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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
That's your today.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Have you Have you been able to glean anything about
NBA wide stuff as we execute our what's going on
girls our Leak Freak Draft. It's kind of one of
those slow rolling snake bits. Oh yeah, we're about three
picks into it each team. Six twenty sixth year Fantasy
back Basketball League League Freak his life. It's the one
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nor do Do and I care most about during the course
of the year. Neither one of us play many fantasy
football leagues. I was in two, got chopped in one,
now I'm in one. I know you're happy for me,
and nevertheless, this is it for us. So like, one
thing that's been interesting to me researching players has been
learning about the other teams in quick fire fashion. I mean,
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there are a lot of things that take place in
the off season that we know and you know, maybe
quick twitch can remember. Like Kevin Durant traded to Houston,
all right, Well who went to Phoenix? Jalen Green was
the was the centerpiece. Desmond Bain goes from Memphis to Orlando. Well,
what did Memphis get back? What's the situation with Kawhi Leonard,
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Veterans like Lebron James, Jason Tatum, and Tyreese Aliburton both
out for the year. There's just a lot going on
in the NBA right now.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
In Good Morning, no the Good Morning, and well, I've
learned that the secrets out on Amen Thompson, which which
hurts con from a fantasy standpoint. But just kind of
things I'm trying to dig into is how quickly that
Cooper flag is going to be up to speed and
what that means for the MAVs. You're thinking about healthy
deer in fox with san Antonio, but they got the
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highly touted rookie next to him, Wemby and and just
the superstar unicorn that Wembin Yama is and the ability
for him to continue as sending what that means The
Western Conference continues to be muddy, it continues to be weird,
and you talk about, you know, whether it's Jason Tatum
being out for the Celtics what's the health situation. It
feels like this is just in perpetuity the conversation around
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the health of Joel Embiid and just kind of how
those things frame up. So, from an LFL standpoint, getting
sniped on Amen Thompson not happy about it. Kat that
just got a fat paycheck in Chicago, Josh Gitty got
sniped on him. I got a big plan for this
next one, waiting for the pick to come through. But
following our favorite team, of course I picked six. I
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had to go Anthony Edwards. So I'm riding that vibe
all season long and just pump for our favorite hoops
team maybe to go to a third consecutive Western Conference
Finals series.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Well, you got the head coach's attention when you were
talking about Anthony Edwards and oh he's ready for it,
all those nice players, he gets it. It's Kevin O'Connell
x's and O's each and every week from twin Citi's
Orthopedics Performance Center, and the head coach of the Minnesota
Vikings joins us. Now we would call them covenant collapse.
Just a couple of these right here for Nordo because
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in the head coach waiting game occasionally I'll pop outside
and he just knows that I might have to talk
for three st eight minutes.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
So the end guys are in here playing catch.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
You know, it was the option. I was trying to
run the option. But the NBA's on the horizon. Your
padres are dead. I know you and Leah and or
you like to go to Wolves game. So yeah, everything's
just coming out us so fast right now. NHL, NBA
champion Eagles, Major League Baseball in the finals before or
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the World.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
Series and no pop rays. But anyway, good morning, how
are you?
Speaker 7 (04:03):
I'm doing great now, and now that I know by
me showing up a couple of minutes later, it's Nordo's time.
I might, uh, I might let you shine a little
bit more from time to time.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
That'd be great.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
I try to be at my best, one of my best.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
That's all.
Speaker 8 (04:15):
That's all we need around here.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Somebody's playing fast right now, is the producer John Extrom.
Good to see you are the wife and kids. Excellent
talkback Tuesday and the talkback that we that we have
chosen today is a perfect way to start festivities.
Speaker 8 (04:29):
And here it is.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
Hey, coach Mike from Sal Saint Paul here.
Speaker 6 (04:34):
Thanks for having me, just wondering.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
What does an NFL head coach of your ILK do
on a bye week for some old rest and relaxation all.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
R and R.
Speaker 6 (04:46):
What do you do?
Speaker 2 (04:46):
KOs? Thanks the hang up and listen.
Speaker 7 (04:49):
Well, Mike, that is a great question, and you're so
relaxed right now. It is a Well that's because I'm
about to tell you why.
Speaker 8 (04:57):
So, uh.
Speaker 7 (04:59):
The beauty of the week is our players get rest
and recovery. I get quite a bit of time to
still come into a quiet building and get quite a
bit of work done with myself and some of the coaches.
I like to get those guys out of here as well.
But I did. Let's see, last week, I did three
or four days of school drop off in the morning,
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which I was not prepared for, you know, either the stress,
the decision making, the timing, the rhythm, there's a lot
of things that coincide with you know, my day job here.
But I did that, and then I did pick up
a few times. And you're not necessarily rewarded for being
early for school pickup when you've been beaten out by
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thirty or so cars to get in line, as they
like to say so. And then you know, we had
some great weather. I got to take my son golfing
one day, and then we had a lot of sports
to get to, so I was driving around all weekend
doing that and stress out watching flag football and.
Speaker 8 (06:01):
Girls volleyball and geez, all of those things.
Speaker 7 (06:04):
But it was fantastic, my You know, the thing that
you always have in the back of your mind throughout
every season is just the idea of the time we
are away from our families and the sacrifice our families make.
And I love being a dad more than anything, and
being a good husband and all those things. You just
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don't always get to be totally present to do that
and puts a lot on the family. So these these
moments that you do find, you know, Friday, Saturday, Sunday,
getting that time, totally uninterrupted time to.
Speaker 8 (06:37):
Just go do that.
Speaker 7 (06:38):
It's it's very therapeutic for me to come back and
you know, hopefully have you know, a great run here,
knowing that how blessed and fortunate I am to have
the family I do have and getting the time that
I did get with them and being able to come back.
And I will say this much, after all those stresses,
I was ready to come back to.
Speaker 8 (06:57):
Eagan Monday morning, I could they were ready for me
to go too.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
So yeah, it's it's it's you know, whether that final
Friday press conference you had at Hanbury manor into the
Browns game, whether you knew about the Addison stuff at
that stage or not. It's you know, I mean, you
and I do this weekly. We we record the pregame
interviews sometimes in hotel rooms or field houses. I've gotten
to know you in press conference and interview type settings
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quite well. And and when you said two more sleeps,
thank god, I was like, holy cow, this the duration
of this whole thing, you know, I don't want to
say has gotten to you, but it's it. Clearly it
was a long time. And you know then the Addison situation,
which was self inflicted, kind of piles on top of
some other injury related things with what you were dealing.
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So it you know, I just wonder if the NFL
is going to give the Vikings a one year restite
or break from the worldly escapades next year?
Speaker 7 (07:54):
What do you think, between you and I do a
lot more than wonder if you if you understand what
I'm say saying there of the year, though very much
looking forward to hopefully those nine home games next year
at us Bank Stadium, but you never know, you absolutely
never know. And I will say we've you know, it
felt like we've been the road team twice now at
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Tottenham Stadium and both times it felt like we were
the home team. Now, compliments to all the Vikings fans
who made that trip and then our you know, our
fans there abroad that show up in great numbers for
us when we do go over there. It always feels
so we've had a lot of success there and our
players have a lot of confidence playing you know, in
that stadium, known the environment it's going to be, and
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we always love seeing the purple.
Speaker 8 (08:40):
When we go.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Well, and you know, I mean it's a twenty four
hour business, as you guys will say, so so say
you be Cleveland, Well you can feel good about it
or celebrate us. So you had a game the next
week twenty four hours metaphorically speaking, then we got to
move on to the next one. Well that that's great
to say and here but you've heard me say it
before human nature gets to two. So I mean you're
a week and a half away from the family. Yep, facetiming,
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got kids events going on time difference is weird and everything.
So you probably miss some things which which might eat
at you because I know how much you care about
your family and your kids. But but the the as
as as the situation rolls on, you will look back
at like say the Pittsburgh game. I mean, I'm like,
you know, I think I said it to you just
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in passing, because that's how we chat. If when Neil
plays the game, you win the game. And that's no
disrespect to the replacement. It's just so much change has
taken place during these games. So the ones you have lost.
The Falcons game was antithetical to really anything offensively that
you've done here in three years and change, and then
the Steelers game out of nowhere, the sucker comes down
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to the wire. Yeah, you know, so do do do
you let those eat at you a little bit? Or
are you able? Is it easy to move on? I
think the because when you're away from home it can
be worse.
Speaker 8 (09:56):
That's the yeah.
Speaker 7 (09:57):
And I think the biggest thing with you know, really
both those both those games is it's been the in game,
you know, level of trying to figure it out and
find enough plays to try to give ourselves.
Speaker 8 (10:10):
A chance to win. You know, you lose Brian and
the Steeler game.
Speaker 7 (10:14):
You know, we're preparing all week long, like you know,
we've got Brian O'Neil playing right tackle, and we've got
some issues that we've got to make sure personnel wise.
On the other side, we account for, whether it's t J.
Watt or Hayward or any of those guys along that front.
They had some good blitzing linebackers as well. So a
lot of the time leading into the game, where we
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spend so much time planning and trying to articulate to
our players how we're going to need to play, a
lot of those things get thrown out the window. And
when we lost to linemen against Atlanta in that game.
It's almost easier sometimes when you have a situation like
we had playing Cleveland, where yes, maybe the best defensive front,
if not defense in the whole NFL. But we had
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the benefit of knowing our circumstances going in to the game,
because it's not like you can have these two hundred
plays if you stay healthy, and these one hundred and
fifty plays if you don't. It's not really how it works,
especially with the moving parts of you know, some new
players and some younger players at certain critical positions and
things like that. But all of that being said, like
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nobody's gonna feel sorry for us. We still get the
same sixty minutes that everybody gets to try to figure
it out. And I thought we came pretty darn close
to doing something really unique and special considering the circumstances
in Dublin. But guess what, that clock ran out. We
had less points than our opponents. So you can throw
all that out the window too, and it still eats.
Speaker 8 (11:35):
Away at you.
Speaker 7 (11:37):
I've shared with you before, the joy of victories compared
to the misery of losses. And that's just the way
that my chair is, with my role here with this
team is it's always going to be more when it's
you know, when it's.
Speaker 8 (11:51):
Not that celebratory time for all of our players.
Speaker 7 (11:54):
I put it on myself as much as anybody to
try to lead from a place of a place of
overcoming my own adversity to you know, make sure I
portray the vision for our team and our organization that
you need to do through times like that. And I
thought us winning that game against Cleveland was a great
example of a lot of people, you know, not at
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their not at their home circumstances, not sleeping in their
own bed, not eating the food that they like to eat,
and just finding a way to count the sleeps, make
the sleeps matter when you could and ultimately have good preparation.
Speaker 8 (12:28):
Days and go find a way to win a game,
which we did.
Speaker 7 (12:30):
And all of that seems like it was six months
ago now, and now we move on to a heck
of a challenge this week.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Close cir Good to the Vikings Entertainment Network. We need
a solo shop for a minute on yours surely regrettably
for those watching the Vikings dot com.
Speaker 6 (12:46):
Okay, we're settled.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
We can go back to the two Kevin O'Connell x's
and o's each and every week.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
Nine to no.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Man, there's so much of what you just said, only
cow I mean because once, all right, so we have
a bad shoulder, the left shold, but it's still probably hurt.
At the end of the Cleveland game, yep, nine for nine, Yeah,
including the final three to Addison. So like I'm calling
the game and I'm thinking to myself, all right, well,
what's gonna happen here if Jordan wins it? So I said,
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touchdown Vikings, Jordan Addison, he's the man of the match.
Speaker 6 (13:16):
Give a little England flair.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Yep, almost said went from the outhouse to the penthouse,
because that's kind of what happened in that. But wentz
nine for nine with that with that wounded wing, that's crazy.
Speaker 8 (13:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (13:27):
He he did a phenomenal job of really you know,
putting the ball in play, throwing a bunch of completions.
We had some great yards after catch, you know, during
the uh during the different unique plays that came up
in that drive. We we tried to have a plan
for Miles Garrett and some of the pressure looks that
we were getting. There was a lot of football going
on in a short amount of time that you know,
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our guys executed and we had some guys make some
big time plays and Carson just making it come to life.
From a standpoint of the power of completions, I talked
to you about this before, we talked to our team
about it lot. Every completion will have a negative impact
on the other side as long as we continue to
just not force the ball and try to find find
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those completions with some we call them runners balls where
you've got a chance to do something with it after
the catch, and I thought Hockinson had some big catch
and runs on some underneath catches. On that drive, we
had some big third down conversions. And then once you
get a defense like that that's used to kind of
dictating the terms, you get them on their heels for
you know, the tail end of that drive. We're not
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really thinking field goal anymore. We're thinking of trying to
put the ball on the end zone.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Through five fourteen offensive line combinations, two quarterbacks, no showtime
for a fair amount of it, Aaron Jones, no gank
or cashman for several of them. And a winning record,
a winning record up into the by now you got
the final twelve. What has collectively what has held this
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group together through everything we just mentioned.
Speaker 7 (15:01):
Yeah, I think it's like dealing with adversity is things
that you build your culture for. It's not to have
really fun post games when you win and everything's going
your way. It's to handle the moments that require the
type of emotional and physical and all the commitment that
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goes into it. And Nordal just said it being at
your best when it's required. The saying is not being
at your best when it's easiest to be at your best.
Those are what teams that tend to be a little
bit more front running do in this league. And there's
examples of teams that overcome adversity time and time again,
and they do it with what has been built long
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before you ever get in those moments. And I know
for fans out there, they probably scratch their head and
what the heck is he talking about? But I can
promise you it's a real thing. And you know, winning
in the NFL can be very difficult, even when you're
totally one hundred percent healthy. A lot of things you
have to go out and do well to win football games,
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and when you're not, that doesn't mean you get any
kind of excuse to you know, you can mention all
those names and O line combinations and two cards, you
can mention it all, But to me, the only thing
that matters is worth three and two and what did
we do in those two games to not find success
regardless of the injuries? What things can we coach better?
What things can I do to lead our team better?
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And how does this team need to play week in
and week out against the opponents we're going to play against.
Speaker 8 (16:28):
That that can change.
Speaker 7 (16:29):
Sometimes you might have to play different styles of games
to find yourself in the win column again and again
and again. And that's what we've made at a habit
of trying to do around here, and habits can be
a powerful thing when you do it the right way.
And I just I'm so excited to go to work
with this team and as we get these guys back,
and you know, we have the ability to continue to
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forge ahead and get stronger and stronger and stronger throughout
the season, which has always been the goal, PA is
to be playing our best football in the latter half
of the season. But that doesn't mean you can allow
the games to slip away from you early on in
the season, because then the end of the season won't matter.
So we've got to continue to literally attack every single opportunity,
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whether it's tomorrow's practice, the game on Sunday, a short
week next week, it's all opportunity to me for us
all to go figure it out together and go win games.
Speaker 6 (17:21):
What job with JJ McCarthy, What are you hoping to
do this week?
Speaker 7 (17:26):
Yeah, we really started last week because we were able
to get some really good work in. I felt like
it was my time for JJ, myself, Josh count. We
went out there and just really you know, breaking a
lot of things down to core principles of playing the
position and then repping things and drilling things and figuring
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out where he was still what was causing him to
maybe still feel that ankle, you know, more oftentimes than
other things that he was doing, and we were able
to kind of really try to use that as part rehab,
part you know, getting that football act alimation back going,
because it's been I said this yesterday, and I think
I caught people by surprise a little bit, but he's
practiced one time since he played the Bears on Monday night,
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which feels like it was seasons ago at this point,
and so there's just there's just a lot of time
on task of the muscle memory of our offense and
playing the position that we're trying to make up for
that time lost. And he'll get a great opportunity this
week to you know, get back into the team reps
and and and start you know getting himself to a
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place where we know he's going to go out and play.
Speaker 8 (18:33):
Well.
Speaker 7 (18:33):
It's not just getting him back and throwing him back
out there as much as it is getting you know,
getting him to a place, and that could be pa,
that could be this week, that could be something where
a lot of things go in a direction where it
leads that way.
Speaker 8 (18:47):
I'm not trying to there's no you know.
Speaker 7 (18:49):
Mystery here, Cloe subterfuge, Like it's really not that.
Speaker 8 (18:53):
I hope people understand. It's a little bit more real
than that.
Speaker 7 (18:56):
It's a little bit more you know, me trying to
do what's best for our team, but also this player
is very important and important to me, and I feel
obligated to make sure I always am doing the things
to help him stay on the path to where we
think he's going as a player and why we brought
him here.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
You know, it's it's in all your years coaching here,
you know, I don't think like like say, right now
you have an inclination maybe the complete answers to who
your quarterback is going to be Sunday at noon, and
then your practice, Well it's I don't you know, recall
you like knowing exactly who it's going to be and
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then and then not sharing all the way up to
the game, and you have no obligation to share. Obviously,
talk to Fangio or the Eagles, they'll probably be Okay,
well we well I've heard you said we we prep
for scheme and then work off that. Yeah, okay, But nevertheless,
I mean, is there a chance you don't like share
who your quarterback is going to be with the public
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before the game Sunday.
Speaker 7 (19:56):
No, I don't think so, just because look, we haven't
been and we got out on the practice field yesterday
and it was, you know, a lighter workload compared to
what it'll do be tomorrow when we put the pads
on and have a you know, a full session, you know,
working game plan plays on you know against the Philadelphia
Eagles and our defense working against the looks from their offense.
Speaker 8 (20:18):
And then we'll have Thursday and Friday.
Speaker 7 (20:20):
You're you're talking a significant amount of time as we
prepare our team, but also you know, work through you know,
allowing these guys to get the reps that they need,
both JJ and Carson, to get them both ready from
a standpoint of also understanding they're both still not one
healthy and they're both working through their individual things and
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that's part of the NFL season as well. This is
very rarely do you get the opportunity to choose your circumstances,
if ever, outside of the first game of the season,
and even then, depending on how your training camp goes,
you're not choosing much, right, So it's look, I I
you know, I'm very I'm excited for this week for
a lot of reasons. I think we've identified some ways
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as a team offense, defense, in and the kicking game
we can improve and laid some of those things out
for the players yesterday, and the coaches follow that up
in their meeting rooms, and then we just systematically attack
it this week and go try to get a win
against a really good team.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
Javon Hargrave gets doubled a lot, dozen't he.
Speaker 8 (21:21):
Well, I think he, you know he is.
Speaker 7 (21:23):
He is such a force from a standpoint if he
does get those individual rushes, even on those early downs
those you know, I'm defending the run, but then it's
a play action pass or drop back pass and I
can transition and go sack the quarterback.
Speaker 8 (21:34):
They need to have two bodies on them then.
Speaker 7 (21:37):
But in the run game, you know, a lot of
core principles of these good run games that we've played,
they're trying to get two bodies on them and move
the line of scrimmage, and that's where we've got to
be a little bit more connected as a group of
eleven to you know, get back to what we do
really well, which is a year ago, we stopped the run.
We got people in long yarded situations, and then the
turnovers started, whether it was Grenard into the quarterback, whether
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it was you know, you know, one of our guys
getting their hands on a ball.
Speaker 8 (22:04):
And intercepting it and changing the game.
Speaker 7 (22:06):
We've got to give ourselves more opportunities to turn the
football over as a defense, you know, against who we're playing,
by generating more ops where the scales are tipping in
our favor, and the loun flow and his group to
call the game in a way where we can be
the aggressor and not so much playing a lot of
manageable downs for the other side.
Speaker 8 (22:26):
And that's one of the things we got to try
to do.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
But I mean, to a certain extent, discretion has to
be the better part of valor two at times. In
other words, if you're down Van Gankle and Cashman arguably
two of your three, maybe four best run stoppers period. Yep,
they both blitz very well. The assumption from Afar I'm
not an e laite football mind you are. But if
those two are out, well we're probably going to double
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fifty eight, probably take care of ninety seven and figure
to like start there. So it I mean when I
say discretioning us to be the better part of valor,
you're like, well, we want to do it the way
Flow wants it done. But if you get overly aggressive
with backups, I would guess who have now played seventy
one hundred and ten one hundred and fifty snaps, you
get a little vulnerable, right.
Speaker 7 (23:07):
Yeah, you're just exposing yourself to you know, match up
problems and some things where the strength of your opponent
can then you know, take precedent over even what you know,
all eleven of your guys are trying to do as
a team defensive group.
Speaker 8 (23:22):
One of the things we've done.
Speaker 7 (23:23):
Really well here is tackle as well, Pa, and I
think there's been some mistackles and there's been some opportunities
to get a guy on the ground for a game
of three or four and force that third and six
instead it's seven or eight, and it's third and two,
and then the whole playbook at that point is open
and you're not dealing with as much stress of having
to play against flows defense as you possibly could be
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in some of those longer yarded situations. So it's it's
a combination of a lot of things, but certainly getting
cash back and Van gink will working his way back
in there as well, hopefully will give us, you know,
just continued examples of the intent of what we put
our roster together to feel like this year.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Just a few more for Kevin o'connolex as the O's
Tuesdays Twin City's Orthopedics Performance Center KFA n Bikings dot Com.
Good morning, uh squon. He's yet to explode in a
game this year?
Speaker 8 (24:15):
Why, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 7 (24:17):
I think they're you know, I think they've got one
of the best O line coaches in football and in
Jeff Stoutlin. They've they've you know, had one of the
premier rushing attacks for a long time since he's been there.
And I think they're going to try to run the football.
I think they're going to try to run the football
to establish the line of scrimmage, get into those efficient
kind of staying ahead of the chains type of down
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in distances. And that doesn't change the fact that they've
got those weapons on the outside and I know they
haven't quite been able to unlock the same level of
passing game that they had a year ago, but it's
always available to them, and we've got to make sure
we don't give them any easy paths to getting back
to where they want to be offensively. And that's where
the ex o's and all those things have to be
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in alignment with what we go out in there and
do from a play style standpoint against a team that
wants to play physical, they want to it's not just
the tush push they you know, they they they have
some pretty elite players up front and the ability to
win the line of scrimmage. And if you give them
angles and you give them easy access to space, you know,
Saquon Barkley's the best in the.
Speaker 8 (25:21):
League at going to find it.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Two to close. Chris Cooper, your offensive line coach, was
he was here to start the show at nine o'clock.
Great to chat with a coach, Coop, and I was
really excited to share with him that, you know, I
will watch some practice occasionally. You guys are kind enough
to let me do that. I don't exactly know what
I'm watching, but like you know, when we were in
London and or Dublin to a certain extent. I mean
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it's the most I've ever watched. And I found myself
morphine to where the offensive line was with Cooper and
Keith Carter as assistant. I mean, it was unbelievable watching
those guys last week. It's like got like they're moving
Joe Huber by themselves, putting him in a spot doing
a drill. Then one of them leaves and they're like
with Brandell and they're working on head nods. It's just
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the nuance and what must have gone into that week
to get all those guys ready. And you don't know
school is going to flip spots during the game, but
Rolse knows he's playing, but he doesn't know like when
or what the game situation.
Speaker 6 (26:18):
Is going to be.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
To watch those guys work individually with all it was
a work of art. It was fantastic, man.
Speaker 8 (26:24):
Yeah, and then you see that across our entire team.
Speaker 7 (26:27):
You know, the the beauty of the game of football
is it is it does take people. Hear me say
it a lot, all eleven guys doing their job, but
within each one of those jobs there is you know,
a massive level of detail fundamentals, techniques, understanding how footwork
and hand placement and your your aiming points, and it
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really is along the line of scrimmage. It's like, you know,
you're watching basically five to six separate UFC fights going
on at one time, where everything's tactical and everything's you know,
the is a leverage thing. And we've tried to build
that O line group not only just the starters, but
the depth players as well as guys that are powerful
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and guys that are strong and can handle themselves not
only working in combination, but a one on one as well.
And that's how you're able to get through a situation
like that, as guys rising to the level of what
is required in that moment, and then Carson being able
to kind of run the show. And one thing I
know for sure is our receivers have played out standing.
(27:30):
I think what TJ. Hockinson and Josh Oliver have done
maybe not necessarily blown up the statue, but they're doing
so many little things that have helped us kind of
sustain especially over these last three weeks where we've really
been you know, three fifty plus yards and gotten a
little bit more plays, gotten a little bit more of
a rhythm at times. And really the only thing and
(27:51):
that we have to continue to try to have our
finger on is the penalties, the self inflicted things that
move your backwards where the defense had nothing to do
with it. And that's where our scoring rate and our
successful rate of drives, when we don't have a negative
play and or penalty, we're right up there at the
top of the league. And that's what we've got to
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continue to search for, is how many of our drives
can be like that.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
And I'm glad you mentioned wide receivers last one. I
promise as Jefferson elevated himself even more as a team leader.
And here here's it's like he handles business differently than
maybe in the past when the ball's not coming his
way and he seems calmer. He just seems more, you know,
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and and and young men are going to mature naturally,
but it seems like he's elevated his already solid leadership role.
Speaker 8 (28:44):
Yeah, I think he's been fantastic.
Speaker 7 (28:45):
It goes back to training camp even when he was
you know, taking you know, had to take a few
days there in training camp to get healthy early on,
and his role changed a little bit.
Speaker 8 (28:55):
It wasn't the daily igniter on the field by the
plays he was making.
Speaker 7 (28:59):
It was his leadership and in that huddle and stepping
in and talking to JJ McCarthy or talking to Jalen
Naylor or letting TJ know when TJ made a bunch
of plays in training camp, he was as much of
a leader as I've ever seen him in those moments,
and that's carried over to the season. And then I
think the other part of it is, you know, we've
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spent some time together over these seasons and Justin has
a bunch of confidence in what we're going to do,
what the plan.
Speaker 8 (29:28):
Is going to be.
Speaker 7 (29:29):
Obviously, we want to make him a featured focal point
of our offense every week. He knows that, and he
also knows whatever we find, whatever we meet on game
day from a scheme to take him away, that we're
going to find ways of getting him involved in the game.
And I think we've seen that over these last few
weeks against some really good defenses, that he's had his
impact and he's made plays that have helped us find
(29:52):
that successful rhythm that has led to points. We've done
a good job and we've gotten down to the red
zone and we've got to continue to find as many
drives as.
Speaker 8 (29:59):
We can where we get down there and put the
ball on the en zone.
Speaker 6 (30:02):
Great chat, Yeah, thank you, I appreciate you.
Speaker 8 (30:04):
Man.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Kevin O'Connell, head coach of the Minnesota Vikings weekly nine
to noon. We call it x's and o's back after
this man, all right, we have learned about the Minnesota
Moving Company or the moving parts company.
Speaker 6 (30:26):
About two and a.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
Half hours ago from Chris Cooper, offensive line coach, we
learned about offense. Chatted a little defense, but mostly about
the offense and ancillary topics with head coach Kevin O'Connell.
What about the Vikings defense against Saquon Barkley, A. J. Brown,
DeVante Smith, Dallas Goddard and Jalen Hurts. Let's see what
b flow as up his leave.
Speaker 9 (30:48):
That player up again if if that's the case.
Speaker 10 (30:50):
But oftentimes you know they're just gonna, you know, they're
gonna stay on on the one guy and then which
means somebody else gotta make.
Speaker 11 (30:57):
A play playing with the league versus not playing the league.
Effects the defense are called your defenses are called the
way players play their mindsets in the situations where you
know they might be in a lead or another situations
where they're not.
Speaker 10 (31:17):
Yeah, I mean there's certainly ebbs and flows in every
you know, football game. I think it's certainly a momentum game.
You know, emotions are up and down based on.
Speaker 9 (31:31):
You know, winning losing, good play, bad play.
Speaker 10 (31:34):
So I think that's something you know, we talk about
as a as a as a defensive unit, our you know,
our ability to respond regardless of situation, whether we're up,
whether we're down. I think oftentimes you go up and
sometimes you know there's a complacency that sets in and
then you know that's how other teams get back into games.
Speaker 9 (31:53):
So, you know, I understand the question I do.
Speaker 10 (31:58):
I think that's something that as a as a coach,
you know, as a you know, a leader, you know,
you try to or I try to talk about the
ebbs and flows of the game and we don't know
what's gonna happen to ball bounce.
Speaker 9 (32:10):
It's funny.
Speaker 10 (32:11):
And so you could be up, you gotta you know,
maintain a high level, gotta keep it foot on the gas,
you go, you know, you can be down, you know,
I think you gotta stay even, you know, and I think,
you know, I think we try to do that as
a coaching staff.
Speaker 9 (32:27):
Uh and lead by example that way.
Speaker 10 (32:28):
So so that you know our players, you know, kind
of respond whether s respond correctly, whether you know we're winning.
Speaker 8 (32:36):
Or losing us gonnatically.
Speaker 11 (32:38):
Do you find that either you or you observed other
people calling yeah, even differently when you're ahead versus when
you're you.
Speaker 10 (32:47):
Know, and I I think ultimately you know you you
you know, I always want to be try to be aggressive,
you know, whether you know, regardless of the situation. But
you know, you're trying to limit points. You're trying to uh,
you know, win field position. You're trying to you know,
do everything we can to you know, get the ball
back to the offense.
Speaker 9 (33:08):
And you know, I don't. I don't.
Speaker 10 (33:11):
I can't say that it changes based on uh, you know,
ebbs and flows of a game.
Speaker 9 (33:17):
Uh, but you know, we're always trying to be aggressive.
Speaker 10 (33:21):
We're always trying to, uh, you know, get it back
to the offense and good field position if we could
obviously turn them over. We're trying to do that.
Speaker 9 (33:29):
But you know, I don't. That's that's kind of where
I fall in there.
Speaker 12 (33:36):
How do the better teams overcome these small meadum swings coming. Obviously,
you see teams after four no start down there, they
lose two in a row.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
And I mean the better.
Speaker 12 (33:45):
Teams over times you've been involved with better teams, how
do they overcome just these momentums?
Speaker 10 (33:51):
And I think there's really both bowls down to relationships.
I think the the best teams that I've been a
part of have had, you know, great relationships within the team,
and those relationships allow them to uh overcome the adversity
that's gonna hit you know, within the football season. It's
(34:11):
it's like we we know it's gonna happen. It's not
going to always be you know, thirty to nothing like that.
That's just not this league. It's hard. There's adversity, there's frustration,
that stress, there's anxiety. All those things occur in the
National Football League and really in life. And so you
(34:33):
lean on the people you know to your left and
your right, you know, your teammates, the guys in the
locker room, uh, in our in our meeting room.
Speaker 9 (34:40):
I know we talk about that quite a bit.
Speaker 10 (34:44):
And so you know, the ebbs and flows of a
season of a game, I think you get through those
with you know, the people around you.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
Let's let's get a dub against Philadelphia, so it can
be two in a row for B flow, too in
a row for B Flow two in a row four
B Flow. I owe you an apology. I apologize for
making you put down five years of Joel embiid game logs.
(35:14):
Yes to have to pull B Flow's audio out and
turn your microphone on for the.
Speaker 6 (35:18):
Two in a row four B Flow two in a
row or B Flow. What's all Joel looking like these days?
Speaker 4 (35:24):
Well, I'm trying to sweat this return and they're trying
to just to ease him into action.
Speaker 5 (35:28):
And oh, healthier Sixers squad this year.
Speaker 4 (35:31):
Big spot thoughts about their their Eastern Conference contention.
Speaker 6 (35:35):
Tyrese MAXI for a zillion threes.
Speaker 4 (35:38):
And I thought I had at least three more minutes
of at least half of an answer from Brian Flores
to a question in.
Speaker 5 (35:45):
Relation to the team.
Speaker 4 (35:46):
So I thought I had at least two to three
more minutes here of scoping out exactly how that thing's
going to look gone. Yeah, has Kelly Oubray been hitt
by a car and City Center again?
Speaker 12 (35:58):
Ye?
Speaker 5 (35:58):
Like what this thing's going to look like?
Speaker 6 (36:00):
Take Julius Randall.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
Oh, well, he's he's in the mix. But I can't
go and and Julius rand Why not?
Speaker 6 (36:07):
I went Sga and Holmgren.
Speaker 5 (36:09):
I got to mix it up.
Speaker 4 (36:09):
Well, you should have just went with the trifecta added
Jwill to it, the good One and or Jay Dubb.
I forget if it's Jay Will or J Dubb the
good One versus the bench good ones J Dubb, Good
One's J Dub. Yes, I'm mildly disappointed. It's cool to
hear from Flow, though, I mean when I I'm joining
Tatum Everett actually VTN shortly after the show, we're going
(36:31):
to record some some Vikings dot Com content, and it's
kind of you know, good times bad times with a
three and two team and a money NFC North. But
just the takeaways that I was kind of referencing earlier,
the lack of sacks that you mentioned middle of the
pack from a sack standpoint, you get five turnovers in
the bungles game, but other than that, two straight weeks
without a take and it's just you're still looking at
(36:52):
a team one of the best third down defenses in
the NFL, terrific in the red zone. I think they're
holding teams to under fifty percent. I have to pull
up that stat in front of me again here, but
I know that their top ten specifically, let's find it here. Yeah,
eight out of sixteen they're they're fourth in the NFL
in red zone defense right now. This is a group
with Flores's team who's having to do it a little
(37:14):
bit differently because of injury issues of their own, and
they're finding that success and keeping this team in each
and every one of these games. But Man, Saquon, But Manaquon,
I wonder and it's it's worth diving into later this week.
And Kevin O'Connell when we heard him, he was quick
to praise the longtime offensive line coach and the success
(37:34):
and for good reason, by the way, feels like the
Eagles offensive line has been dominant and like Giants for
a freaking decade.
Speaker 5 (37:42):
Something's up there.
Speaker 4 (37:42):
Man Dickerson's injured, and I know they got my lotta
on the I think on the left side, and it
is at sayamlu I forget, but at any rate, I'm
mixing Johnson on the right side, Lane Johnson on the
right side. You know how that's working? With Cam at
center three and a half yards a clip man. That's
awful from a team that put out two thousand plus
with Saquon a year ago. You're not seeing the explosion.
(38:05):
You're not feeling like they're moving man in the same
way that they have historically and really has become a
cultural element to Eagles football. So this is simultaneously an
option an opportunity for Saquon to quote unquote get right
and explode. They've just shown no evidence of that for
the last month. I think they're banged up, and I'm
(38:26):
excited to see that part of the game and how
we handle that situation on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
Final segment from a Twin City's Orthopedics Performance Center is
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Speaker 3 (00:40):
Have you Have you been able to glean anything about
NBA wide stuff as we execute our what's going on
girls our Leak Freak Draft. It's kind of one of
those slow rolling snake bits. Oh yeah, we're about three
picks into it each team. Six twenty sixth year Fantasy
back Basketball League League Freak his life. It's the one
(01:02):
nor do Do and I care most about during the course
of the year. Neither one of us play many fantasy
football leagues. I was in two, got chopped in one,
now I'm in one. I know you're happy for me,
and nevertheless, this is it for us. So like, one
thing that's been interesting to me researching players has been
learning about the other teams in quick fire fashion. I mean,
(01:25):
there are a lot of things that take place in
the off season that we know and you know, maybe
quick twitch can remember. Like Kevin Durant traded to Houston,
all right, Well who went to Phoenix? Jalen Green was
the was the centerpiece. Desmond Bain goes from Memphis to Orlando. Well,
what did Memphis get back? What's the situation with Kawhi Leonard,
(01:45):
Veterans like Lebron James, Jason Tatum, and Tyreese Aliburton both
out for the year. There's just a lot going on
in the NBA right now.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
In Good Morning, no the Good Morning, and well, I've
learned that the secrets out on Amen Thompson, which which
hurts con from a fantasy standpoint. But just kind of
things I'm trying to dig into is how quickly that
Cooper flag is going to be up to speed and
what that means for the MAVs. You're thinking about healthy
deer in fox with san Antonio, but they got the
(02:13):
highly touted rookie next to him, Wemby and and just
the superstar unicorn that Wembin Yama is and the ability
for him to continue as sending what that means The
Western Conference continues to be muddy, it continues to be weird,
and you talk about, you know, whether it's Jason Tatum
being out for the Celtics what's the health situation. It
feels like this is just in perpetuity the conversation around
(02:37):
the health of Joel Embiid and just kind of how
those things frame up. So, from an LFL standpoint, getting
sniped on Amen Thompson not happy about it. Kat that
just got a fat paycheck in Chicago, Josh Gitty got
sniped on him. I got a big plan for this
next one, waiting for the pick to come through. But
following our favorite team, of course I picked six. I
(02:58):
had to go Anthony Edwards. So I'm riding that vibe
all season long and just pump for our favorite hoops
team maybe to go to a third consecutive Western Conference
Finals series.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Well, you got the head coach's attention when you were
talking about Anthony Edwards and oh he's ready for it,
all those nice players, he gets it. It's Kevin O'Connell
x's and O's each and every week from twin Citi's
Orthopedics Performance Center, and the head coach of the Minnesota
Vikings joins us. Now we would call them covenant collapse.
Just a couple of these right here for Nordo because
(03:28):
in the head coach waiting game occasionally I'll pop outside
and he just knows that I might have to talk
for three st eight minutes.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
So the end guys are in here playing catch.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
You know, it was the option. I was trying to
run the option. But the NBA's on the horizon. Your
padres are dead. I know you and Leah and or
you like to go to Wolves game. So yeah, everything's
just coming out us so fast right now. NHL, NBA
champion Eagles, Major League Baseball in the finals before or
(04:00):
the World.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
Series and no pop rays. But anyway, good morning, how
are you?
Speaker 7 (04:03):
I'm doing great now, and now that I know by
me showing up a couple of minutes later, it's Nordo's time.
I might, uh, I might let you shine a little
bit more from time to time.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
That'd be great.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
I try to be at my best, one of my best.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
That's all.
Speaker 8 (04:15):
That's all we need around here.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Somebody's playing fast right now, is the producer John Extrom.
Good to see you are the wife and kids. Excellent
talkback Tuesday and the talkback that we that we have
chosen today is a perfect way to start festivities.
Speaker 8 (04:29):
And here it is.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
Hey, coach Mike from Sal Saint Paul here.
Speaker 6 (04:34):
Thanks for having me, just wondering.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
What does an NFL head coach of your ILK do
on a bye week for some old rest and relaxation all.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
R and R.
Speaker 6 (04:46):
What do you do?
Speaker 2 (04:46):
KOs? Thanks the hang up and listen.
Speaker 7 (04:49):
Well, Mike, that is a great question, and you're so
relaxed right now. It is a Well that's because I'm
about to tell you why.
Speaker 8 (04:57):
So, uh.
Speaker 7 (04:59):
The beauty of the week is our players get rest
and recovery. I get quite a bit of time to
still come into a quiet building and get quite a
bit of work done with myself and some of the coaches.
I like to get those guys out of here as well.
But I did. Let's see, last week, I did three
or four days of school drop off in the morning,
(05:23):
which I was not prepared for, you know, either the stress,
the decision making, the timing, the rhythm, there's a lot
of things that coincide with you know, my day job here.
But I did that, and then I did pick up
a few times. And you're not necessarily rewarded for being
early for school pickup when you've been beaten out by
(05:45):
thirty or so cars to get in line, as they
like to say so. And then you know, we had
some great weather. I got to take my son golfing
one day, and then we had a lot of sports
to get to, so I was driving around all weekend
doing that and stress out watching flag football and.
Speaker 8 (06:01):
Girls volleyball and geez, all of those things.
Speaker 7 (06:04):
But it was fantastic, my You know, the thing that
you always have in the back of your mind throughout
every season is just the idea of the time we
are away from our families and the sacrifice our families make.
And I love being a dad more than anything, and
being a good husband and all those things. You just
(06:24):
don't always get to be totally present to do that
and puts a lot on the family. So these these
moments that you do find, you know, Friday, Saturday, Sunday,
getting that time, totally uninterrupted time to.
Speaker 8 (06:37):
Just go do that.
Speaker 7 (06:38):
It's it's very therapeutic for me to come back and
you know, hopefully have you know, a great run here,
knowing that how blessed and fortunate I am to have
the family I do have and getting the time that
I did get with them and being able to come back.
And I will say this much, after all those stresses,
I was ready to come back to.
Speaker 8 (06:57):
Eagan Monday morning, I could they were ready for me
to go too.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
So yeah, it's it's it's you know, whether that final
Friday press conference you had at Hanbury manor into the
Browns game, whether you knew about the Addison stuff at
that stage or not. It's you know, I mean, you
and I do this weekly. We we record the pregame
interviews sometimes in hotel rooms or field houses. I've gotten
to know you in press conference and interview type settings
(07:24):
quite well. And and when you said two more sleeps,
thank god, I was like, holy cow, this the duration
of this whole thing, you know, I don't want to
say has gotten to you, but it's it. Clearly it
was a long time. And you know then the Addison situation,
which was self inflicted, kind of piles on top of
some other injury related things with what you were dealing.
(07:46):
So it you know, I just wonder if the NFL
is going to give the Vikings a one year restite
or break from the worldly escapades next year?
Speaker 7 (07:54):
What do you think, between you and I do a
lot more than wonder if you if you understand what
I'm say saying there of the year, though very much
looking forward to hopefully those nine home games next year
at us Bank Stadium, but you never know, you absolutely
never know. And I will say we've you know, it
felt like we've been the road team twice now at
(08:17):
Tottenham Stadium and both times it felt like we were
the home team. Now, compliments to all the Vikings fans
who made that trip and then our you know, our
fans there abroad that show up in great numbers for
us when we do go over there. It always feels
so we've had a lot of success there and our
players have a lot of confidence playing you know, in
that stadium, known the environment it's going to be, and
(08:39):
we always love seeing the purple.
Speaker 8 (08:40):
When we go.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Well, and you know, I mean it's a twenty four
hour business, as you guys will say, so so say
you be Cleveland, Well you can feel good about it
or celebrate us. So you had a game the next
week twenty four hours metaphorically speaking, then we got to
move on to the next one. Well that that's great
to say and here but you've heard me say it
before human nature gets to two. So I mean you're
a week and a half away from the family. Yep, facetiming,
(09:04):
got kids events going on time difference is weird and everything.
So you probably miss some things which which might eat
at you because I know how much you care about
your family and your kids. But but the the as
as as the situation rolls on, you will look back
at like say the Pittsburgh game. I mean, I'm like,
you know, I think I said it to you just
(09:24):
in passing, because that's how we chat. If when Neil
plays the game, you win the game. And that's no
disrespect to the replacement. It's just so much change has
taken place during these games. So the ones you have lost.
The Falcons game was antithetical to really anything offensively that
you've done here in three years and change, and then
the Steelers game out of nowhere, the sucker comes down
(09:46):
to the wire. Yeah, you know, so do do do
you let those eat at you a little bit? Or
are you able? Is it easy to move on? I
think the because when you're away from home it can
be worse.
Speaker 8 (09:56):
That's the yeah.
Speaker 7 (09:57):
And I think the biggest thing with you know, really
both those both those games is it's been the in game,
you know, level of trying to figure it out and
find enough plays to try to give ourselves.
Speaker 8 (10:10):
A chance to win. You know, you lose Brian and
the Steeler game.
Speaker 7 (10:14):
You know, we're preparing all week long, like you know,
we've got Brian O'Neil playing right tackle, and we've got
some issues that we've got to make sure personnel wise.
On the other side, we account for, whether it's t J.
Watt or Hayward or any of those guys along that front.
They had some good blitzing linebackers as well. So a
lot of the time leading into the game, where we
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spend so much time planning and trying to articulate to
our players how we're going to need to play, a
lot of those things get thrown out the window. And
when we lost to linemen against Atlanta in that game.
It's almost easier sometimes when you have a situation like
we had playing Cleveland, where yes, maybe the best defensive front,
if not defense in the whole NFL. But we had
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the benefit of knowing our circumstances going in to the game,
because it's not like you can have these two hundred
plays if you stay healthy, and these one hundred and
fifty plays if you don't. It's not really how it works,
especially with the moving parts of you know, some new
players and some younger players at certain critical positions and
things like that. But all of that being said, like
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nobody's gonna feel sorry for us. We still get the
same sixty minutes that everybody gets to try to figure
it out. And I thought we came pretty darn close
to doing something really unique and special considering the circumstances
in Dublin. But guess what, that clock ran out. We
had less points than our opponents. So you can throw
all that out the window too, and it still eats.
Speaker 8 (11:35):
Away at you.
Speaker 7 (11:37):
I've shared with you before, the joy of victories compared
to the misery of losses. And that's just the way
that my chair is, with my role here with this
team is it's always going to be more when it's
you know, when it's.
Speaker 8 (11:51):
Not that celebratory time for all of our players.
Speaker 7 (11:54):
I put it on myself as much as anybody to
try to lead from a place of a place of
overcoming my own adversity to you know, make sure I
portray the vision for our team and our organization that
you need to do through times like that. And I
thought us winning that game against Cleveland was a great
example of a lot of people, you know, not at
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their not at their home circumstances, not sleeping in their
own bed, not eating the food that they like to eat,
and just finding a way to count the sleeps, make
the sleeps matter when you could and ultimately have good preparation.
Speaker 8 (12:28):
Days and go find a way to win a game,
which we did.
Speaker 7 (12:30):
And all of that seems like it was six months
ago now, and now we move on to a heck
of a challenge this week.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Close cir Good to the Vikings Entertainment Network. We need
a solo shop for a minute on yours surely regrettably
for those watching the Vikings dot com.
Speaker 6 (12:46):
Okay, we're settled.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
We can go back to the two Kevin O'Connell x's
and o's each and every week.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
Nine to no.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Man, there's so much of what you just said, only
cow I mean because once, all right, so we have
a bad shoulder, the left shold, but it's still probably hurt.
At the end of the Cleveland game, yep, nine for nine, Yeah,
including the final three to Addison. So like I'm calling
the game and I'm thinking to myself, all right, well,
what's gonna happen here if Jordan wins it? So I said,
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touchdown Vikings, Jordan Addison, he's the man of the match.
Speaker 6 (13:16):
Give a little England flair.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Yep, almost said went from the outhouse to the penthouse,
because that's kind of what happened in that. But wentz
nine for nine with that with that wounded wing, that's crazy.
Speaker 8 (13:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (13:27):
He he did a phenomenal job of really you know,
putting the ball in play, throwing a bunch of completions.
We had some great yards after catch, you know, during
the uh during the different unique plays that came up
in that drive. We we tried to have a plan
for Miles Garrett and some of the pressure looks that
we were getting. There was a lot of football going
on in a short amount of time that you know,
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our guys executed and we had some guys make some
big time plays and Carson just making it come to life.
From a standpoint of the power of completions, I talked
to you about this before, we talked to our team
about it lot. Every completion will have a negative impact
on the other side as long as we continue to
just not force the ball and try to find find
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those completions with some we call them runners balls where
you've got a chance to do something with it after
the catch, and I thought Hockinson had some big catch
and runs on some underneath catches. On that drive, we
had some big third down conversions. And then once you
get a defense like that that's used to kind of
dictating the terms, you get them on their heels for
you know, the tail end of that drive. We're not
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really thinking field goal anymore. We're thinking of trying to
put the ball on the end zone.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Through five fourteen offensive line combinations, two quarterbacks, no showtime
for a fair amount of it, Aaron Jones, no gank
or cashman for several of them. And a winning record,
a winning record up into the by now you got
the final twelve. What has collectively what has held this
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group together through everything we just mentioned.
Speaker 7 (15:01):
Yeah, I think it's like dealing with adversity is things
that you build your culture for. It's not to have
really fun post games when you win and everything's going
your way. It's to handle the moments that require the
type of emotional and physical and all the commitment that
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goes into it. And Nordal just said it being at
your best when it's required. The saying is not being
at your best when it's easiest to be at your best.
Those are what teams that tend to be a little
bit more front running do in this league. And there's
examples of teams that overcome adversity time and time again,
and they do it with what has been built long
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before you ever get in those moments. And I know
for fans out there, they probably scratch their head and
what the heck is he talking about? But I can
promise you it's a real thing. And you know, winning
in the NFL can be very difficult, even when you're
totally one hundred percent healthy. A lot of things you
have to go out and do well to win football games,
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and when you're not, that doesn't mean you get any
kind of excuse to you know, you can mention all
those names and O line combinations and two cards, you
can mention it all, But to me, the only thing
that matters is worth three and two and what did
we do in those two games to not find success
regardless of the injuries? What things can we coach better?
What things can I do to lead our team better?
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And how does this team need to play week in
and week out against the opponents we're going to play against.
Speaker 8 (16:28):
That that can change.
Speaker 7 (16:29):
Sometimes you might have to play different styles of games
to find yourself in the win column again and again
and again. And that's what we've made at a habit
of trying to do around here, and habits can be
a powerful thing when you do it the right way.
And I just I'm so excited to go to work
with this team and as we get these guys back,
and you know, we have the ability to continue to
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forge ahead and get stronger and stronger and stronger throughout
the season, which has always been the goal, PA is
to be playing our best football in the latter half
of the season. But that doesn't mean you can allow
the games to slip away from you early on in
the season, because then the end of the season won't matter.
So we've got to continue to literally attack every single opportunity,
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whether it's tomorrow's practice, the game on Sunday, a short
week next week, it's all opportunity to me for us
all to go figure it out together and go win games.
Speaker 6 (17:21):
What job with JJ McCarthy, What are you hoping to
do this week?
Speaker 7 (17:26):
Yeah, we really started last week because we were able
to get some really good work in. I felt like
it was my time for JJ, myself, Josh count. We
went out there and just really you know, breaking a
lot of things down to core principles of playing the
position and then repping things and drilling things and figuring
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out where he was still what was causing him to
maybe still feel that ankle, you know, more oftentimes than
other things that he was doing, and we were able
to kind of really try to use that as part rehab,
part you know, getting that football act alimation back going,
because it's been I said this yesterday, and I think
I caught people by surprise a little bit, but he's
practiced one time since he played the Bears on Monday night,
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which feels like it was seasons ago at this point,
and so there's just there's just a lot of time
on task of the muscle memory of our offense and
playing the position that we're trying to make up for
that time lost. And he'll get a great opportunity this
week to you know, get back into the team reps
and and and start you know getting himself to a
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place where we know he's going to go out and play.
Speaker 8 (18:33):
Well.
Speaker 7 (18:33):
It's not just getting him back and throwing him back
out there as much as it is getting you know,
getting him to a place, and that could be pa,
that could be this week, that could be something where
a lot of things go in a direction where it
leads that way.
Speaker 8 (18:47):
I'm not trying to there's no you know.
Speaker 7 (18:49):
Mystery here, Cloe subterfuge, Like it's really not that.
Speaker 8 (18:53):
I hope people understand. It's a little bit more real
than that.
Speaker 7 (18:56):
It's a little bit more you know, me trying to
do what's best for our team, but also this player
is very important and important to me, and I feel
obligated to make sure I always am doing the things
to help him stay on the path to where we
think he's going as a player and why we brought
him here.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
You know, it's it's in all your years coaching here,
you know, I don't think like like say, right now
you have an inclination maybe the complete answers to who
your quarterback is going to be Sunday at noon, and
then your practice, Well it's I don't you know, recall
you like knowing exactly who it's going to be and
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then and then not sharing all the way up to
the game, and you have no obligation to share. Obviously,
talk to Fangio or the Eagles, they'll probably be Okay,
well we well I've heard you said we we prep
for scheme and then work off that. Yeah, okay, But nevertheless,
I mean, is there a chance you don't like share
who your quarterback is going to be with the public
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before the game Sunday.
Speaker 7 (19:56):
No, I don't think so, just because look, we haven't
been and we got out on the practice field yesterday
and it was, you know, a lighter workload compared to
what it'll do be tomorrow when we put the pads
on and have a you know, a full session, you know,
working game plan plays on you know against the Philadelphia
Eagles and our defense working against the looks from their offense.
Speaker 8 (20:18):
And then we'll have Thursday and Friday.
Speaker 7 (20:20):
You're you're talking a significant amount of time as we
prepare our team, but also you know, work through you know,
allowing these guys to get the reps that they need,
both JJ and Carson, to get them both ready from
a standpoint of also understanding they're both still not one
healthy and they're both working through their individual things and
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that's part of the NFL season as well. This is
very rarely do you get the opportunity to choose your circumstances,
if ever, outside of the first game of the season,
and even then, depending on how your training camp goes,
you're not choosing much, right, So it's look, I I
you know, I'm very I'm excited for this week for
a lot of reasons. I think we've identified some ways
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as a team offense, defense, in and the kicking game
we can improve and laid some of those things out
for the players yesterday, and the coaches follow that up
in their meeting rooms, and then we just systematically attack
it this week and go try to get a win
against a really good team.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
Javon Hargrave gets doubled a lot, dozen't he.
Speaker 8 (21:21):
Well, I think he, you know he is.
Speaker 7 (21:23):
He is such a force from a standpoint if he
does get those individual rushes, even on those early downs
those you know, I'm defending the run, but then it's
a play action pass or drop back pass and I
can transition and go sack the quarterback.
Speaker 8 (21:34):
They need to have two bodies on them then.
Speaker 7 (21:37):
But in the run game, you know, a lot of
core principles of these good run games that we've played,
they're trying to get two bodies on them and move
the line of scrimmage, and that's where we've got to
be a little bit more connected as a group of
eleven to you know, get back to what we do
really well, which is a year ago, we stopped the run.
We got people in long yarded situations, and then the
turnovers started, whether it was Grenard into the quarterback, whether
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it was you know, you know, one of our guys
getting their hands on a ball.
Speaker 8 (22:04):
And intercepting it and changing the game.
Speaker 7 (22:06):
We've got to give ourselves more opportunities to turn the
football over as a defense, you know, against who we're playing,
by generating more ops where the scales are tipping in
our favor, and the loun flow and his group to
call the game in a way where we can be
the aggressor and not so much playing a lot of
manageable downs for the other side.
Speaker 8 (22:26):
And that's one of the things we got to try
to do.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
But I mean, to a certain extent, discretion has to
be the better part of valor two at times. In
other words, if you're down Van Gankle and Cashman arguably
two of your three, maybe four best run stoppers period. Yep,
they both blitz very well. The assumption from Afar I'm
not an e laite football mind you are. But if
those two are out, well we're probably going to double
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fifty eight, probably take care of ninety seven and figure
to like start there. So it I mean when I
say discretioning us to be the better part of valor,
you're like, well, we want to do it the way
Flow wants it done. But if you get overly aggressive
with backups, I would guess who have now played seventy
one hundred and ten one hundred and fifty snaps, you
get a little vulnerable, right.
Speaker 7 (23:07):
Yeah, you're just exposing yourself to you know, match up
problems and some things where the strength of your opponent
can then you know, take precedent over even what you know,
all eleven of your guys are trying to do as
a team defensive group.
Speaker 8 (23:22):
One of the things we've done.
Speaker 7 (23:23):
Really well here is tackle as well, Pa, and I
think there's been some mistackles and there's been some opportunities
to get a guy on the ground for a game
of three or four and force that third and six
instead it's seven or eight, and it's third and two,
and then the whole playbook at that point is open
and you're not dealing with as much stress of having
to play against flows defense as you possibly could be
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in some of those longer yarded situations. So it's it's
a combination of a lot of things, but certainly getting
cash back and Van gink will working his way back
in there as well, hopefully will give us, you know,
just continued examples of the intent of what we put
our roster together to feel like this year.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Just a few more for Kevin o'connolex as the O's
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Good morning, uh squon. He's yet to explode in a
game this year?
Speaker 8 (24:15):
Why, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 7 (24:17):
I think they're you know, I think they've got one
of the best O line coaches in football and in
Jeff Stoutlin. They've they've you know, had one of the
premier rushing attacks for a long time since he's been there.
And I think they're going to try to run the football.
I think they're going to try to run the football
to establish the line of scrimmage, get into those efficient
kind of staying ahead of the chains type of down
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in distances. And that doesn't change the fact that they've
got those weapons on the outside and I know they
haven't quite been able to unlock the same level of
passing game that they had a year ago, but it's
always available to them, and we've got to make sure
we don't give them any easy paths to getting back
to where they want to be offensively. And that's where
the ex o's and all those things have to be
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in alignment with what we go out in there and
do from a play style standpoint against a team that
wants to play physical, they want to it's not just
the tush push they you know, they they they have
some pretty elite players up front and the ability to
win the line of scrimmage. And if you give them
angles and you give them easy access to space, you know,
Saquon Barkley's the best in the.
Speaker 8 (25:21):
League at going to find it.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Two to close. Chris Cooper, your offensive line coach, was
he was here to start the show at nine o'clock.
Great to chat with a coach, Coop, and I was
really excited to share with him that, you know, I
will watch some practice occasionally. You guys are kind enough
to let me do that. I don't exactly know what
I'm watching, but like you know, when we were in
London and or Dublin to a certain extent. I mean
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it's the most I've ever watched. And I found myself
morphine to where the offensive line was with Cooper and
Keith Carter as assistant. I mean, it was unbelievable watching
those guys last week. It's like got like they're moving
Joe Huber by themselves, putting him in a spot doing
a drill. Then one of them leaves and they're like
with Brandell and they're working on head nods. It's just
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the nuance and what must have gone into that week
to get all those guys ready. And you don't know
school is going to flip spots during the game, but
Rolse knows he's playing, but he doesn't know like when
or what the game situation.
Speaker 6 (26:18):
Is going to be.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
To watch those guys work individually with all it was
a work of art. It was fantastic, man.
Speaker 8 (26:24):
Yeah, and then you see that across our entire team.
Speaker 7 (26:27):
You know, the the beauty of the game of football
is it is it does take people. Hear me say
it a lot, all eleven guys doing their job, but
within each one of those jobs there is you know,
a massive level of detail fundamentals, techniques, understanding how footwork
and hand placement and your your aiming points, and it
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really is along the line of scrimmage. It's like, you know,
you're watching basically five to six separate UFC fights going
on at one time, where everything's tactical and everything's you know,
the is a leverage thing. And we've tried to build
that O line group not only just the starters, but
the depth players as well as guys that are powerful
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and guys that are strong and can handle themselves not
only working in combination, but a one on one as well.
And that's how you're able to get through a situation
like that, as guys rising to the level of what
is required in that moment, and then Carson being able
to kind of run the show. And one thing I
know for sure is our receivers have played out standing.
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I think what TJ. Hockinson and Josh Oliver have done
maybe not necessarily blown up the statue, but they're doing
so many little things that have helped us kind of
sustain especially over these last three weeks where we've really
been you know, three fifty plus yards and gotten a
little bit more plays, gotten a little bit more of
a rhythm at times. And really the only thing and
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that we have to continue to try to have our
finger on is the penalties, the self inflicted things that
move your backwards where the defense had nothing to do
with it. And that's where our scoring rate and our
successful rate of drives, when we don't have a negative
play and or penalty, we're right up there at the
top of the league. And that's what we've got to
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continue to search for, is how many of our drives
can be like that.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
And I'm glad you mentioned wide receivers last one. I
promise as Jefferson elevated himself even more as a team leader.
And here here's it's like he handles business differently than
maybe in the past when the ball's not coming his
way and he seems calmer. He just seems more, you know,
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and and and young men are going to mature naturally,
but it seems like he's elevated his already solid leadership role.
Speaker 8 (28:44):
Yeah, I think he's been fantastic.
Speaker 7 (28:45):
It goes back to training camp even when he was
you know, taking you know, had to take a few
days there in training camp to get healthy early on,
and his role changed a little bit.
Speaker 8 (28:55):
It wasn't the daily igniter on the field by the
plays he was making.
Speaker 7 (28:59):
It was his leadership and in that huddle and stepping
in and talking to JJ McCarthy or talking to Jalen
Naylor or letting TJ know when TJ made a bunch
of plays in training camp, he was as much of
a leader as I've ever seen him in those moments,
and that's carried over to the season. And then I
think the other part of it is, you know, we've
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spent some time together over these seasons and Justin has
a bunch of confidence in what we're going to do,
what the plan.
Speaker 8 (29:28):
Is going to be.
Speaker 7 (29:29):
Obviously, we want to make him a featured focal point
of our offense every week. He knows that, and he
also knows whatever we find, whatever we meet on game
day from a scheme to take him away, that we're
going to find ways of getting him involved in the game.
And I think we've seen that over these last few
weeks against some really good defenses, that he's had his
impact and he's made plays that have helped us find
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that successful rhythm that has led to points. We've done
a good job and we've gotten down to the red
zone and we've got to continue to find as many
drives as.
Speaker 8 (29:59):
We can where we get down there and put the
ball on the en zone.
Speaker 6 (30:02):
Great chat, Yeah, thank you, I appreciate you.
Speaker 8 (30:04):
Man.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Kevin O'Connell, head coach of the Minnesota Vikings weekly nine
to noon. We call it x's and o's back after
this man, all right, we have learned about the Minnesota
Moving Company or the moving parts company.
Speaker 6 (30:26):
About two and a.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
Half hours ago from Chris Cooper, offensive line coach, we
learned about offense. Chatted a little defense, but mostly about
the offense and ancillary topics with head coach Kevin O'Connell.
What about the Vikings defense against Saquon Barkley, A. J. Brown,
DeVante Smith, Dallas Goddard and Jalen Hurts. Let's see what
b flow as up his leave.
Speaker 9 (30:48):
That player up again if if that's the case.
Speaker 10 (30:50):
But oftentimes you know they're just gonna, you know, they're
gonna stay on on the one guy and then which
means somebody else gotta make.
Speaker 11 (30:57):
A play playing with the league versus not playing the league.
Effects the defense are called your defenses are called the
way players play their mindsets in the situations where you
know they might be in a lead or another situations
where they're not.
Speaker 10 (31:17):
Yeah, I mean there's certainly ebbs and flows in every
you know, football game. I think it's certainly a momentum game.
You know, emotions are up and down based on.
Speaker 9 (31:31):
You know, winning losing, good play, bad play.
Speaker 10 (31:34):
So I think that's something you know, we talk about
as a as a as a defensive unit, our you know,
our ability to respond regardless of situation, whether we're up,
whether we're down. I think oftentimes you go up and
sometimes you know there's a complacency that sets in and
then you know that's how other teams get back into games.
Speaker 9 (31:53):
So, you know, I understand the question I do.
Speaker 10 (31:58):
I think that's something that as a as a coach,
you know, as a you know, a leader, you know,
you try to or I try to talk about the
ebbs and flows of the game and we don't know
what's gonna happen to ball bounce.
Speaker 9 (32:10):
It's funny.
Speaker 10 (32:11):
And so you could be up, you gotta you know,
maintain a high level, gotta keep it foot on the gas,
you go, you know, you can be down, you know,
I think you gotta stay even, you know, and I think,
you know, I think we try to do that as
a coaching staff.
Speaker 9 (32:27):
Uh and lead by example that way.
Speaker 10 (32:28):
So so that you know our players, you know, kind
of respond whether s respond correctly, whether you know we're winning.
Speaker 8 (32:36):
Or losing us gonnatically.
Speaker 11 (32:38):
Do you find that either you or you observed other
people calling yeah, even differently when you're ahead versus when
you're you.
Speaker 10 (32:47):
Know, and I I think ultimately you know you you
you know, I always want to be try to be aggressive,
you know, whether you know, regardless of the situation. But
you know, you're trying to limit points. You're trying to uh,
you know, win field position. You're trying to you know,
do everything we can to you know, get the ball
back to the offense.
Speaker 9 (33:08):
And you know, I don't. I don't.
Speaker 10 (33:11):
I can't say that it changes based on uh, you know,
ebbs and flows of a game.
Speaker 9 (33:17):
Uh, but you know, we're always trying to be aggressive.
Speaker 10 (33:21):
We're always trying to, uh, you know, get it back
to the offense and good field position if we could
obviously turn them over. We're trying to do that.
Speaker 9 (33:29):
But you know, I don't. That's that's kind of where
I fall in there.
Speaker 12 (33:36):
How do the better teams overcome these small meadum swings coming. Obviously,
you see teams after four no start down there, they
lose two in a row.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
And I mean the better.
Speaker 12 (33:45):
Teams over times you've been involved with better teams, how
do they overcome just these momentums?
Speaker 10 (33:51):
And I think there's really both bowls down to relationships.
I think the the best teams that I've been a
part of have had, you know, great relationships within the team,
and those relationships allow them to uh overcome the adversity
that's gonna hit you know, within the football season. It's
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it's like we we know it's gonna happen. It's not
going to always be you know, thirty to nothing like that.
That's just not this league. It's hard. There's adversity, there's frustration,
that stress, there's anxiety. All those things occur in the
National Football League and really in life. And so you
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lean on the people you know to your left and
your right, you know, your teammates, the guys in the
locker room, uh, in our in our meeting room.
Speaker 9 (34:40):
I know we talk about that quite a bit.
Speaker 10 (34:44):
And so you know, the ebbs and flows of a
season of a game, I think you get through those
with you know, the people around you.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
Let's let's get a dub against Philadelphia, so it can
be two in a row for B flow, too in
a row for B Flow two in a row four
B Flow. I owe you an apology. I apologize for
making you put down five years of Joel embiid game logs.
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Yes to have to pull B Flow's audio out and
turn your microphone on for the.
Speaker 6 (35:18):
Two in a row four B Flow two in a
row or B Flow. What's all Joel looking like these days?
Speaker 4 (35:24):
Well, I'm trying to sweat this return and they're trying
to just to ease him into action.
Speaker 5 (35:28):
And oh, healthier Sixers squad this year.
Speaker 4 (35:31):
Big spot thoughts about their their Eastern Conference contention.
Speaker 6 (35:35):
Tyrese MAXI for a zillion threes.
Speaker 4 (35:38):
And I thought I had at least three more minutes
of at least half of an answer from Brian Flores
to a question in.
Speaker 5 (35:45):
Relation to the team.
Speaker 4 (35:46):
So I thought I had at least two to three
more minutes here of scoping out exactly how that thing's
going to look gone. Yeah, has Kelly Oubray been hitt
by a car and City Center again?
Speaker 12 (35:58):
Ye?
Speaker 5 (35:58):
Like what this thing's going to look like?
Speaker 6 (36:00):
Take Julius Randall.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
Oh, well, he's he's in the mix. But I can't
go and and Julius rand Why not?
Speaker 6 (36:07):
I went Sga and Holmgren.
Speaker 5 (36:09):
I got to mix it up.
Speaker 4 (36:09):
Well, you should have just went with the trifecta added
Jwill to it, the good One and or Jay Dubb.
I forget if it's Jay Will or J Dubb the
good One versus the bench good ones J Dubb, Good
One's J Dub. Yes, I'm mildly disappointed. It's cool to
hear from Flow, though, I mean when I I'm joining
Tatum Everett actually VTN shortly after the show, we're going
(36:31):
to record some some Vikings dot Com content, and it's
kind of you know, good times bad times with a
three and two team and a money NFC North. But
just the takeaways that I was kind of referencing earlier,
the lack of sacks that you mentioned middle of the
pack from a sack standpoint, you get five turnovers in
the bungles game, but other than that, two straight weeks
without a take and it's just you're still looking at
(36:52):
a team one of the best third down defenses in
the NFL, terrific in the red zone. I think they're
holding teams to under fifty percent. I have to pull
up that stat in front of me again here, but
I know that their top ten specifically, let's find it here. Yeah,
eight out of sixteen they're they're fourth in the NFL
in red zone defense right now. This is a group
with Flores's team who's having to do it a little
(37:14):
bit differently because of injury issues of their own, and
they're finding that success and keeping this team in each
and every one of these games. But Man, Saquon, But Manaquon,
I wonder and it's it's worth diving into later this week.
And Kevin O'Connell when we heard him, he was quick
to praise the longtime offensive line coach and the success
(37:34):
and for good reason, by the way, feels like the
Eagles offensive line has been dominant and like Giants for
a freaking decade.
Speaker 5 (37:42):
Something's up there.
Speaker 4 (37:42):
Man Dickerson's injured, and I know they got my lotta
on the I think on the left side, and it
is at sayamlu I forget, but at any rate, I'm
mixing Johnson on the right side, Lane Johnson on the
right side. You know how that's working? With Cam at
center three and a half yards a clip man. That's
awful from a team that put out two thousand plus
with Saquon a year ago. You're not seeing the explosion.
(38:05):
You're not feeling like they're moving man in the same
way that they have historically and really has become a
cultural element to Eagles football. So this is simultaneously an
option an opportunity for Saquon to quote unquote get right
and explode. They've just shown no evidence of that for
the last month. I think they're banged up, and I'm
(38:26):
excited to see that part of the game and how
we handle that situation on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
Final segment from a Twin City's Orthopedics Performance Center is
next The Friday Football with Yours Truly, Nordoh and alec Lewis.
(39:03):
Courtesy of Steve's Appliances Buffalo Wild wings mana Cello Buffalo
Wild wings mana Cello. This week, we'll see it from
nine to noon up Monticello Way as we get back
into our Friday football feast swing and the week of
the Chargers game. Is is is that a game day feast?
Speaker 6 (39:23):
Do you have any idea?
Speaker 5 (39:24):
Yes, it is, so it'll be a game day feast Buffalo.
Speaker 4 (39:27):
Wild Wings, Savage, I Believe in and Mike Mussman is
a journey of the game.
Speaker 5 (39:32):
No in the morning of I've Got It.
Speaker 4 (39:33):
Yeah, he'll be headmanning that down at Batubs Savage.
Speaker 5 (39:37):
That's home turf for Messy.
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That'll be a day of the Chargers game up to
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