It's just the way my body
high wind up him catching the ball in his hands and me taking
your phone.
I mean the hold the whole play was crazy but
you know, it starts
with all along and it starts with blocking given Kirk that
time to give me
you know, that that opportunity to go to make a play.
But it you know it's just it's not me. This is a collective
team win. So many people play in so many different parts in
this win,
but, you know, it's
it's glad to be here.
It felt like it was Unreal felt like a movie,
but just, like I said, God is with us.
You know, I told everybody this is our season. This means this
is our season for us to win out and to go to the Super Bowl. So
we just got to keep working or working.
Take on week by week
going on, fix our mistakes and
get ready for the Cowboys.
I don't know what they're serving at postgame locker
room, but wolf, this is our Sip and See that confidence. Here's
what happens.
When you develop The Knack
for
doing, what they've been doing late in these games, you
develop a belief, among your players, and your sideline,
that it's going to happen.
And it also develops a sense
on the other sideline
of here it comes,
it's their year. How can anyone of sound mind? Not watch.
Yesterday's game. And come away thinking
hell, it's their year?
I you To go into Buffalo. Do what they did against
the preseason Super Bowl favorite. Now, I know the Eagles may have
something to say about that, and Tom, Brady may have
something to say about that
and even Aaron Rodgers may have something to say about that
before. It's all said and done, but
but it's hard not to feel like there's a special shine and
Miles. This is the other reason why I think yesterday was
significant, I have been
observing the Vikings very carefully for years. They have
not had a road win in the regular season like this.
For decades, the closest I can think of is the 1998 Monday
Night, Football game,
Lambeau Field, which was the Randy Moss. National coming out
party where he has the phenomenal Monster game and
game for the ages. That's what Brian Billick the offensive
coordinator. The Vikings said, at the time,
it had that kind of feel to it because the Vikings are the team
that has a great home field advantage
and then from time to time, we'll win just enough Road
games against lesser opponents to get home games in
the playoffs. But then when they Go on the road in the postseason
and play a great team. They get slapped around like they did in
San Francisco
three years ago, like they did in Philadelphia for the NFC
championship game like they did against the Giants in the NFC
championship game in 2000.
Yeah, they almost somehow beat the Saints in the 2009 and if
she championship game when they grossly outplayed New Orleans
at day but still lost the game to go on the road and get that
kind of a win in the regular season. Gives them
the confidence that they can do
it. If they have to
in the postseason and maybe they don't have to maybe maybe
the Eagles stumble, just enough to get the Giants twice and got
the Cowboys, the Vikings have to
catch them and then pass them because the Eagles have
the tiebreaker. But it's you know, when you start feeling it in
your building, the reality is other teams are going to be
tempted to feel it as well, and you just kind of have that,
it's a
subconscious thing.
But it's just kind of like
all hail all hail the kings of the north. This is their year
that Vibe could start to creep in for them and for others.
I think you're right about, you know, going on the road and
winning a game in a hostile environment like that in
the confidence, that that can bring you. And I just know from teams
that I've covered teams, that I've been around like, the 2018
Rams.
And when you have that sense, that everything is kind of
going right for you. And when you win games like that, that
really does mean something or even if you go on the road and
you lose a close game but you're like, man, we were
really
in it and we understand that we might see That team again or
maybe it's just that we know what we can do in a hostile
environment and we know what we have to do differently in order
to win those things, mean something. And so yeah, I
think it's the sense of confidence that's one thing but
it's also just knowing that there is evidence, there is
tangible evidence
that you can go on the road
and you can compete with the best teams in the NFL. You can
go on the road and you can force turnovers off of some of
the best. Quarterbacks It's in the NFL,
you know, you win. It looks very dire, you can make a play
to come back and beat the best teams in the NFL. All of those
things are very, very important for a team, to learn over
the course of the regular season. So that once you
get into January,
then you can keep making those plays. And perhaps get
yourself, you know, to Arizona, where you'll be playing for
the whole thing. So,
even after the Jefferson catch that kept that last Drive
alive, then,
And it's, yeah, I'm I I can't quite remember
anything after that,
but, but blacked out. Yeah. But but it without alcohol.
That's coming tonight.
Yeah, this is Vikings you for you, but
they did the play and I meant to text Peter King this because
we were riffing a week or so ago about the pushing of
the quarterback and how that's perfectly legal and
it's not been really
signed into offense as yet and when will someone
put like the Saints put taysom Hill out there and put a pair
of defensive lineman behind him and just go
basic physics
shove him just like that cheese right into the end zone and
they did that
on the 4th and goal play. After the Dalvin cook drop, when
I was just a legend
and I think it was that all over the jumped early and
Dalvin cook has the ball and he drops it and then I could get
another chance and they're a little closer and they try to
do the whole physics thing.
But cousins
didn't have enough. CJ ham, pushed him from behind. It
wasn't enough to get him over the top. And they did a very
long replay review and it was a good call, they got it right,
cousins didn't get the ball over before he was down. But
then came
what what I saw this last night.
I don't know who to credit for it. I think it was Elias Sports
Bureau.
It was only the second time. Since the merger
that a team that was trailing in the final minute took
the lead on a defensive touchdown. The only other time that's
happened was the Joe Pasar chick
Larry's, Anka Herm Edwards moment. The miracle in
the Meadowlands late in a regular season game which gave rise to
the widespread use of the victory formation, why are you
handing the ball off when you're up late, just taking
the and kill the clock and go home.
But it's only the second time since the merger that's
happened and it The snap inside the one. I thought maybe
they're going to get a safety there. And there was some
conversation. They should have taken one deliberately, but
the problem is, it would have been 2725. And if field goal beat
you,
what is this was the, I mean, as as you're digesting the
well, they gave it a valiant effort. Well, it was exciting.
Well, that Justin Jefferson catch was for not. Well, you
know, it's one of those games you just look back on and say,
what a crazy day that was.
You see Vikings players jumping around? It's like, what
the hell happened? What's going on down there? There.
And you know, the center in that moment as sim said last
night, you're worried about somebody taking your knees out.
I mean, that's a legitimate use of the Greg Schiano.
If right, tactic view, you're definitely doing it there
because they're not taken a knee, they're going to try to
advance the ball forward in that moment and they just
couldn't, they couldn't secure the ball and
and even then even then even then even then Josh Allen had
more than enough time
to take the bills down the field that and that was
my immediate thought. Oh, they're going ahead. But
yeah, we know that all
all Josh Alan
you know needs although it's
Flipped around. It was the Chiefs needing 13 seconds. If
the Chiefs can do it in 13 seconds, Josh Allen can do it
in 13, sexy devil can do it in 47 or whatever it was left on
the clock.
Yes, so do things about that. I mean, first of all, we talked
about like the nut-cutting time that's where you have to have
the fortification
of stones to just say, look, we're going to secure this.
We are going to get this ball a little bit further away. So we
have some breathing room and the bills for whatever reason
they just couldn't do it. I mean, that is Is one of those
critical plays that you have to make. When you're backed up
that far, you have to secure the football.
You have to be able to move further ahead so that you can
give yourself a little bit of room to try and in the game and
the bills just could not do that there. So that's a huge
problem, right? I mean when you when you're in those critical
moments, those critical situations, can you make
the plays necessary
and they weren't able to do it, and whatever happened on that
Center quarterback Exchange. There is the center's fault or
cubies fault, you have to get it right. And the fact that
they did not get that right is very alarming and it's very
concerning and you got to give
the Minnesota Vikings credit for making the play but still
and so then you know, you get that chance. Now Josh Town gets
the ball back, but I mean officials, what are we doing
with the Gabe? Davis non-cat. Well, I'll get to that in
a second. Let me just say this though, about
the Bills play in their defense.
How many times do you
Des. Do you even practice? Do you carve out time in all
the hours that are spent doing all sorts of other things? Do you
ever practice
trying to
do the exchange live
in that moment where you just got to get the ball in your
hands and move forward? When you're backed up to the 1 inch
line, I don't think that ever makes its way onto the list of
plays, that's going to be practiced by anyone.
So you just have to go do it with you.
It's like we just got to go do this. You do it live.
We're not mine. But you can't do that live in practice.
I know I mean at the same time you you've gone through that
scenario. I think that John McDermott is good enough head
coach and good enough situationally. I would have to,
you
know, what you need to do.
I mean it's, you know what you do? Has finally got one. You
got one option.
Push the ball as far forward from
1 inch line as you can. But how do you ever simulate
executing it? That's my point. You can't simulate executing
here.
But used it, they get paid to do it. All right, sounds with
highest-paid players. Well, I'm sorry. Like, do
you speak quarterbacks in the entire National Football
League? I don't think they're paying for that play, though.
I don't think you got. I don't think he earned money.
I know. I know what you mean. I know you get. Yeah, you do get
paid for every single play. All right. I'm sorry. Like it is
a Shaolin is a good enough athlete to do it. I you know,
I'm come on. I don't know if you have a lawn but I will be
getting off of it. Geez,
I'm just saying like
you know, do we Expecting you. We have to expect that he's
gonna make that play. That's why you call the play.
That's why you pay Josh Allen because he's Elite.
I'm not saying the Josh Jones. Bad, of course, is not bad,
but, you know, you got to execute their, you have to
execute their, it's just just a hell of a moment. A hell of
a moment that doesn't happen very often. And,
and you're right. You're right. You've got to step up in those
moments. If you truly want to be regarded as one of the best
quarterbacks in football, and
the proof is in the pudding. As they say,
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