getting stuck for most of the second
Speaker 4: half yesterday. Now we're exchanging punts and the Vikings do
Speaker 4: get the ball near midfield, they get stuck.
Speaker 2: However, Greg Joseph misses from.
Speaker 4: Fifty four on the first play of the fourth quarter.
Speaker 4: He's now three to six on the season from fifty
Speaker 4: plus yard field goal attempts. But that gives a Saints
Speaker 4: a shorter field heading the other way, and it's nine plays,
Speaker 4: it's fifty six yards.
Speaker 2: It's a few minutes off the clock.
Speaker 4: Everything working for Jamis in that offense and he finds
Speaker 4: some dude in the end zone I had never heard
Speaker 4: of until yesterday.
Speaker 5: Third and eight from the vieteen fifteen, Jamis with a
Speaker 5: straight drump. Now he floats up to the left, eyes
Speaker 5: into the end zone, throws all the way back to
Speaker 5: the right to Harry. It is a jump ball front
Speaker 5: right of the end zone in well one one. The
Speaker 5: back judge set touchdown, the side judge set in Connor.
Speaker 2: Hey you hitting me?
Speaker 5: Well, Dad, we have It's Perry with his first National
Speaker 5: Football League touchdown. All right, At Perry, a rookie from
Speaker 5: Wake Forest. He's sixty six. They matched him up against
Speaker 5: the smaller I believe Makai Blackman and no Byron Murphy
Speaker 5: Junior and Harry went up and came down with it.
Speaker 2: It was kind of hard to see exactly what happened, you.
Speaker 4: Know why, because everyone was looking at the other side
Speaker 4: of the end zone. Go watch this replay if you
Speaker 4: didn't see yesterday, and you'll be questioning your head, just
Speaker 4: like I was in the moment, Like.
Speaker 2: How on earth did Jamis see that guy?
Speaker 4: With the way the play was rolling, He's moving towards
Speaker 4: one side of the boundary and in at Perry again,
Speaker 4: I hadn't heard of him until yesterday. Michael Thomas, by
Speaker 4: the way, I believe, leaves the game with the knee injury,
Speaker 4: and maybe that gives more reps to the At Perry types.
Speaker 4: But other side of the field, Jamis finds him somehow
Speaker 4: miraculous throw. Not sure anybody else in the league would
Speaker 4: have even attempted it. But then now that touchdown plus
Speaker 4: the two point conversion It's twenty seven to nineteen Vikings
Speaker 4: with eleven forty remaining in the game. Another Vikings game,
Speaker 4: another sweat. But of course the Vikings do come out
Speaker 4: on top, you know that. But it wasn't exactly the
Speaker 4: most electrifying finish ever, as Vike's punt, Saints punt, Vikings punt.
Speaker 5: Saints pick Winston on third and Karen hens he throws
Speaker 5: lost one of the right time.
Speaker 6: Times, the first interception of Lakaid Blackman's career, and with
Speaker 6: threeos picks to go in the game, it's twenty seven
Speaker 6: nineteen tie in Minnesota.
Speaker 4: Massive play is first career interception, Makai Blackman, the mid
Speaker 4: round draft pick out of USC, the rookie making a play.
Speaker 2: And you heard that in the highlight too.
Speaker 4: Just over three minutes to go, let's move the chains
Speaker 4: and get out of here with a victory. The Vikings
Speaker 4: go three and out, so the Vikings punt. But then,
Speaker 4: this is a career in which Jameis Winston one of
Speaker 4: the greatest arm talents you can find in the NFL.
Speaker 2: He can make.
Speaker 4: Those perfect throws, but he's always gonna give the other
Speaker 4: team a shot.
Speaker 2: And yesterday, just two plays later, picks.
Speaker 5: Saints trying to win three in a row, Vikings trying
Speaker 5: to win five in a row, and Winston goes back
Speaker 5: to pass, He's gonna throw one center of the field
Speaker 5: intercepted and the Minnesota Vikings get a high.
Speaker 2: Five, turning it over there. The Vikes would go three
Speaker 2: and out again.
Speaker 4: Jameis Winston heaves a beautiful hail Mary ball into the
Speaker 4: end zone, but nobody catches it. Game over, Vikings victorious
Speaker 4: twenty seven to nineteen. The final Joshua Dobbs career high
Speaker 4: in passing two hundred and sixty eight yards and the
Speaker 4: one touchdown that you did here to TJ. Hawkinson also
Speaker 4: had the rushing score ty Chandler And unfortunately, there were
Speaker 4: some injuries yesterday, so Jordan Hicks he suffered a shin contusion,
Speaker 4: which sounds super painful. He left the game, would come back,
Speaker 4: but ultimately had to go to the hospital. It sounds
Speaker 4: like Kevin O'Connell spoke to the media earlier today about it.
Speaker 4: He may have suffered from compartment syndrome, so he had
Speaker 4: a minor surgical procedure done to relieve either fluid or
Speaker 4: swelling or something up. He is likely not to play
Speaker 4: at Denver, so Jordan Hicks, our leading tackler in the season,
Speaker 4: that he's having something to watch here in terms of
Speaker 4: his health moving forward, Alexander Madison concussed and he had
Speaker 4: eight carries for twenty seven yards on the day. Ty
Speaker 4: Chandler getting all those reps because of the achilles injury
Speaker 4: to cam Akers, he had fifteen carries for forty five yards.
Speaker 4: In that direct snap touchdown highlight that you heard. We
Speaker 4: even saw Kenny Wong Will running the ball a couple
Speaker 4: of carries for nine yards from him. Monster day from
Speaker 4: TJ Hawkinson gritting through that rib injury. Eleven catches, one
Speaker 4: hundred and thirty four yards and a touchdown may have
Speaker 4: been his greatest play a week ago carrying tacklers for
Speaker 4: big yards against the Falcons.
Speaker 2: He had a similar play today, perfect connection.
Speaker 4: From Dobbs right down the middle of the field for
Speaker 4: a touchdown as well.
Speaker 2: TJ.
Speaker 4: Hawkinson playing super high end at this moment. So the
Speaker 4: Vikings are six and four. Next up the Denver Broncos,
Speaker 4: but there's still time to analyze that. When we return,
Speaker 4: you're gonna hear Tatum Everett chat with quarterback Josh Dobbs
Speaker 4: in the locker room after the victory from yesterday as
Speaker 4: well as pass Rusher DJ Wantam. He was on nine
Speaker 4: to noon with PA earlier today. We'll play that back
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Speaker 4: talk to us about Josh Dopps and how cool this
Speaker 4: revelation has been. Over the course of the last couple
Speaker 4: of weeks. Josh Dobbs gets the victory in his first
Speaker 4: start as a member of the Vikings yesterday against the Saints,
Speaker 4: and he found Vikings Entertainment Networks Tatum Everett down in
Speaker 4: the locker room, take it away, Tatum.
Speaker 7: Definitely fun when you're winning, and that's really a lot
Speaker 7: thanks to you, your ability.
Speaker 1: To get move around.
Speaker 7: How much freedom or how nice it is to have the
Speaker 7: freedom to be able to make the choice, like if
Speaker 7: I'm in a bad situation, they're gonna let me use
Speaker 7: my athleticism and the fact that they trust you that
Speaker 7: much to do so.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, it's awesome to have that freedom. In
Speaker 8: the offense, it's awesome to you know, fill the trust
Speaker 8: with the coaching staff obviously a week and a half
Speaker 8: until my time here. So yeah, you know, they call
Speaker 8: really good plays, they put together really good plans, and
Speaker 8: as the player out there, man, my job is to
Speaker 8: go through progressions or someone open take it, take advantage
Speaker 8: of those looks down the field, but when there's not
Speaker 8: protecting the football, but make plays, keep the chains moving forward.
Speaker 8: And so that's obviously part of my skill set and
Speaker 8: it's been great to be in an offense that lets
Speaker 8: me thrive with that, you know, being able to throw
Speaker 8: the ball but also run and take advantage of looks
Speaker 8: when they're given by the defense.
Speaker 7: What's the difference in comfort level? I feel like it's
Speaker 7: a silly question, but the difference in comfort level from
Speaker 7: last week to.
Speaker 1: This week, Oh, it was not and day.
Speaker 8: You know, last week was kind of you know, you're
Speaker 8: looking out there just not guessing, but you know you're
Speaker 8: looking out there praying that you're making the right reads
Speaker 8: and checks and just trying to play fast and not
Speaker 8: play negative football. Then once you get your feet undera
Speaker 8: then go play right. This week really from the jump
Speaker 8: obviously being able to get reps with the offense and
Speaker 8: throw to the receivers before you know, game time allows
Speaker 8: to have more comfort and freedom just to be able
Speaker 8: to go out there and play effortlessly, you know, go
Speaker 8: through your.
Speaker 1: Reads, be comfortable in the pocket.
Speaker 8: I thought the old line man, they did a tremendous
Speaker 8: shop all day, like giving me time to go through
Speaker 8: my progressions and then when stuff wasn't there, be able to.
Speaker 1: Make something shake with my legs.
Speaker 8: So being able to just be around just a wealth
Speaker 8: of playmaker's help. And so yeah, I'm excited to keep
Speaker 8: pushing forward with the team.
Speaker 7: You saw my next question because with with you in
Speaker 7: the game, they've only had one penalty, which is just incredible.
Speaker 7: You know, no fall starts, no holding, none of that.
Speaker 7: What can you say about the effort that they have,
Speaker 7: the togetherness that they play with.
Speaker 1: Man, they are awesome. They are a fun group to
Speaker 1: play with.
Speaker 8: Just their energy throughout the week and then when you
Speaker 8: get to game day just how you know it runs
Speaker 8: through them. You know they're able to you know, own
Speaker 8: the line of scrimmage, do a great job of keeping
Speaker 8: clean pockets. And you know as a quarterback man like
Speaker 8: you are a point guard. And so the goal for
Speaker 8: me is to get the team in the right play,
Speaker 8: you know, quickly have the logistics covers, so then everyone
Speaker 8: can just play football. We're not worried about lining up,
Speaker 8: We're not worried about all those all those things, so
Speaker 8: everyone else can just go play football and then I'll
Speaker 8: handle it once the ball snap. So yeah, you know,
Speaker 8: it's great to be around these guys. They've taken me
Speaker 8: under their wing and you know, allowing me to thrive
Speaker 8: with some great complimentary football.
Speaker 7: What is something that you've done the past week to get.
Speaker 2: To know them better, to get to know this locker
Speaker 2: room better.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, it was cool.
Speaker 8: So I found out on Thursday the old line goes
Speaker 8: out to eat somewhere each week, and so I was
Speaker 8: still hold up at the hotel on Thursday and they
Speaker 8: were eating dinner downstairs. So I got a chance to
Speaker 8: walk over and we watched the Thursday night football game
Speaker 8: just to hang out and you know, talk about informally
Speaker 8: everything that's going on throughout the week, talk about the
Speaker 8: craziness of you know, the dynamic during the game.
Speaker 1: And then also you know, get prepared to go.
Speaker 8: I'll have a great Friday practice of preparation and get
Speaker 8: ready for this game right here, so you don't trying
Speaker 8: to get around as many teammates as possible also home,
Speaker 8: trying to you know, get the offense you know, under
Speaker 8: my belt as quickly as possible. And so you know,
Speaker 8: just getting to know them will come with time, man.
Speaker 8: And now I'm going to exhaust every single opportunity to
Speaker 8: be able to be around my teammates.
Speaker 7: And you know, how to study. That's not the thing
Speaker 7: You've been in the link before. Has any of your
Speaker 7: habits changed with this, uh, the quickness that you've had
Speaker 7: to learn and then maybe in this situation.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think you know, it's I'm always open to
Speaker 8: ways of you know, changing my habits. I will say,
Speaker 8: you know, I rely on them, and not not much
Speaker 8: has changed, you know, just going through the situations I've
Speaker 8: gone through in the past, they prepared me to be
Speaker 8: able to quickly get an offense under speed under my
Speaker 8: belt and go out and just play good cleaning football.
Speaker 8: So those situations, you know, throughout them all, you know,
Speaker 8: I've always been refining my stubby dutch steady habits, you know,
Speaker 8: trying to find ways to create some mental reps. If
Speaker 8: I'm not getting the reps and I am getting the reps,
Speaker 8: I'm getting able to.
Speaker 1: Get a lot more reps lately.
Speaker 8: We're always finding ways than to talk about you know,
Speaker 8: what if, what if situations I could ocur on the field.
Speaker 8: So you know, as like team progress, man, get more
Speaker 8: reps under my belt, it will only get more.
Speaker 7: Efficient, only more efficient. And as we progress through these weeks,
Speaker 7: there's a potential of Justin Jefferson returning. I know that's
Speaker 7: a name you probably have heard before a few times.
Speaker 7: You've obviously met him here at the facility. What would
Speaker 7: it be like to be able to get him back
Speaker 7: for you for this offense in the coming weeks?
Speaker 1: Man, it will be awesome.
Speaker 8: Obviously, watching from afar, He's a heck of a playmaker.
Speaker 8: I was in just short like two weeks last last year,
Speaker 8: but one of the games was against the Vikings, and
Speaker 8: I remember, like just standing on the sideline, I watched
Speaker 8: him like every single rep, just watching his route running,
Speaker 8: his ability to make plays get open.
Speaker 1: So adding that obviously.
Speaker 8: Back in the offense that is clicking pretty well right now,
Speaker 8: obviously helps.
Speaker 1: He's a tremendous playmaker.
Speaker 8: It's been but I will say, you know, obviously coming
Speaker 8: in you know and knowing who he is right it's
Speaker 8: been awesome just watching the teammate that he is, Like
Speaker 8: the amount of energy he has on the sideline. We're
Speaker 8: making plays shoot in practice this week, as he's been
Speaker 8: able to get back around the team, it's been great
Speaker 8: to see that energy. And so then having that energy
Speaker 8: on the field, I know it will only help us
Speaker 8: continue to make strides for it.
Speaker 4: As Josh Dobbs would Tatum Everett from yesterday immediately following
Speaker 4: the Vikings victory over the Saints and then this morning
Speaker 4: after getting his fifth sack yesterday, Pa had to chat
Speaker 4: with pass rusher dj Wanam correct me if you're wrong here,
Speaker 4: because I've called all your games that this is the
Speaker 4: best overall season of your career.
Speaker 2: What what's clicking so well for you?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: Man, you know, just over the years. Man, I'll just
Speaker 3: put it in the work that comes with this game.
Speaker 3: And I did having guys, you know, saying, mentors like
Speaker 3: the deal and coaches, you know what I'm saying that
Speaker 3: being in my corner, man, I'm to be able to
Speaker 3: put it all together. I feel like, yeah, it's definitely
Speaker 3: a career year from me, and we're did the game
Speaker 3: better and I'm saying he said, everyone right.
Speaker 9: And you said some game You said some things after
Speaker 9: the game yesterday that that I'm gonna want to hit
Speaker 9: on near the end of this a couple of minutes
Speaker 9: from now. But you mentioned inspirations like players and coaches.
Speaker 9: What what does defensive coordinator Brian Flores ask of you?
Speaker 9: Uh at weekly? And like how does he want you
Speaker 9: to play?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. He just brings all of
Speaker 3: my athletic traits out and my potential wants me to
Speaker 3: drop the covers, which I do on which I'm able
Speaker 3: to do because of my speed and athleticism obviously rested
Speaker 3: passion and then played the ryn. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 3: Just my experience from having him being my third definson
Speaker 3: coordinator and just having you know, saying, two other decents
Speaker 3: of coordinators has allowed me to put all that together
Speaker 3: in this system and Coursorea has allowed me to flourish
Speaker 3: within his scheme.
Speaker 9: Okay, And now to another coach, because you have a
Speaker 9: new outside linebackers coach this year, and you know Mike
Speaker 9: Pett and the assistant head coach, former defensive coordinator with
Speaker 9: the Jets, head coach with the Browns. I mean Mike's
Speaker 9: been around the block and he got thrust he got
Speaker 9: thrust into this position early in the season. So like
Speaker 9: working with coach Mike Petton, how how has that helped you?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 1: It's just his experience.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 3: He has a big overview of what's going on, you
Speaker 3: know what I'm saying football, and does him allowing us
Speaker 3: to see what offenses are doing before it even happens,
Speaker 3: or just him him allowing us to just see what
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying different like schemes and little
Speaker 3: small things at the offensive lineman and quarterbacks do just
Speaker 3: to allow us to know what's coming before it happens.
Speaker 3: And just him having that allows us to go out
Speaker 3: there and play even faster.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 9: DJ, In basically half a decade, you know, you've seen
Speaker 9: a lot and and what I'm getting at here is
Speaker 9: I mean, really myself, nobody has seen what is happening
Speaker 9: here with this third quarterback and now all of a sudden,
Speaker 9: we have a quarterback who can pass and oh, by
Speaker 9: the way, if you sleep on him, he'll run for
Speaker 9: one hundred on you. And the defense is completely in
Speaker 9: anything we haven't seen either.
Speaker 2: So so with all of.
Speaker 9: That, sad, through all of that, DJ do you find
Speaker 9: the best leaders are the ones who stay calm, and
Speaker 9: I'm talking I guess it would be coaches mostly, but
Speaker 9: those who stay calm, those who don't panic, and those
Speaker 9: who don't like hyperventilate in very difficult situations. Are you
Speaker 9: learning that those truly are the best leaders.
Speaker 3: One hundred percent? Uh, nobody can think when they're one
Speaker 3: hundred percent emotional, angry, anything. You can't think your best
Speaker 3: when you're at that state. So just being able to
Speaker 3: be calm and being able to maintain this on the fly,
Speaker 3: like coach Flordes and coach Ko whether they do on
Speaker 3: the weekend and week out basis, then it's really just
Speaker 3: showing up on the defense, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Even their last job, the Saint Like, we didn't panic,
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying, We will calm entire entire job.
Speaker 3: And we went out there and made plays and we
Speaker 3: had to.
Speaker 2: All right, last morment, we got a minute.
Speaker 9: I heard Tata Everett with Vikings dot Com interview you
Speaker 9: from the locker room yesterday when I was driving home
Speaker 9: and paraphraser what you said, I just thought of not
Speaker 9: only was it touching, but I mean you just really
Speaker 9: opened the vein here when you're like how much you
Speaker 9: guys love each other and how much you don't fear change, and.
Speaker 2: And you know they're there. There is an overhaul.
Speaker 9: There are things that are happening within a season that
Speaker 9: even you never have seen. But it's how tight you
Speaker 9: guys are is what's helping you win games.
Speaker 2: Okay, can you elaborate on that a little bit?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Man, Just the brotherhood that we built, you know, saying
Speaker 3: over the years and us being able to obviously adding
Speaker 3: key pieces over the years, but us like having like
Speaker 3: the nucleus of the same guys that have been here
Speaker 3: for two and three years and just us hanging out,
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying, doing things that don't even
Speaker 3: relate to football, and we'll saying going out and just exploring,
Speaker 3: don't say in Minnesota and us evening becoming closer brothers.
Speaker 3: That way has allowed us to go out on the
Speaker 3: field and be like, Yo, man, I'm gonna play this
Speaker 3: guy to my right, I'll play to this guy on
Speaker 3: my level because I know that he's been through this
Speaker 3: and he's been through that, and saying I know that
Speaker 3: I can trust him in the situation. Just allowing us
Speaker 3: to build that relationship house man, it's just you. You
Speaker 3: can tail on the field. We play for one another.
Speaker 3: When one guy's go down, it's another guy ready to
Speaker 3: step up and go in and execute a job at
Speaker 3: the same level. And you know what I'm saying, there's
Speaker 3: just disguise a limit for us.
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