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Speaker 1: Joe, what's going on? Welcome to the Friday edition of

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Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings Podcast. Give you guys a round of

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Speaker 1: applause for for first and foremost staying here for secondly

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Speaker 1: being a Vikings fan of ten and two team. Oh

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Speaker 1: my gosh, yeah baby, let's go. This is awesome. You know,

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Speaker 1: we we've done the podcast once before live. It was

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Speaker 1: in London enough, really great crowd. We had Carter on,

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Speaker 1: and so now we've got Paul Chart. Oh yeah, very similar.

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Speaker 1: That's what we call it. Down grade. You're you're a

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Speaker 1: legend in your own world, in our world. But we

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Speaker 1: are live here at the We're here at the Buffalo

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Speaker 1: wa Wings Bar here and he dining Minnesota, And like

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Speaker 1: Tatum said, this is going to be a fun show.

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Speaker 1: Charts always good to have you on. Thank The Friday

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Speaker 1: Football Feast just concluded. And you always do your thorough

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Speaker 1: research before all of these shows. And I got to

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Speaker 1: ask you, what year is this for you putting all

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Speaker 1: these notes together for the Friday Football Feast. Well, we've

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Speaker 1: done the feast now. I believe started Brett Farves year,

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Speaker 1: so that would be two thousand and nine, So that

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Speaker 1: puts us on year thirteen. I believe this is your thirteen. Now,

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Speaker 1: we didn't have a pandemic. We took the pandemic year off.

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Speaker 1: We didn't do it. But other than that, yeah, so

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Speaker 1: we've done We've done twelve of thirteen seasons. How did

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Speaker 1: these crowds this year compared to the ones in the past.

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Speaker 1: They've been great, and you know, winning helps. But the

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Speaker 1: funny thing is the crowds have been good even when

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Speaker 1: people still showed up. They just, you know, I think

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Speaker 1: and they want to start drinking at nine right after

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Speaker 1: all start exactly, get the weekend started. Maybe why not

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Speaker 1: started Buffalo Wild Wings and charts we were talking about

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Speaker 1: you know this ten and two Vikings team earlier. You've

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Speaker 1: been a part of this Minnesota Vikings community back in

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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety eight where we're eleven and one, yeah, oh nine,

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Speaker 1: when we started ten and two and now this twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty two Minnesota Vikings team. What is the difference between

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Speaker 1: those three teams? So the ninety eight team was you know,

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Speaker 1: Then then the training camp rolls around, and sometimes a

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Speaker 1: And then obviously that that carried right into the season,

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Speaker 1: and that was such a special season where you you'll

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Speaker 1: end up with the highest scoring team history of the NFL,

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Speaker 1: Ninety eight obviously didn't end the way we wanted to

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Speaker 1: You know, when you asked what the difference was, I

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Speaker 1: this team doesn't hurt itself and it's not sexy and glamorous,

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Speaker 1: stats to kind of summarize what's been going on this

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Speaker 1: like literally the story of the entire season. And you

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Speaker 1: what are your feelings, I guess heading into this game,

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Speaker 1: tricky matchup? This, you know this, I would not I

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Speaker 1: They've gotten better really in every phase. We know A'man

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Speaker 1: No running back has tops seventy two yards during these

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Speaker 1: You're starting Jeffers justin Jefferson Fantasy every week. He's my

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Speaker 1: And what if what if Andrew Booth comes back healthy

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Speaker 1: and he's better? And you know, for all the investments

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Speaker 1: some return on that next season. I like talking about

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Speaker 1: that fact about the draft class, but I you have

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Speaker 1: to seriously give them a lot of credit about the

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Speaker 1: one rookie that I feel like everyone talks all this

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Speaker 1: class as a contribute, YadA YadA, But Ryan right here

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Speaker 1: you go, baby. Everyone wants to give that ingram the MVP.

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Speaker 1: I get it, Like, well, I guess he would be

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Speaker 1: the draft fact to the MP but undrafted, Oh that's

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Speaker 1: our guy. Yeah, he's the He's the rookie we're getting

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Speaker 1: more out of than any other for sure. So he's

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Speaker 1: funded fifty seven times without a touchback that most in

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Speaker 1: the league. Um, right. His pinned opponents inside the twenty

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Speaker 1: yard line on forty nine percent of his punts. Wow,

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Speaker 1: that's you know, that's awfully impressive. It's a it's one

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Speaker 1: of the it's one of the great fines for the

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Speaker 1: rookie class. Yeah, and this rookie class is going to

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Speaker 1: be on full display Sunday at fort Field twelve noon

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Speaker 1: Central Time as the Vikings look to clinch the NFC

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Speaker 1: North against the Detroit Lions. Charts. As always, we appreciate

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Speaker 1: your time staying afterward. Next week, we'll be following nine

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Speaker 1: to noon again for another live recording of the MVP podcast.

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Speaker 1: Charts appreciate you again for Tatum Jarrett. My name is

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Speaker 1: Gabe Henderson's see you guys next week