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Speaker 1: It's Pete Persis with your Shirley Paul Allen, two thirds

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Speaker 1: of the KFA and Vikings Radio Network broadcast team, and

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Speaker 1: the regular season has come to a conclusion for all

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Speaker 1: teams in the NFL, including the Minnesota Vikings, and the

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Speaker 1: sad news for Motown. It's a sad song for Motown.

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Speaker 1: The Lions beat the Minnesota Vikings thirty one to nine,

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Speaker 1: so the Vikings nine game winning streak snapped. They'll finish

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Speaker 1: the season with a wonderful, gaudy record of fourteen and three.

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Speaker 1: But Pete, not just because it's a generally speaking prisoner

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Speaker 1: of moments society, I think a majority of fans are

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Speaker 1: going to a lot of people are gonna look at

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Speaker 1: this game and the magnitude of it where you could

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Speaker 1: have gotten the one seed in the NFC and won

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Speaker 1: the division and you didn't lose, you got killed, but

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Speaker 1: you still finish fourteen and three.

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Speaker 2: How do you split that?

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Speaker 3: Well?

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Speaker 4: You know?

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Speaker 5: And the other thing too, is the two teams that

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Speaker 5: you lost to during the regular season were Detroit and

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Speaker 5: the Rams, and now we're playing We just played Detroit

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Speaker 5: and lost again, and now you got to play the Rams. Well,

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Speaker 5: I mean, as a player. You gotta have a very

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Speaker 5: short memory. By the time this plane touches down back

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Speaker 5: in Minneapolis at whatever time in the morning, it's going

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Speaker 5: to be you got it. You have to have forgotten

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Speaker 5: about it, and you have to figure out what's going on.

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Speaker 5: And I think it's pretty obvious that our passing game

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Speaker 5: just fell apart. I mean, you take a look at

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Speaker 5: Darnold who came out of this game. How many games

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Speaker 5: over one hundred on a passer?

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Speaker 2: Andy did he have? Ten? Thirteen?

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Speaker 1: If he had had one tonight, he would have tied

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers for the most in a single season history

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Speaker 1: of the NFL.

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Speaker 2: Fourteen. That's an NFL record.

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Speaker 5: Right, And he put up a fifty five point five

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Speaker 5: tonight without any interceptions. Now, defensively, we come away plus,

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Speaker 5: we come away plus two, right, I mean we're plus two.

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Speaker 2: We have that pass call clip late, so yeah, but

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Speaker 2: we won the take in.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we want to take give. And then you look

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Speaker 5: at us situationally on third down three or thirteen on

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Speaker 5: fourth down, we were zero for three, red zone, oh

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Speaker 5: for four, goal to go, oh for three, all these situations,

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Speaker 5: and you know, you look at this and you look

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Speaker 5: at the flip card and you go, you got Kendall

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Speaker 5: Wilder out there for a quarter and a half of football.

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Speaker 5: We had the match. You would think our receivers, we

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Speaker 5: would have that matchup, our tight ends on their linebackers,

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Speaker 5: and none of it came to fruition. None of it

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Speaker 5: to the point where even later in the game, we

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Speaker 5: just we really just abandoned the drop back passing game.

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Speaker 5: We were throwing swing routes and all these other things.

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Speaker 5: So our i mean, our offense just got left handed quickly,

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Speaker 5: number one. And then they they never really recovered from it,

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Speaker 5: which is bizarre because we haven't seen this all year, right,

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Speaker 5: So what is that all about? Well, I mean, that's

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Speaker 5: why you got to watch film, and that's why coaches

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Speaker 5: get paid a lot of money because you have to

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Speaker 5: figure that out and then you have to get it

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Speaker 5: fixed before you go out to you know, Los Angeles

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Speaker 5: to play on Monday night. So very concerning overall, very concerning.

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Speaker 2: A couple of things here.

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Speaker 1: Pete referenced Detroit Lions backup corner Kendallviildor. Okay, he used

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Speaker 1: to play for the Chicago Bears, played for US, and

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Speaker 1: Kendall has had significant troubles in his NFL career on

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Speaker 1: the field. Last game against the San Francisco forty nine Ers,

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Speaker 1: he played six plays for the Lions. Two of those

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Speaker 1: and the Lions almost gave up fifty points and they

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Speaker 1: kept going at Bildhor and that just did not come

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Speaker 1: to fruition tonight for the Vikings, Vildor played a majority

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Speaker 1: of the second half. Now, secondly, you know Ben Lieber

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Speaker 1: on the Vikings radio networksdeline analyst, he said something late,

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Speaker 1: much rendered a preseason game at that stage, Lions winning

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Speaker 1: thirty one nine. He's like, all, you know, you got

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Speaker 1: to make sure and you guys would know better than me, man,

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Speaker 1: because you played the game. All the positivity from the

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Speaker 1: fourteen wins, the winning streak, Darnold's reclamation project, just the

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Speaker 1: whole thing. Because of the way tonight transpired. You cannot

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Speaker 1: let any of this linger where you're second guessing yourselves,

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Speaker 5: No, absolutely That's why I was That's what I'm saying.

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Speaker 5: When the plaint touches down, you gotta forget about this,

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Speaker 5: and then, no doubt, you got to really dig in

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Speaker 5: fix it, because you know this is a copycat league,

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Speaker 5: and so the Rams are gonna sit there and watch

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Speaker 5: very very closely what the Lions did tonight. A lot

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Speaker 5: of it had to do with pressure, So I think,

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Speaker 5: you know, I'm seeing we're gonna we're gonna be faced.

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Speaker 2: In the Viking slide. More than any team all season.

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Speaker 5: They blitzed us a And the thing that was crazy

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Speaker 5: Plays weren't even to develop. He wasn't even stepping up

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Speaker 5: Now early on that we had tons of opportunities early on,

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Speaker 5: and we missed him right. We had overthrows two to

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Speaker 5: against the defense. Paul again that has given up thirty

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Speaker 5: two and a half points the last four weeks in

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Speaker 5: San Francisco putting up thirty four, Chicago putting up some

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Speaker 5: Buffalo putting him forty eight, Green Bay thirty one. We

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Speaker 5: didn't even score touchdown. We've scored two touchdowns in two

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Speaker 5: games against this Lion's defense. So anybody who sees you

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Speaker 5: can get lucky once. But I think anybody that sees

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Speaker 5: that's gonna really really look at this film closely of

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Speaker 5: how the Vike the Lions played the Vikings, not only

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Speaker 5: in game one, but this game two, and try to

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Speaker 5: imitate and figure out what it was that they did.

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Speaker 5: And we're gonna So my point is, if you don't

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Speaker 5: get this fixed, you're you're copy It's copycat League. You're

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Speaker 5: gonna see this again.

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Speaker 4: Yep.

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Speaker 5: So, and the way I see it, I mean, you know,

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Speaker 5: played in the first time they had Pukainaku and Cooper Cup. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: they're they're they're they're there. But and we almost beat

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Speaker 5: then you have to start worrying about what's going on overall.

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Speaker 1: The Detroit Lions of beating the Minnesota Vikings five consecutive times,

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Speaker 1: they are the one seed in the NFC and a

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Speaker 1: one seed in their conference for the first time in

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Speaker 1: the history Alliance Football.

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Speaker 2: So they'll play in a couple of weeks.

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Speaker 1: Like Pete said, Vikings at so far to take on

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Speaker 1: the Rams a week from Monday, so that'll be January thirteenth,

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Speaker 1: seven o'clock Central. That there was an a topic from

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Speaker 1: the game I wanted to discuss momentarily, or shall we

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Speaker 1: Kevin O'Connell.

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Speaker 6: Obviously a disappointing, disappointing effort, but you know, you have

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Speaker 6: to compliment, you know, those guys on the other side for.

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Speaker 4: Playing a really good football game.

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Speaker 6: And you know, we didn't do a lot of the

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Speaker 6: and and this game came down to, you know, finishing

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Speaker 6: pitching and catching, and I thought our defense battled just

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Speaker 6: you know, uh, you know, asked a little bit too

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Speaker 6: much of them, and uh, that's gonna happen against a

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Speaker 6: really really good things. This has been a phenomenal football

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Speaker 6: already ready to go. Guys are ready to respond, and

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Speaker 6: we'll get ready to go for a huge opportunity coming

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Speaker 6: up on Monday night, going on the road.

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Speaker 4: Yeah saying normal, Yeah, I just early on, you know,

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Speaker 6: I gotta obviously go back and look at uh you know,

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Speaker 6: whether you know what it was like for him in

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Speaker 6: particularly chances maybe to you know, put seven on the

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Speaker 6: those all season long, and and not one, not one

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Speaker 6: of those plays did uh did I call? And and

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Speaker 6: the outcome of that play change, you know, my mentality

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Speaker 6: clearly they you know, they had a It was a

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Speaker 6: I said, it was a physical game required some pretty

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Speaker 4: Day and against a team like that, you.

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Speaker 6: Know, you're hoping to you know, you're you're hoping to

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Speaker 6: the end. Issue less scoring, yeah, I thought, Uh, you know,

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Speaker 4: You know, just just didn't put the ball in the

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Speaker 4: You know, at a at a at a level we've

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Speaker 6: You know, we've you know, we've been at a pretty

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Speaker 6: you know, six seven weeks or so. Uh, and that

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Speaker 5: Thinking those goal to go situations where's like eleven of

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Speaker 6: and kind of either or mentality and uh, just how

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Speaker 5: I mean, you're you know, you're plus you're plus two

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Speaker 5: in the take give for a while there, you know.

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Speaker 2: I think we were.

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Speaker 5: We were containing Gibbs. He wasn't getting a whole lot,

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Speaker 5: you know, early on. So the defense was doing a

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Speaker 5: really really good job, I mean, and Jonathan Grenard was

447
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Speaker 5: absolutely giving Taylor Decker everything you can hold on to

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Speaker 5: or handle. And so we My point is is we

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Speaker 5: had that offense, the best offense in the league from

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Speaker 5: a point scoring standpoint on, you know, kind of on

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Speaker 5: its heels, and because we couldn't put any pressure on

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Speaker 5: them offensively, they took a step back, gathered their feet,

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Speaker 5: and then reset and then came back at and just

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Speaker 5: kept coming and kept going, you know, kept after us,

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Speaker 5: and eventually really what basically wore us down, and they

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Speaker 5: did so with Gibbs on the ground for the most

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Speaker 5: part of it. So I'm not I'm not too afraid

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Speaker 5: of coming back here. Yeah, but especially with the way

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Speaker 5: the defense played this game. It's just the enigma of

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Speaker 5: our offense. And and uh, man, is it a head scratch?

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Speaker 1: And we're gonna hear from Sam Darnold here in a

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Speaker 1: minute with Donald. There's an A topic or maybe it's

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Speaker 1: a B topic, and we'll explain what that means momentarily.

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Speaker 2: But here's Sam.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, obviously uh, disappointing game. I felt like we just

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Speaker 7: you know, for me personally, didn't didn't hit the throws

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Speaker 7: that I that I should hit in the red zone,

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Speaker 7: especially early on. Yeah, just didn't execute the way that

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Speaker 7: we wanted to. You know, felt our defense played really well.

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Speaker 7: They kept us in the game for most of the game,

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Speaker 7: and you know, just going down in the red zone

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Speaker 7: and kicking field goals, you know that's not gonna cut it.

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Speaker 7: I guess a good team like that, So just gotta

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Speaker 7: be a lot better, you know, for myself personally, got

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Speaker 7: to hit the throws in tight coverage and but uh,

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Speaker 7: you know, we're we're looking forward to the challenge against

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Speaker 7: l A moving forward. But you know, I gotta gotta

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Speaker 7: watch this tape and learn from it and get better.

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Speaker 4: Say, why was the accuracy in issue?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 7: Just uh, you know, I think for me personally, gotta

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Speaker 7: watch the tape first of all, you know, to see

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Speaker 7: but just gotta hit the throws as simple as un all.

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Speaker 2: No, So you nives and rhythm you how much did

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Speaker 2: you feel as much?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 7: I felt like, you know, I felt like my feet

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Speaker 7: and my eyes, I felt like I was, you know,

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Speaker 7: good from that standpoint.

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Speaker 3: I felt like, you know, I made some of the

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Speaker 3: right reads.

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Speaker 7: I missed a couple, but for the most part, especially

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Speaker 7: early on, I felt like I went to the right

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Speaker 7: place with the ball.

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Speaker 3: I just got to hit the throw.

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Speaker 4: Variety. As soon as the guys your loan come here.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, you know they we knew that they were gonna

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Speaker 7: have a good plan, you know, brand pressures and different

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Speaker 7: coverages behind it. So you know, again like if we

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Speaker 7: executing the red zone early on, I think it's a

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Speaker 7: different game.

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Speaker 3: So obviously it's a different game.

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Speaker 7: So we just got to execute early on in the

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Speaker 7: red zone and you know, like I said, just just

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Speaker 7: got to execute better.

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Speaker 4: Look at the.

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Speaker 3: Com Yeah, he was just saying, you know, we're we're

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Speaker 3: good man.

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Speaker 7: You know we uh obviously didn't have the day that

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Speaker 7: we wanted to have, but you know, we're you know

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Speaker 7: looking forward to the challenge that awaits, you know, with

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Speaker 7: with playoffs and everything.

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Speaker 3: You know, just you know, getting ready to you know,

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Speaker 3: for you know, that next step and going want to

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Speaker 3: know next.

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Speaker 1: Week when a team is playing as a physical as

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Speaker 1: they do, uh on the outside or the receivers, like,

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Speaker 1: what's the additional challenge on your end in terms of

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Speaker 1: delivering the ball.

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Speaker 7: There is any Yeah, like I said, I mean they

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Speaker 7: you know, I think they do a good job in

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Speaker 7: their man coverage, you know, but for us or for me,

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Speaker 7: I again, I got to locate the ball a little

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Speaker 7: bit better, and but I think I'll have a little

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Speaker 7: bit you know, some more answers.

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Speaker 3: When I watch this tape, you got a lot of

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Speaker 3: success and here what was different?

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Speaker 7: Just gotta hit the throws. I mean, it's uh, it

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Speaker 7: really is as simple as that. You know, I missed

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Speaker 7: a couple of jets in the red zone that you

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Speaker 7: know I'd like to have back. But you know, that's

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Speaker 7: how the game goes sometimes, you know, I think for

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Speaker 7: me personally, like you know, I gotta look at the tape,

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Speaker 7: see you know, just my feet and and you know,

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Speaker 7: just correct everything from a you know, mechanics standpoint, not

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Speaker 7: look too deep into it, but just you know, get better.

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Speaker 3: Mm hm.

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Speaker 4: How hard is that balance?

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Speaker 6: And we're just like kid, you have played the last

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Speaker 6: seven weeks when played like ballance and not trying to over.

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Speaker 4: Do just.

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Speaker 3: Yeah again it's don't get me wrong, like losing sucks,

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Speaker 3: but it is what it is. At the end of

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Speaker 3: the day.

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Speaker 7: You know, I miss and throws, and you know, we

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Speaker 7: lost to a good team, and you know, we have

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Speaker 7: an opportunity to go to the playoffs and and you

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Speaker 7: know play another really good team in LA And you

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Speaker 7: know that's kind of the story from our end, you guys.

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Speaker 5: Obviously I had to do some of the saddle account

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Speaker 5: stuff in Seattle air of this kind of environment. How

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Speaker 5: difficult is the communication when I imagine this was a

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Speaker 5: lot of spends, you guys plays.

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Speaker 4: Here so far.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, I thought, you know, we handled it

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Speaker 7: really well from that aspect. So yeah, I think from

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Speaker 7: from you know, a operational standpoint, I felt like we

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Speaker 7: handled it pretty well.

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Speaker 6: Say, we're already looking for when you need to take

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Speaker 6: just weird beating where your beat are.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, there's you know, just looking at my feet, you know,

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Speaker 7: feeling like on some of those red zone plays could

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Speaker 7: have been a little more grounded instead of trying to

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Speaker 7: you know, backpedal or escape. But again, those are you know,

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Speaker 7: some throws that you know I've made before are a

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Speaker 7: lot in my career. So just uh, you know, not

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Speaker 7: gonna look too deep into it, but uh, just gotta

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Speaker 7: gotta be better.

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Speaker 1: So the A topic, which really is the B topic,

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Speaker 1: with Sam Darnold, and you just triggered me to think

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Speaker 1: of this.

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Speaker 2: I didn't even say it during our game call.

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Speaker 1: Blitz is he was blitzed more than I don't have

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Speaker 1: the metrics or the numbers in front of me, but

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Speaker 1: with a lot, yeah, I mean it was almost every

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Speaker 1: play a lot. And it seems like Aaron Glenn, the

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Speaker 1: defensive coordinator for the Lions, basically said, I got Alex

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Speaker 1: Azeloni back. He's my best blitzer, but you need more

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Speaker 1: than that to win. I guess a good offense like

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Speaker 1: the Vikings. I'm tired of watching film and watching this

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Speaker 1: guy bounce around in the pocket with three four and

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Speaker 1: five man rushes and just pick teams apart. If he's

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Speaker 1: going to beat us. He's going to beat us because

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Speaker 1: he can handle the pressure of a blitz. And we're

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Speaker 1: gonna keep bringing it, keep bringing it, keep bringing it.

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Speaker 1: And I'm just wondering if Sam was second guessing things

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Speaker 1: because he didn't know where the heat was coming from.

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Speaker 5: I think a couple of things. Number One, early on,

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Speaker 5: he wasn't on the money. And when you play, when

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Speaker 5: you play against Manda Man, we saw we saw golf

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Speaker 5: to it a couple of times. Tight coverage. You got

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Speaker 5: to sling that ball and get it exactly where it

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Speaker 5: needs to be. And I don't know if he had

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Speaker 5: the confidence tonight to do that right, and he just

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Speaker 5: didn't have that. So what happened toward later in the

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Speaker 5: third quarter and then the fourth quarter is Donald would

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Speaker 5: start bailing out of the pocket before the routes even developed.

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Speaker 5: They were developing twelve fifteen yards down the field, and

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Speaker 5: he was already loopid and getting and getting himself out

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Speaker 5: of the pocket. So it's like the confidence that Donald

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Speaker 5: has shown his ability to stand in the pocket, take

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Speaker 5: a hit, deliver a strike just evaporated somewhere during the

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Speaker 5: point during during this game and again never got it back.

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Speaker 5: And that's kind of the part that worries me the most.

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Speaker 5: It's not as if the fourth quarter of the game

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Speaker 5: he was back on right but a little too little,

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Speaker 5: too late type situation. It was a deal where it

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Speaker 5: went wayward early and just never. I mean, we saw

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Speaker 5: JJ wide opening the end zone, missed, We saw JJ

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Speaker 5: in a crossing route, yeah, and back the end zone missed.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 5: You see two throws to Hockinson would have been first downs,

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Speaker 5: both of them both missed. It's it's a head scratcher, man,

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Speaker 5: it is a absolute head scratcher.

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Speaker 2: What happened? Well, here's the deal.

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Speaker 1: The Good Times, Bad Times copyright led Zeppelin. The Good Times,

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Speaker 1: your Minnesota Vikings finished the season fourteen and three. All right,

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Speaker 1: that's a fantastic record. Obviously, the bad Times is the

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Speaker 1: way it ended. You got killed by a division rival,

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Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions. They get the one you don't, and

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Speaker 1: the Vikings had to sofi to play the Rams with

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Speaker 1: Sean McVay, Matthew Stafford, Cooper Cup, Puka Nakua and the

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Speaker 1: rest of those luminaries. Monday, January thirteenth, The Boom on

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Speaker 1: a Fan with Ben Lieber, Pete Bersig, and your Shirly

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Speaker 1: Paul Allen takes place at seven o'clock Central.

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Speaker 2: A great job on the call despite the way things develop, right.

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Speaker 5: So they say, one more thing you got you have

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Speaker 5: to you mentioned how this how this season ended, but

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Speaker 5: better now than next week, and now you have an

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Speaker 5: opportunity to fix it. And if you can fix what's

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Speaker 5: going on and figure this thing out, you can come

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Speaker 5: back here right down the road and feel that much

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Speaker 5: more confident that you could take care of this Detroit team.

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Speaker 5: Because they're just gonna rinse and repeat. Right, it's not broke,

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Speaker 5: don't fix it. So the opportunity is there. The one thing,

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Speaker 5: like you said, you have to forget, you have to

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Speaker 5: move on. You have to just let this one go

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Speaker 5: and move on to the Rams game because if you

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Speaker 5: let this thing linger, you know, it could be disastrous

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Speaker 5: for the season.

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Speaker 1: That's the Vikings postgame report, the final one for the

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Speaker 1: regular season. Pete and I will chat with you in

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Speaker 1: podcast format next week again. The La Rams in the

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Speaker 1: playoffs after the twenty twenty four Seedson The Lions win

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Speaker 1: thirty one to nine.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for listening.