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We talk about the summer we do retrospective in storytelling and then you don't grasp these and everything. No days off no days off Bill Belichick. Okay, so what into the Vikings on Monday night.

Why didn't we see the Vikings from the Packers game and the season opener like they went away from everything that made them successful before they went to a much more vanilla much more conservative defensive plan took all the pre-snap motion out of their office and they just went away from everything that was working and instead put quickly over thought the Eagle and they thought that you know they could beat the Eagles they needed to do something totally different. Everything they had put on paint that meant that when we were everything. They were good at and they just came out totally flat and by the end of the game. They were all in a blind panic and I think honestly the game broke there's.

Get punched in the mouth like that your naptime down 2047 make a rally off defensively they pulled together they ended up not giving up any more point authentically didn't score any other point and make sure did have opportunities to do so. I think the team kind of let the game get to him. In particular, why would they change the game plan new head coach got a learn that lesson did not go away from what you know and I get there. There's a lot of lessons you learn that head coaches learn and when you get a new one. You gotta wait while they learn all the lessons for the first time you got that thing where they go, man. We just totally over thought that we probably should just talk with what was working, but we didn't and we decided that we're going to come out a totally new game plan and now super catch him off guard and then realized that they get paid on the other side to and they can beat that you think they just come out was fairly surprised by the number of shrunk plays that the Eagles were able to amass in this game. So the strategy on defense. But why did it seem like every single Philadelphia wide receiver was wide open all game long flying. We bad performance because everything was uncontested.

I'm pretty sure jail and hurt a career low for throws into tight windows and I'm pretty sure he approached €400 on the game like he just didn't have to do any hard throws Vikings made it super easy on which is really really frustrating.

It was very passionate is very conservative and very would just sit back, keep everything in front of us will rally and tackle stops working when in front of us is a 15 game.

I just that the lock on Vikings podcast for Tuesday to go up shortly. This record that I ripped into… All people. If you want to find one name that deserve the most blame and that is a high that is being shared by a lot of people would certainly not Donatello probably get the biggest piece of that is a dreadful game plan when you're so scared of Ajay Brown and Monta Smith.

Dallas got good players good to respect them.

We are so scared of and that you played is passive soft zone and by the way, players deserve some of the blame to an elf deep in the first to tell you that they didn't execute very well at all and they didn't do those zone very well date date on their landmarks a little bit too long was really easy to just try to tell the receiver pay down his own and tell her to put the ball on and it was like they were thrown out there just like way too easy to basically just that they were so scared of getting so that's what you would call it a passive soft zone is something new for the FL passive and soft Charmin ultra soft or weak.

Lou Braun is with us to talk Vikings and and this split personality we see in the first few weeks you got the locked on Vikings podcast and no days off because there's plenty to talk about is after hours with Amy all right. Another question I have, then I get that the Eagles were playing some strong defense and what they got behind it. They were thrilled about going slowly to try to pick up point you can understand why they want to throw the ball more, I suppose.

But why so little attention to the run date wise.

A little balance with the run game in Oconto. I think I really don't think he cares about about it on offense or on decent quarterbacks coach quarterbacking a passing guy's been a passing game coordinator you want to throw on and I want to come off like there were a lot of people Minnesota wanted exactly that. Just what the doctor ordered. After we got came off of the defense, if you know grind them out, will let's win every game 70 team, coach Kevin O'Connell wants to throw throwing throw some work. There comes a point where you tip the scale too far to the other side, and I think what would like six carries for 17 yards with Alvin Cook might be that point your case in the game for a lot of it. Some of that be part biking situation, but you gotta get something going on the ground. You have to be able run your stapled in your bread-and-butter call you in the RAM John McVeigh famous path, having famously pass happiness where Kevin O'Connell ran from came from. They still have their staple runs that were there bread-and-butter that they could go to on second and four and converted and they just didn't get that really quick to abandon it. You know it didn't work. Getting behind that patient. I think in general the whole team had a feeling panic about it this feeling of you know know the game getting away from us. They are going to start dumping things wrong. You know the pasta coverage give a 51 yard field goal.

Her cousin throwing up fades up his back foot that are basically gains of 500 and your dad's backyard. Just like panic from top to bottom, from the coaching visions and everything just deer in headlights look like a team of rookies and I think part of that is being run by a whole bunch of people who have never done before. Donatello coordinator before but it's been a while. Kevin O'Connell never been a head coach for the quarterbacks coach never been a quarterbacks coach before and a lot of people getting their feet wet and a lot of people got punched in the mouth for the first time tonight. You could tell it was the first makes sense because there are some growing pains for coaches to what we are seeing around the league. It's not as though Kevin O'Connell is in that boat all by himself. Nathaniel Hackett is after hours with Amy Lou is with us with locked on Vikings and try to dissect what happened with them.

I got to tell you this Lou guy I knew they weren't running the ball at time because that was pretty apparent, but it's jarring to see Kirk cousins as your leading rusher.

That should never have. I don't care how bad the game is or how it's going. That should never ever happen to require you gotta stick with it. I know I sound like way too old school here, but you can't give up after six attempts in all game even if you're chasing it you know if it's the third quarter and you're down three scored a whole. You gotta be able to show a little bit of multiplicity because when you can't when you can just back off and go empty every player and you're gonna play the spread offense like you're in the SEC there is going to tee off on you and that's exactly what happened started blitzing every play with total reckless abandon. And then they got panic Kirk cousins and panic her cousin just flat out loses games, I think that's a lesson gotta learn and it's unfortunate that they had learned in a live game that mattered on the national stage in primetime, which we navigated things in such a way where you could learn that lesson before it counted so much that I will say that word on Kirk cousins, one that Irv Smith drop or the bullet went right through, it would've been a huge Katie was behind the defense and was the Darius -like interception at the goal I were clearly Justin Jefferson had broken off his route and according to Paul Allen.

I just happen to see his tweet.

He mentioned that JJ went right over to Kirk immediately when they got off the field and said hey that was my fault.

I'm real sorry not completely on him. But as you point out, it did not look like they were sticking to any kind of a game plan and it was much more reacting and reactive that it was dictating. What about Justin Jefferson. He honestly had a record-setting season opener. He's a guy now. The lobby will point he would say is the best receiver in the league but definitely in the top three, if not the best.

Where is the greatest growth in his game, even as he gets to the point where he's feared around the NFL. Not the best thing for him, but we got and I think the biggest thing for me is. This artistic quality to his route. I been calling the mark I been saying throughout camp and an precedent walking in place throughout camp he looked like he was really pushing the boundaries of what route can be where you really win your coaching around telling someone how to run a route. What is really all you care about is that they're in particular spot. That particular time 16 yards. At this spot than break here and then get here were the balls both B and really don't care what happens in between long to get there on time and what happens in between usually is running right but if you add more deception of Marlene everything that Justin Jefferson doesn't show subtle is routes like the naked eye. They don't look like they're covered in all this windowdressing with any breakdown little details to train your little lean just enough to get the safety you think, why not a little bit. You can cut inside that kind of stuff so much subtlety and nuance to it that allow him to get open and once he is the ball in hand. He checked the game to keep just is relentless and tenacious even thought up onto the catches tonight you catch stupid little spot route 5 yards down the field and get a first down candidate you could just go down a lot, water savers, or just turn around I forward, take your thing not taking you to move on. But now he's dancing around.

He's finding a way pushing through people. He's just there's a very, never give up attitude to the way that he like once you have the ball in his hands and not the kind of thing that let you all against the Packers last week where he can go diving for the pylon like is a very like every wide receiver, but just come across that abound warrants a good play.

Now he wants everything all the time and I love that attitude, and that mentality, we stress the team had it there was a little bit equipment like well it certainly can be contagious so we've seen the basket we seen the worst and will see what else happens in September. At least we know it's not just Minnesota.

There is inconsistency and there are the split personalities all over the NFL through the first two weeks of the regular season just to see the Packers in we can never wine and I was actually Lambeau Field on Sunday night against the Bears and so they are one and what is well, as is the rest of the division what your pricing Chicagoan and Green Bay course that the Vikings played in the first week and I did try to still work in progress, but how competitive is the division they share me. Detroit is surging and great game for them against the commanders. I want to see a little more to believe it, do you think they will get it will get a healthy dose of it. I guess I want to see insisting that success little bit before they proved to me that they really are for real. The Bears to borrow a phrase, they are who we thought they were. They are not taking the season seriously and they deserve every insult you can possibly throw at them because of it. They just diming their trotting out practice squad players think they got their roster has like eight players that were cut from other they just are not taking the season seriously. They decided this is the year we fix our Issues and get nothing else done is really got thing to do when you got a rookie quarterback on a rookie contract with the Bears have done this as much as I wish them ill of the division rival. I don't not like this Friday, one your friend in your fantasy league. Stop setting your lineup, you get the win.

But this is not what this is supposed to be enough to now I feel the Bears weren't soap Sunday night, went the way I thought it would going into the season and week one might've been a little weird. And maybe the natural order that the Packers will be a fearsome force in the division belongs to them until somebody proves that they can put a consistent season together and well everyone wanted one that should Packers had more points in the second quarter on Sunday night and the other 7/4 combined to this point, so they're not consistent yet either believe they've got a long way to go to but it is still a division that they have owned for three years now. I salute broad before I let you go now to tell people you can find Luke on Twitter at Lupron NFL. He not only tweets about Vikings at his podcast and whatever else is happening in the NFL, but he also tweets photos and videos of bunnies. I need to know more about these rabbits and how do they predict games because currently they get victory pallets when they get the outcome or they get, but the yes so my rabbit BMW.

There will chinchilla breed dwarf rabbit rabbit that they are there great their evil incarnate little veggies little bit of their veggies down alike either side of the plate and just like one-sided biking one, but against the spread and that whatever you want to and I did that for every game last year and Zoe picked 11 foreign want. No way. One push and she refused one week because she was feeling and she walked away 11 foreign want against the spread. I can't. People started getting on the bandwagon and started betting whatever Zoe picked and they make money people. It was so quick I gotta do it again in Hannibal takes only -210, well ziti as they like the pasta ziti CD and Zoe are clearly much smarter than the rest of us that's that's impressive and also very cute on the gold I'm staying with in Wisconsin. They have rabbit stew. How did your Alvin intent here Alvin Theodore that that that's where it came from. And yeah, my favorite thing to pet them another little skittish sometimes but they are so soft it Patty or rabbit just it just makes you happy. So I highly recommend you and yours are adorable stew so it breaks up the football intensity to have photos and videos of rabbit so deftly check it out on Luke's Twitter again at Lupron NFL's got the locked on Vikings podcast which never takes a day off and were always glad to have them here on the show we will catch up again soon. We figure out this NFC North and the personality of the Minnesota Vikings. Happy to baseball is everywhere.

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