November 9, 2025 • 30 mins
Welcome back to the Vikings Postgame Report presented by Lumen - The trusted network of A.I. The Minnesota Vikings dropped their week 10 matchup to the Baltimore Ravens 27-19 at U.S. Bank Stadium on Sunday afternoon. Quarterback J.J. McCarthy finished the game 20-of-42 passing for 248 yards, 1 TD, and 2 INT's. McCarthy also led the team in rushing with 48 yards on the ground. Running Back Aaron Jones Sr. also scored on the ground in the 1st Quarter on a 4-yard rush following a 62-yard pass from McCarthy to Wide Receiver Jalen Nailor earlier in the drive. Nailor had a big game and led the team with 5 receptions for 124 yards, and added a toe tap touchdown late in the 4th Quarter. Kicker Will Reichard was perfect once again with 2 FG's and 1 XP. Defensively, Linebacker Blake Cashman led the team with 11 tackles and Defensive Tackle Jonathan Allen recorded the lone sack for the Vikings on the day. Paul Allen and Pete Bercich breakdown the game, including: the missed opportunities due to costly mistakes on Sunday, Defensive Lineman Jalen Redmond's continued impact in the trenches, and the evolution of Lamar Jackson's game. Plus, Head Coach Kevin O'Connell and Quarterback J.J. McCarthy’s press conferences are all in this edition of the Vikings Postgame Report - presented by Lumen - The trusted network of A.I.
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Speaker 1 (00:16):
Hey, what's going on? Welcome to the Vikings Postgame Report
courtesy of Lumen Luhman. We thank you very much for
your weekly sponsorship of the postgame Report. And well, the
Baltimore Ravens came into US Bank Stadium and the ninth
game of the season and beat the Minnesota Vikings twenty
seven to nineteen. The Ravens improved to a four and five,
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the Vikings fall to four and five. They have the
Bears here at the US Bank Stadium next week. That
then this, Now you know it's football can be a
complicated game, Pee versus ch analyst for the Vikings Radio network.
It can be a complicated game, but it's not really
complicated when you lose the penalties battle by a million
and you give the bal to the other team markedly
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more than you take it, and that played unto the
eight point loss.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Yeah, I mean thirteen penalties for one hundred and two yards.
And again, these are a lot of these penalties are
just pre snap right, These are concentration things. These are
just you're at home, there's no crowd. You know, there
should be any crowd noise, you don't really have. It's
a lack of concentration and then the two interceptions and
the fumble. So the Ravens were able to get thirteen
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points off of those turnovers. And there you go, there's
your difference in the game. I mean it's not Yeah,
you're right, we try to make things complicated and we
want to take things to the nth degree and drill
in deeply. But on a game like today, after coming
off of a win in Detroit like they did, yeah,
it's disappointing today at the mistakes that were made. And
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I mean, I don't know offensively. Offensively, we're still trying
to find our identity. We're still trying to figure out
who we want to be. And I know Kevin Conna
wants to be aggressive and get the football down the field,
but I mean some of these aggressive moves by McCarthy,
you know, I think I think he can there's some
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more conservative ways of handling himself and handling and football
in that regard.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Well, JJ McCarthy did throw his first touchdown at home
in a regular season game, and that went to Jalen Naylor,
who had the best game of his life. Jalen was
on fire today, was targeted six times, he caught five
for one hundred and twenty four yards in a touchdown.
He had a sixty two yard grab in the in
the first quarter, and you know that with the first
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couple of possessions with the Vikings peed is what we
talked about a pregame on FM one hundred point three KFAM.
I came into this game legitimately thinking the Vikings had
a massive speed angle with their offense against all these big,
burly defenders for the Baltimore Ravens. And then you watch,
you know, you watch Naylor behind somebody. He's faster than
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for sixty two and like, hey, here we go, got
a lot of speed. Let's just keep doing that.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
But it just stopped. Oh they did.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
I mean, you have a woozier out there who's been
bouncing around the League's he's been all over the place,
and you've got him covering Justin Jefferson one on one.
The problem you have, Paul is is the game you
never put Baltimore that far behind the eight ball. You
had a two score lead for a little while, but
you let them, through turnovers and mistakes kind of get
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their get their way back into it. And so you
never you never made them play catch up football.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Right.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
And because of that, uh, they were able to take
their time, they were able to run the football, they
were able to be the Ravens.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Right.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
We let them be who they are.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Short passes, option plays, the outside, you know, all these
little creative things that they do. We never we never
put their back against the wall. And it made them
go up, make them go up and down the field
in a short period of time. And you know that's
that's so much of this game today.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
The thirteen penalties on hundred and two yards, like you
said earlier, I lost count of it. It's either seven
or eight one of the two. Yeah, eight false starts,
eight false starts on the vikings. I mean we've done
this a long time, man, I mean, I just don't
think that we've ever been involved in the game where
eighteen period has had like even Laramie Tunsel.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
No right, yeah, yeah, he had three. He had three
on himself in one day. But and that at least
that was crowd noise related. Right, even for a preseason game,
that number is unacceptable. And again, when you when you
are spiraling and losing games, you got to really take
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a look at to control what you can't control, and
pre snap penalties are one of the easiest things to control, right,
there's no reason for it. And some I think we're
on the quarterback. I you know, I know Brandell had
won at center. I don't know what he did with
the football to cause that. But uh, those when you're
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struggling to move the chains and you need to get
some put together, some longer drives, those kinds of penalties
will you know, they'll they'll kill you. And today we
were just constantly you know, you get five yards and
you have to go back five yards and then it
was it was uh in that regard, you're battling yourself
and it's hard enough to beat the opponent, but when
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you got to when you're beating yourself along the way,
it just it just doesn't make it easier.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Lastly, before we hear from Viking's head coach Kevin O'Connell. Uh,
Jalen Redman continues to be praiseworthy. I mean he he
just like continues to stack his newest best game. All right,
so he didn't have any sacks today, but he the
former Gopher Daniel Filele, the right guard, I mean, he
was demolishing him. Tyler Linderbaum, the Iowa centers, one of
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the best in the NFL. Railing Redmand threw him to
the side a couple of times. I just couldn't be
happier watching how Jalen Redmand plays.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yeah, I thought Jalen Redman did a great job. Another
young player, Dallas Turner, showed up a few times today.
So that's that's fantastic. We need him going forward. Is
we don't know what's going on with John de Grenard
and what I what I see it to be as
a shoulder him diving for the feet of Lamar Jackson,
and when you do that sometimes if you come down
on your shoulder just the right way, it can cause problems.
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But uh yeah, it's it's hard to put this one
on the defense, and you know they you know they're
gonna have their work cutout for him. And gave up
one hundred and fifty hundred and sixty some yards rushing.
Now that you're trying to take a look at the numbers,
hundred and well, they were doing a good job against
the run until late right and then but only one
hundred and seventy six passing. They kept themar to eighty
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seven point seven rating. He rolled in here with a
one thirty six point seven and his yards per attempt
was six, which is pretty good. Yeah, and he's coming.
He came in here second in the NFL at nine
point one, so you took him out of their game plan.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
But because you you know, you just never you had
to lead for a short period of time. But you
couldn't keep that kind of pressure on them. They were
able to just take their time and run the football.
And you know, unfortunately, I hate looking into a game
like this anymore deeply than having Baltimore come in at
minus three and walk out of here. Even right, They've
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had six turnovers in the last two weeks to beat
my you know, three to beat Miami and three to
beat us today. I how much further beyond that do
you have to go? I you know, that's that's I
don't know, because that's the game right there.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Let's hear from undoubtedly a frustrated head coach of the
Minnesota Vikings, Kevin O'Connell.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
You know, to have the football with a chance to
tie the game there at the end was an encouraging
thing considered considering how many things we did that we
can't do if we want to.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Beat a good football team like that.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
You know, if the players fought, they tried to overcome
in many cases the things we we did to ourselves
defense kept us in it all day long by their
battle against a really, really good offense, but lose the
turnover battle three nothing. And in the penalty situation, which
we've got to get fixed immediately, specifically the eight pre snaps,
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whatever was going on with the cadence or you know whatever,
it may be just not acceptable in any way, and
we've got to get it fixed and we will. But
the penalty situation, in the turnover situation being what it was,
you know, when you average over six yards of play
on offense, it's all for not if you're going to
be giving back so many of those yards in different capacities,
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you know, we've got to we've got to find a
way to first and foremost.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Correct whatever the issue was.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Normally we can do that in game if there's an issue,
but there just seemed to be a flinch here and there, way,
way a way too much. So if there was any
uncertainty of what we were doing, that's obviously something we've
got to get corrected. No matter who's in the game
and all those things something we've got to do. We
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we are right back here in a week with a
division game, chance to go three to zero in the division.
But to me, we will uh, you know, consistently build
on the good.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Practice week we had.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
This team is not a results based team that will
prepare any different, but you know, they're obviously very an
upset group in there to that that thought, we you know,
could have done a lot of things better in the
game to win the game, while also doing a lot
of things that were they gave us a chance to
win a game when when the circumstances were in many
cases caused by us against a good football team like that.
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Jonathan Garnard did have a left shoulder injury. He'll get
assessed later, you know, today and into tomorrow, but be
able to give you guys an update on that and
outside of that, That's all I have for for you
guys right now from an injury standpoint.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Did you uncover any themes to drop the game? Why
the frequency of those penalties were happening.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Well, I think, uh, you know, a couple of them.
A couple of them came when we were you know,
motioning from one side to another. Maybe there was some
a little bit more of a hard count emphasis by
JJ at certain times. I don't I don't you know,
we have we have, you know, we have multiple cadences,
and guys have really had not a very large issue
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with the cadence this year. But for whatever reason back
you know, JJ, obviously his first start on the road
from post injury was last week, so we didn't have
him a lot of cadence in Detroit. So whatever was
on earth today needs to get fixed immediately.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
To what you could see.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
Did you have any indication that the Ravens were simulating snow?
Speaker 3 (10:45):
I have not had a chance.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
I did ask our guys, you know, unless there was
some calls on some of the motions maybe that that
that were happening, But I did not get any indication
from our guys they were doing that.
Speaker 6 (10:57):
Did you guys make any game adjustments of Kaden says
that you can find one that wasn't looking go to it.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Probably. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
We we tried to simplify it down as much as possible,
and and you want to make sure you at least
give yourself a couple of variations so they're not teeing
off on you, you know, on every snap and they've
got some exotic looks on third down. They've got some
things where maybe it's a requirement, but some of those
things after a positive run, we were hoping to maybe
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stack some runs on a drive and then you you
go right back to a you know, kind of a
get back on track situation via your own doing. Those
are the ones that are very unfortunate, especially then when
you end up with more third and longs.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Than you ever should. When you're averaging six yards of
play and the quick three and.
Speaker 7 (11:41):
Out at the end of the first half and it's
going forward on throwing throwing deep one inches.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
It was it was a yard and it was four
down territory, So we knew that was going to be
zero coverage one on one with with Justin and then
a chance to you know, if we didn't get the
look for the play we we we were gonna you know,
get a run off and I was planning on going
for it regardless on fourth down.
Speaker 7 (12:03):
So like that, I mean, obviously it's good to be
aggressive if it's the way the league is going. What's
JJ's parameters, like, you know, I guess, you know, play
calling at the end of the first half and then
the deep ball.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
There, what kind of guidelines, Yeah, we you know we
were there's there's definitely some parameters there. Mark from a
standpoint at the end of the the one thing about
the end of the half, the throwaway, you know where
we really had nobody over there. You know, it was
just that's a situation where you know you're almost in
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a If it's not there, we'll go ahead and keep
that clock running at least make them use the time
out the third one.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
I mean that ball's already left his hand.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
Uh when when Justin and Humphrey's feet get tangled up.
Things like that happen in football. And I'll take Justin
Jefferson one on one down the field in zero coverage,
you know, as much as we can possibly do it,
especially when you're gonna have the ability to then take
that shot, and then with the field position we were at, go,
you know, go get that yard.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
On on fourth down.
Speaker 7 (13:07):
I mean, just you should probably just take off running.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Or Yeah, it's it's just one of those things where
you're trying to get that first first down and and
see if you can potentially get some points that had
been since our first drive. And then we had a
field goal in there, but you're you're trying to see
if you can manufacture in some cases a double up chance,
and we just didn't do that, you know, between between
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that sequence and then how we started the second half
and then and had the turnover, that was a that
was a critical you know, part of the game. I
thought from a from a standpoint of an opportunity lost,
where we're going to be aggressive. We're going to try
to get JJ some chances both, you know, justin Jefferson
and JJ, because you know, part of the growth and
development is, you know, we've got to let him play
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a little bit as well, and we're trying to figure
out that balance that that gives you a chance to
at least have a chance to win the football game.
In the end, I thought he competed, but you know,
there's there's app every snap right now, there's major growth
and learning and teaching going on. You know, for a
guy that was really making his fourth start.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
What did you make of his accuracy just throughout the game?
Speaker 4 (14:16):
I thought he was pretty dialed in early on pretty
pretty good throw uh to Jalen Naylor for the big
play on third down.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
I thought there was a lot of tipped balls.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
You know, for a variety of reasons, those are always
hard for me to tell in real time.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
I think we had four or five, uh you know.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Block shots by their D line that that you know
there was there were some opportunities and and then you're
you know, those are incompletes regardless of how you look
at it. And then just as we were getting into
the no huddle trying to make our way back from
two scores, it's you know, we may have made the
play on third or fourth down, fourth down like to convert,
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but you know some of those early down plays where
you know he can he can be a little bit
more pitch and catch even you know on some of
those opportunities. So between a couple of those and the
tip balls, you're you're looking at six or seven in
completions form that all of those are touches for our
guys and the ability to register the ball going forward
with you know, to try to keep the momentum on
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your side.
Speaker 6 (15:16):
What's the process like now trying to get cadence issues
and false start issues corrected. How do you go about
that this week?
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Well, I think we got to have a we got
to have a conversation as a group what what transpired.
You know, we're it doesn't feel like all eight of
those were the same scenario, the same sequence you're going
to have, you know, we try to eliminate them all. Well,
that's been a huge point of what we think it's
going to take to win the game every week, whenether
it's Monday or Wednesday or Friday, talking to the team
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about eliminating those self inflicted and we didn't do that
in any way, shape or form. So we've got to
you know, we've got to fix it. We've got to
understand what was different today than what had been something
we felt like we eliminated from maybe early on in
the season.
Speaker 6 (15:59):
You point to anything in terms of why maybe JJ
and Jefferson weren't able to get on the same page, and.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Kind of my like, yeah, I think there was some.
There was some obviously trying.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
You know, Justin had a good amount of targets today,
but one of not many completions, And I think it
goes you know, when you consider, you know, he gets
his legs caught on one of his one on one chances.
I thought JJ gave him a chance on second and
long kind of in the high red fringe. Aerry right there,
and you know, we weren't able to connect on that one.
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There were some plays where, you know, I think whether
it's a combination of coverage, you know, Justin you know,
working to uniquely find openings and some zones on some things.
And then there was a couple of times where I
thought we had him and didn't hit him, you know,
pressure moved off the spot. There's a lot of things
that go into it, but yeah, we want to always
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keep his target share up there just because he's you know,
obviously our best player. But at the same time, a
guy like Jalen Naylor having the day he did is
because of a lot of the things that Justin iterates
coverage wise and things going his way. But I thought
a lot of the times where we were working, Justin
was the right decision and and uh, you know, either
a block shot or an incompletion could probably keep us
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from three or four other chances on the day.
Speaker 5 (17:15):
What did you make of the run game just in general,
you guys run game.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Yeah, it felt like early on it was you know,
first probably you know, a quarter and a half, it
was you know, they were they were doing a good
job up front, being physical and stout and then we
kind of made some adjustments there to to to attack
some certain things.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
And then just as we.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
You know, specifically the first the first sequence of the
second half to two good runs in a row, and
then we took the shot there versus.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Zero on third and one, knowing that, you know.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
We felt pretty good about getting it on fourth and
one if that ball hits the earth.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Kind of how much did these effect to run?
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Yeah, I think it's just those times where it's you know,
even second and second and seven or six. Uh, you know,
you feel like, uh, you know, there was a few
times early on in the game we're getting us to
those third and manageable situations where we're good formulas for
us to sustain. On that first drive, we didn't necessarily
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have anything explosive, but we just kept moving the ball
forward and then hit a couple of plays on third
down to to to kind of move the field and
then eventually score. But yeah, it's just hard for your
entire offense to get in a rhythm. It had nothing
to do with you know, when you average six yards
of play, it's it's functioning without you know, shooting yourself
in the foot to be able to get those clean
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snaps off to continue your average six yards of play is.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Kind of how I look at it, and you would love.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
To be in a game where none of those penalties happen.
You probably get another three four conversions and in addition
to some more runs off and and then you can
maybe start wearing the opponent down a little bit. But
you get into the kind of you let you let
the Baltimore Ravens play multiple third downs in a row,
either a second and long into a third and long.
It's just not the formula, especially with a young quarterback,
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to try to play against that team.
Speaker 6 (19:06):
When you guys lose Jonathan Bernard, how did that impact
some of the things they were trying to do in
the run game against your defense.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Yeah, you know, I think it's it's one of those things.
The guys that stepped in there, you know, did did
a very you know, a very good job for the
most part. It's just they they had us, you know,
a couple a couple of plays there where it looked
like we got our edge taken away from us. Flow
made some adjustments and then that's what helped us, I
think on that final final stop that they made to
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force them to throw it on third down and then
we at least got an opportunity coming back at him there,
just didn't get it.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Done before we heard from the coach. You mentioned Lamar Jackson.
Now you know, we we saw Lamar in twenty twenty
one at M ANDT Bank Stadium, all right. So he's
like third fourth year in the league. He is so
much better now than he was in twenty twenty one
when it comes to the touch passes and the nuts
and bolts of being a hot quarterback. Less dynamic, but
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just more of a meat and potatoes kind of guy
who just takes discretion as the better part of valor
and recognizes, hey, you got me right there for minus two,
watch me on the next one.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Yeah, that's and that's kind of the thing where you know,
as you get a as you grow as a player,
after about twenty seven, the body starts to slow down.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
Right.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
You hit your physical peak at twenty seven ish somewhere
around there. And Lamar back in the day, he depended
on his physical abilities to get himself out of trouble.
But now he's using his brains, using he's using the
offensive system. He's so comfortable in what they're trying to
do and what he's seeing from defenses. He mentioned how
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when they played Brian Flores, I think he was back
in twenty twenty one and all the different blitzes they
threw at him. Eat vowed that he was going to
start learning what defenses are trying to do, and it
shows so he doesn't have to be heroic anymore. He
can just operate within the system, you know, and he's
executing it brilliantly. So yeah, lamar Is, I think overall
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just a much more difficult quarterback to deal with now
are at more now so than ever.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Vikings quarterback JJ McCarthy made his fourth start today, second
at home. He threw for a career best two hundred
and forty eight yards. The first touchdown he's thrown a
US Bank Stadium went the way of Jail and Naylor.
And here's what the twenty two year old quarterback had
to say after the game.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
Good to see you all as always.
Speaker 8 (21:31):
Obviously very disappointing to come out US Bank Stadium and
leave with the loss, but you know, I felt like
there was a lot of good things that we did,
you know, three hundred and sixty yards total offense, six
point six yards a player or something like that.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
It was there.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
We just kept shooting ourselves in the foot.
Speaker 8 (21:45):
And you know, I take full responsibility for the pre
snap you know, procedural penalties. You know, we got three
turnovers and just you know, too many things that you know,
don't set us up for success, you know, when the
clock hits zero. So we just got to go back
to work, watch this film, and you know, really clean
up all the little things because that's what hurt us today.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
J D.
Speaker 9 (22:04):
He said, you take the responsibility for pre snap. It's
like why or how?
Speaker 6 (22:08):
How?
Speaker 9 (22:08):
What was what did you see that was leading to
all over the pre snap mountains.
Speaker 8 (22:12):
As a quarterback, you're the orchestrator of the orchestra. You know,
I take full responsibility for anything that happens on that field.
And uh, you know, at the end of the day,
it's just the little things that we got to keep
focusing on. The you know, the focus, the competitive stamina,
it's all got to be there. But I take full
responsibility every single time something goes wrong.
Speaker 5 (22:30):
Did you feel like it was a cadence thing?
Speaker 3 (22:32):
I guess was there a theme you feel it?
Speaker 5 (22:35):
To be honest with you, I have no idea. Alex Alex.
Speaker 8 (22:38):
I just feel like, you know, there's little things that
show up that you don't prepare for, and we just
got to do a better job responding when.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
Things go that way. So yeah, but it's all me.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
J J.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Just in terms of the connection with Jayalen Naylor, why
do you think that work today?
Speaker 5 (22:55):
I said it since week one.
Speaker 8 (22:56):
You know Speedy was going to show up one of
these days, and you know showed up last week on
the big third and five and you know, had a
heck of a game today.
Speaker 5 (23:02):
But you know, he's somebody that.
Speaker 8 (23:03):
Always just you know, sticks to his process, does all
the little things right, does the dirty work, and you know,
doesn't complain at all. And he's a tremendous football player.
I absolutely love the human being that he is. And
uh yeah, there's gonna be a lot more games like
that for Speedy Naylor.
Speaker 7 (23:17):
Any common threads for why you had that many boss
that tipped his line of Sperimacher.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
Bad of DABT And I think they did a great
job defensively.
Speaker 8 (23:24):
You know, I feel like they used you know, the
big guys up front to you know, give a little
push and then just you know, get eyes up ready
to swap the ball down, and you know, I got
to do a better job of making sure that I'm
aware of that, and you know, when I step up
in the pocket, don't get too close to those guys,
and you know, work on all the different arm angles.
But at the end of the day, you know, they
just were a great defense, and you know, it was
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a great test for us as an offense to be
able to see what it looks like against a great
AFC team, and you know, we just got to you know,
allow those not allow those little things like that and
prestat penalties to have an effect on our offense.
Speaker 6 (23:58):
JUJ Kevin talked a little bit about might have been
using a little more hardcount today. Obviously you could do
that at home when you're having issues with false starts
and that kind of thing. Do you change how much
you could go to the hard count knowing that that's
been an issue for the offensive liner in the game.
Speaker 8 (24:14):
I feel like the defense thinks the same way when
it comes to that. So it's just the level of focus.
Like you know, it's as simple as remember the snap
count and execute it when the ball is snapped. And
you know, where we pride ourselves as you know, a
great offense and those little things, those foundational things.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
We just got to always make sure we're consistent with those.
Speaker 8 (24:32):
So, you know, regardless of what happens, we just got to,
you know, maintain that focus for sixty minutes.
Speaker 7 (24:39):
Anything you could think you could do differently, you know,
going into the half, you guys had the ball, you
could have scored, and you could have.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Scored coming out of the half. One opposite for you guys.
For sure.
Speaker 8 (24:49):
I thought it was a beautiful example for me to
learn from because you know last week when Barnes sacked
me in my red zone, that was the time to
throw the ball away, and this was the time to
take a sack, you know, with forty seconds left, keep
that clock running, make them use the timeout or something
like that. It's just all things about you know, growing
in this great game of football and all experiences that
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I take that data and collect it and then use
it for the next time.
Speaker 7 (25:12):
It's the second we're talking about the second and five
wherever it's third and five, I.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
Think it was third down, yeah, and I threw it away.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
And you're just trying to get it back in the
line of scrimmage. Just take the sack.
Speaker 5 (25:21):
There, Yeah, just take the sack, keep the clock running. Yeah,
how do you learn that?
Speaker 7 (25:26):
I mean, you probably know that, but whenever things are
going so you hay wire, it's just instinct. I guess,
at what point does a quarterback learn that that's what
you should have done and do it.
Speaker 8 (25:37):
I feel like the greatest learning tool for anybody, regardless
of position, regardless of profession, is experience. And you know,
this is my fourth football game. This is the first
time I've been in a situation like that where you know,
it was take a sack or throw it away.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
So I feel like, you.
Speaker 8 (25:51):
Know, it's just the first opportunity where I could collect
that data and then use it for the next time.
Speaker 6 (25:57):
Did as you look back on that game right now,
are there any or decisions that maybe stick out to
you that you want back?
Speaker 5 (26:04):
You know, there's a lot of them.
Speaker 8 (26:05):
I just feel like, you know, there's so much on
the tape that it's gonna reveal, But you know, the
amount of tipballs that happened today at the line of
scrimmage those is just absolutely killer.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
And it's a credit to them up front.
Speaker 8 (26:16):
You know, they played a tremendous game, They had a
tremendous game plan, through the kitchen sink at us in
terms of coverage, pressures, new looks. But yeah, it's just
the little things like that. I think it's the worst
playing football tip ball at the line of scrimmage, but
you know that's what it is. And you know, I
definitely want those back.
Speaker 7 (26:34):
Changing the deep ball third and one to I think
it's justin he's coming out of the half.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
Where do you see in the zero coverage one on one?
Speaker 8 (26:42):
And I have the greatest receiver in the world, so
I don't care who it is out there.
Speaker 5 (26:45):
I'm gonna give him a chance. And you know, I
didn't see him fall.
Speaker 8 (26:49):
It's just one of those things where you know, he
catches it and it's great, he doesn't it's incomplete, or
it's interception and it's a punt. You know, there's different
things where you know that could lead to that outcome.
But ten times out of ten, I'm gonna give him
a shot.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
What have you gotten.
Speaker 9 (27:05):
Fast, Aaron Jones Like just the spark that he seems
to be giving you guys, and a luxury for us
young quarterback. You have a back leaking plays.
Speaker 8 (27:14):
A tremendous leader first off before even steps on the field,
making plays. You know, he's just got that exuberant energy,
just so pure hearted and you know, you know exactly
what he's feeling you, and you know exactly what he's
asking out of you, and you know, just the spark
he gives to our offense in the run game as
well as Jordan Mason, it's just tremendous. And you know
the way he hits that whole straight downhill, you know,
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as fast as he can at one hundred miles an hour.
It's it's awesome to see. And you know in the
past game he's tremendous as well. But you know, just
gotta just gotta keep growing. And he'll be the first
one to say, you know, we just got to keep groing.
So you know, I appreciate you guys, but we uh, yeah,
we can't have these anymore. We got to be better,
and I promise we're gonna work to do that.
Speaker 6 (27:54):
DJ Aaron Jones said that there were a couple of
times where he heard the Ravens trying to call Snap.
Did have an affected you guys at all? Or is
that anything you've heard?
Speaker 8 (28:01):
You know, that's something I don't really try to dip
my toe into, you know, at the end of the day,
it's moving when the ball snapped, and you know, we
just got to be more locked in, more focused on
those little things, and you know, now shoot ourselves on
the foot and we'll see where we.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Get, all right. Lamar Jackson is now twenty four and
four versus the NFC North one on one this year.
John Harbaugh, I mean, we both have an immense amount
of respect for anybody who can keep a job like
that for eighteen years.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Amazing.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Well, he's he's fifty three and eighteen during his career
against quarterbacks in their first or second year. Two and
zero this year, he's taking down Caleb Williams. He just
took down JJ McCarthy from a McCarthy standpoint. Facing Caleb
Williams and the Bears next game, what are you looking
to be different?
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Well, well, quit turning the ball over and quote with
the pre snat penalties. I mean that start right there.
It's pretty simple, right. The Bears have found a way
to win. They won, They found a way to win today.
They found last second heroics against the Cincinnati Bengals to
beat him when no one thought gave him a chance.
Remember it was a year ago when they were losing
games on the final play like in Washington, that was
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kind of how the Bears were doing it. But they
believe now, they believe, they believe that as long as
they have an opportunity at the end of the game,
they're never out of it. And so that tide has
definitely turned for, you know, for the Chicago Bears, and
they are going to be a tough team to beat
because they're gonna want to put another loss in the vikings,
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put us out of the equation and you know, for
lack of a better try to finish us off here,
you know, next Sunday. So I expect it to be
a dogfight. I mean, Caleb Williams playing better, Roma Dunza,
I mean it's become a pretty a pretty effective battery
between the two of them.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Interesting you mentioned those two names because today it's Soldier Field.
The Bears were losing twenty to ten with about four
minutes ago in the game. Caleb Williams hit Roma Doonza
for a touchdown that made it twenty to seventeen. Then
they get the ball back. Caleb Williams ran in a
touchdown from seventeen yards out with about a minute ago,
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and the Bears put a dirty loss on Jackson Dark
and the New York Giants twenty four to twenty. The
Vikings look to sweep the Bears next week. They beat
them a week one and remain undefeated in the division
after beating the Bears and the Detroit Lions. That boom
will be at noon on FM one hundred point three
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Baltimore Ravens came into US Bank Stadium and the ninth
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then this, Now you know it's football can be a
complicated game, Pee versus ch analyst for the Vikings Radio network.
It can be a complicated game, but it's not really
complicated when you lose the penalties battle by a million
and you give the bal to the other team markedly
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more than you take it, and that played unto the
eight point loss.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Yeah, I mean thirteen penalties for one hundred and two yards.
And again, these are a lot of these penalties are
just pre snap right, These are concentration things. These are
just you're at home, there's no crowd. You know, there
should be any crowd noise, you don't really have. It's
a lack of concentration and then the two interceptions and
the fumble. So the Ravens were able to get thirteen
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points off of those turnovers. And there you go, there's
your difference in the game. I mean it's not Yeah,
you're right, we try to make things complicated and we
want to take things to the nth degree and drill
in deeply. But on a game like today, after coming
off of a win in Detroit like they did, yeah,
it's disappointing today at the mistakes that were made. And
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I mean, I don't know offensively. Offensively, we're still trying
to find our identity. We're still trying to figure out
who we want to be. And I know Kevin Conna
wants to be aggressive and get the football down the field,
but I mean some of these aggressive moves by McCarthy,
you know, I think I think he can there's some
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more conservative ways of handling himself and handling and football
in that regard.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Well, JJ McCarthy did throw his first touchdown at home
in a regular season game, and that went to Jalen Naylor,
who had the best game of his life. Jalen was
on fire today, was targeted six times, he caught five
for one hundred and twenty four yards in a touchdown.
He had a sixty two yard grab in the in
the first quarter, and you know that with the first
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couple of possessions with the Vikings peed is what we
talked about a pregame on FM one hundred point three KFAM.
I came into this game legitimately thinking the Vikings had
a massive speed angle with their offense against all these big,
burly defenders for the Baltimore Ravens. And then you watch,
you know, you watch Naylor behind somebody. He's faster than
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for sixty two and like, hey, here we go, got
a lot of speed. Let's just keep doing that.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
But it just stopped. Oh they did.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
I mean, you have a woozier out there who's been
bouncing around the League's he's been all over the place,
and you've got him covering Justin Jefferson one on one.
The problem you have, Paul is is the game you
never put Baltimore that far behind the eight ball. You
had a two score lead for a little while, but
you let them, through turnovers and mistakes kind of get
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their get their way back into it. And so you
never you never made them play catch up football.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Right.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
And because of that, uh, they were able to take
their time, they were able to run the football, they
were able to be the Ravens.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Right.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
We let them be who they are.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Short passes, option plays, the outside, you know, all these
little creative things that they do. We never we never
put their back against the wall. And it made them
go up, make them go up and down the field
in a short period of time. And you know that's
that's so much of this game today.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
The thirteen penalties on hundred and two yards, like you
said earlier, I lost count of it. It's either seven
or eight one of the two. Yeah, eight false starts,
eight false starts on the vikings. I mean we've done
this a long time, man, I mean, I just don't
think that we've ever been involved in the game where
eighteen period has had like even Laramie Tunsel.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
No right, yeah, yeah, he had three. He had three
on himself in one day. But and that at least
that was crowd noise related. Right, even for a preseason game,
that number is unacceptable. And again, when you when you
are spiraling and losing games, you got to really take
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a look at to control what you can't control, and
pre snap penalties are one of the easiest things to control, right,
there's no reason for it. And some I think we're
on the quarterback. I you know, I know Brandell had
won at center. I don't know what he did with
the football to cause that. But uh, those when you're
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struggling to move the chains and you need to get
some put together, some longer drives, those kinds of penalties
will you know, they'll they'll kill you. And today we
were just constantly you know, you get five yards and
you have to go back five yards and then it
was it was uh in that regard, you're battling yourself
and it's hard enough to beat the opponent, but when
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you got to when you're beating yourself along the way,
it just it just doesn't make it easier.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Lastly, before we hear from Viking's head coach Kevin O'Connell. Uh,
Jalen Redman continues to be praiseworthy. I mean he he
just like continues to stack his newest best game. All right,
so he didn't have any sacks today, but he the
former Gopher Daniel Filele, the right guard, I mean, he
was demolishing him. Tyler Linderbaum, the Iowa centers, one of
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the best in the NFL. Railing Redmand threw him to
the side a couple of times. I just couldn't be
happier watching how Jalen Redmand plays.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yeah, I thought Jalen Redman did a great job. Another
young player, Dallas Turner, showed up a few times today.
So that's that's fantastic. We need him going forward. Is
we don't know what's going on with John de Grenard
and what I what I see it to be as
a shoulder him diving for the feet of Lamar Jackson,
and when you do that sometimes if you come down
on your shoulder just the right way, it can cause problems.
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But uh yeah, it's it's hard to put this one
on the defense, and you know they you know they're
gonna have their work cutout for him. And gave up
one hundred and fifty hundred and sixty some yards rushing.
Now that you're trying to take a look at the numbers,
hundred and well, they were doing a good job against
the run until late right and then but only one
hundred and seventy six passing. They kept themar to eighty
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seven point seven rating. He rolled in here with a
one thirty six point seven and his yards per attempt
was six, which is pretty good. Yeah, and he's coming.
He came in here second in the NFL at nine
point one, so you took him out of their game plan.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
But because you you know, you just never you had
to lead for a short period of time. But you
couldn't keep that kind of pressure on them. They were
able to just take their time and run the football.
And you know, unfortunately, I hate looking into a game
like this anymore deeply than having Baltimore come in at
minus three and walk out of here. Even right, They've
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had six turnovers in the last two weeks to beat
my you know, three to beat Miami and three to
beat us today. I how much further beyond that do
you have to go? I you know, that's that's I
don't know, because that's the game right there.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Let's hear from undoubtedly a frustrated head coach of the
Minnesota Vikings, Kevin O'Connell.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
You know, to have the football with a chance to
tie the game there at the end was an encouraging
thing considered considering how many things we did that we
can't do if we want to.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Beat a good football team like that.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
You know, if the players fought, they tried to overcome
in many cases the things we we did to ourselves
defense kept us in it all day long by their
battle against a really, really good offense, but lose the
turnover battle three nothing. And in the penalty situation, which
we've got to get fixed immediately, specifically the eight pre snaps,
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whatever was going on with the cadence or you know whatever,
it may be just not acceptable in any way, and
we've got to get it fixed and we will. But
the penalty situation, in the turnover situation being what it was,
you know, when you average over six yards of play
on offense, it's all for not if you're going to
be giving back so many of those yards in different capacities,
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you know, we've got to we've got to find a
way to first and foremost.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Correct whatever the issue was.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Normally we can do that in game if there's an issue,
but there just seemed to be a flinch here and there, way,
way a way too much. So if there was any
uncertainty of what we were doing, that's obviously something we've
got to get corrected. No matter who's in the game
and all those things something we've got to do. We
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we are right back here in a week with a
division game, chance to go three to zero in the division.
But to me, we will uh, you know, consistently build
on the good.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Practice week we had.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
This team is not a results based team that will
prepare any different, but you know, they're obviously very an
upset group in there to that that thought, we you know,
could have done a lot of things better in the
game to win the game, while also doing a lot
of things that were they gave us a chance to
win a game when when the circumstances were in many
cases caused by us against a good football team like that.
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Jonathan Garnard did have a left shoulder injury. He'll get
assessed later, you know, today and into tomorrow, but be
able to give you guys an update on that and
outside of that, That's all I have for for you
guys right now from an injury standpoint.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Did you uncover any themes to drop the game? Why
the frequency of those penalties were happening.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Well, I think, uh, you know, a couple of them.
A couple of them came when we were you know,
motioning from one side to another. Maybe there was some
a little bit more of a hard count emphasis by
JJ at certain times. I don't I don't you know,
we have we have, you know, we have multiple cadences,
and guys have really had not a very large issue
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with the cadence this year. But for whatever reason back
you know, JJ, obviously his first start on the road
from post injury was last week, so we didn't have
him a lot of cadence in Detroit. So whatever was
on earth today needs to get fixed immediately.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
To what you could see.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
Did you have any indication that the Ravens were simulating snow?
Speaker 3 (10:45):
I have not had a chance.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
I did ask our guys, you know, unless there was
some calls on some of the motions maybe that that
that were happening, But I did not get any indication
from our guys they were doing that.
Speaker 6 (10:57):
Did you guys make any game adjustments of Kaden says
that you can find one that wasn't looking go to it.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Probably. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
We we tried to simplify it down as much as possible,
and and you want to make sure you at least
give yourself a couple of variations so they're not teeing
off on you, you know, on every snap and they've
got some exotic looks on third down. They've got some
things where maybe it's a requirement, but some of those
things after a positive run, we were hoping to maybe
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stack some runs on a drive and then you you
go right back to a you know, kind of a
get back on track situation via your own doing. Those
are the ones that are very unfortunate, especially then when
you end up with more third and longs.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Than you ever should. When you're averaging six yards of
play and the quick three and.
Speaker 7 (11:41):
Out at the end of the first half and it's
going forward on throwing throwing deep one inches.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
It was it was a yard and it was four
down territory, So we knew that was going to be
zero coverage one on one with with Justin and then
a chance to you know, if we didn't get the
look for the play we we we were gonna you know,
get a run off and I was planning on going
for it regardless on fourth down.
Speaker 7 (12:03):
So like that, I mean, obviously it's good to be
aggressive if it's the way the league is going. What's
JJ's parameters, like, you know, I guess, you know, play
calling at the end of the first half and then
the deep ball.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
There, what kind of guidelines, Yeah, we you know we
were there's there's definitely some parameters there. Mark from a
standpoint at the end of the the one thing about
the end of the half, the throwaway, you know where
we really had nobody over there. You know, it was
just that's a situation where you know you're almost in
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a If it's not there, we'll go ahead and keep
that clock running at least make them use the time
out the third one.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
I mean that ball's already left his hand.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
Uh when when Justin and Humphrey's feet get tangled up.
Things like that happen in football. And I'll take Justin
Jefferson one on one down the field in zero coverage,
you know, as much as we can possibly do it,
especially when you're gonna have the ability to then take
that shot, and then with the field position we were at, go,
you know, go get that yard.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
On on fourth down.
Speaker 7 (13:07):
I mean, just you should probably just take off running.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Or Yeah, it's it's just one of those things where
you're trying to get that first first down and and
see if you can potentially get some points that had
been since our first drive. And then we had a
field goal in there, but you're you're trying to see
if you can manufacture in some cases a double up chance,
and we just didn't do that, you know, between between
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that sequence and then how we started the second half
and then and had the turnover, that was a that
was a critical you know, part of the game. I
thought from a from a standpoint of an opportunity lost,
where we're going to be aggressive. We're going to try
to get JJ some chances both, you know, justin Jefferson
and JJ, because you know, part of the growth and
development is, you know, we've got to let him play
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a little bit as well, and we're trying to figure
out that balance that that gives you a chance to
at least have a chance to win the football game.
In the end, I thought he competed, but you know,
there's there's app every snap right now, there's major growth
and learning and teaching going on. You know, for a
guy that was really making his fourth start.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
What did you make of his accuracy just throughout the game?
Speaker 4 (14:16):
I thought he was pretty dialed in early on pretty
pretty good throw uh to Jalen Naylor for the big
play on third down.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
I thought there was a lot of tipped balls.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
You know, for a variety of reasons, those are always
hard for me to tell in real time.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
I think we had four or five, uh you know.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Block shots by their D line that that you know
there was there were some opportunities and and then you're
you know, those are incompletes regardless of how you look
at it. And then just as we were getting into
the no huddle trying to make our way back from
two scores, it's you know, we may have made the
play on third or fourth down, fourth down like to convert,
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but you know some of those early down plays where
you know he can he can be a little bit
more pitch and catch even you know on some of
those opportunities. So between a couple of those and the
tip balls, you're you're looking at six or seven in
completions form that all of those are touches for our
guys and the ability to register the ball going forward
with you know, to try to keep the momentum on
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your side.
Speaker 6 (15:16):
What's the process like now trying to get cadence issues
and false start issues corrected. How do you go about
that this week?
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Well, I think we got to have a we got
to have a conversation as a group what what transpired.
You know, we're it doesn't feel like all eight of
those were the same scenario, the same sequence you're going
to have, you know, we try to eliminate them all. Well,
that's been a huge point of what we think it's
going to take to win the game every week, whenether
it's Monday or Wednesday or Friday, talking to the team
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about eliminating those self inflicted and we didn't do that
in any way, shape or form. So we've got to
you know, we've got to fix it. We've got to
understand what was different today than what had been something
we felt like we eliminated from maybe early on in
the season.
Speaker 6 (15:59):
You point to anything in terms of why maybe JJ
and Jefferson weren't able to get on the same page, and.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Kind of my like, yeah, I think there was some.
There was some obviously trying.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
You know, Justin had a good amount of targets today,
but one of not many completions, And I think it
goes you know, when you consider, you know, he gets
his legs caught on one of his one on one chances.
I thought JJ gave him a chance on second and
long kind of in the high red fringe. Aerry right there,
and you know, we weren't able to connect on that one.
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There were some plays where, you know, I think whether
it's a combination of coverage, you know, Justin you know,
working to uniquely find openings and some zones on some things.
And then there was a couple of times where I
thought we had him and didn't hit him, you know,
pressure moved off the spot. There's a lot of things
that go into it, but yeah, we want to always
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keep his target share up there just because he's you know,
obviously our best player. But at the same time, a
guy like Jalen Naylor having the day he did is
because of a lot of the things that Justin iterates
coverage wise and things going his way. But I thought
a lot of the times where we were working, Justin
was the right decision and and uh, you know, either
a block shot or an incompletion could probably keep us
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from three or four other chances on the day.
Speaker 5 (17:15):
What did you make of the run game just in general,
you guys run game.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Yeah, it felt like early on it was you know,
first probably you know, a quarter and a half, it
was you know, they were they were doing a good
job up front, being physical and stout and then we
kind of made some adjustments there to to to attack
some certain things.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
And then just as we.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
You know, specifically the first the first sequence of the
second half to two good runs in a row, and
then we took the shot there versus.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Zero on third and one, knowing that, you know.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
We felt pretty good about getting it on fourth and
one if that ball hits the earth.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Kind of how much did these effect to run?
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Yeah, I think it's just those times where it's you know,
even second and second and seven or six. Uh, you know,
you feel like, uh, you know, there was a few
times early on in the game we're getting us to
those third and manageable situations where we're good formulas for
us to sustain. On that first drive, we didn't necessarily
(18:14):
have anything explosive, but we just kept moving the ball
forward and then hit a couple of plays on third
down to to to kind of move the field and
then eventually score. But yeah, it's just hard for your
entire offense to get in a rhythm. It had nothing
to do with you know, when you average six yards
of play, it's it's functioning without you know, shooting yourself
in the foot to be able to get those clean
(18:36):
snaps off to continue your average six yards of play is.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Kind of how I look at it, and you would love.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
To be in a game where none of those penalties happen.
You probably get another three four conversions and in addition
to some more runs off and and then you can
maybe start wearing the opponent down a little bit. But
you get into the kind of you let you let
the Baltimore Ravens play multiple third downs in a row,
either a second and long into a third and long.
It's just not the formula, especially with a young quarterback,
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to try to play against that team.
Speaker 6 (19:06):
When you guys lose Jonathan Bernard, how did that impact
some of the things they were trying to do in
the run game against your defense.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Yeah, you know, I think it's it's one of those things.
The guys that stepped in there, you know, did did
a very you know, a very good job for the
most part. It's just they they had us, you know,
a couple a couple of plays there where it looked
like we got our edge taken away from us. Flow
made some adjustments and then that's what helped us, I
think on that final final stop that they made to
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force them to throw it on third down and then
we at least got an opportunity coming back at him there,
just didn't get it.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Done before we heard from the coach. You mentioned Lamar Jackson.
Now you know, we we saw Lamar in twenty twenty
one at M ANDT Bank Stadium, all right. So he's
like third fourth year in the league. He is so
much better now than he was in twenty twenty one
when it comes to the touch passes and the nuts
and bolts of being a hot quarterback. Less dynamic, but
(20:02):
just more of a meat and potatoes kind of guy
who just takes discretion as the better part of valor
and recognizes, hey, you got me right there for minus two,
watch me on the next one.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Yeah, that's and that's kind of the thing where you know,
as you get a as you grow as a player,
after about twenty seven, the body starts to slow down.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
Right.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
You hit your physical peak at twenty seven ish somewhere
around there. And Lamar back in the day, he depended
on his physical abilities to get himself out of trouble.
But now he's using his brains, using he's using the
offensive system. He's so comfortable in what they're trying to
do and what he's seeing from defenses. He mentioned how
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when they played Brian Flores, I think he was back
in twenty twenty one and all the different blitzes they
threw at him. Eat vowed that he was going to
start learning what defenses are trying to do, and it
shows so he doesn't have to be heroic anymore. He
can just operate within the system, you know, and he's
executing it brilliantly. So yeah, lamar Is, I think overall
(21:06):
just a much more difficult quarterback to deal with now
are at more now so than ever.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Vikings quarterback JJ McCarthy made his fourth start today, second
at home. He threw for a career best two hundred
and forty eight yards. The first touchdown he's thrown a
US Bank Stadium went the way of Jail and Naylor.
And here's what the twenty two year old quarterback had
to say after the game.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
Good to see you all as always.
Speaker 8 (21:31):
Obviously very disappointing to come out US Bank Stadium and
leave with the loss, but you know, I felt like
there was a lot of good things that we did,
you know, three hundred and sixty yards total offense, six
point six yards a player or something like that.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
It was there.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
We just kept shooting ourselves in the foot.
Speaker 8 (21:45):
And you know, I take full responsibility for the pre
snap you know, procedural penalties. You know, we got three
turnovers and just you know, too many things that you know,
don't set us up for success, you know, when the
clock hits zero. So we just got to go back
to work, watch this film, and you know, really clean
up all the little things because that's what hurt us today.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
J D.
Speaker 9 (22:04):
He said, you take the responsibility for pre snap. It's
like why or how?
Speaker 6 (22:08):
How?
Speaker 9 (22:08):
What was what did you see that was leading to
all over the pre snap mountains.
Speaker 8 (22:12):
As a quarterback, you're the orchestrator of the orchestra. You know,
I take full responsibility for anything that happens on that field.
And uh, you know, at the end of the day,
it's just the little things that we got to keep
focusing on. The you know, the focus, the competitive stamina,
it's all got to be there. But I take full
responsibility every single time something goes wrong.
Speaker 5 (22:30):
Did you feel like it was a cadence thing?
Speaker 3 (22:32):
I guess was there a theme you feel it?
Speaker 5 (22:35):
To be honest with you, I have no idea. Alex Alex.
Speaker 8 (22:38):
I just feel like, you know, there's little things that
show up that you don't prepare for, and we just
got to do a better job responding when.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
Things go that way. So yeah, but it's all me.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
J J.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Just in terms of the connection with Jayalen Naylor, why
do you think that work today?
Speaker 5 (22:55):
I said it since week one.
Speaker 8 (22:56):
You know Speedy was going to show up one of
these days, and you know showed up last week on
the big third and five and you know, had a
heck of a game today.
Speaker 5 (23:02):
But you know, he's somebody that.
Speaker 8 (23:03):
Always just you know, sticks to his process, does all
the little things right, does the dirty work, and you know,
doesn't complain at all. And he's a tremendous football player.
I absolutely love the human being that he is. And
uh yeah, there's gonna be a lot more games like
that for Speedy Naylor.
Speaker 7 (23:17):
Any common threads for why you had that many boss
that tipped his line of Sperimacher.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
Bad of DABT And I think they did a great
job defensively.
Speaker 8 (23:24):
You know, I feel like they used you know, the
big guys up front to you know, give a little
push and then just you know, get eyes up ready
to swap the ball down, and you know, I got
to do a better job of making sure that I'm
aware of that, and you know, when I step up
in the pocket, don't get too close to those guys,
and you know, work on all the different arm angles.
But at the end of the day, you know, they
just were a great defense, and you know, it was
(23:45):
a great test for us as an offense to be
able to see what it looks like against a great
AFC team, and you know, we just got to you know,
allow those not allow those little things like that and
prestat penalties to have an effect on our offense.
Speaker 6 (23:58):
JUJ Kevin talked a little bit about might have been
using a little more hardcount today. Obviously you could do
that at home when you're having issues with false starts
and that kind of thing. Do you change how much
you could go to the hard count knowing that that's
been an issue for the offensive liner in the game.
Speaker 8 (24:14):
I feel like the defense thinks the same way when
it comes to that. So it's just the level of focus.
Like you know, it's as simple as remember the snap
count and execute it when the ball is snapped. And
you know, where we pride ourselves as you know, a
great offense and those little things, those foundational things.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
We just got to always make sure we're consistent with those.
Speaker 8 (24:32):
So, you know, regardless of what happens, we just got to,
you know, maintain that focus for sixty minutes.
Speaker 7 (24:39):
Anything you could think you could do differently, you know,
going into the half, you guys had the ball, you
could have scored, and you could have.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Scored coming out of the half. One opposite for you guys.
For sure.
Speaker 8 (24:49):
I thought it was a beautiful example for me to
learn from because you know last week when Barnes sacked
me in my red zone, that was the time to
throw the ball away, and this was the time to
take a sack, you know, with forty seconds left, keep
that clock running, make them use the timeout or something
like that. It's just all things about you know, growing
in this great game of football and all experiences that
(25:09):
I take that data and collect it and then use
it for the next time.
Speaker 7 (25:12):
It's the second we're talking about the second and five
wherever it's third and five, I.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
Think it was third down, yeah, and I threw it away.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
And you're just trying to get it back in the
line of scrimmage. Just take the sack.
Speaker 5 (25:21):
There, Yeah, just take the sack, keep the clock running. Yeah,
how do you learn that?
Speaker 7 (25:26):
I mean, you probably know that, but whenever things are
going so you hay wire, it's just instinct. I guess,
at what point does a quarterback learn that that's what
you should have done and do it.
Speaker 8 (25:37):
I feel like the greatest learning tool for anybody, regardless
of position, regardless of profession, is experience. And you know,
this is my fourth football game. This is the first
time I've been in a situation like that where you know,
it was take a sack or throw it away.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
So I feel like, you.
Speaker 8 (25:51):
Know, it's just the first opportunity where I could collect
that data and then use it for the next time.
Speaker 6 (25:57):
Did as you look back on that game right now,
are there any or decisions that maybe stick out to
you that you want back?
Speaker 5 (26:04):
You know, there's a lot of them.
Speaker 8 (26:05):
I just feel like, you know, there's so much on
the tape that it's gonna reveal, But you know, the
amount of tipballs that happened today at the line of
scrimmage those is just absolutely killer.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
And it's a credit to them up front.
Speaker 8 (26:16):
You know, they played a tremendous game, They had a
tremendous game plan, through the kitchen sink at us in
terms of coverage, pressures, new looks. But yeah, it's just
the little things like that. I think it's the worst
playing football tip ball at the line of scrimmage, but
you know that's what it is. And you know, I
definitely want those back.
Speaker 7 (26:34):
Changing the deep ball third and one to I think
it's justin he's coming out of the half.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
Where do you see in the zero coverage one on one?
Speaker 8 (26:42):
And I have the greatest receiver in the world, so
I don't care who it is out there.
Speaker 5 (26:45):
I'm gonna give him a chance. And you know, I
didn't see him fall.
Speaker 8 (26:49):
It's just one of those things where you know, he
catches it and it's great, he doesn't it's incomplete, or
it's interception and it's a punt. You know, there's different
things where you know that could lead to that outcome.
But ten times out of ten, I'm gonna give him
a shot.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
What have you gotten.
Speaker 9 (27:05):
Fast, Aaron Jones Like just the spark that he seems
to be giving you guys, and a luxury for us
young quarterback. You have a back leaking plays.
Speaker 8 (27:14):
A tremendous leader first off before even steps on the field,
making plays. You know, he's just got that exuberant energy,
just so pure hearted and you know, you know exactly
what he's feeling you, and you know exactly what he's
asking out of you, and you know, just the spark
he gives to our offense in the run game as
well as Jordan Mason, it's just tremendous. And you know
the way he hits that whole straight downhill, you know,
(27:35):
as fast as he can at one hundred miles an hour.
It's it's awesome to see. And you know in the
past game he's tremendous as well. But you know, just
gotta just gotta keep growing. And he'll be the first
one to say, you know, we just got to keep groing.
So you know, I appreciate you guys, but we uh, yeah,
we can't have these anymore. We got to be better,
and I promise we're gonna work to do that.
Speaker 6 (27:54):
DJ Aaron Jones said that there were a couple of
times where he heard the Ravens trying to call Snap.
Did have an affected you guys at all? Or is
that anything you've heard?
Speaker 8 (28:01):
You know, that's something I don't really try to dip
my toe into, you know, at the end of the day,
it's moving when the ball snapped, and you know, we
just got to be more locked in, more focused on
those little things, and you know, now shoot ourselves on
the foot and we'll see where we.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Get, all right. Lamar Jackson is now twenty four and
four versus the NFC North one on one this year.
John Harbaugh, I mean, we both have an immense amount
of respect for anybody who can keep a job like
that for eighteen years.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Amazing.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Well, he's he's fifty three and eighteen during his career
against quarterbacks in their first or second year. Two and
zero this year, he's taking down Caleb Williams. He just
took down JJ McCarthy from a McCarthy standpoint. Facing Caleb
Williams and the Bears next game, what are you looking
to be different?
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Well, well, quit turning the ball over and quote with
the pre snat penalties. I mean that start right there.
It's pretty simple, right. The Bears have found a way
to win. They won, They found a way to win today.
They found last second heroics against the Cincinnati Bengals to
beat him when no one thought gave him a chance.
Remember it was a year ago when they were losing
games on the final play like in Washington, that was
(29:09):
kind of how the Bears were doing it. But they
believe now, they believe, they believe that as long as
they have an opportunity at the end of the game,
they're never out of it. And so that tide has
definitely turned for, you know, for the Chicago Bears, and
they are going to be a tough team to beat
because they're gonna want to put another loss in the vikings,
(29:30):
put us out of the equation and you know, for
lack of a better try to finish us off here,
you know, next Sunday. So I expect it to be
a dogfight. I mean, Caleb Williams playing better, Roma Dunza,
I mean it's become a pretty a pretty effective battery
between the two of them.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Interesting you mentioned those two names because today it's Soldier Field.
The Bears were losing twenty to ten with about four
minutes ago in the game. Caleb Williams hit Roma Doonza
for a touchdown that made it twenty to seventeen. Then
they get the ball back. Caleb Williams ran in a
touchdown from seventeen yards out with about a minute ago,
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and the Bears put a dirty loss on Jackson Dark
and the New York Giants twenty four to twenty. The
Vikings look to sweep the Bears next week. They beat
them a week one and remain undefeated in the division
after beating the Bears and the Detroit Lions. That boom
will be at noon on FM one hundred point three
KFAM for Pete Versage. I'm Paul Allen. That is the
(30:29):
postgame report courtesy of Lumen. Keep it right here at
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