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Vikings Stay Undefeated, College Football Chaos, and WNBA Finals Tied 2-2 · The Daily Play With Joy Taylor

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  Speaker 1: Hey guys, it's Joy Taylor. Thanks so much for joining me.
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  Speaker 1: The Daily Play. Joy Taylor.
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  Speaker 2: It was a huge weekend in sports. Let's start on
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  Speaker 2: Sunday and work our way back. Somehow, Minnesota Vikings are 6-0.
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  Speaker 2: On a day where the Niners finally succumbed to their
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  Speaker 2: injury woes, losing to the Falcons without Mike Evans or
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  Speaker 2: Debo Samuels, the Vikings got it done again against the
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  Speaker 2: Colts to remain undefeated. Minnesota's first touchdown didn't come until
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  Speaker 2: the start of the fourth quarter, but Brian Flores' defense
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  Speaker 2: held Indy scoreless in the second half. Kyler Murray still
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  Speaker 2: doesn't look perfect in Kevin O'Connell's system, but he did
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  Speaker 2: enough when it counted to get the win.
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  Speaker 1: He said, we'll continue to get better. I know we will.
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  Speaker 2: I know he keeps saying that, but I feel like
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  Speaker 2: we moved the ball well today. He was 14.
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  Speaker 1: For 24, 150 yards.
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  Speaker 2: We just have got to put the ball in the
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  Speaker 2: end zone. So 16-10, not the most impressive score, but
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  Speaker 2: when it comes to the NFL, you win how you win,
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  Speaker 2: and a win is a win, and all those cliches
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  Speaker 2: really count. Now, I usually don't do this lack of
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  Speaker 2: great opponents thing when it comes to evaluating a team,
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  Speaker 2: and certainly we did not expect, or I didn't expect
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  Speaker 2: the Vikings to be 6-0 at this point in the season,
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  Speaker 2: but they keep winning. And there is something to... the contagious.
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  Speaker 1: Nature of winning.
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  Speaker 2: There's something to momentum and there's something to finding ways
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  Speaker 2: to win. It's hard to win games in the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: And I know I'm saying a bunch of cliches, but
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  Speaker 2: it is what it is. You don't get bonus points
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  Speaker 2: for how you win. You don't get special points for
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  Speaker 2: losing close.
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  Speaker 1: At the end of the day, it's the record.
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  Speaker 2: So what I think is kind of interesting about the
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  Speaker 2: Vikings is that they haven't really hit their stride yet.
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  Speaker 2: Their best wins were week one and two over the
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  Speaker 2: Packers and Bears. Obviously, division games. Those are the only
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  Speaker 2: two wins against teams with winning records this season. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I kind of am enjoying watching Kyler Murray
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  Speaker 2: come into a different chapter. And we'll see what happens
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  Speaker 2: with them for their next couple games.
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  Speaker 1: So they've got... They've got the Lions coming up next,
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  Speaker 1: obviously a divisional game.
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  Speaker 2: But they have two really interesting games coming up against
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  Speaker 2: the Bills and against the Niners. And I think after
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  Speaker 2: those two games, we'll really see what the Vikings have
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  Speaker 2: to offer and what they really are. Something to pay
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  Speaker 2: attention to, though, Aaron Jones aggravated a knee injury in
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  Speaker 2: the fourth quarter. He took a low hit at the
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  Speaker 2: end of a 17-yard run, and he didn't return. He
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  Speaker 2: was huge last game with 113 rushing yards while Jordan
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  Speaker 2: Mason was out.
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  Speaker 1: Mason is back. But, you know, they have to watch
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  Speaker 1: that and make sure that they.
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  Speaker 2: Keep that depth at that position healthy because it's a
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  Speaker 2: big part of what they do. So flipping back to Saturday,
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  Speaker 2: filled with upsets. I'm loving what's happening in college football
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  Speaker 2: this year. I'm loving all the parity. Anyone can lose.
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  Speaker 2: And the competition has been amazing. much more stiff and
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  Speaker 2: much more exciting. Many Saturdays this season have looked like
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  Speaker 2: this weekend, and that's great. So number two overall, BYU
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  Speaker 2: fell to unranked UCF. A school ranked in the top
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  Speaker 2: two has lost to an unranked foe in each of
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  Speaker 2: the past three weeks. I think that's incredible for college football.
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  Speaker 2: I think it makes it so much more exciting. It
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  Speaker 2: makes the games more watchable. You know, it just brings
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  Speaker 2: the competition to the sport in a way that we
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  Speaker 2: really haven't seen before. Arch Manning responded to a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of questions about his starting job with a huge win
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  Speaker 2: over Ole Miss.
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  Speaker 1: That launched Longhorn's eight.
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  Speaker 2: Spots higher in Sunday's latest AP rankings, and Ole Miss
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  Speaker 2: dropped out of the top 10 with the loss, just
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  Speaker 2: like Texas Tech did after their loss to Cincinnati.
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  Speaker 1: Well, a lot happening. USC lost to Wisconsin. in Madison.
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  Speaker 2: So they dropped out of the top 25. So despite
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  Speaker 2: all the chaos, the Miami Hurricanes had a huge win
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  Speaker 2: over the Panthers, which was alleged to be a trap game.
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  Speaker 2: And they remain undefeated to hold on to their top
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  Speaker 2: overall ranking with the first college football rankings coming after
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  Speaker 2: this week's game. So Miami heads to Chapel Hill to
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  Speaker 2: face Bill Belichick's Tar Heels on Halloween. If the Canes
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  Speaker 2: win that one, they control their own destiny. Another test
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  Speaker 2: would be the following Saturday against Notre Dame, which will
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  Speaker 2: be pretty much the marquee game of the Hurricanes season.
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  Speaker 1: I also want to show some love to UCLA and Utah.
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  Speaker 2: Who also haven't lost a game this season, and the
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  Speaker 2: Bruins are a great story under new head coach Bob Chesney.
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  Speaker 2: Utah's always been competitive, but they've looked really good this year,
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  Speaker 2: and just got to show them some love. I think
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  Speaker 2: college football is having one of its best seasons ever,
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  Speaker 2: and There's a lot of good quarterback play, which means selfishly,
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  Speaker 2: I like good quarterback play because that means that the
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  Speaker 2: draft is going to be very interesting. And I've got
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  Speaker 2: a couple of teams that I follow closely that could
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  Speaker 2: use a good quarterback in the NFL. So lots of
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  Speaker 2: good things happening. And finally, early on Saturday, due to
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  Speaker 2: scheduling adjustments for the big arena, the Valkyries beat the
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  Speaker 2: Dream to tie the WNBA finals at two games apiece.
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  Speaker 2: Golden State head coach Natalie Nakase had some major lineup adjustments.
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  Speaker 2: She put Tiffany Hayes and Kayla Charles into the starting lineup,
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  Speaker 2: and that paid off. The Valkyries controlled the game with
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  Speaker 2: great defense, held the Dream to just 62 points, and
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  Speaker 2: Angel Reese was also limited in part with Kia Stokes'
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  Speaker 2: defense holding her to just eight points. So the Dream
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  Speaker 2: are really going to need to step up the intensity
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  Speaker 2: in San Francisco because Valhalla is going to be rocking.
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  Speaker 1: It's already always very hype in there.
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  Speaker 2: But being that they're coming back after that big game
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  Speaker 2: three loss and the series, even game five is going
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  Speaker 2: to be very, very crucial. I hope that this goes
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  Speaker 2: seven games. I am a seven game queen. I love
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  Speaker 2: a game seven. I think there's just nothing better in sports.
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  Speaker 1: And I know that.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the Dream or the Valkyries want to deal
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  Speaker 2: with that if they can close it out earlier.
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  Speaker 1: But I personally, as a fan, want to see this
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  Speaker 1: go all the way.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's been a great finals, and it's had
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  Speaker 2: great viewership, great storylines, and, you know, just also selfishly,
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  Speaker 2: the idea that Angel Reese could potentially win finals MVP,
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  Speaker 2: depending on how the rest of this series goes, is just,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, oozing in deliciousness.
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  Speaker 1: I just, I couldn't wait to see how the.
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  Speaker 2: Internet tries to do backflips out of that one if
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  Speaker 2: that ends up happening. And from the Valkyrie side, for
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  Speaker 2: being an expansion franchise that is as valuable as it
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  Speaker 2: is with the environment that it's created, the support that
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  Speaker 2: it has in the city, I think it's been really,
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  Speaker 2: really important for the league because, you know, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of the questions about the league, which still has, you know,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of flaws in leadership, is that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: can it be a viable business?
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  Speaker 1: And the Valkyries have shown that immediately in a very,
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  Speaker 1: very serious way.
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  Speaker 2: So I think it's been a great series and I
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  Speaker 2: hope it gets to seven, but we will see very
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  Speaker 2: soon how that's going to go.
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  Speaker 1: Game five is going to be very important. Thanks so
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