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Tailgate Show: Vikings/Bears Analysis + Buccaneers Preview · Scene Projects Sports Network

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  Welcome in to the Scene Project Sports Network tailgate show just like we do every Tuesday.
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  I am your host, Bubba Starch, joined by my cohost, Big B.
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  What's happening, B?
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  What a game Sunday.
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  Hey.
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  What a game Sunday.
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  Did the weather play a factor?
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  Probably, but those are some of the funniest games to watch.
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  Yeah.
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  You know what else played a factor?
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  Brian Flores' defense.
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  Showing up.
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  Yeah.
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  Exactly.
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  And we're two and o.
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  That's right.
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  Let's get coach in here.
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  Coach Cody, what's going on, brother?
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  Two and o.
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  First in the North, baby.
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  Let's go.
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  Skull.
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  Big deal.
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  Big deal for all of us.
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  Wanna bring in a new cohost on the station and our special guest tonight, my guy, Selly.
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  What's going on, Selly?
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  Welcome to the show, brother.
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  Hi, guys.
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  What's up?
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  Thanks for having me today.
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  What's up, Awesome.
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  Yeah.
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  Quick introductions.
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  Be our cohost and coach Cody, our lead analyst here on the station, Selly.
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  New cohost with our guy, AJ, on the penalty spot talking all things soccer on Saturdays,
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  but he's also gonna be the host of our new basketball show that we'll be launching here
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  very soon.
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  But the man loves football too.
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  So I said we gotta get you in Tuesday night, introduce you to the crew, man.
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  So thank you, Selly, for being part of the Scene Project Sports Network and tapping in
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  with us tonight on the show.
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  No problem, man.
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  I love sports.
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  Like you said, it's an honor to be here.
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  Yeah.
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  Well and I think off the top, let let's get to know Sully a little bit.
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  We got plenty of time to talk football, but give us a little give us a brief kinda
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  backstory on you and, you know, why why you wanted to join the best team in sports here at
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  SPSN.
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  Yeah.
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  So ever since I was a kid, my dad got me into sport when I was young when I was a young kid,
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  about eight years old, taught me football, taught me basketball, got me into all this the
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  sports here in the Northeast area, And it just launched from there.
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  Loved watching ESPN as a kid.
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  Loved watching first take, Stephen a.
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  Thought I was gonna be the next Stephen a as a kid.
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  Then I went to college as was sport management major.
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  Learned every different thing you could learn at a college from a sport perspective,
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  coaching, about learning about stadiums, PR.
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  Mhmm.
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  Worked at the US Open for a bit for for the last four years working in the within player
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  operations back back there.
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  It was really fun.
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  It was a fun experience.
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  Then this opportunity came up.
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  Bubba hit me up one day, and it gave me a chance to keep my, sport dream alive.
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  So I'm just glad to be here.
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  Yeah.
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  We we are happy to have you, Selly, and appreciate you tapping in tonight.
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  Gave you a little bit of homework beforehand, had you deep dive the bucks for us as we get
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  farther into the show.
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  We're definitely gonna talk more about the game yet to come, but I'm excited to, get with our
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  guys.
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  We didn't have a chance to really talk postgame, fellas.
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  So, Cody, I'll start with you.
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  What'd you think about the game on Sunday, the way this team performed?
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  Obviously, the offense didn't get a lot going, but that defense looks like it's gonna be, top
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  top of the list all season long.
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  Well, I mean, first and foremost, shout out to Carson Wentz.
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  All you had to do was manage the game.
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  You didn't have to be a superstar.
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  You just had to give us a chance to win, and that's exactly what he did.
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  That that defense, it came to play.
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  Alright?
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  Came up with huge, huge plays, turnovers, and crucial moments.
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  You know, all around Will Riker, he's gotta be offensive m p MVP right now.
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  He's the only one that can put points on the board, it seems like, a lot of times.
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  But, that that's maybe a discussion for, our our pregame show and the preview show coming up
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  later this week.
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  But, I think a key for me is that the defense this year seems to be coming up with the big
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  plays and the big moments.
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  That is something that was lacking last year.
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  Last year was a lot of bend, don't break, still had a top 10 scoring defense, but weren't
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  coming up with the critical turnovers that you needed to turn the tide of momentum in the
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  game.
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  That is not the case this year.
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  It seems like every time there's a big moment to be had, this defense is being not just
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  opportunistic, but but really relishing in that role as well.
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  Jalen Redman with the huge punch out, you know, Byron Murphy junior getting involved early,
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  getting that turnover on a bad throw by Caleb Williams.
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  It's just like and Isaiah Rogers, I mean, come on.
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  You you gotta give that man a lot of credit, not only the fumble recovery, huge pass breakup
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  should have been an interception.
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  I think we're heading towards some rule changes on on those notes as well, but some great stuff
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  there.
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  B, how are you feeling on Sunday?
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  Well, I mean, the defense did what they had to do.
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  Like coach said, you know, once all you gotta do is manage the game in a bad weather game, so
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  that's all he did.
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  We had great running game by Jones, you know, great ball protector.
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  Of course, that defense, you know, lit it up, and they even gave the bears two extra chances
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  at the end of the game.
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  They punch it in, and Dallas Turner said, nope.
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  Not today.
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  And, you know, took care of it.
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  I mean yeah, what what can you say about the defensive if Rodgers ain't NFL defensive player
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  of the week this week.
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  I don't know what else he had to do with or or even Turner.
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  I mean, those guys have just lit up this defense, and they're playing on a whole new
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  level this year.
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  But, b, the grade says that Dallas Turner doesn't know how to play football.
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  Yeah.
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  Well, ask the bears.
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  Yeah.
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  Ask Caleb Williams and and Tyson Bagent how bad this man is at the game.
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  Sallie, did you have a chance to watch the Vikings game, or were you busy watching the
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  Jets kinda let one slip away against our hated rivals, the packers?
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  I was I've been an eye on both.
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  Ironically enough, they were both rain games, so both games offensively weren't great to
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  watch.
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  Yeah.
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  My my just let one slip away.
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  Some questionable decisions at the end.
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  Well, shout out to Brian Flores, man.
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  What a great game.
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  He blitzed Caleb Williams 79% of the time I saw him, which is unreal.
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  And then allowing fifty five fifty five points.
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  The Vikings allowed play.
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  They gave up only three points, which is the because the bears had 59 points last week.
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  I saw it was the second largest deficit from one week to another.
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  Yep.
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  Yeah.
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  And I think we knew here that that that bears team, even in perfect conditions, were never
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  gonna drop almost 60 on a Brian Flores defense.
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  That was never going to happen.
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  And then you factor in the elements with that as well.
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  And the fact that Brian Flores did not back down on his pressure rate and his willingness
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  to bring extra guys in that thing.
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  And I think they did a lot schematically that kinda gave the bears fits coming with more four
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  down linemen fronts during the game to really clog up that interior of the line, not allow
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  the bears to do what they're very good at, which is a lot of that inside outside zone
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  running game mixing it up and usually breaking those four massive run plays and big explosives
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  in the run game.
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  So I think it was a a little bit of, you know, the pressure, but also the fact that that there
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  was scheme things that Brian Flores is able to do with the talent on that defensive roster to
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  really mix things up and to bring in.
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  And in the middle of that line, two rookies, Big Citrus and Kayla Banks, showing up on the
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  stat sheets and showing up making big plays.
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  I know Banks had a big tackle for loss in there, and Citrus, I think, is just someone who
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  can eat up blockers on that line, which is something this team desperately needed.
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  No.
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  Definitely, both of those guys in the middle because early on in the game, I don't know how
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  much neither one played early, but it looked like the bears are gonna eat us up on the
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  inside.
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  And I'm just talking to myself while I was at work, I was like, okay, bikes.
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  You need to put the big guys in the middle or else we're just gonna not see them change their
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  game plan.
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  And they must have did something because that that middle got clogged up really quick, and I
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  think it had to do with those two big boys in the middle.
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  Well and then it also created mismatches on the outside.
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  I mean, how many times did we see Dallas Turner rushing the quarterback, as a free runner?
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  Now granted he wasn't able to get to Caleb Williams.
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  I think if Caleb Williams isn't the player that he is, he might have been sacked 11 times.
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  Right?
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  Yeah.
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  It it was just insane the amount of pressure that was going, but there was schematically
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  something that was going on that you were getting favorable matchups on your best pass
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  rusher, our best pass rusher in Dallas Turner, and no better example than the last play of the
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  game where you get him matched up on a tight end coming off that outside, and he just
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  bullies the tight end right into Tyson Bagent's lap and then shucks him to the side to grab the
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  quarterback and toss him down for the game ending sack.
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  So I I think we got something special in this young man.
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  I think a lot of us forecasted him building on top of the year that he had last year, playing
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  in that, you know, more true pass rusher role that Jonathan Greinhard had played in
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  previously with this team and now really being able to show that.
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  But still dropping back in coverage a couple of times and had a couple of key plays when he did
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  and didn't look out of place whatsoever in that position either.
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  So, yeah, it's hard to not be excited about what you're seeing from this defense so early
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  on and now giving this team a huge leg up in the standings, not only sitting atop of the NFC
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  North at two and o, but two and o in division play as well.
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  And, really, I've been putting a lot of fear into the rest of the league and especially the
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  NFC North to say, look.
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  B flow ain't playing this year.
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  And if this offense can just do a little, and this team can pin its ears back and come after
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  the quarterback, they're gonna be, not only dangerous, but I think terrifying to a lot of
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  offensive coordinators.
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  No.
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  That that is huge going.
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  And we talked about before that these first two games are gonna be huge for the Vikings just
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  because of the divisional matchups.
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  You know?
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  If they went o and two, one zero one, you know, you kinda put yourself in a hole there, but you
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  come out two and o, and then you go to Tampa Bay, and then Miami, and then the safes before
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  the bye week.
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  I mean, you're sitting pretty good.
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  They come out with the lions, you know, a little bit tougher schedule with the lions.
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  Well, maybe not tough with the lions, but then you got the Monday night game with the bills.
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  So, you know, they're they're looking a little bit better.
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  I'm a little bit happier, you know, after seeing these two games on where the Vikings are
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  sitting right now.
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  Yeah.
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  A lot of people glaze in the Lions saying that they're gonna bounce back and come back.
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  Look.
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  I think people are underestimating how important Ben Johnson was to the success of
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  that team when they were making those deep runs, and Dan Campbell doesn't have that.
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  Right?
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  So the lions don't scare me at all.
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  We saw what this team did with Max Brosmer on Christmas Day last year, and that team did not
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  improve that much over the off season to to make me any less afraid of them at that point.
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  Right?
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  So lions don't scare me at this point.
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  Neither do the bears.
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  I think even though Caleb Williams' injury, not as severe as it looked like on the field as
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  he's writhing in pain and crying being carted off the field.
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  Lot of talk about that, you know, obviously, this week across the national media as well,
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  but I I don't think he's gonna be the same player.
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  Even if it's a minor injury to a player that relies on his legs as much as Caleb does, and
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  we don't face them until week 18.
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  The the season might be set and the offseason set by that point.
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  He may not even play in that game for one reason or another.
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  So the bears at this point had their opportunities to close the game out.
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  They couldn't get it done.
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  The Minnesota Vikings defense, although, the offense didn't do much either, they did enough.
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  They did enough to get down into field goal range.
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  You let your you let your, you know, all pro kicker.
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  I I don't know how he doesn't make the team.
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  I don't know how he isn't considered the best kicker in the league at this point with as
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  consistent as he is.
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  You know, we had the two missed field goals last year.
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  One of them hit a damn wire on the thing, and I think the other one had something similar
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  happen.
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  Right?
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  So, you know, the guy doesn't miss.
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  He's automatic.
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  I think he banked it off the upright on purpose for some extra style points on that.
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  I think he was trying to create some drama.
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  That's how good I think this guy is.
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  And, you know, if the offense can keep this up and now with Kyler Murray coming back into the
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  fold on there.
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  What's up, Henry?
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  Appreciate you tapping in.
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  Can this offense now get going?
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  Weather, not going to be a factor in Tampa Bay this week.
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  You're playing against the Tampa Bay team that has really long balls.
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  I like that one.
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  Thanks for tapping in, Skull.
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  Appreciate you.
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  We have a game here where it's set up for hopefully Kyler Murray after sitting out and
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  watching, you know, game one and then, you know, this game in Chicago to see you don't
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  need to be Superman here.
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  You need to be good enough, protect the football, don't make the bad play, and we can
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  move forward.
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  And and I think that's so important when we talk about, building on top of these two wins
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  here early and then coming out and doing more and more as we move on through the season and
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  hopefully keeping this winning streak alive, through the bye week and and and, you know,
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  coming in to that Monday night football game with a whole bunch of wins stacked under your
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  belt.
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  At this point, you're already kinda playing with house money as the other teams, especially
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  in the NFC North, are really trying to figure a bunch of stuff out.
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  Well and too, I mean, we're still, you know, vibing from last year where we ended.
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  I mean, we're one play away from the playoffs.
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  We went, what, five and o, four and o in the last few games.
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  Know, we're just we got that mojo still going from last year into this year.
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  And, honestly, I got I I say a lot of it has to do not just with Florida, but Dallas Turner,
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  because he started coming on it towards the end of the last year showing what he can do, and
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  he's keeping that going.
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  Well and KOC talked about that a lot at the end of last year as well.
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  Even though the playoff, you know, hopes were dashed pretty early because of where this team
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  was, it was all about building and stacking for the future, improving incrementally, and moving
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  that on.
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  And going back to last season now, you've won seven in a row, and you've beaten all of your,
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  your your NFC North opponents.
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  Some of them you've beaten twice now.
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  So it's really easy to look at this to be very positive about where this team is going even
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  though the offense hasn't really even hit its stride yet.
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  Carson had a decent game coming in in relief, I would say, in in game one.
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  And then what up, Dave?
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  My guy, Skull Mafia, in the house.
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  Appreciate you, brother.
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  Thanks for tapping in.
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  Even though you have the the offense sputtering a little bit, obviously, conditions Sunday
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  absolutely atrocious, I think you're hoping that this team now with Kyler Murray under
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  center again can really start to move the ball down the field, and the offense can put
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  pressure on opposing defenses as well even if you are relying right now with the Jordan Mason
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  injury very heavily on, you know, the the the older legs of Aaron Jones to carry that
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  workload.
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  Selly hit on that a little bit.
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  How do you feel about someone having a, you know, a little bit older back there crowd and,
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  you know, kind of your running back by committee has now been reduced to really just
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  one.
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  DJ Dallas not getting a lot of snaps and, you know, Damon Claiborne still not really having
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  the trust of this staff.
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  Do you think this is sustainable for this Vikings team as they ride out the next couple
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  of weeks, or do you think that they may have to go out and and try to find some help in that
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  running back room knowing that Aaron Jones senior, definitely on the back end of his
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  career, still looking effective.
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  But if he goes down with an injury, which he's been prone to do, now you're kinda stuck with
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  the DJ Dallas and Damon Claiborne as your running backs.
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  Do you think there should be a move there, or you ride it out here and let Aaron Jones return
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  to, you know, maybe, 20, what, 13 or 14 when he entered league?
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  God, he's been around a long time.
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  Yeah.
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  I I think you ride it out.
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  Maybe you check the waiver wire or check for free agency for a move.
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  However, I think Aaron Jones being the vet that he is can get it done, especially when you got
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  great receivers on the outside.
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  You're not gonna really see heavy boxes all the time.
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  So I I think just being a great player that he is already, he should be okay.
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  And then once you add Kyler with with his running ability, should be able to even open it
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  more once, like, Kyler gets more comfortable in this KOC offense.
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  So I actually think, like, they'll be okay for now.
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  And plus, with this with KOC, with the running game, I I just think they're gonna there's
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  gonna be a lot of lanes for him, though, to run wild.
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  Yeah.
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  I think we all sure hope that's the case, you know, getting out of those messy conditions and
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  that fishbowl really without any significant injuries on this Vikings team.
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  You have to be pretty happy about that.
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  It could have been any player on the field that day.
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  The the bears had two of their starters, not just Caleb Williams, but the cornerback Tyreke
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  Stevenson, who I have no love for after the hit that he laid on helmet to helmet, to Aaron
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  Jones.
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  We say, yeah.
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  Skull, me too, man.
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  I thought that was bad.
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  It didn't even ring his bell.
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  Right?
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  I think he keeps that, chin strap a little loose to begin with.
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  You see it pop off during the game quite a bit in there, but, I mean, that was a a massive
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  hit.
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  It was clearly helmet to helmet.
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  I thought it was gonna get a flag during the game.
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  Was very surprised that it didn't.
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  Although it sounds like now they may be reviewing the play for a possible, you know,
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  fine or, you know, I don't know if they're talking suspicious.
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  It sounds like they're also reviewing the last sack too for Turner on a possible five saying
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  that I don't know.
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  There's some issues
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  with Yeah.
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  B Flow's got plenty of money now.
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  He can pay that one for DT because I got no problem with that man ending the game with an
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  exclamation point there.
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  Yes.
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  Did he throw him down a little hard?
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  Yes.
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  If it's Caleb Williams in there, does the flag probably come out?
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  You know, I I I don't think that, you know, that would have been a surprise to me to see
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  that.
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  I would have been absolutely disgusted.
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  I was just just football.
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  I think just it a juggling from Turner because they gave the they gave the bears two extra
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  seconds at five seconds and then one at double zero to punch it in again.
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  I think I think Turner just took a pawn himself and be like, dude, this game's over with.
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  Let's let's just end it now.
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  You know?
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  And and, Bubba, you talked about possibly rule changes or looking at the role for the Rogers
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  interception that was not called.
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  A lot of people are thinking the same thing that they're gonna look at that because if he
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  was facing if he was turned around the other way and catching it like a receiver with his
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  tip toes in there, it's an interception.
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  And, you know, so there there is talk that they might be looking at that again.
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  But Roger still have himself a heck of a game.
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  Yeah.
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  And I kinda glossed over it a little bit early on that, you know, he also had the massive
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  blocked field goal that completely changes the course of that game.
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  Right?
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  Yeah.
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  It would have been to make it nine to three at that point or nine to six at that point
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  completely changes things.
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  Right?
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  Or would have made it six six, actually, I think is where we were in the game.
• 22:13
  Right?
• 22:13
  Ties the game up.
• 22:14
  Makes it completely different.
• 22:15
  So I really thought that, you know, Isaiah Rogers, obviously, you know, Turner was a
• 22:21
  menace all day.
• 22:22
  Hard not to pick him as your MVP, but, you know, you cannot ignore what Isaiah Rogers
• 22:29
  means to this team right now.
• 22:32
  And and I think it's not just in the, you know, the big plays that he's making, but I think
• 22:36
  it's some of his tackling on the outside in the run game that saved a couple of plays as well
• 22:41
  and and saved some massive plays from happening.
• 22:43
  So
• 22:47
  Yeah.
• 22:47
  No.
• 22:48
  And also being You you also can't you also can't take a look at Cashman because I heard a
• 22:55
  stat too that his last four gay or four of his last 10 games, he's had 10 tackles and, like
• 23:05
  and another stat that he's the only player to do that.
• 23:07
  So Casper's also a big part of that defense too.
• 23:10
  So they're all playing together.
• 23:11
  Did I mention former Jet?
• 23:13
  Couldn't former Jet.
• 23:16
  Yeah.
• 23:18
  Who couldn't find a roster spot for him?
• 23:20
  And look what he's doing.
• 23:22
  I think there's well, there's a lot of players, you know, people that are probably looking at
• 23:25
  other places now for roster people.
• 23:28
  It's just like, can't keep people healthy.
• 23:30
  But yeah.
• 23:32
  But it just makes you think, though, there's you know, like you said, the Jets couldn't hold
• 23:35
  on to him.
• 23:36
  Couldn't find a roster spot.
• 23:37
  Look what he's doing now.
• 23:38
  Minnesota seems to be like that all the time too.
• 23:40
  We cut a player.
• 23:42
  We remove a player and, you know, don't sign a guy and he goes off somewhere else.
• 23:46
  I mean, you know, a lot of people here are talking about, like, Danny Jones or, you know,
• 23:51
  Sam Darnell.
• 23:52
  You know, we didn't want them to look what they did elsewhere.
• 23:54
  So we we feel you on that aspect.
• 23:58
  Yeah.
• 23:58
  Fair enough.
• 24:00
  Papa Gary.
• 24:01
  Great point about to avoiding injuries.
• 24:03
  Because if you've seen today the news with all different QBs going down, Jackson Dart might be
• 24:09
  out for the season.
• 24:11
  Well
• 24:11
  Yeah.
• 24:12
  Jayden Daniels went down this weekend as well.
• 24:14
  I don't know what the
• 24:15
  diagnosis was on the elbow.
• 24:18
  That's what I was gonna bring up too.
• 24:20
  You know, is the phone ringing in in the, KLC's office for maybe a small a small trade for, JJ
• 24:28
  McCarthy?
• 24:29
  I mean, what do you guys think of that?
• 24:30
  Up here with the Giants fans up here on the radio, a lot of them were saying maybe JJ or,
• 24:37
  Anthony Richardson, they might get some calls because you I don't
• 24:39
  know if you could
• 24:39
  ride out a whole season with Jameis.
• 24:41
  It's fun television, but if you wanna win, I don't know if you really wanna do this.
• 24:46
  Yeah.
• 24:47
  Yeah.
• 24:47
  And do they wanna win?
• 24:48
  Is this a great excuse to to take another season and to come away with a a top pick in a,
• 24:55
  what everyone's calling kind of a historically deep and talented draft?
• 24:59
  So, yeah, who knows, man?
• 25:01
  That Giants organization, has plenty of their own problems.
• 25:05
  If they want a JJ McCarthy problem, I don't think there's too many people in Minnesota
• 25:10
  right now that are gonna fight them on that.
• 25:13
  No.
• 25:14
  I I I don't think so either.
• 25:15
  I mean, you know, we all talked about it.
• 25:17
  You know, maybe JJ just needs to, you know, step aside or or sit and learn or maybe a new
• 25:23
  scenery and, you know, maybe going to New York, which is a big media place, but he gets
• 25:30
  alongside his former coach's brother.
• 25:32
  So maybe that might help him.
• 25:34
  But, you know, it was something I heard today a couple of different radio stations and
• 25:39
  interviews are saying that maybe the Vikings are getting a call for JJ.
• 25:43
  And that's why I never agreed with them trading him for nothing before, the season started or
• 25:49
  cutting him at that.
• 25:50
  Like, the guy the man still has value.
• 25:53
  He's still a top 40 or 45 quarterback, wherever you wanna put him in there.
• 25:57
  There's a lot of teams that would be happy to have a young player with some of the traits
• 26:02
  that he possesses.
• 26:03
  Has he been able to put it all together yet in the league?
• 26:06
  No.
• 26:06
  He hasn't.
• 26:06
  But there's a ton of coaches I'm sure that are sitting back and going, we would offer that.
• 26:10
  Now you got a few of these guys up against the ropes.
• 26:13
  You may be able to squeeze a fourth or even a a third round pick depending on how some
• 26:18
  desperate someone is where you are never going to get that preseason.
• 26:21
  So, you know, I I always kinda said, just as a general manager and someone looking at the
• 26:26
  whole of the team, not just the talent that's going out on the field, that that to hang on
• 26:31
  him hang on to him right now cost you next to nothing on a rookie contract.
• 26:35
  You might as well stick around there and see what happens and and see if that value builds
• 26:39
  without him having to really do anything but not go out there and put bad plays on tape.
• 26:46
  Well, that and just sit back and learn the playbook.
• 26:50
  Watch the video.
• 26:50
  Watch what Kyle and Mary do.
• 26:51
  Watch what Tracy wants to do.
• 26:53
  Watch the videos.
• 26:54
  You know, that's what what
• 26:55
  Kyle has done so far.
• 26:57
  But
• 26:57
  Oh, no.
• 26:58
  But I'm just saying the practice and stuff.
• 26:59
  Yeah.
• 27:00
  But and that's the thing with Kyle too, and I think Sal, I think he brought it up.
• 27:04
  He just had to sit back and play.
• 27:05
  You know?
• 27:06
  He just had to sit back and not have to put pressure on himself.
• 27:10
  Just let the offense do their thing.
• 27:12
  The defense has got their back.
• 27:14
  You know, don't go out there and be super mad.
• 27:15
  Just go out there and play football.
• 27:18
  Kyler has everything presented.
• 27:20
  All he has to do is just has JJ on the outside.
• 27:22
  He has Addison on the outside.
• 27:25
  He has a great line.
• 27:26
  He has a great play caller.
• 27:27
  He just has to let the offense come to him.
• 27:30
  Don't force anything.
• 27:31
  You're not at Oklahoma anymore.
• 27:32
  You're not at Arizona anymore.
• 27:34
  Just let your playmate And I think I think this team can be like it was two years ago,
• 27:39
  honestly.
• 27:40
  Why can't you be like your seat?
• 27:42
  And
• 27:43
  the thing is is Kyle is playing for the team he grew up watching, you know, too.
• 27:47
  So go out there and show us that, yeah, that you could do what we just need you to do is
• 27:51
  just manage the game.
• 27:54
  Yeah.
• 27:54
  Barber says, if we let, McCarthy go, that's Joe Milton off of Dallas' practice squad.
• 28:00
  Right?
• 28:01
  You know, there's you open up some options, and I don't think there was anything, ever wrong
• 28:06
  with just kinda hanging out and letting options present themselves.
• 28:10
  Welcome back, coach.
• 28:11
  Technical difficulties on your end.
• 28:13
  We got them back, though.
• 28:14
  Yes, sir.
• 28:15
  Yes, sir.
• 28:15
  I'm back.
• 28:17
  Wanna tell everybody about the live tailgate party schedule we got.
• 28:20
  You can check it out at tailgate.thesceneprojects.com.
• 28:24
  Every home game, we are gonna be live from the VWO army division tailgate at 903 Washington.
• 28:30
  That's right next door to Fathead Bills.
• 28:32
  Great, great venue for a party.
• 28:35
  Bee and Cody were there all all day on Sunday for the game opener a few weeks ago.
• 28:42
  Cody can vouch for the pickle shots.
• 28:44
  If you see them while you're there, they are excellent.
• 28:48
  And you're you're a block from the stadium.
• 28:50
  Doesn't get any better as far as the tailgate experience goes for the home games.
• 28:53
  And then away games, we may end up bouncing around a little bit.
• 28:57
  We've had some offers on the table from some other tailgate and watch parties, but we were
• 29:02
  at Brewster's last weekend.
• 29:04
  Cody, talk to me a little bit about the vibe down there at Brewster's Bar and Grill for the
• 29:10
  game on Sunday while you guys were there doing our show live pregame and then hanging out
• 29:16
  during the game.
• 29:17
  Yeah.
• 29:17
  No.
• 29:17
  Vibe was electric.
• 29:19
  Everybody was, you know, chomping at the bit, seeing what we would do against the bears.
• 29:24
  Shout out to everybody who stopped out.
• 29:27
  It was amazing, honestly.
• 29:28
  Didn't get to try those wings, but Kevin did.
• 29:31
  So we'll have to get a review on those.
• 29:35
  You're darn right we will.
• 29:37
  And, we'll we'll get Kevin on, in the future again, and obviously love having him tap in
• 29:43
  with us for the pregame.
• 29:44
  Thought he brought some great insights on this bears team, especially with him being a a bears
• 29:49
  fan.
• 29:50
  He was worried from Jump Street, and and I think a lot of bears came in, you know,
• 29:55
  especially the fan base came in pretty overconfident after a 59 performance, but
• 30:01
  exactly, what he was worried about, seemed to come to fruition on Sunday in Sculcherfield.
• 30:07
  It was 59 points against a team that, honestly, I don't think anybody has going to the
• 30:13
  playoffs.
• 30:14
  And if they do, it's barely squeaking in.
• 30:17
  So, you know, and, you know, maybe we're talking about a little bit of a different high
• 30:22
  score game if the weather weather was perfect, but it wasn't.
• 30:25
  You know?
• 30:26
  And and Kevin was concerned from the get go.
• 30:29
  He even said that the defense is gonna get to Caleb, and it's gonna rattle his cage.
• 30:35
  And it did exactly that.
• 30:38
  Coach, any final thoughts on the bears game before we move on and look ahead to Tampa Bay
• 30:44
  this week?
• 30:45
  No.
• 30:45
  I'm good.
• 30:46
  It was a it was a good game.
• 30:48
  Boys found a way to find a, find a way.
• 30:51
  That's what you gotta do in games like that.
• 30:55
  Totally.
• 30:55
  And I think it's time to kinda put a bow on it and and move on.
• 30:59
  It's nice to be able, to to go out there to to claim the top of the North, but this team still
• 31:06
  has a lot to prove, and that's gonna start Sunday down in Tampa Bay where the Vikings will
• 31:13
  take on the buccaneers.
• 31:15
  The buccaneers coming off a loss to the browns.
• 31:17
  That was a little bit of a weird game, it seemed like.
• 31:20
  I didn't get a chance to really tap in on that.
• 31:22
  But, Selly, your thoughts on on the Bucks performance Sunday in Cleveland before we start
• 31:28
  to talk about, the game with the Vikings this weekend.
• 31:32
  Yeah.
• 31:32
  Very weird, especially, like, with the weather delay just to do, like, the the last two
• 31:37
  minutes.
• 31:38
  But, the brown the browns actually took it to him on offense, which is very shocking because
• 31:43
  a lot of people, I think, thought Deshaun Watson was playing for his job.
• 31:47
  And I I was honestly I think the bucks might be missing Mike Evans a little bit.
• 31:51
  Maybe, there's gonna be a lot of pressure.
• 31:55
  There's gonna be a lot of pressure on this team, especially with Todd Bowles.
• 31:57
  He's playing for his he's coaching for his job and Baker signing the contract.
• 32:02
  I I just think there's a lot of there's a lot of pressure on a lot of people, and people
• 32:06
  aren't performing right now.
• 32:08
  Yeah.
• 32:11
  And I haven't followed the Bucks closely enough, but, just knowing, you know, losing
• 32:16
  Mike Evans, who's been a staple in this league for over a decade, you know what the man brings
• 32:21
  to the table.
• 32:22
  Anytime you lose that kind of talent from a team, there's going to be a drop off.
• 32:26
  Now their inability to stop the browns, gives me a little bit of hope that this Vikings
• 32:31
  offense can finally get rolling a little bit and, you know, moving the ball, especially with
• 32:37
  what we've shown in the running game the last few weeks.
• 32:40
  Now moving out there and and Kyler starting at quarterback.
• 32:45
  I'm really hoping that for the Vikings, this team is a little bit of a get right game for us
• 32:50
  playing outside under the sun in Tampa Bay.
• 32:54
  Grateful that it's, you know, kind of moving towards the end of November now and not two
• 32:59
  weeks ago when it was probably over a 100 degrees down there and kinda roasting.
• 33:04
  There's a little bit of time, you know, to to let that weather cool off a little bit, but
• 33:08
  always a tough place to play down there at Raymond James Stadium down in Tampa Bay.
• 33:14
  Yeah.
• 33:15
  I mean, Deshaun moved the ball against them up and down the field.
• 33:19
  He honestly looked like the old Deshaun, like the Houston, Texas Deshaun.
• 33:22
  So I think Kyler and this offense are gonna chance to do their thing, especially with going
• 33:28
  up against a Brian Flores defense where they're used to getting blitzed in practice.
• 33:32
  So what Todd Bowles loves to do, he blitzes all the time.
• 33:34
  So I don't I don't think it'd be a shock to them.
• 33:36
  And I think, honestly, there's gonna be chance for chances for a lot of big plays.
• 33:42
  B, I'm gonna put it on you.
• 33:44
  Any, interesting stats, that you might dig up about this game that you wanna highlight?
• 33:49
  I'm gonna kick it to coach right now, get a couple of his thoughts, but give you a little
• 33:52
  bit of homework and and maybe some things for us to highlight with that Bucks team that we
• 33:58
  should be looking at.
• 33:59
  Coach, how are you feeling about the Vikings going down into Florida this week?
• 34:04
  I'm fairly confident.
• 34:06
  You're you were right.
• 34:08
  I think this has to be a get right game.
• 34:11
  Kyler Murray's first game back, we don't really know what we're getting from him.
• 34:15
  You know, a small sample size.
• 34:17
  Interested to see if we can stick with that run.
• 34:21
  You know, I don't think Aaron Jones can do 20 carries, for a full season.
• 34:26
  He's just gonna get worn down, getting up there in age.
• 34:29
  And can this defense continue to keep quarterbacks just, you know, off their game and
• 34:36
  confused?
• 34:38
  No.
• 34:38
  I I don't think anybody's surprised.
• 34:40
  Baker Mayfield is no Caleb Williams, but he is plenty elusive and plenty tough back there to
• 34:48
  be able, to to sustain some of that pressure and to still make some plays.
• 34:53
  Do you think there's any adjustment from Brian Flores, or do you think this is just what it's
• 34:58
  gonna be?
• 34:58
  I'm bringing pressure 70% of the time against you.
• 35:02
  I'm gonna bring it from all different areas of the field.
• 35:05
  I'm gonna create matchup problems for you now being able to put multiple defensive linemen
• 35:11
  out there and to change up from the three down linemen to a four down linemen set and to
• 35:16
  completely throw out all plans that you may have had as an offense?
• 35:20
  Or do you think that he starts to slowly dial back into play a little bit more?
• 35:25
  I don't wanna say conservative, but dropping back into pass coverage a little bit more,
• 35:30
  still showing pressure, but then dropping back, maybe trying to create more poor decisions by
• 35:36
  speeding up that QB time clock and maybe throwing some passes into areas where you're
• 35:41
  not, you know, where you're not safe to throw the ball.
• 35:45
  I
• 35:46
  think he continues to send the house.
• 35:47
  You know?
• 35:48
  They send different looks.
• 35:50
  I mean, we're we constantly see different things from week in and week out.
• 35:54
  So, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
• 35:57
  I say we continue to go after the quarterbacks.
• 36:00
  Like you said, me, Baker Mayfield isn't as athletic, doesn't have the speed like Caleb
• 36:07
  Williams, but he still can move even at his age.
• 36:10
  So, and he's a dog.
• 36:12
  Can't put it past him.
• 36:16
  Cody, you you were, just, off camera while we were talking about some of the different fronts
• 36:23
  that Flores was bringing, and I gotta shout out our guy, Dell, you know, been a guest on the
• 36:28
  show, and he's definitely a skull brother out there.
• 36:31
  He had kinda pointed out that during the game in Chicago that we started to run more of a
• 36:37
  four four front, meaning four down linemen and four linebackers in there, leaving you just the
• 36:44
  three defensive back.
• 36:45
  Now some of that, obviously, conditions playing into it, but this this player definitely loves
• 36:51
  it, and we lost coach again, of course, as I'm trying to get a question out to him.
• 36:57
  But, well, I'll ask him when he comes back.
• 37:00
  B, did you find any stats for us?
• 37:02
  Yeah.
• 37:02
  So so looking at the Tampa's stats for the last two weeks, they've given up 28 points.
• 37:09
  They've scored 23 points.
• 37:12
  Let's see here.
• 37:14
  There was one interesting one here.
• 37:16
  They've given up, three touchdown passes, so that kind of their favorite, going to pick.
• 37:25
  Baker Mayfield's got sacked seven times.
• 37:28
  They sacked, their they've had cussed three sacks.
• 37:35
  Let's see here.
• 37:37
  Where was the interesting one I had?
• 37:39
  The running game, I think, is gonna be key because Bucks are there for an average of a 113
• 37:45
  yards, I guess, I think it's gonna be key to the game.
• 37:50
  It's definitely we gotta get the ball in our hands and run it.
• 37:55
  They have not had a punt return yet.
• 37:57
  The they're so yeah.
• 38:02
  So that's kinda interesting too that they have not had a chance to do a punt return.
• 38:07
  So
• 38:09
  Or or just don't want to similar to what we saw out of this Viking team last year after Mile
• 38:15
  Price's fiasco in into the Green Bay special teams and the game in Lambo, where after that,
• 38:24
  we were just sending guy.
• 38:26
  We were fair catching everything.
• 38:27
  When you don't trust your return game, it's easy to do.
• 38:31
  One thing that definitely stood
• 38:33
  The turnover ratio was minus four, so they got they
• 38:37
  said Well, we like that.
• 38:39
  Yeah.
• 38:40
  Things that stood out to me, obviously, that turnover ratio, a big one, but the seven sacks
• 38:46
  that they've given up mean that, yeah, definitely not pulling the foot off the gas by
• 38:51
  any means this weekend on the defensive side.
• 38:54
  You know Flores is gonna try to get after him and create maybe seven sacks of his own on
• 39:00
  Sunday afternoon and to get after the quarterback and really disrupt what the Tampa
• 39:06
  Bay Buccaneers want to do on offense.
• 39:09
  What's been really, really
• 39:11
  I do think it sounds like I do think it sounds right a little bit that they are missing Evans.
• 39:17
  I mean, he's been the key to their offense since he's been there.
• 39:21
  You know, he's a thousand yard.
• 39:23
  I I don't think he's had it under a thousand yards in a while, but I just sit there.
• 39:28
  Just trying to figure out who's gonna be that next person.
• 39:31
  I just have not figured it out yet, so they're relying on the run game a little bit more with
• 39:35
  Bucky and stuff like that.
• 39:37
  So we definitely, you know, put the pressure on them.
• 39:40
  They might be lost without their go to guy.
• 39:45
  Selly, let's get your thoughts in here about the about the Bucks and what they're gonna try
• 39:51
  to do against this Vikings defense and what they're gonna try to do on defense against this
• 39:57
  Vikings offense.
• 39:59
  You can start wherever you want to.
• 40:04
  Well, I know Todd Todd Bowles loves to blitz, so he's definitely gonna he's just like Brian
• 40:09
  Flores.
• 40:09
  He's gonna blitz a lot.
• 40:11
  And I I know big plays whenever you blitz as much as you as much as the Bucks do, there's
• 40:16
  big chances for big plays.
• 40:17
  So Justin Jefferson's gonna have one on ones.
• 40:20
  Addison's gonna have one on ones.
• 40:21
  And I just think Kyler's just gonna have to let it fly if he sees single high.
• 40:26
  They're not gonna play, cover two a lot.
• 40:28
  It's just gonna be so I think just, whenever you have your chances with Jets one on one, you
• 40:33
  just gotta let it go.
• 40:36
  Let it fly.
• 40:37
  I think there's a a lot of people in Minnesota and Vikings fans around the world that would
• 40:43
  love to see that.
• 40:44
  We wanna see Jettas getting that ball and making those big plays.
• 40:48
  I think we're really looking for Jordan Addison to step up this year and to be a factor, which
• 40:54
  he just hasn't been in two seasons now.
• 40:58
  I I I've kind of said it repeatedly at
• 41:00
  this point.
• 41:00
  Too.
• 41:01
  I mean, he's another one too that you know, I know we brought him in more for run block as a
• 41:05
  receiver, but, you know, definitely gotta get him involved, Hawkins involved, but, you know,
• 41:10
  it sound like you're right.
• 41:12
  I think if they see Jenna one on one, you just throw it up there and let let let them go get
• 41:17
  it.
• 41:18
  I mean
• 41:19
  Which I think is something that, you know, Carson Wentz was unafraid to do, and,
• 41:24
  hopefully, Kyler Murray has kinda been watching on the sidelines and and soaking that in and
• 41:29
  realizing what a special talent that he has out there, to do it.
• 41:34
  I just hope that the throws look better than, you know, his first one in US Bank Stadium a
• 41:39
  few weeks ago.
• 41:40
  They don't get much worse than that.
• 41:42
  Small sample size.
• 41:43
  I'm I'm not trying to hold 11 plays against the man before he goes out with the injury.
• 41:48
  But I think that, you know, Vikings fans have now seen that there's a clear path to winning
• 41:53
  Even if the offense isn't performing at an explosive level, this defense can win you games
• 41:58
  and can continue to win you games.
• 42:01
  I think you can win double digit games even with a a Carson Wentz back there starting, But
• 42:06
  that's not the ceiling for this team.
• 42:09
  That's not, you know, where this team wants to go.
• 42:11
  We wanna see these explosives, and, obviously, Kyler Murray gives you the best chance to shake
• 42:17
  things up a little bit and to bring something different to the table, something that, you
• 42:22
  know, Kevin O'Connell has never had on offense.
• 42:24
  A dynamic athlete back there at the quarterback position that can hopefully make some plays
• 42:30
  with you, not just with their arm, but with their legs as well.
• 42:35
  Yeah.
• 42:36
  No.
• 42:36
  Definitely, I think, you know, Kyler came to the best situation that he's probably been in.
• 42:42
  KLC's got his quarterback that, you know, that's athletic.
• 42:47
  I mean, it's just it you know, kind of makes it seem like it's a perfect match, but yet, well,
• 42:53
  it's out for 11 plays.
• 42:54
  So we definitely gotta see what it's like for a whole game.
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  And I know if this game was at home and Kyle was struggling, we'd probably hear some boos
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  because I think everybody wants to go with the hot hand and wants to keep it keep it rolling.
• 43:08
  So Kyle has got some shoes to fill, and he's gotta show that he belongs here.
• 43:15
  Yeah.
• 43:15
  And and I guess I'm not of the mind to you invested a lot of time and energy into Oh,
• 43:20
  Oh, yeah.
• 43:21
  Building this offense around the skill set of Kyler Murray and having him out there.
• 43:25
  He didn't really get a chance to do much out there.
• 43:28
  I I really agree that he should be starting this week.
• 43:31
  If he feels ready and there's no, you know, lingering effects from the concussion, he's
• 43:35
  passed the protocols now.
• 43:37
  You gotta get him out there.
• 43:38
  You gotta test it.
• 43:38
  And I think the time is now while you're playing with house money a little bit, you
• 43:43
  know, with the two and o start, two and o in the division.
• 43:46
  Get out there.
• 43:46
  Because if it looks like trash for the next couple of weeks before the buy, you can pivot
• 43:51
  at the buy.
• 43:52
  We can say, like, look, Kyler.
• 43:53
  It was great.
• 43:54
  Maybe you're trading him before the trade deadline, and you're saying, hey.
• 43:58
  You know what?
• 43:59
  Just like SK said on the show with us last week, with the fate of the universe on the
• 44:03
  line, I I want Carson Wentz.
• 44:06
  And we just roll it out there and take take what's given to us and really put it on the
• 44:11
  line.
• 44:11
  But we'll see.
• 44:12
  I'm excited to see Kyler out there.
• 44:14
  I hope that maybe some of the nerves that were evident starting out, you know, border battle
• 44:20
  to start the game at home, the the energy inside the US Bank Stadium was absolutely
• 44:26
  bananas.
• 44:27
  Now you're going out.
• 44:28
  He's able to play on the road down in Tampa Bay, a place where he's played before, you
• 44:33
  know, obviously, in a in a different colored jersey, but to to not feel the pressure of that
• 44:38
  home crowd as well.
• 44:40
  I know that we can be behind you, but that comes with some added stakes as well.
• 44:44
  And I think this is a great opportunity for Kyler to just go out there and play football.
• 44:50
  No.
• 44:50
  I think chime in.
• 44:51
  I think I I really think you're right.
• 44:54
  I think that first game, you know, be it at home at the busy arrival, we're looking for a
• 44:59
  lot.
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  We're all hyped up.
• 45:01
  I mean, you saw it at the pregame show.
• 45:03
  You saw it after the game, during the game.
• 45:05
  You know, Bubba, you're in the in in the stadium, so you definitely saw it.
• 45:09
  But now that he's on the road outside kind of the same weather conditions that maybe Arizona
• 45:16
  would have at this time of year, So it might be a little bit less it might be more less calm
• 45:22
  for him and and ready to, rock and roll.
• 45:26
  Go ahead, Selly.
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  Chime in.
• 45:30
  No.
• 45:30
  I agree.
• 45:31
  I I just think I think Tyler's gonna be pretty good.
• 45:34
  I I just believe in him.
• 45:35
  I don't believe he's been as bad as people has been saying.
• 45:38
  I I I honestly think he's, like, a top half of the league QB, and I I really do think he's
• 45:44
  gonna get it done.
• 45:45
  He's got a great coach.
• 45:46
  He's got a he has one of the best offensive players in the league in Justin Jefferson.
• 45:51
  Honestly, if all else fails, just throw it to 18.
• 45:54
  You'll be okay.
• 45:55
  Like
• 45:56
  Well and nobody's gonna get on your case about throwing it up that way.
• 46:00
  Right?
• 46:01
  You know, for me, players to watch and players that I'm expecting a lot out of moving into
• 46:07
  this week, lot of talk about Jordan Addison.
• 46:09
  I'm pretty over the the the player that is Jordan Addison.
• 46:13
  I know KOC glazed him a little bit for his blocking this week.
• 46:16
  I didn't see that, but I'm not watching the tape and the all 22.
• 46:20
  I think he's soft off the line of scrimmage and co the players know it.
• 46:25
  So he's just getting jammed up at the line.
• 46:27
  And unless KOC is gonna be more adamant about moving him around, he that we will get that,
• 46:36
  you know, Jordan Addison going in any way.
• 46:39
  I just I'm kind of over watching him play football.
• 46:43
  I'm hoping that we make some moves at wide receiver in the future.
• 46:47
  Love the Juwan Jennings signing.
• 46:48
  Obviously, he was out last week or, you know, on on Sunday due to personal reasons.
• 46:54
  We hope that, obviously, he's coming back this week just because of the dynamic that he has,
• 46:58
  not necessarily in the passing game, but in the running game too.
• 47:01
  And I think as time goes on and relationships are built on the offensive side of the ball,
• 47:06
  that he can be a threat in especially short yardage situations with this passing game as
• 47:12
  well.
• 47:13
  Gary, you know what?
• 47:14
  We'll we'll we'll never we'll never know.
• 47:17
  I got a couple in the media assets on here.
• 47:20
  Maybe I'll play one for you before we shut the stream down today.
• 47:26
  Yeah.
• 47:26
  No.
• 47:26
  Just looking at, you know, Kyler Murray's stats a little bit closer, you know, because Sal
• 47:31
  said, you know, he still feels that he's done decent.
• 47:34
  I mean, quarterback completion rated over 65 every year It's, you know, going into this
• 47:43
  year.
• 47:44
  He's had one, two, three, four four years of throwing almost 4,000 yards, just a little bit
• 47:52
  short.
• 47:53
  So if he stays healthy, plays fourteen, sixteen games, we got a decent quarterback there.
• 47:59
  You know?
• 47:59
  And that's what receivers that I mean, yeah, you can name a couple of them, but nothing like
• 48:04
  what he has here.
• 48:05
  So he dove and he doesn't turn over the ball much.
• 48:08
  I mean, 12 interceptions is the most he's throwing, and that was early in his career.
• 48:14
  And, you know, so no.
• 48:17
  He's definitely a guy that has talent.
• 48:23
  Yeah.
• 48:23
  And I I think just the dynamic athlete that he is, adds something in there, and we're gonna
• 48:29
  get to see a lot of, a lot more of the offense this week, obviously, than we did, Sunday
• 48:36
  against the bears.
• 48:37
  They knew it was gonna be a mess.
• 48:39
  KOC designed a game plan.
• 48:40
  It seemed like that just played into that, said we're not gonna put our guys in a situation to
• 48:45
  fail.
• 48:46
  And, now knowing that the weather's gonna be better, knowing that this Tampa Bay defense is
• 48:53
  giving up a lot, I wanna see how much the you know, maybe not the entire philosophy changes.
• 48:58
  I still wanna see them run the ball plenty, but are we gonna take some chances down the field?
• 49:03
  Are we gonna try to create something more in the pass game, really get this passing attack
• 49:07
  going, knowing that Todd Bowles is going to blitz more than what we saw against the bears
• 49:13
  or the packers either one?
• 49:15
  And let let Kyler play a little bit of quarterback and being able even if it's not
• 49:20
  deep shots to be able to go and to throw some of these short routes that end up going.
• 49:26
  Right?
• 49:27
  Hitting Addison on a short crosser that turns into yards after catch, hitting a Jawan
• 49:32
  Jennings over the middle of the field or a Hawkinson.
• 49:35
  Josh Oliver getting a lot more involved this year as we as we go through.
• 49:40
  So, b, what do you think is gonna be the final outcome of this game?
• 49:45
  We'll get a little predictions in here.
• 49:47
  Gary's throwing it out there and throwing the questions.
• 49:50
  So not only to the chat, but to matter.
• 49:54
  But to everybody as well.
• 49:56
  Again, barring injuries and looking at the stats, looking how the Vikings played week one
• 50:02
  against the division rival, you know, look how the defense looked at game two against the
• 50:07
  division rival, now you're going outside.
• 50:11
  You know, I think I've I'm I'm not scared.
• 50:14
  I mean, like Gary is, but I I I haven't feel we're gonna see, you know, 28, 17 Vikings w on
• 50:24
  this one.
• 50:25
  I think I think we're gonna see I think South Island something.
• 50:28
  I think Jefferson and maybe Addison are gonna have a coming out party, and we're gonna see
• 50:34
  some big plays with them guys.
• 50:37
  Sully, what are your thoughts?
• 50:40
  I think you guys are gonna get a a good fight from the buccaneers because if you believe the
• 50:44
  whole o and two to start the season and your chances of making the playoffs, I think the
• 50:50
  buccaneers season might be on the line this Sunday.
• 50:52
  So I think you're gonna get a good game from them.
• 50:55
  However, I still don't believe in their defense.
• 50:59
  And after seeing what I saw last week against Deshaun Watson and the Browns, I'm gonna go
• 51:04
  Vikings 24, bupreniers 21.
• 51:10
  Yeah.
• 51:10
  And I'm kinda right there around there.
• 51:12
  I don't think this offense has shown us enough to to say that we're gonna score three
• 51:16
  touchdowns, but I think you get a couple of touchdowns and maybe a couple of Will Rykold
• 51:21
  Will Rykard field goals in there.
• 51:24
  So I think I'm going around this 20 to 17.
• 51:27
  Seems fair to me.
• 51:28
  Bucks do get a a couple of touchdowns against this defense, but just not enough to to put
• 51:35
  them over the top.
• 51:36
  I'm not sure where the lines are at right now, but I I really think
• 51:41
  that by a point and a half, I believe it was.
• 51:44
  Right.
• 51:44
  So a kind of a pick them game that that the, you know, the the odds makers are throwing out
• 51:49
  there.
• 51:50
  So
• 51:50
  I'm getting 42 and a half.
• 51:52
  So
• 51:55
  Yeah.
• 51:55
  So I think where everybody's kinda right in line with that, I'm probably a little bit low
• 51:59
  on that.
• 52:01
  Gary go.
• 52:02
  Gary picking against the Vikings, given the edge to the buccaneers with a twenty seven
• 52:08
  twenty four.
• 52:09
  I it's oh, like Barber calling the pick six.
• 52:15
  I like that a lot.
• 52:16
  Yeah.
• 52:16
  The offense right now with Tyler with Kyler going back under center hasn't shown us enough.
• 52:23
  I don't I think that's probably a a little, you know, three touchdowns for Kyler when he hasn't
• 52:30
  thrown, you know, four passes and, you know, one of those went to the other team so far.
• 52:37
  We'll I think we get a couple of touchdowns.
• 52:40
  I think if we get anywhere close to the end zone, you gotta be looking Hawkinson's way
• 52:45
  again.
• 52:45
  He obviously had the one against Green Bay and some more there.
• 52:50
  So I think you probably get a a Hawkinson maybe in there.
• 52:55
  JJ picks up a lot of yards, maybe doesn't get himself into the end zone, but you're handing
• 52:59
  it off to Aaron Jones to punch one in there at the end and a couple of field goals.
• 53:04
  So I don't think it's gonna be a particularly high scoring game.
• 53:08
  This offense of the Vikings, especially with Kyler Murray, hasn't shown me enough to put a
• 53:12
  lot of confidence into them really stepping out this week against what I think exactly like you
• 53:18
  said, Selly.
• 53:19
  A team that, has their back against the wall a little bit.
• 53:22
  I know it's very early in the season and the stakes aren't necessarily that high, but you
• 53:27
  don't drop a game to the Browns and not have the fan base starting to get up in arms against
• 53:31
  that.
• 53:32
  And I know the Browns may be improving this year, but we we definitely need to get out
• 53:39
  there and get after the quarterback and
• 53:41
  create some.
• 53:42
  You know, we all can't forget about the comments Baker Mayfield made early in the or
• 53:48
  late in the off season about his contract situation and how he wanted out, and he thought
• 53:53
  he was gonna get paid like a franchise quarterback and stuff.
• 53:56
  So, you know, and now you start going too.
• 53:59
  Well, you see what the bucks, you know, thought of you or think of you.
• 54:03
  You got highly of yourself, and you went out and dropped two games at once in a round.
• 54:08
  So you know?
• 54:12
  Awesome.
• 54:13
  Well, with that, fellas, I think we can kinda shut this down.
• 54:16
  Sad that we lost Cody to bad Internet tonight.
• 54:19
  But, Selly, you were you were a great fill in, man, and I appreciate you, you know, not
• 54:25
  tapping not tapping in with us tonight, but also Selly, that's my wife Danielle.
• 54:29
  You'll be seeing a lot more of her in the future.
• 54:32
  Selly's been cohosting with our partner AJ on Saturdays.
• 54:36
  If any of you guys are soccer fans and curious about what's going on, Premier League and MLS,
• 54:41
  these guys are talking every Saturday.
• 54:44
  He throws out 04:30PM UK time, which I'm like, dude, we're all in these states.
• 54:49
  Like, just put a regular time out there.
• 54:52
  So what they're a six hour difference, So I gotta go back.
• 54:57
  Was that, like, 10:30?
• 54:59
  Yeah.
• 54:59
  Is it, like, 10:30?
• 55:01
  Eleven.
• 55:02
  Eleven.
• 55:03
  Your 11:30 your time.
• 55:04
  Right.
• 55:04
  10:30 our time.
• 55:05
  Time out there.
• 55:06
  Okay.
• 55:07
  Now that we know.
• 55:08
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• 55:13
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• 55:17
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• 55:18
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• 55:21
  Selly, how do Wednesday nights look for you for the for the basketball show?
• 55:26
  Great.
• 55:27
  Love it.
• 55:28
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• 55:30
  Let's go, Gary.
• 55:31
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• 55:34
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• 55:37
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• 55:43
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• 55:43
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• 55:48
  the next home game.
• 55:49
  So if you can, brother, I would love to come and pick you up, Gary.
• 55:52
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• 55:54
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• 55:58
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• 56:05
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• 56:10
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• 56:12
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• 56:15
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• 56:24
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• 56:27
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• 56:29
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