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Vikings Reach 5-0 Behind Defense and Kyler Murray · Scene Projects Sports Network

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  Welcome in to the scene project sports network.
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  I am your host, Bubba Starts, and you are here tonight for Tailgate Tuesday, our weekly recap
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  of the week that was in the NFL.
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  The Minnesota Vikings are five and o, still remaining undefeated headed into their bye
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  week, and, I couldn't be more excited about it.
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  Let's get my cohost in here.
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  Big b, how are we feeling?
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  Now we're feeling good.
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  I mean, outside the Minnesota game, the rest of week five was just as wild as I can ever
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  remember, some of these...
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  Endings of those games.
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  But, hey, who would have thought five and o going to the bye week?
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  I mean, if anybody had that on their bingo board, props to them.
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  Yeah.
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  I I thought it was always possible, especially if you started off with with a couple of wins
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  in the division early.
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  We knew this defense was going to be good, and we kinda talk about it ad nauseam.
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  But we're pretty confident coming off of last season knowing that you are gonna see
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  progression out of a Dallas Turner.
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  We are really confident in the draft picks contributing and guys taking another step,
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  Jalen Redmond, Levi Drake Rodriguez.
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  We had some good feelings about the defense.
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  And I would say that a lot of people were excited about adding Kyler Murray to this.
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  I know it kinda split the fan base, and it didn't start off great.
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  But these last few weeks, the end of the Miami game and now moving into, you know, this entire
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  game in New Orleans, I think we've started to see Kyler Murray return to the player that he's
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  always been.
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  And my pushback with everyone, you know, a a lot of times this season has been the MVP talk.
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  Right?
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  The the assuming that all of a sudden, we're gonna be seeing a quarterback throwing for 400
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  yards and four or five touchdowns a game, and that just simply isn't Kyler Murray's game.
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  Yeah.
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  What Kyler's game is is what we've seen for the last five quarters of football.
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  High completion percentage, a shorter passing game, not necessarily dinking dunking, but not
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  taking 40, 50 yard shots down the field either.
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  The mobility, loved what we saw with him being able to avoid Chase Young on a couple of those
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  rushes.
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  It looks like he's getting back into football shape after having essentially an entire year
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  off from playing in the games and practicing as the number one.
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  So what we're seeing now is what I I think is the...
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  I think this is what it could be.
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  If this is now our baseline, what's good, Dell?
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  Chevy, good to see you.
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  Appreciate you.
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  What we're seeing now with this offense, at least for the last five quarters, is the recipe
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  for success of this team.
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  Mhmm.
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  Protect the ball, although they didn't do a great job of that in New Orleans.
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  Fumbles happen.
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  Though though...
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  Those things are going to happen to you.
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  It's how you recover.
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  Your defense turned around and got you the ball right back in a couple of games.
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  You...
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  You'd stole the first possession of the second half with an incredible play by one of your
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  rookie linebackers.
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  You know, just...
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  And I missed it.
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  I was outside getting the kids ready to go fishing Sunday afternoon, said come back in,
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  and we already got the ball.
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  And I was like, oh, three and out.
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  And Danielle's like, no.
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  They forced a fumble on the opening kickoff and just like, let's go.
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  Loved that.
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  Loved seeing the whole sideline fired up for the young man in that moment as well.
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  Jetta's returning and doing Jetta's things was pretty incredible.
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  The man's concentration off the charts.
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  To be able to track that ball and just never loses sight of it, it's incredible to me.
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  And we've been watching this since he entered the league, but it...
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  It's unreal.
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  And what a throw by Kyler.
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  The the experience showing up time and time again.
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  I think he left a couple of throws on the table.
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  I...
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  We nitpicked a little bit when I got on with rap postgame and, you know...
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  But you can't you can't be mad.
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  Right?
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  I I forget the exact...
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  What?
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  27 or 37, you know, 20 plus drop backs.
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  I think you're gonna see a return to running the ball a little bit more, but but the short
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  passing game's a little bit of an extension of your running game.
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  Right?
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  So you...
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  You're creating conversions.
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  You're creating with the legs.
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  I think you're gonna see Jordan Mason come back rejuvenated.
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  You know, he hasn't taken any abuse through the first six weeks of the season coming back from
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  the now, fresh legs entering that room.
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  I wouldn't be surprised if coming out of the buy, if Aaron Jones is still a little iffy that
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  they don't just healthy scratch him.
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  I don't think anything that he's experiencing is is IR worthy.
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  Right?
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  But I think maybe giving him a a blow and saying, look, man.
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  Like, we got this.
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  Jordan, JP as they call him.
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  Right?
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  JP and, you know, DJ Dallas.
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  Maybe there's another running back that that cracks this lineup in this time.
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  Right?
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  We got two weeks of tinkering, and Nolan Teasley has been a busy, busy man with that
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  practice squad.
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  Yeah.
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  No.
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  It it is...
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  Sure sure we're seeing the new...
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  Or the column where we thought we'd be getting.
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  It took him, you know, pretty much the fourth quarter to the Saints game to figure it out.
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  I mean, I think I think I put it in our chat.
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  I thought this was the best game so far all around that we've seen in at least in the last
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  11 games.
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  That that throw to Juddas was perfect.
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  Like you said, Judda concentrated on it in a three...
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  You know, being covered by three guys.
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  I mean...
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  And he still got the ball.
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  The short game with the tight ends, I I guarantee there's a lot of tight ends out
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  there.
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  It's like, man, I wish I was with the Vikings now because, look at, they're hitting their
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  tight ends.
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  And like and like you said, the
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  short They might have a chance, B.
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  I'd say with with Hawkinson's status a little bit unknown right now, and and players have a
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  tendency, and he's not a quarterback.
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  You can't protect him.
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  So I didn't see the play at all.
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  I didn't see the play either.
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  I said it was the first play of the game.
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  Yeah.
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  First or second, one of the two, because I think he...
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  Yeah.
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  He had one catch for seven yards, so that might have been the...
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  But, I mean, Calumar
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  catch and then...
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  And took a hit from there.
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  Probably.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Kyle Murray is that.
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  I mean, Kyle was 11 for 11 to start the game before.
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  I mean...
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  And like you said, the short the short pass he gives is almost like a run, especially those
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  little wide screens that they put in there.
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  Now the defense did their thing.
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  Will the drill did his thing.
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  The only thing that I could say that kinda really just lackluster was those two fumbles
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  and one of them getting housed.
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  You know?
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  So, I mean, what what can you say?
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  I mean, this
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  What...
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  What's good, coach?
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  What's good?
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  Celebrating a Hattie today.
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  Let's go.
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  Yes, sir.
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  Yes, sir.
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  First one in the Hastings Ford.
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  It was a memorable one too.
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  Hey.
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  We don't have to keep you, but, you know, congratulations to you out there doing your
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  thing.
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  If you wanna tap in later, we're gonna be here for a while tonight.
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  Family's watching the last home volleyball game of the season here in town.
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  So you got time.
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  Appreciate you tapping in with us real quick, though.
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  Coach, real quick, what'd you think of the game on Sunday?
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  A lot better.
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  A lot better.
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  Not where we wanted to be, obviously, but, you know, I kinda poked fun at KOC in his favorite
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  word, ascending.
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  He always wants to say that this offense is ascending, and, I mean, we're on the right
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  track.
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  Kyler Murray, damn.
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  I mean, that, that, Effid, d Hopkins is down there somewhere.
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  It holds true, now, you know, throwing it into triple coverage.
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  You know, when you have the look pre snap and post snap that he did, one on one, you know,
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  you lob it up.
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  It's a fifty fifty ball anyway.
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  You take into account that it's Justin Jefferson you're throwing it to, and that's
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  gotta go up to at least 70, 75.
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  You know what I'm saying?
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  So And he put it in a spot that nobody was gonna get it.
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  It's either catches it or it's out of the back of the end zone.
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  Right?
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  So Yep.
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  Those are throws that a guy with this kind of experience and with the arm talent that he has,
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  those are the throws that he can make.
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  Right?
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  He's not doing that from, you know, the the 40 or the 50 yard line and dropping it into that
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  bucket.
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  But when you're inside of that 30 yard range, I'm feeling pretty good about the throws that
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  Kyler can make.
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  You get to the edge of that red zone and, you know, some some frustrations from Juwan
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  Jennings, the guy's the most useful in the red zone, and and we can't we can't even get there.
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  One, we couldn't get there even on the offense, but then you get out of that, and then you get
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  into a range where your quarterback is really effective at making plays either with his arm
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  or with his legs.
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  So it it it was really incredible to watch it all clicking, watch it all happening.
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  Obviously, the fumbles suck, but that's football.
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  Right?
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  I I mean, these guys are punching at the ball on the other side.
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  Hopefully, Miles Price learns a little bit of a lesson about protecting in that situation.
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  Aaron Jones looked like...
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  Usually, he goes down with two arms on there.
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  I think his knee, that knee that he's been nursing a little bit, got hit on that play, and
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  he's kinda protecting himself as he's going down.
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  And then the ball gets punched out.
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  I mean, we haven't suffered a lot of these turnovers, and they're going to happen during
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  the course of a season.
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  So you you have two in a game both inside of the red zone.
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  And at the end of the day, it doesn't hurt you, and, know, it...
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  It's the only points that that New Orleans scored the entire game.
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  I I mean, the defense is just lights out.
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  It's incredible.
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  Under a 150 yards of total offense.
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  That's.
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  Yeah.
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  I mean, I, you know, I thought that Tyler Shuck and the Saints offense, you know, coming into
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  this game, they weren't afraid to throw it.
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  And he...
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  They weren't to throw...
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  Afraid to gun it with him, and for him to be held to, what, 90 something pass yards.
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  Like, yeah.
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  B flows out to make a statement this year, and he's doing it.
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  Yeah.
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  He had...
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  With the sack totals of loss, he only had 87 passing yards net.
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  Yeah.
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  So 55 rushing yards.
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  So, yeah, they, their offense, you know, couldn't handle the defense.
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  I mean, they looked good for four weeks, and week five kind of opened up every...
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  Everybody's eyes, I think.
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  Well, in those fumbles that Bubba mentioned earlier, you know, Miles Price just being a
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  young kid, a young player, still needs to learn, like, hey.
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  You might have made it this far, but you still got plenty of, way to go.
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  Secure the ball, first and foremost.
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  AJ AJ 33.
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  A little bit of that is physical.
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  Yeah.
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  He's a smaller guy.
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  He's got a little bit shorter arms, which would kinda be a...
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  I mean, I stood next to him when we were at the charity event.
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  He was there signing autographs right next to him.
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  Right?
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  I got pictures a foot away from this guy.
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  Right?
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  He's he's not as tall as I am even.
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  Right?
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  I'm six foot tall.
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  I'd say he's probably, like, five eleven.
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  He's not, like, tiny or anything, but built built thick up top and and with shorter arms.
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  And when you go to carry that football, right, the the reason it is shaped like it is and the
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  reason that the ball gets punched out as often as it is is it's not easy to do.
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  Right?
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  So, but you gotta get two hands on it.
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  You gotta protect that football when you're out, especially on those kind of swing plays
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  where you're gonna have three, four guys tackling you at the end of it.
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  Get two hands on the ball.
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  You can't be carrying it like you're out there on the kick return or punt return.
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  You know, you gotta protect it, and that's gonna be a teachable moment.
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  You you saw how disappointed he was after the play, and then having it go for six the other
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  way just sucks.
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  But he came right back out, and and I think had a a a kick return on that ensuing kickoff that
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  kind of flipped the field too.
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  So you you give it away, you get it back, and he is still affecting the game in so many
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  positive ways.
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  Well, and with the with the fumbles again, like, the, you know, peanut, peanut Tillman,
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  made it so, you know, so famous.
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  They named it after him, the peanut punch, and it's just been getting more and more popular.
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  And, you know, players are
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  starting get own too, so we can't, you know?
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  Yeah.
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  Galday had a hell of a right hook in there to knock that ball out.
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  Yeah.
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  And when you when you as a player can learn, you know, to throw that punch while securing
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  the tackle with your other hand, you're gonna be dangerous.
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  Yep.
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  Pretty impressive.
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  I I walked away from the game, and they done exactly what I asked them to do.
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  I...
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  It was start the way start the way that you finished the game against Miami.
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  Start off hot, and you went out and did that.
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  Kyler starts 11 of 11.
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  Coming in, what's good?
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  Skull mafia, my brother, Kev.
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  Cody, you gonna tune in from the parking lot all game, or you wanna get yourself home?
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  Yeah.
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  I was gonna say I'm gonna get myself home.
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  I'll I'll catch you guys soon in little bit.
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  Alright.
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  Cody's gonna be, you know, half hour to get home and everything.
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  So you guys wanna come on, tap in with us, talk about this team and and some of the topics
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  tonight.
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  No.
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  We...
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  We'd appreciate having you on.
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  Bean I know I know one thing is, you know, everybody's talking about the bye week.
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  You know, we're five and o going to the bye week.
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  I think this is probably, you know, maybe the perfect time for the bye week.
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  We can get healthy.
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  We're still kind of fresh.
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  You know, Kyler is getting used to the playbook, so now he can take a week to learn it
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  some more, get in tune more with Jefferson, Addison, Hockenson, everybody else they got
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  there.
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  Come out of the bye week with the Colts and hopefully, again, build off of the Saints game
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  and keep going.
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  I mean, I don't expect Kyler Murray to go 12 or 12 every week, but, you know, seven of 10,
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  eight of nine, you know you know, stuff like that.
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  Just move the ball, time management, the short passing game works.
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  Yeah.
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  We got Jefferson who's the long threat, but, hey.
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  We'll...
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  They'll find Jefferson when needed.
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  But just keep rolling on this...
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  What we learned from the Miami game to the saints game.
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  You know?
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  Everything's, Scott Uma right now.
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  I, like this guy, Chevy.
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  I I agree, man.
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  For me, the the offense just has to be what it already was.
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  They don't even need to take another step if your defense is gonna go out there and hold
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  teams under a 150 yards of total offense.
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  Yeah.
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  You don't need a lot, and you don't need to put the ball in danger.
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  You know, this team could have put up 40.
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  You you punch in both touchdowns in those red zone trips, and and and you really got this
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  saints team on their heels.
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  And I I think it's cool.
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  But, yeah, Kyler Kyler looked like a different player these last few weeks than he did the
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  first.
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  I think there was some nerves.
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  I think there was...
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  The game was moving a little fast against Green Bay, especially the energy of that opener, not
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  having played it over a year.
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  Yeah.
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  I just...
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  I I think...
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  And not that it was too much.
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  It's just like it takes a minute to get back into No.
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  Not just, like, physically game shape, but mentally back into that.
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  You can see the game slowing back down for Kyle, who's obviously done this at a high
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  level.
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  And and I was never someone who was, like, hating on it.
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  Bee, I know you're real hard on him about being short and everything, but he's proven he can be
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  successful in this league.
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  He can play.
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  Let's just go do the things that that he's done successfully.
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  Yeah.
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  No.
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  You're right.
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  It it...
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  I'm not gonna...
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  You know?
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  I mean, yeah, he's whatever, five whatever in our in our office line is 64 plus.
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  You know?
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  So, yeah, it's gonna be a little hard to see, but if our line could protect like they did,
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  open up some holes that you can see, he's gonna make plays.
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  This was the game that I kinda thought would have been the Miami game where we kind of, you
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  know, put our foot to pedal to the metal all out.
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  It didn't work out that way.
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  So we got the game a week late that I was expecting, but, you know, Kyler is showing that
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  he can definitely do it.
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  I think, you know, he's got a reliable backup if if needed.
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  I think we've seen that with Wenz.
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  You know?
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  But I think this offensive line, I I will give it a a solid a for their protection and opening
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  up holes so Kyle can see it.
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  And if Kyle sniffed out a little run, he wouldn't do it.
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  He didn't have to do it.
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  He got, what, 56 yards or so rushing, 51 yards rushing.
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  So it's definitely, you know, coming together as, you know, we kinda were hoping at the
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  beginning of the year and this, you know, week five into that.
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  So...
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  And and that's the thing.
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  New playbook, he's getting comfortable with it.
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  And it's it's something that New Orleans did for years with Drew Brees playing quarterback.
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  When you have a guy that might struggle to do that, what you wanna do is to push the middle
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  of that line out.
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  And you saw them doing that quite a bit.
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  Joe Huber, I thought, had a really great game.
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  A couple of clips of him kind of, you know, helping on the double team inside.
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  And as that's moving off, coming back and and hitting the edge with and helping his left
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  tackle out there too, I think you're seeing some really great things there, making you feel
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  a little bit more confident about not necessarily going out and trying to find a left
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  guard on the trade market.
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  There...
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  There's a lot of things to be really excited about with this with this team.
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  First three quarters, Jones has seventeen and seventy one with a 4.1.
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  Fourth quarter, eight for 42 with a 5.2.
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  Yeah.
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  I...
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  It's crazy that people keep talking about him like he's washed up and, oh, he's gonna get...
• 20:46
  He is he is hurt.
• 20:48
  Right?
• 20:48
  Like, he he is a little banged up, but the dude is a freaking warrior man.
• 20:53
  And Oh.
• 20:54
  I think what he does is he wears teams down, and he gets going.
• 20:58
  This man feeds off it.
• 21:00
  It was a pleasure, Del.
• 21:01
  I got to meet Aaron Jones senior at the charity, softball game that we covered in May
• 21:07
  and got to shake his hands.
• 21:08
  And he's just he's a guy that loves ball.
• 21:11
  He loves playing.
• 21:12
  You heard him talk about it before the season started about, man, I wanna do this for, you
• 21:17
  know, another two, three, four years.
• 21:20
  Right?
• 21:20
  Like, I wanna keep balling out as long as I can.
• 21:23
  How can you deny him?
• 21:25
  25 carries over a 100 yards again.
• 21:28
  Absolutely boggling the mind, but it it speaks to exactly what these stats say us is that we
• 21:36
  have something.
• 21:38
  And when you're about to get Jordan Mason back there and Jordan can kind of wear them down,
• 21:44
  you can get Aaron Jones hopefully breaking them.
• 21:46
  Still hoping to get more out of Damon Claiborne who got some more touches in this game and and
• 21:53
  is playing.
• 21:54
  The the young man just not ready necessarily for the NFL game yet on a regular basis, but
• 22:01
  he's some real experience this year.
• 22:04
  No.
• 22:05
  No.
• 22:05
  And that's the thing with, you know, rookies aren't always ready to make that next step.
• 22:09
  They gotta sit and learn, you know, and they're not used to that, you know, being probably the
• 22:15
  star of every team they played on.
• 22:17
  You know?
• 22:18
  And and one thing I I don't know if you caught in the game.
• 22:21
  I didn't realize Justin Jefferson played quarterback in high school, and due to some
• 22:27
  injuries, they moved on to wide receiver, and he never looked back since.
• 22:30
  So Yeah.
• 22:31
  I didn't I didn't know that it was injuries that did it, but we knew he played quarterback.
• 22:35
  They've mentioned it on broadcast before.
• 22:37
  That's why you don't have to go backwards pass.
• 22:39
  They they can can that backwards pass nonsense for life.
• 22:44
  I don't ever wanna see that again.
• 22:46
  There...
• 22:47
  You don't need it.
• 22:48
  Don't get cute.
• 22:49
  The flea flicker, a little less dangerous on on my end.
• 22:53
  I don't mind that one.
• 22:54
  I don't know if it was to try and get, you know, Jeddah's, you know, a touchdown pass as
• 23:01
  well out there?
• 23:02
  Or what is...
• 23:02
  I don't know what you're trying to do there.
• 23:04
  You're trying to show up.
• 23:05
  It was a little too tight for me at that moment to try and, get...
• 23:09
  Yeah.
• 23:10
  Skull and, well, like I said, we're we're gonna come back to that topic.
• 23:14
  I don't I don't think it's that much.
• 23:16
  Yeah.
• 23:17
  Sully, our guy.
• 23:19
  Thank goodness.
• 23:20
  Chevy, great comment here.
• 23:22
  It comes down to respect.
• 23:24
  I don't think KOC respected his former GM because the guy just wasn't a football guy.
• 23:32
  Right?
• 23:32
  And he didn't respect him as a man and as a football mind enough to listen to him.
• 23:39
  Bringing in Frank Smith to me was the first bit of the kind of humility that we that that we
• 23:48
  had seen.
• 23:49
  And then getting a guy like Nolan Teasley in here who is as football robot as it gets.
• 23:54
  Yeah.
• 23:55
  Barbara, that's my...
• 23:56
  If we're up by 20, fucking go ahead, man.
• 23:58
  I don't I don't care.
• 23:59
  But this game was a little too tight for me to wanna, like, watch something that could have
• 24:04
  gone horribly wrong No.
• 24:05
  And start to flip the game.
• 24:07
  There was no reason for it.
• 24:10
  I I get your point too, Bubba, but sometimes it's...
• 24:13
  You know, if if the play...
• 24:14
  If the plays aren't working, you might wanna pull something up and be like, hey.
• 24:19
  Let's just do this.
• 24:20
  Let's lighten everybody's mood.
• 24:21
  You know, hopefully, it doesn't turn into a pick or a fumble or something.
• 24:24
  Let's just try something different.
• 24:26
  You know?
• 24:28
  So...
• 24:29
  But it's not for the
• 24:30
  see him do...
• 24:31
  I'd rather see them do the backwards pass to Jettas and then let Jettas huck it down the
• 24:36
  field.
• 24:36
  Right?
• 24:36
  Because then at the
• 24:37
  end of
• 24:37
  the
• 24:38
  day, you know, if it does get intercepted or something, it's it's It's down the field.
• 24:43
  Down the field.
• 24:43
  Right?
• 24:44
  It doesn't hurt you.
• 24:45
  This one, because the pass was still going backwards then too, it was a fumble.
• 24:50
  Right?
• 24:50
  There was a live ball going back.
• 24:52
  Like, what are what are we doing?
• 24:53
  Don't do it.
• 24:54
  A fumble.
• 24:54
  And you're putting your quarterback who already suffered a concussion this year in danger
• 24:59
  because he can get lit the f up on that play.
• 25:03
  Right?
• 25:03
  That that...
• 25:04
  Instead of trying to catch the ball, that defensive lineman could have gone and just
• 25:08
  smacked your quarterback and had a free run-in him.
• 25:10
  It was a dumb play.
• 25:11
  And and I think coach has taken some of a couple, and they're like, yeah.
• 25:14
  I...
• 25:15
  You know what?
• 25:16
  I lost my mind for a second, guys.
• 25:18
  I I guarantee that I guarantee that playbook or that page is either ripped out of the playbook
• 25:23
  or tucked away in the back of the playbook.
• 25:26
  Yeah.
• 25:27
  I I don't need to ever see it again for my 2¢.
• 25:31
  If you're gonna do a path like that, you throw it forward and not backwards.
• 25:36
  Yeah.
• 25:37
  And, Skull, mafia.
• 25:39
  This is...
• 25:40
  You're gonna see more.
• 25:41
  I think he's been pulling back on the run a little bit because he doesn't want to get Aaron
• 25:47
  Jones hurt.
• 25:48
  I I wouldn't be surprised if coming off the buy, if Aaron's still a little banged up that
• 25:54
  they don't, you know, maybe healthy scratch him one week again, maybe against that Colts team
• 26:00
  where you're like, look, man.
• 26:01
  Look at that.
• 26:02
  Not even a healthy snack.
• 26:03
  I mean,
• 26:04
  I don't think that's gonna be a healthy scratch, but if if if Mason's gonna be there,
• 26:09
  you know, you give him a good mix.
• 26:11
  Maybe Mason gets three carries to Jones' one.
• 26:16
  You know?
• 26:16
  So Yeah.
• 26:17
  Because you wanna keep going fresh.
• 26:18
  Yeah.
• 26:19
  I I I I guess if you're, you know, worried about Mason getting hurt or something that you
• 26:23
  leave him suited up, but you're like, hey.
• 26:25
  You're gonna get five carries today.
• 26:27
  Let's Well, yeah.
• 26:27
  That's what I'm saying.
• 26:28
  That that it could be the rack.
• 26:30
  Aaron Jones ratio.
• 26:31
  You know?
• 26:32
  So Yeah.
• 26:34
  It's it's crazy, man.
• 26:35
  I...
• 26:35
  I'm so proud of, proud of that man and what he's been showing us.
• 26:40
  I think that it speaks to everyone on the team that that everyone can see that, see what he's
• 26:47
  playing through.
• 26:48
  Love that he stopped coach when he got the game ball and kind of was like, hey.
• 26:52
  You know, thank you all for picking me up.
• 26:55
  Right?
• 26:55
  After we lose that fumble and nobody's, you know, kinda playing with their head down and
• 27:01
  being, you know, being a sourpuss about it and getting down, that this team is picking each
• 27:08
  other up and kinda speaking to some things of that we're, you know, kinda moving towards, and
• 27:14
  maybe that'll be our And I
• 27:15
  also and I do too think that coach in that, you know, locker room postgame stuff, he even kinda
• 27:23
  hinted.
• 27:24
  Your running mate's coming back, so the load's gonna get lighter.
• 27:28
  You know?
• 27:28
  So, you know, so he kinda made a comment of of of Mason coming back.
• 27:33
  So, yeah, once we get Mason back, that run game's gonna look heavy, I think.
• 27:40
  Yeah.
• 27:40
  And I...
• 27:41
  I'm not saying that he's, like, sue...
• 27:43
  It's more probably just tired.
• 27:45
  Right?
• 27:45
  30 years old out there.
• 27:47
  Knee's a little banged up.
• 27:49
  Got the brace on it.
• 27:50
  Everything's just a little sore out there.
• 27:53
  Now adrenaline's a hell of a drug.
• 27:55
  Yeah.
• 27:56
  When when you're in the moment and things are going well, And I I don't think the man, know,
• 28:02
  a little bit bruised on the ego.
• 28:04
  I don't think the man's got a massive ego.
• 28:06
  I think it's easy to get down.
• 28:07
  You you don't wanna...
• 28:08
  You don't want to put your team in a situation.
• 28:11
  Right?
• 28:11
  I I think it's more, you know, that that he feels bad about it.
• 28:15
  Right?
• 28:15
  Yeah.
• 28:15
  And needed that pickup.
• 28:17
  And it sounds like he got it.
• 28:18
  Right?
• 28:18
  Sounds like coming back to the sideline that they pick him back up and Yeah.
• 28:22
  You know, hey.
• 28:23
  Hey.
• 28:23
  We're gonna go get the next one, and then he goes on and has another great game and gets the
• 28:27
  punch one in to kinda seal the deal later in the game.
• 28:30
  So And I think too, it's kinda like it's kinda like quarterback.
• 28:33
  You know?
• 28:33
  They always say that a quarterback throws a pick.
• 28:36
  He's gotta go shake it off for a little bit, go right back in his next pass.
• 28:40
  You know?
• 28:40
  And I think that's the same thing with the...
• 28:42
  A guy that fumbles.
• 28:43
  He wants that ball on the next plate to show that it was a fluke.
• 28:46
  So And and, Barber, I I don't disagree with you.
• 28:51
  Right?
• 28:52
  There's a reason that Damon Claiborne isn't getting more run out there.
• 28:56
  There is a reason that, you know, DJ Dallas is kind of in there to play a role.
• 29:02
  So, yeah, it it is what it is.
• 29:04
  I mean, I can't I can't say that I trust any of these any of these guys either.
• 29:10
  Skull...
• 29:10
  Yeah.
• 29:11
  I don't I don't know, man.
• 29:12
  I I hurt.
• 29:13
  I hurt the next day after watching him run the ball.
• 29:16
  So after seeing what we saw, teams five and o, we got a perfect little...
• 29:22
  You know, we have a very clear path right now to not just the playoffs, but maybe a first
• 29:27
  round buy, especially if we can smack around some of these other teams in the NFC.
• 29:34
  Are these Viking Super Bowl contenders?
• 29:38
  Man, you're gonna put me on the spot because I hate that.
• 29:43
  If I
• 29:43
  I agree.
• 29:44
  Pride pride is what was hurt there.
• 29:47
  Ego, I think, was just a little strong there for sure.
• 29:50
  Yeah.
• 29:52
  If they play like they did with Miami in the fourth quarter and the saints and they can keep
• 29:59
  it up and the offense could keep improving, I'm not...
• 30:02
  The the defense is Super Bowl contenders for sure.
• 30:05
  You know?
• 30:06
  But if they could have a full game like they did against the Saints, then, yes, this team is
• 30:14
  Super Bowl bound.
• 30:16
  You know, sky's the limit for them.
• 30:20
  Yeah.
• 30:20
  I I have to agree that they're...
• 30:23
  I'm I'm not picking them to lose against any team.
• 30:26
  As long as the defense continues to do it and b u kinda talked about it, You know, Rap was
• 30:31
  saying, I don't see a loss on the schedule.
• 30:33
  I see some Well, I'm really just rap.
• 30:35
  There's a there's a lot of people I know and, you know, are saying that there's no loss on
• 30:40
  schedule.
• 30:41
  I mean, guys, you know, it's
• 30:43
  Hey.
• 30:44
  Week 18 when we play the bears, and they're playing our fucking third string.
• 30:48
  Well, I'll take the l on that one when it's all
• 30:50
  But that...
• 30:51
  That's the whole thing is, you know, that week 18 game is gonna be the toss-up.
• 30:56
  I mean, yes, we got the buffalo coming up.
• 30:58
  We got the lions.
• 31:01
  You know?
• 31:01
  So, I mean...
• 31:02
  And still got the packers and the bears again.
• 31:05
  So it's just...
• 31:07
  As much as I wanna be behind and be like, yep, I don't see a loss in this.
• 31:11
  You know, things are still realistic.
• 31:13
  I I still want KLC to take...
• 31:15
  And the team to take it one week at a time.
• 31:18
  We wanna be one and o after the end of each game, you know.
• 31:21
  But I still wanna see them improve each week, you know, to where if the defense does flutter
• 31:28
  and have an off day, our office is gonna be able to pick them up.
• 31:32
  And that's one thing...
• 31:33
  I'm not saying I don't see it now, but it's just...
• 31:36
  I I I just think we we need that.
• 31:39
  We need to see the office go out there and put up points and be like, okay, defense, we got
• 31:42
  you.
• 31:43
  You know, you go take a rest.
• 31:45
  We're gonna take care of you guys.
• 31:46
  You know?
• 31:48
  Yeah.
• 31:49
  Exactly, Del.
• 31:50
  I'm not I'm not picking against this defense.
• 31:52
  Right?
• 31:53
  And Oh, I'm not picking against the defense either.
• 31:55
  They they keep stepping up in the biggest moments when you need a play.
• 31:59
  They're making it.
• 32:00
  The chaos that they create, it it doesn't let...
• 32:03
  No offense scares me.
• 32:05
  I know the Bills got a great quarterback and some really awesome skilled players.
• 32:10
  San Francisco, after watching them with the seahawks, who I don't think the seahawks are
• 32:14
  anywhere close to the team.
• 32:15
  That that forty niners team got a gift.
• 32:18
  I don't know if you guys watched that game, but at the end of the first half
• 32:21
  Yeah.
• 32:21
  Seahawks got the ball.
• 32:23
  They downed it.
• 32:23
  Oh, you know, got it on a punt.
• 32:25
  They were down to, the one two yard line, and they're running back just like holding the ball
• 32:29
  out for anybody and fumbled it into the end, so they recovered it for a touchdown.
• 32:34
  So with all of that, that seahawks team kinda sticks it to the niners, and I just don't see
• 32:41
  either one of those teams defensively creating the chaos that this team...
• 32:46
  I don't...
• 32:47
  I just don't see it.
• 32:48
  The Bills playing last night against the Rams, and the Rams kinda taking them, you know, to
• 32:54
  the limit.
• 32:55
  Once again, where the Rams haven't scared me so far this season.
• 33:00
  I know McVeigh is this, you know, offensive genius, but Yeah.
• 33:03
  I don't see anyone's defense being able to hold us down.
• 33:09
  I don't see any offense being able to compete against our defense to the point where we're
• 33:14
  all of a sudden in a shootout.
• 33:15
  Like, a shootout against this d is just not gonna happen.
• 33:19
  So Yeah.
• 33:20
  It it doesn't scare me.
• 33:22
  I don't know that the...
• 33:23
  That our offense needs to be prepared for a shootout in any way.
• 33:27
  They need to just keep the status quo.
• 33:29
  Control the clock, control the ball, keep it out of danger, and just keep on...
• 33:35
  Keep the pressure on teams so that they have to make the adjustments, that they have to push a
• 33:41
  little bit harder to try and make that play because that's when that's when teams make
• 33:48
  mistakes.
• 33:48
  That's when quarterbacks make mistakes is when they have to push a little hard.
• 33:52
  Yep.
• 33:53
  No.
• 33:53
  No.
• 33:54
  You're exactly right.
• 33:55
  I mean, I'm He told I'm not gonna get to the defense at all.
• 33:59
  I mean, there's gonna be there's gonna be games that...
• 34:02
  They're probably not gonna look the best, but, yeah, they're on just a mad mad historical pace
• 34:09
  and, you know, and then, you know, once our offense gets going, you know, we still gotta
• 34:15
  worry about our kicker, Will Riker.
• 34:17
  We want him to stay fresh and accurate.
• 34:19
  And so it's just like, right now, it's it's all working the way it's working, you know, but
• 34:25
  just keep it early.
• 34:26
  Niners are the oldest team in the league.
• 34:28
  Average age, almost 29 years old.
• 34:32
  I I think it's just that they had 28 and something.
• 34:35
  They're a George Kittle injury away from being Yeah.
• 34:38
  Nearly irrelevant again.
• 34:39
  Right?
• 34:40
  Deebo getting hurt, how's that gonna affect them moving forward?
• 34:43
  Now Mike Evans is playing like Mike Evans of ten years ago.
• 34:47
  The dude's been around forever.
• 34:49
  I just don't see...
• 34:50
  Like, that doesn't...
• 34:51
  You don't have time to hit Mike Evans on those against this Vikings defense, so they just
• 34:57
  don't scare me.
• 34:58
  And that game's gonna be played at, like, 16,000 feet of elevation in Mexico City.
• 35:03
  So Yeah.
• 35:03
  Mexico City.
• 35:04
  Nobody's gonna be playing well that game.
• 35:06
  It's it's made for this Vikings team to make it a bloody messy battle on the on the offense and
• 35:14
  then to just run and play smash mouth football.
• 35:17
  I would love to see us getting back to the 30, 40 rushing attempts when Jordan Mason gets back
• 35:22
  Nope.
• 35:22
  And just pounding the rock.
• 35:23
  It it does not bother me whatsoever.
• 35:27
  The next six games, I'm looking at the schedule now.
• 35:31
  Let me make sure.
• 35:32
  One, two, three, four, five.
• 35:36
  Is it five?
• 35:37
  Five games.
• 35:37
  I'm sorry.
• 35:39
  You know, two at home and a three on the road plus that Mexico City one.
• 35:42
  So, you know, so we come out with the Colts.
• 35:48
  You know, we just...
• 35:49
  You know, the thing is is this is the team...
• 35:52
  And I know coaches say that.
• 35:53
  Coach could probably say it too.
• 35:54
  You just go out there and play your game.
• 35:56
  Let's do...
• 35:57
  Let's work what works, and let's, you know, fix what's not working and just do what we can.
• 36:02
  I mean, don't change don't change nothing on the defense.
• 36:06
  I mean, you know, maybe a maybe a rotation or two, but...
• 36:12
  And that that was one thing too that kinda worried me a little bit when Hoxon went out.
• 36:17
  Then he burned two timeouts within the first quarter just because they couldn't get the
• 36:22
  right alignment to their...
• 36:23
  On the tight end side of things.
• 36:24
  So...
• 36:25
  And that's what you can't account for.
• 36:27
  So, you know, that's probably mixed number...
• 36:31
  Or the second thing that kinda didn't work our way was time management with the time outs.
• 36:36
  But, again, with injuries trying to get the packages all set, you know, get the right
• 36:41
  people out there, you know, I I get it.
• 36:44
  I just...
• 36:48
  Dictating the game.
• 36:51
  You you are playing your game so well right now and completing a lot of passes and running the
• 36:59
  ball like we are.
• 37:00
  You're dictating to the defense what you are going to do.
• 37:04
  You're not having to make the adjustment.
• 37:06
  You're forcing the other team to make the adjustments.
• 37:09
  And and to me, that is a powerful place to be playing from.
• 37:13
  And it's a...
• 37:14
  I mean, in the special teams.
• 37:16
  Right?
• 37:16
  To me, the reason that I'm not worried about a close game and and getting in a...
• 37:21
  Because you're not gonna play in a shootout, we have the ace in the hole with a kicker who is
• 37:25
  absolutely nails and wants the big moment, wants to be kicking for the game, and to be
• 37:32
  relied upon by his teammates.
• 37:35
  To me, that's that's like trotting out, you know, Michael Jordan for for the last shot.
• 37:40
  No.
• 37:40
  No.
• 37:41
  It is.
• 37:41
  He wants those moments.
• 37:42
  Yeah.
• 37:43
  No.
• 37:43
  And a guy like that wants the moments and stuff, and, you know, he's definitely gonna get
• 37:47
  them, and he's gotten them, and he's, you know, nailed every single one of them.
• 37:52
  You know?
• 37:52
  And, you know, the...
• 37:54
  Every sport person wants that moment, wants to be relied on on their team.
• 37:58
  And, you know, I just...
• 37:59
  You know, right now, I I just...
• 38:01
  I guess what I'm saying is, you know, if the defense was a...
• 38:06
  You know, I guess I just don't have a 100% faith in the offense right now to pick up the
• 38:12
  slack if the defense struggles a little bit.
• 38:16
  So that's kinda what I wanna say.
• 38:17
  I wanna see them go out there.
• 38:19
  And and, again, yes, they put up 21 points, you know, and and stuff like that.
• 38:25
  But, again, like you said, even toward the end of last year, they're cutting the field in
• 38:29
  half, you know, the...
• 38:30
  With the returns and stuff in the short, you know, with a lot of three and outs.
• 38:35
  So that's something that we gotta keep seeing because can this team go 80 plus every time,
• 38:42
  you know, and kill the clock?
• 38:44
  And maybe they can.
• 38:46
  I think we saw a lot of that with the sage games.
• 38:50
  Yep.
• 38:50
  Well, you mentioned the lack of tight end depth.
• 38:55
  Hockenson going down, we are unclear where he is at in the protocol, and I don't know that
• 39:00
  we'll get an injury report this week because of the bomb.
• 39:04
  So We will allow We're not
• 39:06
  We'll we'll get those unofficial injury reports that, you know, reports of being, oh, so so
• 39:11
  they practice on Wednesday or, you know, wasn't in training or something like that.
• 39:15
  So...
• 39:16
  But, yeah, we won't get nothing this week.
• 39:21
  You know?
• 39:22
  Yeah.
• 39:22
  So, you know, Hawkinson kinda being a deterior.
• 39:25
  You know?
• 39:28
  It...
• 39:28
  It's gonna be interesting to see what they do.
• 39:30
  So next question.
• 39:33
  Trade deadline, not too long after the buy.
• 39:37
  Trades that we wanna make, already seeing Jawan Jennings' name in the chat.
• 39:41
  Hot topic of discussion after some of the antics that we saw on the sideline and others.
• 39:46
  It's been, you know, kinda pointed out, you know, not just the smacking his hand on the
• 39:51
  ground, but kinda getting up into KOC's face a little bit.
• 39:54
  The man has a history of some of this stuff.
• 39:57
  There's a reason that San Francisco and and that relationship there kinda fell apart as
• 40:03
  well.
• 40:04
  If I was that man, I'd be regretting my decision to not take the bag that they were
• 40:09
  willing to give me.
• 40:10
  But, hey, that...
• 40:10
  That's all aside.
• 40:12
  What other trades and and maybe positions, not necessarily just players, but where are you
• 40:17
  interested in seeing this team make some moves either direction?
• 40:21
  Is it guys that we can be traded away, or is it players that we're looking to bring in?
• 40:26
  Well, I mean, I think the biggest one, you know, like you said, Jennings.
• 40:30
  You know, if you can't move them, I think we're gonna be seeing a cut.
• 40:35
  And, you know, if you watch the news and follow the Vikings, they had Juju Smith Schuster in in
• 40:41
  can...
• 40:41
  Or in town.
• 40:43
  So that might be one, but that might also be replacing Addison because now the status is
• 40:48
  unknown when he's coming back.
• 40:50
  As far as trades, man Man, it's tough because I wanna see this team go with the guys they got,
• 41:01
  but yet if we can go out there and and...
• 41:04
  Maybe it's an offensive lineman.
• 41:06
  If we can, you know, shore up another...
• 41:08
  A stunt on the offensive side and maybe not give away too much draft picks and stuff.
• 41:15
  You know, maybe another A
• 41:17
  name that got thrown around today, I heard Judd bring up, John Michael Schmitz, was demoted
• 41:23
  from his starting role over in New York.
• 41:26
  Obviously, the relationship between the two front offices is pretty decent over there
• 41:30
  Yeah.
• 41:31
  Right now.
• 41:31
  I I think that's worth the conversation.
• 41:34
  Is tight end somewhere with Hawkinson's status and being down, Josh Oliver.
• 41:40
  I know we like Bartholomew, and he showed some things out there and catching the ball.
• 41:45
  Is that somewhere that if someone happens to become available, are you interested in them
• 41:50
  maybe taking a swing out on that side?
• 41:53
  No.
• 41:54
  I'm with you.
• 41:54
  I think a tight end, you know, unless it gets some hard evidence or knowledge, I guess, on
• 42:03
  when Hawk can come back, I I definitely think tight end is probably your key, especially if
• 42:09
  you get to get one guy that kinda wants out that's, you know, gonna cost cheap.
• 42:17
  You know, Bartholomew did good.
• 42:20
  We know Kyle Murray likes the tight ends.
• 42:22
  So, you know, maybe you reach out to, you know, Arizona and see what their tight end situation
• 42:29
  is like because that would be a familiar face with Kyle Murray.
• 42:32
  But...
• 42:32
  Yeah.
• 42:34
  Yeah.
• 42:34
  I I thought
• 42:35
  I guy.
• 42:36
  Where he worked out somewhere else too.
• 42:38
  So
• 42:39
  Yeah.
• 42:40
  Well...
• 42:40
  And he's looking for work.
• 42:41
  Right?
• 42:42
  Like, yeah, he's gonna go take every opportunity that he has.
• 42:45
  You know, coach coach coach
• 42:47
  Cody up and see where he can hook him up on a football team.
• 42:49
  I mean, you
• 42:50
  know I
• 42:51
  So
• 42:52
  I know a lot of people don't have a lot of faith in OBJ being effective out on the field.
• 42:59
  I I I don't feel the same way.
• 43:01
  I thought I saw enough in in the few highlights and different things that I saw from him to
• 43:07
  think that on this team, he could be.
• 43:09
  One trade that kinda got brought up is, you know, is it a potential of maybe having Jordan
• 43:16
  Addison up on the trading block to see what you could get for him knowing that you could be
• 43:22
  bringing in a, you know, a draft pick that would be extremely valuable in this year's
• 43:27
  draft?
• 43:27
  Let's get Selly in here.
• 43:29
  He's waiting backstage.
• 43:30
  His camera isn't working, so we're not gonna see his handsome face tonight.
• 43:33
  Selly,
• 43:34
  how you doing, brother?
• 43:39
  Selly, can you hear me?
• 43:44
  Alright.
• 43:45
  Well, we're trying to But but
• 43:47
  back to out and see if we can't get it.
• 43:50
  Old by BJ.
• 43:52
  The thing is is we don't need old...
• 43:53
  You know, we don't need Odell Beckham when he was young.
• 43:57
  We just need Odell Beckham to go up there and be half Odell Beckham.
• 44:01
  You know?
• 44:01
  Well, it's something that I talked about a lot is that he still is respected, and and I would
• 44:06
  say a little bit of fear by some of these dBs that are out there.
• 44:09
  So he had You brought you brought brought up up Jordan, you know, a while back.
• 44:14
  You know, when Jordan was with the wizards, I guaranteed everybody was still scared of him,
• 44:19
  you know, because of what he did in his past.
• 44:21
  I mean...
• 44:22
  And we know when he went to the wizards, he wasn't MJ like we know him.
• 44:26
  Although, Becker's gonna be the same way.
• 44:27
  All he has to do is come in and help take away the double coverage on Jeddah, the triple
• 44:34
  coverage, you know, catch a few balls, and hopefully, Addison, you know, if he's still on
• 44:39
  a team, will improve.
• 44:42
  I know I'm forgetting...
• 44:43
  Another guy that could help benefit from a guy like OBJ to come in or even Juju to come in.
• 44:55
  Yeah.
• 44:55
  I...
• 44:57
  You know, you can't double team all those guys, you know, and all three of those guys could
• 45:02
  beat you on a long ball.
• 45:03
  So, yeah, good luck covering them three.
• 45:06
  You know, if if you Yeah.
• 45:07
  That's not even to mention our our tight end room.
• 45:10
  No.
• 45:10
  So there...
• 45:11
  There's a lot to be had here.
• 45:13
  And in this, Jawan Jennings is the odd man out.
• 45:16
  I don't know that he's on this team through this bye week and everything.
• 45:21
  Think they're gonna be actively shopping him at this point.
• 45:26
  Skull, I don't...
• 45:27
  I'd...
• 45:27
  I mean, who comes available?
• 45:30
  You don't
• 45:31
  need to be
• 45:31
  on that side, and I think you're really happy with the the people that you have in those
• 45:37
  second slots.
• 45:38
  I mean, if a...
• 45:40
  Yeah.
• 45:41
  I don't know who out there that I'd even add to this right now or what position group I would
• 45:47
  add to that fears me.
• 45:48
  It would have to be an injury, I guess, is is kind of where I...
• 45:51
  If we had an injury at a certain position that we would see some things come in.
• 45:56
  All got it here.
• 45:57
  Is, you know, you're talking about the defensive side, who to bring in?
• 46:01
  I mean, yeah, if it's a big stud, oh, it'd be great to have him in there, but then you're
• 46:06
  gonna mess up the rotation what we got going in and and stuff like that.
• 46:09
  So the defensive side is gonna be hard to justify a solid move.
• 46:14
  I mean, it would have to be something that doesn't disrupt the team.
• 46:19
  I love what they're doing, especially Teasley working everybody out.
• 46:24
  We're gonna get our superstar in here.
• 46:27
  Dell, my brother, what's going on?
• 46:30
  What's up, Del?
• 46:32
  What's What's up, big b?
• 46:35
  What's up,
• 46:35
  Tom?
• 46:35
  Del, talk about it, man.
• 46:38
  You know, obviously, I know you gotta be liking what you're seeing from this team.
• 46:43
  Kyler looking like Kyler, not not looking like some version that somebody was trying to make
• 46:50
  him.
• 46:50
  He did exactly what you wanted.
• 46:52
  He gave you the 200 and and close to two fifty passing, another 50 with his legs generating
• 46:58
  and really being, you know, the captain of that offense and making sure that they're moving
• 47:03
  down the field in whatever way possible.
• 47:07
  What is the next step?
• 47:09
  Is there another step that this offense can still take, or are we good with what they
• 47:14
  showed us on Sunday?
• 47:17
  Well, I I mean, I don't know what steps they should take in the future.
• 47:24
  I I think that their ball control is excellent right now.
• 47:28
  Mhmm.
• 47:29
  I really don't like Kyler Murray toting the ball for as much as he did.
• 47:36
  However, because it's dangerous.
• 47:39
  You know what I'm saying?
• 47:40
  He's he's a smaller guy.
• 47:42
  It's it's just dangerous.
• 47:44
  You know?
• 47:44
  Dell, do you think that was a a little bit of the extra?
• 47:48
  Because they did...
• 47:48
  They dropped back a lot this week, and that hasn't necessarily been the MO.
• 47:53
  Do you think that's mostly because KOC is trying to pull the pressure off of Aaron Jones'
• 47:59
  legs a little bit knowing that, like, hey.
• 48:01
  We just gotta get through this week, and then we're gonna get Jordan Mason back, and they
• 48:05
  start to flip it back to that 35, 40 rushing attempts per game?
• 48:12
  I would...
• 48:14
  I don't know.
• 48:17
  Perhaps.
• 48:18
  I mean, 25 carries is a lot.
• 48:22
  You know?
• 48:24
  But, like like, it's it's not obscene.
• 48:28
  You know?
• 48:29
  It's it's really not obscene.
• 48:31
  I would have liked to seen running back...
• 48:35
  Our other running backs carry the ball.
• 48:37
  You know?
• 48:38
  Like, but I think, like, resorting back to, Kyler Murray carrying the ball 10 times, just
• 48:50
  being dangerous.
• 48:51
  However, I I like the idea of it.
• 48:54
  It's just not...
• 48:56
  I don't think that...
• 48:57
  Like, anytime he really runs the ball, anytime a quarterback runs the ball, it's just...
• 49:03
  I don't see it as sustainable.
• 49:06
  You know what I'm saying?
• 49:06
  It's it's kinda like a, it's kinda like a trick play.
• 49:10
  You know?
• 49:11
  I just wanna see I wanna see just, like like, basic a, b, c offense.
• 49:19
  You know what I'm saying?
• 49:20
  Like like, before you get real stylized with with art, you gotta get the classics down.
• 49:27
  You know?
• 49:27
  So, I mean, let's let's get good at our timing, and that's what I really liked early on in the
• 49:36
  game is that Kyler was hitting his little hitches on his, tight ends.
• 49:42
  Yeah.
• 49:43
  You know?
• 49:43
  And,
• 49:45
  just getting in rhythm, especially earlier in the game, like, when you saw him drop back and
• 49:50
  he was in the pocket and he was bouncing.
• 49:52
  You know?
• 49:53
  Straight bouncing, going through his reads.
• 49:57
  It was refreshing to see a quarterback back there just being in the moment.
• 50:02
  You know?
• 50:03
  Playing ball.
• 50:04
  And and I think that's something I spoke about in the pregame is, like, just
• 50:07
  let Kyler go out there.
• 50:09
  Let Kyler go out there and just play football again and and not be thinking so much.
• 50:17
  And I and I I think you saw that, like, the Tampa Bay game.
• 50:21
  He...
• 50:21
  He's thinking that indecisiveness is he's just not seeing it, and and I think that that can
• 50:28
  only improve as they go.
• 50:30
  And I wonder how much of that is an adjustment on KOC and Frank Smith kinda coming up with
• 50:37
  some new, you know, kinda new playbook or new plays to add to KOC's call sheets, or is it
• 50:44
  something that was always there that he just wasn't kind of working in with other
• 50:49
  quarterbacks that have been here?
• 50:51
  Yeah.
• 50:51
  I don't know.
• 50:53
  I don't know.
• 50:53
  I don't think Kyler played in the Tampa Bay game.
• 50:57
  I think he came back in the Miami game, didn't he?
• 50:59
  No.
• 51:00
  He played in Tampa Bay.
• 51:01
  Did he?
• 51:03
  No.
• 51:03
  Well, he didn't play well.
• 51:04
  He he did not play well.
• 51:07
  Yeah.
• 51:08
  That's what everybody, you know, was kind of on it.
• 51:10
  That's...
• 51:11
  They were all calling for once again after that.
• 51:15
  And I I think you really started to see it come on.
• 51:20
  Sorry.
• 51:21
  I'm I'm talking jam bands with the guys in the chat right now.
• 51:25
  I think you started to see it come on at the end of the Miami game.
• 51:30
  And I don't wanna call them, like, dink and dunk because when you're hitting those 15, 20
• 51:34
  yard plays in there too, you're driving the ball down the field.
• 51:38
  You're just not hitting those bombs that are out there.
• 51:41
  And to be honest, in in this game.
• 51:43
  Okay.
• 51:43
  In...
• 51:44
  Yeah.
• 51:44
  I watched it.
• 51:45
  I'm telling you that he played.
• 51:46
  Well, I I was stupid.
• 51:47
  I I was just like, good.
• 51:49
  Yeah.
• 51:50
  That's No.
• 51:50
  It's it's wild.
• 51:51
  Like He didn't look like he did on Sunday in the Tampa Bay game.
• 51:56
  Right?
• 51:56
  Like, Sunday, he looked decisive.
• 51:58
  He looked comfortable.
• 52:00
  He he looked...
• 52:01
  You you see him back there kinda having fun.
• 52:04
  Right?
• 52:04
  You know, bouncing around.
• 52:05
  And that I think for an athlete that has been...
• 52:09
  I didn't realize he was picked number nine overall in baseball too.
• 52:12
  Like, this guy's an elite athlete and and loves to compete as much as we like to kind of turn,
• 52:20
  you know, and to bring up the the video games and all of these things.
• 52:23
  You know what?
• 52:24
  When you're checked out and you're not on a team that's competing and you're not...
• 52:28
  You don't wanna be in it.
• 52:29
  And I think right now, we we may see the best version of Kyler Murray that there has ever
• 52:35
  been this year if things keep trending the way that they are, and the Vikings would be, this
• 52:42
  team would be really, really hard to...
• 52:43
  They're already hard to play against.
• 52:45
  Just what you're getting out of the running game and the defense, this team is difficult to
• 52:49
  play.
• 52:50
  When you have somebody that can move the ball down the field from that quarterback position
• 52:54
  on you manage
• 52:56
  the game.
• 52:58
  Yeah.
• 52:58
  And I would say it's a little step above, like, game manager.
• 53:01
  Right?
• 53:01
  But someone...
• 53:03
  Because at the end of the day, he can still make plays on his own.
• 53:07
  He can still run out of the pocket and and get away.
• 53:10
  You you know what the turning point were for me, Dell, is that my wife at one point was
• 53:14
  like, wow.
• 53:14
  He's really fast.
• 53:15
  I was like, yeah, baby.
• 53:17
  He is.
• 53:18
  The cool thing about...
• 53:22
  The most impressive thing that I saw Kyler Murray was when he was under pressure and he
• 53:28
  escaped the pocket, outran the defensive end, and then kicked it down and waited for DJ
• 53:36
  Dallas to get open.
• 53:38
  Yeah.
• 53:39
  And then the thing that really impressed me is that he turned his body like a baseball pitch.
• 53:47
  You know how, like, baseball players
• 53:50
  Looks like a shortstop throwing across his body.
• 53:53
  They they square their body up.
• 53:55
  Like, he...
• 53:55
  If you go back and you look at that clip, he rotated his whole upper body to square up and
• 54:02
  throw the ball.
• 54:03
  I get what you're saying.
• 54:06
  That an impressive play because it it tells you that you're never out of it.
• 54:11
  Right?
• 54:12
  And I think that he's moving better.
• 54:14
  The instincts are coming back, and something we talked about, you know, earlier in the show is
• 54:18
  the the football shape, not necessarily just on the physical side, but on the the processing
• 54:24
  and the speed of the game and catching back up after having not played football for almost a
• 54:29
  year.
• 54:29
  Right?
• 54:30
  Like, not having been in game situations for that time.
• 54:33
  So we...
• 54:35
  Now I I I wanna push back on this, Torres.
• 54:37
  I think we need to let Juwan Jennings leave.
• 54:41
  I I think it's done.
• 54:43
  I think that the the damage at this point has been done to the relationships and knowing how
• 54:49
  case...
• 54:50
  KOC is.
• 54:51
  I think that was his big problem with JJ McCarthy, and I'll put a dollar in the jar for
• 54:55
  even bringing his name up.
• 54:57
  But when
• 54:58
  when JJ did the gritty into the end zone and then went out and talked about how coach told
• 55:05
  him not to do that No.
• 55:07
  The KOSP took that.
• 55:08
  I mean...
• 55:08
  And it was.
• 55:08
  It was disrespectful.
• 55:09
  Right?
• 55:10
  He doesn't do well with that, and he's not gonna be someone that comes out and buries a
• 55:14
  guy.
• 55:14
  He's just not gonna play you.
• 55:16
  Right?
• 55:16
  And and I think that we're at that point now with Juwan Jennings.
• 55:20
  I think the experiment is over.
• 55:22
  He obviously wants out.
• 55:24
  He's in a money year.
• 55:25
  He's not gonna make what he expected to make.
• 55:27
  He thought he was coming here, gonna get those bonuses, make, you know, 13, 14, and cash a big
• 55:33
  check next year.
• 55:34
  At this point, he's he's...
• 55:36
  His value is plummeting, playing on this team.
• 55:39
  He has to want out.
• 55:40
  Gary Rowe or...
• 55:41
  What?
• 55:42
  Rosenthal.
• 55:42
  Right?
• 55:43
  Or Drew Rosenthal
• 55:45
  is
• 55:45
  his agent.
• 55:47
  They obviously have a good relationship with the Vikings.
• 55:49
  He's gonna find him a home.
• 55:50
  Right?
• 55:50
  Like, he's got a good agent that's gonna go out there and find them a deal.
• 55:54
  Can can the Vikings get back a fifth that maybe they can flip for someone that fills a need on
• 56:00
  their team, whether that's a John Michael Schmidt or it's, you know, a Tony Pollard?
• 56:06
  Dell, how how are you, warm on adding another running back to that room as a little bit of
• 56:13
  any...
• 56:13
  Be...
• 56:14
  Because at this point, Del, for me, we're preparing for a Super Bowl run.
• 56:18
  What can you do to add talent to this roster that prepares you for the long haul?
• 56:24
  I really wouldn't...
• 56:25
  I think adding people to the roster would actually hurt the roster, man.
• 56:30
  I really wouldn't...
• 56:31
  I wouldn't bring anybody else in, man, to be honest with you.
• 56:35
  Like, our personnel is is straight where they're at.
• 56:39
  If you bring any...
• 56:40
  In anybody else, like, they have to get caught up to the playbook, and then players that have
• 56:45
  been there will be feeling like, well, you know, am I next?
• 56:51
  Is my position next?
• 56:52
  Am am I good enough?
• 56:54
  You you know, it just...
• 56:56
  It sets kind of a a bad precedent.
• 56:58
  I I think that all of that has already been done.
• 57:02
  I do think, however, though, with with the the the additions of the wide receivers and running
• 57:08
  backs have...
• 57:10
  The running back position has been an injury with Jordan Mason, but the wide receiver issue
• 57:16
  with Juan Jennings is is a different animal, and that's more of a attitude adjustment that,
• 57:27
  like, if he's gonna be, like, a cancer in the locker room or whatever, like, why what what
• 57:35
  are you unhappy about?
• 57:36
  You know what I'm saying?
• 57:37
  Are you unhappy about the projection of your contract numbers next year?
• 57:42
  Is that really
• 57:43
  Man, he didn't come here to be a team player, Dell.
• 57:46
  You know, Jenny...
• 57:47
  Jennings did not come here to be a team guy.
• 57:50
  He came here to be a me guy.
• 57:52
  He thought this was his best opportunity to cash a check now and to cash a bigger one next
• 57:58
  year, and and it just didn't happen.
• 58:01
  The guy's most effective in the red zone, and we didn't sniff it for four weeks.
• 58:06
  And even now, even in this week's game, every time we got there, we fumbled it.
• 58:10
  So, you know, you you know, extra Torres here, you know, saying that we...
• 58:15
  He deserves a shot to shine.
• 58:17
  Like, it it just ain't happening.
• 58:19
  And I think now the relationship is done, and and it's just over.
• 58:23
  So let it be.
• 58:24
  Let it move on and go.
• 58:27
  Five targets and nine yards.
• 58:30
  So, yeah, it's...
• 58:32
  Something's not clicking with him and the team or him and the play calling.
• 58:36
  And and let me let you Bubba.
• 58:39
  Was talking to Renzo threatening.
• 58:41
  Now where do we found?
• 58:43
  Ma'am, because he, like, took a week off too.
• 58:46
  And, like Oh, Prince
• 58:47
  over, I think.
• 58:48
  Yeah.
• 58:49
  Like, that's starting with, like, his antics and and his behavior.
• 58:54
  Like, I I don't know if I believe that, like, he had a death in the family or whatever, man.
• 59:02
  Like...
• 59:05
  And and that's that's far out.
• 59:07
  That's a bit of a stretch for somebody to say that, like, to to have...
• 59:12
  For me to have an opinion like that.
• 59:13
  But, like, with that type of behavior, like, do you really wanna be here?
• 59:18
  You know?
• 59:18
  So I'm just over it.
• 59:22
  You know?
• 59:23
  Yeah.
• 59:23
  Yeah.
• 59:24
  And I think they are too.
• 59:25
  I think they're gonna find a home for him, and I think it's gonna be sooner rather than later.
• 59:30
  You already got Ian Rapaport out there leaking some stuff late this afternoon, kinda throwing
• 59:36
  some things around.
• 59:36
  So I think once that starts, it's over.
• 59:39
  Rap sheet talking about it.
• 59:40
  It...
• 59:41
  It's all but a done deal.
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  Yeah.
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  So when he's
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  when he's gonna talk, you know
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  there's
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  there's smoke behind that that.
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  Yeah.
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  And it doesn't bother me.
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  Adele, one thing I'll I'll I'll throw it out to you, and I kinda brought up Jordan Addison's
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  name earlier.
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  You know, he's not necessarily performing at a level that I think a lot of us would want to
• 1:00:01
  see him at.
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  The soft tissue injury now, we don't think it's going to be long term.
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  We know we have a historic draft right now.
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  You brought in Juju for a workout.
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  You signed OBJ.
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  You have guys like Felton and Price that have been coming in and kind of filling that slot
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  role a little bit, and you have them under contract long term.
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  Do you think there's enough value in a Jordan Addison for the Vikings to entertain some
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  offers out there that may come for a team that needs a wide receiver of his caliber?
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  Well, I would...
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  I wanna...
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  I would wanna see a high return in Jordan Addison.
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  He's really young.
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  He's been pretty productive.
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  He's a great route runner.
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  Is he the fastest guy?
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  No.
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  Is he the biggest guy?
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  No.
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  Does he have the best hands?
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  No.
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  But he's an excellent wide receiver.
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  He's a solid b plus.
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  And the wide receiver group next year is phenomenal coming out of college.
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  So Well, and that's what I want.
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  I mean, it is, he's a former first round pick.
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  He is on his fifth year op...
• 1:01:11
  Or not on the fifth year option, but he's already committed to it.
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  You're gonna owe him some money.
• 1:01:15
  Right now, I think his base salary is, like, 2.6 or something.
• 1:01:18
  Right?
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  Something stupid, low number.
• 1:01:21
  And then next year, it kicks in for the 13 or or 13 to 15.
• 1:01:26
  I can't remember exactly what that option was.
• 1:01:29
  Do you accept a second rounder in a draft that you know is going to be stacked with talent
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  thinking that you have enough in the wide receiver room and maybe knowing that you can
• 1:01:44
  move forward and look to the future with that second?
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  Or...
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  I mean, because you're not gonna get a first rounder for him.
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  I don't think that I...
• 1:01:52
  I'm definitely not selling him for pennies.
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  A fourth rounder is a nonstarter for me.
• 1:01:56
  A third and a third and a five, maybe.
• 1:02:00
  I'm thinking about it.
• 1:02:01
  Is that kinda where you're at, Dell?
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  A second or multiple, you know, day two picks?
• 1:02:07
  I would take...
• 1:02:08
  I I wouldn't even trade him this year, bro.
• 1:02:11
  I would not trade him this year.
• 1:02:12
  He's too valuable for the chemistry of the team.
• 1:02:15
  Maybe next year after we hit the draft for a wide receiver next year, and he's expendable at
• 1:02:22
  that point.
• 1:02:23
  But right now, if we traded Jordan Addison with the way the Jennings shit is shaking out and us
• 1:02:29
  bringing in...
• 1:02:31
  For god's sakes, Odell Beckham versus the kicking net.
• 1:02:36
  I mean, you know what I'm...
• 1:02:38
  Our our cupboards would be bare.
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  You know what I'm saying?
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  Right.
• 1:02:43
  Right.
• 1:02:43
  You're you're doing more harm than good at that point, and there's nothing to stop you from...
• 1:02:48
  I mean, Addison's value is probably just as high after the season's over, especially if he
• 1:02:53
  wins a Super
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  Bowl that you
• 1:02:56
  end up getting for.
• 1:02:56
  I don't know that he's on this team next year regardless.
• 1:02:59
  I'm just floating it out there.
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  I I don't think that it's something that that they need to do.
• 1:03:04
  I don't think that it's even something that they want to do.
• 1:03:07
  It...
• 1:03:07
  It's definitely...
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  I think it's on the table when we get to the 18,000,000 next year.
• 1:03:16
  Yeah.
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  It'd be nice to clear that off the books.
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  Yeah.
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  No.
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  For sure.
• 1:03:20
  So I I I would tell you don't move them now, but you might wanna think about moving them
• 1:03:28
  with that $18,000,000 cash take out there.
• 1:03:31
  I mean, no.
• 1:03:34
  Yeah.
• 1:03:34
  And and that's not to say that, like, oh, Odell is replacing him or Juju even is going to
• 1:03:40
  replace him who will, you know, be 30 here, I think, just in a few weeks.
• 1:03:44
  And I'm not saying that I want off of Addison.
• 1:03:46
  I don't think he's a problem in the locker room, but he just continues to kind of
• 1:03:50
  underperform.
• 1:03:51
  Last year was terrible.
• 1:03:53
  I think he can be better.
• 1:03:54
  I think I think he's gonna benefit a lot because I don't think that OBJ is gonna be
• 1:03:59
  playing inside.
• 1:04:00
  I think you're gonna put him outside and move Addison to somewhere where I think he's more
• 1:04:05
  dangerous.
• 1:04:06
  Dell, do you think there's something to that as well that he's playing a little bit out of
• 1:04:11
  position on the outside where he can be more effective in that slot kind of what they call
• 1:04:18
  an adjuster role inside.
• 1:04:21
  That fits his body type a lot better because he's so quick.
• 1:04:26
  Yeah.
• 1:04:26
  When you got him going against nickel...
• 1:04:28
  Nichols and, god forbid, a linebacker ever gets out there on him, you're...
• 1:04:32
  You've now put him in a better position to, succeed.
• 1:04:37
  Right.
• 1:04:37
  Especially when you motion him because he'll have less distance from motion from one side of
• 1:04:42
  the line to the other.
• 1:04:43
  So you can basically pick who's guarding him on offense.
• 1:04:49
  You know?
• 1:04:49
  Yeah.
• 1:04:51
  Alright.
• 1:04:52
  Torres threw out one crazy scenario, and I'm gonna put this up here.
• 1:04:56
  I don't think this is ever happening, but, if the Raiders call, at which they're not going to
• 1:05:02
  be with the position they're in, and they're like, hey.
• 1:05:05
  Max Crosby for Jordan Addison.
• 1:05:07
  I mean, that's that's a...
• 1:05:09
  Like, you're you're you're sprinting to the Raiders.
• 1:05:14
  Right?
• 1:05:14
  Like And that's the thing.
• 1:05:15
  If if the Vikings are calling the Raiders for that trade, no.
• 1:05:19
  They're not gonna take it.
• 1:05:20
  But the Raiders are calling, you know, and they're saying, hey.
• 1:05:24
  We'll give you Max Cosby for...
• 1:05:26
  And I said, yeah.
• 1:05:27
  You're sprinted to the phone.
• 1:05:29
  So, I mean, it all depends on who's initiating that call.
• 1:05:32
  I mean
• 1:05:32
  Yeah.
• 1:05:33
  That...
• 1:05:33
  That's never happening.
• 1:05:35
  I don't even know that they'd trade Max...
• 1:05:37
  Well, they'd probably trade it for for Jefferson.
• 1:05:39
  But, Dell, you got time to stick around with this, man?
• 1:05:44
  I'm a move into the next topic.
• 1:05:47
  I'm actually about to crash out, man, which is why I'm not videoing in.
• 1:05:51
  I'm buck naked right now.
• 1:05:54
  Now we're talking?
• 1:05:56
  I know.
• 1:05:58
  SPSN tailgate after dark with Dell.
• 1:06:02
  This shit just got x rated.
• 1:06:05
  Hey.
• 1:06:05
  I appreciate you coming in, man.
• 1:06:07
  It's always good to have you.
• 1:06:08
  Love talking ball with you, man.
• 1:06:10
  I'm excited about this team.
• 1:06:11
  We finally saw what what I think is a winning formula against any team in the league, and I'm
• 1:06:19
  excited to see what they get right after the buy.
• 1:06:22
  And, I might be going into that Colts game, in a couple of weeks and going in and seeing it
• 1:06:29
  live in person up there in Minnesota again.
• 1:06:32
  That would be awesome.
• 1:06:34
  I'd have to hook up with you, man.
• 1:06:35
  Let me know if you make it in.
• 1:06:37
  I'll be there, man.
• 1:06:38
  We got our live tailgates from 09:03.
• 1:06:40
  So regardless of whether I'm going into the game or not, we'll be there.
• 1:06:45
  903 Washington Avenue South, Fathead Bills, doing the live pregame from there.
• 1:06:52
  So, yeah, man, if we don't go into the game, so be it.
• 1:06:54
  I waited out to the last minute.
• 1:06:55
  We almost got in for, like, $70 to the Dolphins game.
• 1:06:59
  The the Colts maybe not be that good, especially now that the offense is coming
• 1:07:03
  alive.
• 1:07:04
  I see the value of the tickets going up a little bit, but you never know.
• 1:07:07
  Dell, I appreciate you, man.
• 1:07:09
  Get some sleep.
• 1:07:11
  You don't have to put some clothes on, but make sure you do before you go to work tomorrow.
• 1:07:15
  Uh-huh.
• 1:07:15
  Peace, y'all.
• 1:07:16
  That's good, Dell.
• 1:07:17
  Love you, man.
• 1:07:18
  See you.
• 1:07:20
  Oh, Dell, what a great football mind, and always happy to have him on the show here.
• 1:07:26
  I I know he's very active in the chat in pretty...
• 1:07:29
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• 1:07:32
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• 1:07:43
  I don't think Cody's gonna make it back in, and I don't know that I have much left to to say.
• 1:07:48
  We got one last little topic here.
• 1:07:50
  We'll throw it to the chat as well.
• 1:07:52
  Biggest surprises heading into the bye week, and it can be anything.
• 1:07:56
  Bee, what's your biggest surprise after five weeks of winning football from our Minnesota
• 1:08:02
  Vikings?
• 1:08:03
  Well, if I wanna be honest, it's the...
• 1:08:06
  I mean, one, it's the five and o record.
• 1:08:08
  I mean, you know, I knew it was gonna be tough.
• 1:08:11
  I mean, I...
• 1:08:12
  We talked about it that it it had to start week one, and it did with the win.
• 1:08:17
  We went into bears week with the win, you know, and then I figured these last three games would
• 1:08:23
  have been a pretty, you know, easy game to get some wins on, maybe a hiccup.
• 1:08:28
  But, no, I'm I'm surprised about the record.
• 1:08:32
  The offense is coming around to help that record out.
• 1:08:37
  I was not worried about the defense, barring any big health issues.
• 1:08:42
  I figured they were gonna be balling out and helping us win games, which they are.
• 1:08:48
  Maybe maybe a slight surprise that Will Riker's leg hasn't fallen off yet.
• 1:08:54
  I mean, that guy could kick from wherever.
• 1:08:56
  I mean, I...
• 1:08:58
  I'd like to see I'd to see them do do something outside The US based deal with those big doors
• 1:09:03
  open.
• 1:09:04
  I just love...
• 1:09:04
  I just love to put him into the stadium to see how far he can kick it.
• 1:09:08
  But...
• 1:09:09
  No.
• 1:09:09
  Overall Take the nets down and see if he can kick it out to...
• 1:09:14
  Into the ship on the corner.
• 1:09:16
  Yeah.
• 1:09:17
  Yeah.
• 1:09:17
  Exactly.
• 1:09:18
  But, no, I I I will be 100% honest.
• 1:09:21
  The record is the most surprising.
• 1:09:23
  The way the offense has come along, it it is somewhat surprising, but, yeah, it...
• 1:09:30
  It's definitely been a fun five weeks.
• 1:09:33
  What about you?
• 1:09:35
  Yeah.
• 1:09:35
  I'll piggyback off that a little bit.
• 1:09:37
  The two and o start in the division.
• 1:09:39
  I think what's kind of the biggest surprise to me.
• 1:09:42
  Now, obviously, that game in the fishbowl, you know, there at Scoldier Field on week two being
• 1:09:50
  what it was, that kinda played right into our hands as the offense was, you know, trying to
• 1:09:55
  find itself and you had one where you could just go out, let the defense eat, and really
• 1:10:00
  hold that team to to no to no offense whatsoever.
• 1:10:04
  I think that was a pretty big surprise.
• 1:10:07
  Also that Aaron Jones is back to...
• 1:10:11
  I mean, we're we're looking at, like, prime form.
• 1:10:14
  You know?
• 1:10:15
  He doesn't have the speed anymore, but the the durability to be able to survive through these
• 1:10:20
  times when we've really needed him, not necessarily a surprise that he's done it, but
• 1:10:26
  that he's been as effective as he has been.
• 1:10:28
  Really...
• 1:10:29
  I mean, averaging over four yards a carry, all you gotta do is hand the ball hand the ball off
• 1:10:34
  to him three times, and you got a first down and a first down and a first down.
• 1:10:37
  This is all good.
• 1:10:40
  I can't argue with you here either.
• 1:10:42
  It's our biggest surprise.
• 1:10:43
  KOC sticking with the run game.
• 1:10:45
  Yeah, man.
• 1:10:46
  And you...
• 1:10:47
  And you're and you're the biggest one pushing that last year that he wasn't sticking to the
• 1:10:51
  run game, and he needs to change that up.
• 1:10:54
  So
• 1:10:55
  but, yeah, I guess stick to the run game.
• 1:10:58
  Jesus moment with him finally, and it sucked that it happened after they were out of the
• 1:11:04
  running because I think this team last year could have made it.
• 1:11:07
  Now I don't think they were on a Super Bowl trajectory last year.
• 1:11:10
  They were probably in and done after a single game.
• 1:11:13
  This year's different.
• 1:11:14
  And this year's different because of the move you made at the quarterback position
• 1:11:18
  Yep.
• 1:11:19
  Because of the draft picks you made that came in and made the moves, you know, and and were
• 1:11:26
  effective and are effective right away.
• 1:11:28
  Jake Galday with a huge play on Sunday.
• 1:11:32
  You know, younger guys, younger...
• 1:11:33
  You know, Miles Price didn't have a great season last year.
• 1:11:36
  A couple of really bad muffs that that...
• 1:11:39
  Of that muff, you know, in...
• 1:11:41
  On the five yard line in Green Bay probably still haunts him at night.
• 1:11:45
  But now the man...
• 1:11:46
  And he's got a big smile, man.
• 1:11:48
  I love...
• 1:11:48
  They call him Juggs.
• 1:11:49
  Right?
• 1:11:49
  I just love...
• 1:11:50
  I love who he is as a person.
• 1:11:53
  He...
• 1:11:53
  He's so engaging with the fans as well, so really appreciate seeing him.
• 1:11:56
  Really stand out.
• 1:11:57
  I think that's a little bit of surprise too.
• 1:11:59
  Barber, with this offense rolling now, only time we will see the trill is when he will be
• 1:12:04
  kicking at your points after touchdowns.
• 1:12:06
  I wanna see him...
• 1:12:07
  And you know what?
• 1:12:08
  If we can get the...
• 1:12:10
  And they kinda did it for us in the game.
• 1:12:13
  The end of the first half where you're just, like, trying to get a few yards and maybe
• 1:12:17
  kicking it, I wanna see him boot one from 70 just because no consequence to it.
• 1:12:22
  Right?
• 1:12:22
  You know, end of the first half, you're already up a couple of touchdowns.
• 1:12:26
  You got
• 1:12:26
  Hey.
• 1:12:26
  If Luma can do it for Jacksonville, why not?
• 1:12:29
  Let him boot it, man.
• 1:12:31
  Let him boot one and just see what happens as more of just a test for ourselves and for
• 1:12:37
  himself to see if he can do it.
• 1:12:40
  Right?
• 1:12:40
  Once you see it go through from that far, you're gonna have a lot of confidence.
• 1:12:44
  And if this team can keep winning, he's gonna be kicking in US Bank Stadium.
• 1:12:50
  And I think that's a powerful thing too.
• 1:12:52
  So for me, the expectations...
• 1:12:55
  I I will say that, that my expectations of week five is a surprise for me where I was like,
• 1:13:00
  hey.
• 1:13:01
  You know?
• 1:13:01
  10 to 12 wins.
• 1:13:03
  I'm gonna be pretty happy, sneak into the playoffs, whatever.
• 1:13:05
  Now I'm like, no.
• 1:13:06
  First round by, home field advantage throughout, that is now my expectations, and
• 1:13:11
  that surprises me.
• 1:13:13
  I didn't think that we would be here heading into the bye week looking at, you know, another
• 1:13:18
  very winnable game against, you know, against the colts at home and then going on the road to
• 1:13:28
  Detroit, correct, before coming back home to play against, you know, the Bills on Monday
• 1:13:34
  night.
• 1:13:35
  So you you got some winnable football games in front of you.
• 1:13:38
  Detroit doesn't scare me.
• 1:13:40
  I I think we're gonna kick the shit out of that team.
• 1:13:42
  It doesn't matter where we play them.
• 1:13:44
  And they...
• 1:13:46
  It's...
• 1:13:46
  You know, you're going and and looking at the game on Monday night being up, you know, seven
• 1:13:52
  seven and o, man.
• 1:13:53
  Like, that's that's a powerful statement that you're making in the league right now.
• 1:13:58
  So I'm excited that we have expectations like that for this team, and I'm excited about it.
• 1:14:05
  No.
• 1:14:05
  Definitely.
• 1:14:06
  I mean, the expectations, you know, are gonna grow each week.
• 1:14:11
  The team itself just has to listen to KLC and just, you know, we wanna come out of this week
• 1:14:17
  one and o.
• 1:14:18
  We wanna come out of this week one and o.
• 1:14:19
  We wanna come out of this week one and o.
• 1:14:21
  You know?
• 1:14:22
  So...
• 1:14:22
  But as fans, yeah, our expectations are gonna keep growing and growing and growing, and we
• 1:14:30
  don't wanna see that zero leave anytime soon.
• 1:14:34
  So Keep it rolling, man.
• 1:14:36
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• 1:14:37
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