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Speaker 5: the year yesterday. The Vikings beat on the Bears nineteen
Speaker 5: to thirteen. The final score at Soldier Field yesterday Vikings
Speaker 5: improving to two and four. The Bears now one in
Speaker 5: five among the worst teams in the NFL, and the Vikings,
Speaker 5: by the way, they've now beaten the Bears that Soldier
Speaker 5: Field four years in a row. So for a long
Speaker 5: time felt impossible to get a win in the Windy City.
Speaker 5: But now the Vikings have done at four consecutive seasons.
Speaker 5: Loving that, loving a victory and later on, you're gonna
Speaker 5: love a chipper or more chipper head.
Speaker 2: Coach Kevin O'Connell. He chatted with the media earlier today.
Speaker 5: I'll play back a portion of that next segment, but
Speaker 5: let's rewind to the action now. In the two victories
Speaker 5: for the Vikings this year, in both cases, the theme
Speaker 5: was defense making plays splash plays, in particular, You're gonna
Speaker 5: hear a guy get to the house later on this segment,
Speaker 5: but first let's hear DJ want I'm getting to the quarterback.
Speaker 2: Justin takes the staff.
Speaker 6: He sacked immediately he was sacked and like a shot,
Speaker 6: d J Wonham from the backside of Justin Fields brings
Speaker 6: him down and Justin now has been sacked twenty one
Speaker 6: times this season. That's a loss of seven yards.
Speaker 2: How about that.
Speaker 5: That's the first offensive play the game for the Bears,
Speaker 5: and Justin Fields sent reeling. Later on in the same drive,
Speaker 5: first possession of the game by the Bears.
Speaker 2: Want them Daniel Hunter.
Speaker 6: They got him again, backing in fifteen from the Bears
Speaker 6: forty one low snap Fields in trouble again, nowhere to go.
Speaker 6: He sacked again, hits a sack attack on Justin Fields
Speaker 6: and dj Wantam was part of it again. So Fields
Speaker 6: has now been sacked twenty.
Speaker 2: Two times this season.
Speaker 6: Wow, seventy seven times the last twenty games and about
Speaker 6: four minutes of play.
Speaker 2: So the Vikings force a punt.
Speaker 5: Vikings get the ball their first opportunity on offense of
Speaker 5: the day.
Speaker 2: Now, you Vikings fans, pay attention.
Speaker 5: You love the team. You know all of this already.
Speaker 5: But the Vikings on their opening possession and turn the
Speaker 5: ball over. In three consecutive games leading into yesterday against
Speaker 5: the Bears, the Vikings had not scored any points on.
Speaker 2: Offense in their opening possession of the game. Something.
Speaker 5: As we're looking at twenty twenty two, it happened like this.
Speaker 5: Twenty twenty three, it's happening like that. Everything's so different.
Speaker 5: The Vikings were one of the best offensive teams in
Speaker 5: the NFL early in games. Hasn't been the case thus
Speaker 5: far in twenty twenty three, but baby steps small victories.
Speaker 5: The Vikings go on a nine play thirty three yard drive. Okay,
Speaker 5: they don't cover a ton of the field. They possessed
Speaker 5: for nearly five minutes, like that part of it.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 5: They don't get a touchdown, but they don't turn the
Speaker 5: ball over. They actually kick a field goal and Greg
Speaker 5: the leg makes it.
Speaker 6: Here's Joseph's first fifty yard try or plus up the season.
Speaker 2: He was four of ten fifty plus last year.
Speaker 6: Fifty three yard try left hash snap spot, Joseph put
Speaker 6: a ton of leg and it is good. Wow, Greg
Speaker 6: Joseph five to five on field goals this year.
Speaker 5: I'm of that, Greg Joseph, perfect and pure from fifty
Speaker 5: three yards and the Vikings have now scored points on
Speaker 5: an opening possession. They navigated an opening possession without punting
Speaker 5: or turning the ball over.
Speaker 2: So good times indeed, And this.
Speaker 5: Really set off a chain reaction of field goals. There
Speaker 5: was a lot of punting and a lot of field goals.
Speaker 5: Yeah yesterday, specifically early and Kyro Santos even the score
Speaker 5: at three apiece on the ensuing possession for the Bears.
Speaker 2: Then it's Greg Joseph again. With the second possession.
Speaker 5: Two possessions in a row for this Vikings offense with
Speaker 5: points and no turnovers. But then things get weird at
Speaker 5: Soldier Field, as they normally do. As you're watching in
Speaker 5: the second quarter, and something like this happens.
Speaker 6: Hawkinson in motion to the right, Cousins under center play action.
Speaker 6: He's going to flip it up to that's my bumble,
Speaker 6: Cam on it, yeah, Cam Benner fall on that.
Speaker 2: Now TJ.
Speaker 6: Edwards is falling on it at the sideline, and Peach
Speaker 6: said that's a fumble because Cousins threw it behind the
Speaker 6: line of scrimmage and Akers went to bobbling it. The
Speaker 6: question is Viking sideline didn't get out of bounds or
Speaker 6: did the Royal in the field is a backful pass?
Speaker 2: Well the recovery by Chicago, I mean, Katy, it's like,
Speaker 2: what come on?
Speaker 6: I mean that if it sticks, that's our ninth lost
Speaker 6: fumble this season.
Speaker 2: Would you minus ten to take gift? Could somebody stop
Speaker 2: the DeMarcus Walker. All he's doing is coming underneath. It
Speaker 2: looks like our offense is getting back on the field.
Speaker 2: But my goodness, Paul, this is this is ridiculous.
Speaker 5: Everybody take a breath, including Pete. Vikings keep the ball
Speaker 5: after review.
Speaker 2: TJ.
Speaker 5: Edwards, the Bears linebacker, one of his feet one of
Speaker 5: his toes were touching out of bounds as he attempted
Speaker 5: to recover that ball, so it stays with the Vikings.
Speaker 2: It's a loss of nine yards. Second and nineteen. TJ.
Speaker 5: Hawkinson had a chance to move the chains on a
Speaker 5: nice pass over the middle. Can't bring the catch in
Speaker 5: some struggles catching balls recently for TJ.
Speaker 2: Hawkinson. Vikings end up punting and up six three.
Speaker 5: Midway through the second quarter, Bears tie it up five
Speaker 5: play forty five yard drive. They kick another field goal
Speaker 5: with Kyro Santos and it's six six. Now Viking's another
Speaker 5: chance to respond. They fumbled it, but didn't give it
Speaker 5: away on that possession that highlight.
Speaker 2: You just heard, Well they gave it away this time.
Speaker 2: Husbands back to pass, TJ.
Speaker 6: Edwards Hitding hit him as he tried to throw it.
Speaker 6: Hender was picked up by Tremaine Edmonds at.
Speaker 2: The thirty five.
Speaker 6: Bill couldn't beat us in Buffalo last year, so he's
Speaker 6: trying to beat us in Chicago this year. And the
Speaker 6: Minnesota Vikings are minus ten in the take GiB that's
Speaker 6: worst in the NFL Carcass Broom five picks this year,
Speaker 6: and with two forty eight to go in the first half,
Speaker 6: the Bears are deep in Vikings territory.
Speaker 5: In the end, that was actually ruled a fumble. I'm
Speaker 5: not exactly sure why. Maybe the ball hadn't left Kirk's
Speaker 5: hand yet when his arm was hit as he was
Speaker 5: trying to unload that thing. But in the end, it's
Speaker 5: a Vikings turnover and a lot of turnovers for this
Speaker 5: team in twenty twenty three and both teams coming in
Speaker 5: they're one and four. There are reasons why these teams
Speaker 5: are losing these games, right, So you're frustrated that your
Speaker 5: favorite team just had that happen, while the Bears are like,
Speaker 5: we find ways to mess up games too. Here's the
Speaker 5: very next possession for the Bears. Fields on a short
Speaker 5: drop shakes, the shoulders hit.
Speaker 2: Is he pros HiT's up there? Yeah, Jordan Hicks.
Speaker 6: Got it head to fifteen shakes, the Darnell Mooney tackle
Speaker 6: turns it up at the twenty. Hey, wait, took the
Speaker 6: all away from somebody, and it was Jordan Hicks with
Speaker 6: the interception. After we gave the ball away and a
Speaker 6: couple of one in four teams at Soldier Field are
Speaker 6: trying to figure out what to do.
Speaker 5: Normally, the Vikings are the ones giving the ball away
Speaker 5: in the red zone.
Speaker 2: This time it was the Bears.
Speaker 5: Huge play by Jordan Hicks taking points off the board
Speaker 5: for the Bears and allowing the Vikings offense to head
Speaker 5: the other way. This is all still in the first half,
Speaker 5: by the way, and following that turnover by Chicago is
Speaker 5: Vikings ball at their own twenty three a minute forty
Speaker 5: seven remaining in the half. This was the best offensive
Speaker 5: drive of the day by ten miles for the Vikings offense.
Speaker 5: Eight plays, seventy seven yards and no Justin Jefferson in
Speaker 5: this game. We know that, So it had to go
Speaker 5: to somebody else, and it was Jordan Addison for six in.
Speaker 6: Shotgun takes the snap, five step, drop, steps.
Speaker 8: Up, fires to the end zone touch down. Vikings charton
Speaker 8: Addison with his fourth receiving touchdown this season has given
Speaker 8: Minnesota a twelve six lead in the shadow of halftime,
Speaker 8: and that's your score at the break.
Speaker 5: The extra point was blocked, so good times, bad times,
Speaker 5: I guess, But a lead at the half for the
Speaker 5: Vikings offense and they get the ball to start the
Speaker 5: third quarter. Vikings go three and out to start the
Speaker 5: third quarter. Third quarters have been problematic for this team
Speaker 5: really for the last season and a half, and it
Speaker 5: was a Punta thon really to start the second half
Speaker 5: in Chicago yesterday. Vikings go three and out, the Bears respond.
Speaker 5: They end up punting. Justin Fields. That's kind of one
Speaker 5: of the stories of this game. Hurt his hand when
Speaker 5: he was sacked by Daniel Hunter.
Speaker 6: Fields takes a deep drops, great drop, dj wantam looking
Speaker 6: for a second sack and now Fields will throw it
Speaker 6: away as he nearly is sacked outside the number.
Speaker 2: They ruled him down. Well, how they did, they rolled
Speaker 2: them down prior to the past. Whoo.
Speaker 6: So that'll be another sack today for Daniel Hunter, which
Speaker 6: means Daniel has two sacks today, eight on the season.
Speaker 2: That would set up a fourth and long.
Speaker 5: The Bears would punt and the Vikings would respond still
Speaker 5: in the third quarter with another three in out. That
Speaker 5: was their first two possessions of the day. Three and
Speaker 5: outs for the Vikings offense. They only had two first
Speaker 5: outs in the entire second half yesterday, the second one
Speaker 5: coming at the very end of the game as Alexander
Speaker 5: Madison moved the chains to seal the game with less
Speaker 5: than two minutes to go. So struggles on offense, but
Speaker 5: justin fields that hand injury. He's out. So Bear's ball
Speaker 5: and enter Tyson Beagent. He's an undrafted rookie out of Shephard.
Speaker 5: It's a D two school. There's actually more information online
Speaker 5: about his dad, Travis Pagent, who's some sort of arm
Speaker 5: wrestling world champion.
Speaker 2: But Beagent in the game.
Speaker 5: His first drive as an NFL quarterback, well, it doesn't
Speaker 5: go well.
Speaker 6: Play action out of the shotgun. Harrison Phillip's trying to
Speaker 6: give him a first pack. Josh Mattelos forced to fumble
Speaker 6: and pounting about picked.
Speaker 2: Up by Jordan Hicks.
Speaker 4: Forty thirty close touchdown. Jrdan Hicks, with the second touchdown
Speaker 4: of his career, has run the Minnesota Vikings to an
Speaker 4: eighteen to sixth lead.
Speaker 2: Huge day for Jordan Hicks.
Speaker 5: He takes points off the board for the Bears with
Speaker 5: that red zone interception and then now you hear that
Speaker 5: fumble return for a touchdown. Points that the offense wasn't
Speaker 5: able to provide in some spots. The defense coming through
Speaker 5: largely now nineteen six after the extra point, should the
Speaker 5: team have gone for two there, I'll let you ponder
Speaker 5: that on your own. But this wouldn't be a Vikings
Speaker 5: game in twenty twenty three. This wouldn't be a Vikings
Speaker 5: game at Soldier Field without.
Speaker 2: Some drama as nineteen six.
Speaker 5: Now we're entering the fourth quarter, about twelve and a
Speaker 5: half minutes to go in the game.
Speaker 2: Where beage it.
Speaker 5: The undrafted Cap nine plays seventy seven yards and the
Speaker 5: tush push tightly packed die behind him Pole Comet.
Speaker 8: It's a toush push and pageant field.
Speaker 2: The in no signal touchdown Bears Tyson Badgin.
Speaker 6: Comett pushed him Badgin with his first National Football League touchdown,
Speaker 6: fight football violently in.
Speaker 5: The end zone nineteen thirteen Vikings, and you know that
Speaker 5: ends up being the final score. But leaving this game
Speaker 5: yesterday live, the Bears very conceivably could get a stop
Speaker 5: on defense. It's midway through the fourth quarter and have
Speaker 5: a chance. With the undrafted rookie QB from a D
Speaker 5: two school and all Tyson bagent, they would have a
Speaker 5: chance to go down score a touchdown, and with the
Speaker 5: six point deficit and extra point takes the lead. So
Speaker 5: that's kind of the sweat that Vikings fans were enduring
Speaker 5: late in this one yesterday. Just need the offense to
Speaker 5: move the chains a few times, kill some clock and
Speaker 5: get out of there live.
Speaker 8: Well.
Speaker 5: Unfortunately, the Vikings offense goes three and out and they
Speaker 5: only took a minute off the clock. So it is
Speaker 5: Tyson Bagent and the Bears offense with a chance to
Speaker 5: drive and take the lead. It was a nine play
Speaker 5: forty one yard they moved the sticks, but in the
Speaker 5: end the rookie freaked out and the Vikings CeAl it.
Speaker 6: Hi snap from Patrick to Paigent. He throws up an interceptible.
Speaker 2: Ball and Byron Murphy Junior.
Speaker 6: Takes it and he turns it up to the twenty
Speaker 6: thirty and DJ Moore runs him down from behind at
Speaker 6: about the forty three yard line. And this pagent finally
Speaker 6: threw up one of those punts that was intercepted. And
Speaker 6: that's also the two minute warning Byron Murphy Junior with
Speaker 6: his first interception wearing the colors.
Speaker 5: Kid freaks out at the pass rush throws up a
Speaker 5: lot of revolve.
Speaker 2: Byron Murphy Junior intercepts it.
Speaker 5: Vikings offense runs out the clock and the team runs
Speaker 5: their way to the winner circle. Nineteen to thirteen is
Speaker 5: the final score of Vikings two and four on the season.
Speaker 2: Bears fall to one and five. Vikings have now beating
Speaker 2: the Bears at Soldier Field four years in a row.
Speaker 2: I think that's kind of cool.
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Speaker 5: nineteen to thirteen Vikings victory over the Chicago Bears yesterday
Speaker 5: at Soldier Field. It's becoming a trend Vikings winning at
Speaker 5: Soldier Field like that. And I like the head coach
Speaker 5: Kevin O'Connell chatted with the media earlier today.
Speaker 2: Let's hear a portion of that.
Speaker 7: What can you do at this point to get more
Speaker 7: out of the running game.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I think it's you know, we we taking a
Speaker 10: look at the tape today. There were some fundamental things
Speaker 10: that you know, maybe we didn't we didn't do as
Speaker 10: as as well as we would have liked, and certain
Speaker 10: things that we had kind of put on tape over
Speaker 10: the last two three weeks that that didn't show up
Speaker 10: as consistently on the tape yesterday. And I think once
Speaker 10: again you can credit the Bears and and and kind
Speaker 10: of some of the.
Speaker 7: Things they were able to do.
Speaker 10: It was a team going into the game that had
Speaker 10: forced quite a bit of negatives in the run game
Speaker 10: through some of the things that they do schematically, and
Speaker 10: and they were able to be you know, effective on
Speaker 10: some downs there, especially early on in the you know,
Speaker 10: in the second half there that contributed to us having
Speaker 10: too many three and outs and and some you know,
Speaker 10: quite frankly, some less than ideal third down situations either
Speaker 10: backed up long yardage or potentially off of some of
Speaker 10: those you know kind of negatives, either the lateral play
Speaker 10: that you know went backwards, the intentional grounding call where
Speaker 10: Kirk was trying to dish it to CJS ineligible once
Speaker 10: we kind of gave up, you know, an immediate pressure there.
Speaker 10: There was just a lot of scenarios there and a
Speaker 10: very limited amount of plays when you're not able to
Speaker 10: sustain at least you guys know, I've talked about getting
Speaker 10: that first down and kind of triggering the ability to
Speaker 10: move the football there when we were able to do
Speaker 10: that either in that two minute drive or early on
Speaker 10: in the game where we you know, drove and were
Speaker 10: able to get two chances at some field goals for
Speaker 10: Greg which which he was outstanding knocking those two fifty
Speaker 10: plus yarders through. But ultimately, it just comes down to guys,
Speaker 10: maybe in some new role or new roles, continuing to
Speaker 10: grow in their execution and the trust and what we're
Speaker 10: asking them to do. And then just some of the
Speaker 10: guys we do rely on being a little bit more consistent.
Speaker 11: Kevin, you've talked this season about chasing that complete performance,
Speaker 11: that best performance.
Speaker 6: What does that look like in your eyes?
Speaker 3: And how close are you guys to attaining that?
Speaker 7: Do you think?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 10: I think it starts with winning the turnover battle, which
Speaker 10: we were able to do yesterday. Defensively making some big plays,
Speaker 10: and offensively doing everything with our power, within our power
Speaker 10: of carrying the football when we possess it, UH to manage,
Speaker 10: you know, not catastrophically giving away the football, which has
Speaker 10: hurt us so so so much, you know, early on
Speaker 10: through these first five games before yesterday, And then it
Speaker 10: comes down to once you're able to be all about
Speaker 10: the ball and protect the football, then it comes down
Speaker 10: to putting, uh, putting it all together. From a standpoint
Speaker 10: of being efficient in the run game, UH, finding ways
Speaker 10: to get explosives in the playpass game. We were able
Speaker 10: to hit a couple of plays there. We had another
Speaker 10: chance down the sideline for Jordan where he got behind
Speaker 10: the coverage. All with opportunities on early downs that we
Speaker 10: can get in our offense when we can sustain some efficiency.
Speaker 7: Now, with all that being.
Speaker 10: Said, we have other tools at our disposal to try
Speaker 10: to be more efficient where maybe it's not the run game.
Speaker 10: It could be the rhythm and timing of the quick
Speaker 10: passing game, or the no huddle or different personnel groupings.
Speaker 10: We've got to go into all of those tools to
Speaker 10: try to best serve ourselves on offense when you are,
Speaker 10: you know, without a player of Justin's caliber, where we
Speaker 10: have quite honestly built a lot of the things.
Speaker 7: That we do around him.
Speaker 10: But that is by no stretch going to be allowed
Speaker 10: to be an excuse for us not going out there
Speaker 10: and playing to our potential on offense. And it starts
Speaker 10: with me and our staff and then giving these guys
Speaker 10: the tools that they need to go have success.
Speaker 7: But I do think that that complete performance is out
Speaker 7: there for us.
Speaker 12: Just how important has Daniel been to what you guys
Speaker 12: are are doing on defense and how important was I
Speaker 12: mean obviously bringing him back to be able to do
Speaker 12: probably what you've seen from him.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I thought, you know, yesterday Daniil showed up even
Speaker 10: much more so than his two sacks. He was really
Speaker 10: active on the edge, physical, explosive. Daniel's a huge part
Speaker 10: of our defense, whether we're just rushing for trying to
Speaker 10: get him one on oneses or you know, we are
Speaker 10: sending pressures and where we have him in the pressure,
Speaker 10: what gap we have him hitting, moving him around the front.
Speaker 10: He's an integral part and will continue to be so
Speaker 10: of flows, you know, kind of playing going into each
Speaker 10: and every game, and I think it's been critical to
Speaker 10: have him back and very very fortunate that we have
Speaker 10: him in there.
Speaker 2: Hey, Kevin, I just wanted to follow up from the
Speaker 2: outside it looked like Lewis scene was a healthy scratch.
Speaker 5: Just where's he at in his development and what do
Speaker 5: you want to see from them?
Speaker 10: Yeah, Lou's been you know, he's you know, he's been
Speaker 10: working his way back from from that hamstring injury, and
Speaker 10: we feel good about him, you know, being at at
Speaker 10: full capacity here and hope to get him going a
Speaker 10: little bit.
Speaker 7: My anticipation is he'll be up.
Speaker 10: And ready to roll this week and maybe taking on
Speaker 10: some rolls, you know at gunner, you know.
Speaker 7: Having some things on defense whatever. That looks like we'll
Speaker 7: work through that.
Speaker 10: But but yeah, lou Is, uh, you know there, there's
Speaker 10: there's a lot of ways to describe a healthy scratch
Speaker 10: and when the guy's working himself back and then the
Speaker 10: roles you envisioned for him for that game. I've you know,
Speaker 10: Lou knows we have one hundred percent confidence in him,
Speaker 10: and I think we'll see his role continue to.
Speaker 7: Evolve and and and grow throughout the season.
Speaker 11: I just noticed in the standard you guys have eighteen
Speaker 11: sacks the first six games.
Speaker 7: That's top ten in the league.
Speaker 11: You talked about Daniel a second ago, just kind of
Speaker 11: what is it taken to to really improve that stat
Speaker 11: Based on some struggles and getting pressure on quarterbacks the
Speaker 11: last you know, last season, what have you done to
Speaker 11: improve that this year?
Speaker 10: Yeah, I think it starts with, you know, guys like
Speaker 10: the Neil Marcus, you know, DJ Wantam has shown up.
Speaker 7: Uh, We've been able to you know, maybe.
Speaker 10: Where the pressure packages haven't always equaled sacks. It has
Speaker 10: forced teams to, you know, change the way they want
Speaker 10: to play, change the way they slide protections. They have
Speaker 10: to account for the threat of guys coming when they're
Speaker 10: down there around the line of scrimmage, specifically Harrison Smith
Speaker 10: when he's down there, or maybe it's Mattelis, maybe it's
Speaker 10: Byron Murphy off the slot.
Speaker 7: But when you've put a lot of that on tape.
Speaker 10: And all of those things are possible, offenses have to
Speaker 10: account for that, so they're they're talking a little bit
Speaker 10: less about making sure they have a great plan for
Speaker 10: Daniel or Marcus or DJ or any of our other guys.
Speaker 10: So I think it all kind of works together over
Speaker 10: the you know, the the totality of these first six games,
Speaker 10: and we've kind of seen the impact of that. Now
Speaker 10: we want to continue to marry the Russian coverage together
Speaker 10: when we are bringing pressure, what's it look like on
Speaker 10: the back end, so that we're fundamentally sound and covered
Speaker 10: from a standpoint of where people may try to attack us.
Speaker 7: I thought we did a good job yesterday having.
Speaker 10: A plan for DJ Moore and uh, you know, and
Speaker 10: and and really cant and Mooney as well.
Speaker 7: They were able to make a couple plays here and there.
Speaker 10: But you know, for the most part, I thought, versus
Speaker 10: what had been a pretty explosive skill group over the
Speaker 10: previous couple weeks, our guys did a nice job on
Speaker 10: that while still finding a way to get pressure and
Speaker 10: force the quarterback off the spot and get them on
Speaker 10: the ground a few times, I.
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