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TSH Reacts - NFL Week 1 - Vikings beat the Giants 28-6 · The Skol Hop

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  Speaker 1: All right, Hey, Vikings fans, we're back. Maybe football's back.
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  Speaker 1: Let's goal. Well, let's go the Vikings. The Vikings got
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  Speaker 1: the dub a week one. What are your initial thoughts? Man,
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  Speaker 1: what do you think?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, obviously, anytime you see a victory in Purple,
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  Speaker 2: that's always a good day, especially on a week where
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  Speaker 2: the Packers lost a few days ago. And not to
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  Speaker 2: be that fan, but I kind of aim that fan
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  Speaker 2: a little bit. Looks like the Bears are gonna pull
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  Speaker 2: it out and maybe win, but oh well, it's a
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  Speaker 2: good day for the Vikings. I think Dustin Baker tweeted
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  Speaker 2: out not too long ago that this is literally the
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  Speaker 2: first time in like many years that Vikings fans can
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  Speaker 2: actually actually just like relax and watch the fourth quarter
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  Speaker 2: knowing like we probably got the victory in the hands.
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  Speaker 2: So it's a good feeling. It's it's really fun.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, So that leads me into kind of
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  Speaker 1: my first specific question about the game. Did the Vikings
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  Speaker 1: overperform or did the Giants underperform in your opinion?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's a good question. Everybody's going to
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  Speaker 2: be too quick to make judgments good or bad after
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  Speaker 2: one game, especially you know, We've been brewing all off season.
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  Speaker 2: Who's good, who's bad. I mean even this Vikings Giants game,
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  Speaker 2: the Vegas had it down to a pickum. I think
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  Speaker 2: the Vikings ended being favored by one point. It just
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  Speaker 2: seemed like nobody knew what to do. I think Daniel
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  Speaker 2: Jones's he has continued to show what he is and
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  Speaker 2: who he is as a quarterback. Not that great against
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  Speaker 2: unless it's against the Vikings in twenty twenty two. And
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  Speaker 2: the Vikings, I mean, we know koc is a good coach,
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  Speaker 2: good offensive line, we know Flores is a good defensive mind.
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  Speaker 2: It was really nice to see those things come to fruition.
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  Speaker 2: And I think I tweeted a little bit earlier, it
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  Speaker 2: was nice to have this dominant win without the help
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  Speaker 2: of a superstar performance. We didn't need JJ to have
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  Speaker 2: five hundred yards and ten touchdowns sorry justin Jefferson. We
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  Speaker 2: didn't need that crazy ten interception performance or something that
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  Speaker 2: breaks record books. They just all it was a team
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  Speaker 2: win and it was really fun to see.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it seems like on offense everything was pretty balanced.
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  Speaker 1: I would still prefer to see a little bit more
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  Speaker 1: balance between the run game and the past game. Ye
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  Speaker 1: I thought, especially in the second half when they were
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  Speaker 1: up by so much, I thought maybe we'd see a
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  Speaker 1: little more ground and pound just to wear down the clock.
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  Speaker 1: But all in all, you really can't complain with what
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  Speaker 1: you saw on offense. And then the defense, man, I
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  Speaker 1: think they really just shined. I thought they looked like
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  Speaker 1: the best unit on the team. And that's not thrown
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  Speaker 1: any shade at special teams or offense, but you can
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  Speaker 1: just see that imprint of Brian Flores as a coach
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  Speaker 1: on that defense. The guys that have been on the
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  Speaker 1: team for a few years now and have been in
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  Speaker 1: that system are really comfortable in it, and they're comfortable
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  Speaker 1: flying around. They're comfortable, you know, doing some of those
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  Speaker 1: crazy stunts. And then the new guys, holy cow, with
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  Speaker 1: some of those new additions both free agency signings and
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  Speaker 1: draft picks. They were fun to watch. It was a
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  Speaker 1: yeah down defense.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, Dallas Turner got his first sack. That was awesome,
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  Speaker 2: and injury Van Ginkle you texted me at some point
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  Speaker 2: in the game, pretty about midway through the game, like man,
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  Speaker 2: Ben Gingkle's everywhere, and you texted that before he had
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  Speaker 2: that pick six.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was like minutes before and then all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden he comes up with the pick six.
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  Speaker 1: That was awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, him, specifically Van Ginkle. Over the offseason, I was
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  Speaker 2: kind of kind of worried, like he's got an injury.
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  Speaker 2: He he wasn't a super cheap veteran. He also wasn't
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  Speaker 2: like a crazy big free agency signing, but expensive enough,
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  Speaker 2: and then he just had an injury all off season.
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  Speaker 2: But Dustin Baker did talk me down. He did say like, no,
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  Speaker 2: don't worry, Gang Gingle's actually good, like he it's okay,
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  Speaker 2: It's gonna be okay, and that injury doesn't seem anything big.
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  Speaker 2: And at least in this first game, he looked really
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  Speaker 2: good along with everybody else on the defense.
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  Speaker 1: So who would you give game balls to?
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  Speaker 2: Oh man, you got to give it to Sam Donald
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  Speaker 2: first off. I know that's the cliche answer, the quarterback
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  Speaker 2: gets the victory. But he had a lot of pressure.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he's a guy that's been talked down like
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  Speaker 2: he was a third overall pick and he hasn't really
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  Speaker 2: shown much of anything. He's had flashes, but hasn't gotten
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  Speaker 2: good breaks anywhere. And at least for today, Sam Donald
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  Speaker 2: was the quarterback the Vikings needed. I think he overperformed
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  Speaker 2: what anybody really thought he could do. And again, I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to overreact over one game against the Giants,
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  Speaker 2: who very well manned up being a terrible team when
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  Speaker 2: this is all said and done. But today my game
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  Speaker 2: ball goes to Sam Donald. Nice.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, how about you, I would say, since you took
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  Speaker 1: Sam Donald, He's on my list. I think the next
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  Speaker 1: best candidate would be Van Ginkel. Sure that pick six
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  Speaker 1: was really fun to watch and like I was texting
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  Speaker 1: you and even after I texted this to you, he
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  Speaker 1: was just he was in on almost every play on defense.
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  Speaker 1: The guy just has a nose for the ball. He
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  Speaker 1: finds it and he gets in and I mean he's
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  Speaker 1: kind of reminiscent of a younger Harrison Smith that way.
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  Speaker 1: He just he is like a magnet to the ball
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  Speaker 1: and it was fun to watch. I think a sleeper
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  Speaker 1: pick for me it would be Pat Jones. He got
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  Speaker 1: a sack there at the end, yeah, and had another
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  Speaker 1: sack earlier in the game. I know Dallas Turner also
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  Speaker 1: had a sack. But for a guy that's been around
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  Speaker 1: for a little bit now, I think he's starting to
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  Speaker 1: find his fit in this defensive scheme as well. There's
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  Speaker 1: that one play he almost got home and Daniel Jones
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  Speaker 1: kind of juked him out of his shoes a little
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  Speaker 1: bit and he missed the sack, but man, he came
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  Speaker 1: off the line unguarded and it was just kind of
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  Speaker 1: mind blowing, and I think the commentators were even saying, like,
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  Speaker 1: why do you leave a guy like that uncovered on
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  Speaker 1: the line, Like that just doesn't make any sense. He
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  Speaker 1: could be a sleeper pick for a game ball on
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  Speaker 1: the defensive side as well. Yeah, all right, A couple
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  Speaker 1: other questions for you will wrap this up areas of
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  Speaker 1: focus as they get back into practice this week and
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  Speaker 1: prepare to take on the forty nine ers next week.
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  Speaker 1: What would you be what would you hope that they
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  Speaker 1: work on in practice this week?
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  Speaker 2: Man, Yeah, that's another good question. I think penalties, it
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  Speaker 2: didn't end up ruining the day, but there were a
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  Speaker 2: couple of weird penalties. I noticed a couple of times, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: the vikings did get called, or maybe they didn't end
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  Speaker 2: up getting called for a delayed game, but there are
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  Speaker 2: a couple of times they had to burn a time
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  Speaker 2: out to avoid that. But even outside of that, I
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  Speaker 2: was noticing, like their regular offense, not like a hurry
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  Speaker 2: of They seem to be using most of the play clock.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't know if that's normal or if that's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be normal, but something I noticed that thought was
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  Speaker 2: kind of out of the ordinary today. And that may
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  Speaker 2: get better as Donald and Koc kind of learn how
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  Speaker 2: to play with each other more as the season goes on.
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  Speaker 2: But hopefully that's not something that bites the vikings in
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  Speaker 2: the button here coming throughout the season. So maybe getting
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  Speaker 2: that flow of calling the plays and understanding the game
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  Speaker 2: between coach and quarterback a little bit more.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I would agree with you, and I think those
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  Speaker 1: I think there were two delay of games that they
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  Speaker 1: ended up not taking the penalty but they burned the
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  Speaker 1: timeout instead because chaos got it in right before they
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  Speaker 1: called the penalty. Honestly, the second one, I think I
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  Speaker 1: texted you this, I would have just rather have seen
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  Speaker 1: them take the penalty and not waste the timeout. And
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  Speaker 1: I mean at that point, I think it was midway
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  Speaker 1: through the third quarter. There was still a lot of
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  Speaker 1: game left, and you never know if you need those
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  Speaker 1: extra timeouts, it limits your ability to make challenges. If
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  Speaker 1: there are big plays that are questionable down the stretch too,
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, I think there's some just game management timeout
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  Speaker 1: management stuff that Kaosi's still trying to iron out. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I don't. I agree with you. It's definitely a chemistry
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  Speaker 1: between Sam Donald and KOC and I think once they
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  Speaker 1: get on the same page, I think we'll see them
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  Speaker 1: start to roll. And it was pretty evident early on
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  Speaker 1: in the game that the offense started to move after
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  Speaker 1: the first drive. You know, Donald took that sack in
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  Speaker 1: the first drive and things kind of petered out pretty quickly.
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  Speaker 1: But after that they really found a rhythm. They We've
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  Speaker 1: already said it, but they spread the ball out really nicely.
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  Speaker 1: We were able to run the ball somewhat effectively. It
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  Speaker 1: wasn't perfect, and again i'd like to see more, but yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think ironing out some of those things too this
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  Speaker 1: week in practice would be great. You've got a formidable
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  Speaker 1: opponent in the forty nine ers coming to US Bank
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  Speaker 1: Stadium next week. Yeah, they'll have their hands full for sure.
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  Speaker 1: All right, last, hopefully we can do this in like
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  Speaker 1: thirty seconds here so this doesn't turn into like a
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  Speaker 1: full blown episode for us. In other games outside of
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  Speaker 1: the Vikings, Giants, game fields are cousins who played better
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  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh the Atlanta.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I guess I didn't see the actual final
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  Speaker 2: resort sure of Pittsburgh won, but I did tweet out
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  Speaker 2: the stat Lins mid game of Sam Donald versus Kirk Cousins.
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  Speaker 2: And they both have the same excuses. Kirk Cousins and
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  Speaker 2: Sam Donald, they both have the same Hey, they're on
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  Speaker 2: a new team. Hey, there's a lot of expectations. But
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  Speaker 2: I mean, at least for today, Sam Donald played better
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  Speaker 2: than Kirk Cousins and Cousins and Cousins ended up with
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  Speaker 2: I think two picks, so I think, by default, just
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  Speaker 2: for the win and the lack of turnovers, you gotta
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  Speaker 2: say Field's played better than Cousins today, which is mind
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  Speaker 2: bogglingly because I think Fields needs to be running back anyway.
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  Speaker 2: So it is kind of fun for US Vikings fans
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  Speaker 2: to kind of be like, hey, Cousins, it kind of
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  Speaker 2: sucks to suck a little bit. I'm on record, and
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  Speaker 2: it's still true I'm a Kirk Cousins fan, but it
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  Speaker 2: is still kind of fun. I mean, it's sports. We
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  Speaker 2: gotta have fun with it. It's kind of fun to say, like,
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  Speaker 2: maybe we are better off with Sam Donald, right, now.
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  Speaker 1: Definitely some vindication. And I was shocked when I checked
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  Speaker 1: the box score of that game and I saw that
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  Speaker 1: Justin Fields had a better passer rating than Kirk Cousins.
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  Speaker 1: And that's kind of why that question came up. It
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  Speaker 1: was just kind of interesting, all right, Last one here,
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  Speaker 1: Jordan Love. I think it's pretty well known now that
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  Speaker 1: it was his MCL. I don't know that that's like
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  Speaker 1: one official, but I think people are kind of like
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  Speaker 1: ninety to ninety five percent certain that that's what the
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  Speaker 1: the injury for Jordan was when they took on shoot
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  Speaker 1: who they played the Eagles there it is they played
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  Speaker 1: the Eagles in Brazil. When when do you think he returns?
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  Speaker 1: Are we going to see Jordan Love healthy? What is
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  Speaker 1: it week three, week four, when the Vikings take on
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  Speaker 1: the Packers or will we have to wait until later
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  Speaker 1: on in the season to see Jordan Love suit up
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  Speaker 1: against the Vikings.
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  Speaker 2: From what I'm seeing on Twitter is it's not going
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  Speaker 2: to be a season ender. He might be out a
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  Speaker 2: few weeks and theoretically he could be back for the
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  Speaker 2: Vikings game. I don't know. I almost hope he is,
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  Speaker 2: because you want to take the Packer is at their
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  Speaker 2: strongest and he never root for injuries, but strategically and like,
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  Speaker 2: it would be nice to have the Packers not have
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  Speaker 2: you know, their starting quarterback for a few weeks. But
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  Speaker 2: if he's ready to go for the Vikings, I say,
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  Speaker 2: bring it on. Hopefully this defense can scheme around and
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  Speaker 2: play a fully healthy Jordan Love.
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  Speaker 1: All right, well, time will tell, I guess and best
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  Speaker 1: wishes to Jordan Love as he heals up. You never
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  Speaker 1: like to see a guy get injured, but it would
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  Speaker 1: be advantageous for the Vikings to not have to worry
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  Speaker 1: about him and play against second string quarterback when they
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  Speaker 1: take on the Packers.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 1: All right, man, Well, it was fun to see the
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  Speaker 1: Vikings get the dub this week. They're want to know.
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  Speaker 1: It's a good feeling. We'll have a whole lot more
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  Speaker 1: to unpack and talk about on our full episode, which
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  Speaker 1: will be released later this week, but it's been fun
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  Speaker 1: to kind of just recap our kind of immediate reactions
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  Speaker 1: to the game. He got any final thoughts.
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  Speaker 2: Just yeah? Episode fifty seven coming out later this week.
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  Speaker 2: We will not have to unveil the Purple Punishment segment
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  Speaker 2: because we both pick the Giants to lose against the
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  Speaker 2: Vikings this week, and obviously that's what happened, so you
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  Speaker 2: got to wait at least another week for the purple punishments.
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  Speaker 2: But that'll be fun. It'll hit. I know it'll be
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  Speaker 2: guaranteed to hit because we didn't pick every game the
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  Speaker 2: same way, so we'll get there when we get there.
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  Speaker 1: And in full transparency. It gives us a little more
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  Speaker 1: time to go shopping.
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  Speaker 2: Here for those things. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: All right, man, Well I'm excited to record tomorrow night
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  Speaker 1: with you. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I think there's only one thing to say after at
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  Speaker 3: atk at acting at a