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I'm Will Selve and here are the best moments from this week so far at the breakfast table.

Week 8 brought us everything from a Minneapolis miracle rematch to another swap at quarterback for Tampa.

Let's find out what the breakfast table thought about some of the biggest games from this week.

Let's get into the first round of highlights that we saw with the Saints and the Vikings. Some takeaways from that because for me, the Vikings just killed themselves with turnovers. Yeah, the Vikings had plenty of turnovers, but you look at this New Orleans Saints team. When this defense is playing lights out, when they're getting after the quarterback, this team looks totally different. Now it allows Drew Brees to be complimentary, to play

complimentary football. You don't need his Hall of Fame arm when the defense is balling out,

when they're able to run the football, and they're able to create turnovers and stop the

other team from getting in the end zone. If this defense can keep this up, the New Orleans

Saints will be playing late into this season. They will be playing late into January. Great, great performance by this New Orleans Saints defense. Yeah, Breeze only threw for 120 yards. You don't need to. You don't need to throw for him. When you have Alvin Kamara and Mark Ingram, since Ingram is back, they haven't lost a game. They made the move up in the draft to get Marcus Davenport. He had a sack last night. I believe he's got four on the season now for him. And that strip, I mean, Cousins was down. So that tells me it's not only an attacking defense and a defense that's hoping that they're going to play better on the back end now that they've got Eli Apple hoping he can play well there, but also creating turnovers and creating pressure up front. and that's what you've got to do in this league if you're going to be a successful defense. If you would have told me that Kirk Cuzzle was going to throw for 359 yards and two touchdowns, I would say that the Vikings would have won the game. But when you look at the Saints, their wins. Look at what they've done two weeks in row now. They went into Baltimore last week against the team that was coming off 11 sacks, and they protected Drew Breeze,

and he did a great job on third down, against the Blitz, all that. And then they go into Minnesota against another great defense. I mean, I don't know if we're giving Drew Breez enough credit. We should be talking about him in the MVP category. We're talking about golf and Mahomes and Gurley, but what Drew Breeze has done, yeah, the numbers may not be there, but week in and week out, he's finding ways to win games. Think about some of these close games that they've had. Now, they just won two tough ones on the road, but they also, the extra point missed by Justin Tucker, close game right there, they needed a missed field goal against Cleveland to win that game.

So the Saints, their battle tested right now, and they're a tough team right now. They're a tough

out. Sean, you mentioned something about the Minnesota Vikings. They thought the

quarterback change would be the difference in this team. They're throwing for a lot more yards.

Kirk Cousins obviously is better than Case Kingdom, but it's not resorting into more wins. And to me, it looks like whenever this team, this Minnesota Vikings team doesn't capture the line of scrimmage, they lose the football game. When they don't capture the line of scrimmish, the defense doesn't look so good in a lot of these games. I'm surprised with this Minnesota Vikings defense because I thought they could kind of recapture what they had last year and it's just not coming to the wish.

Same, yeah. in a lot of these games. I'm surprised with this Minnesota Vikings defense because I thought they could kind of recapture what they had last year and it's just not coming to the question. It's shocking. You talked about it yesterday when you said that they're having trouble covering the running backs, and what did Sean Payton and the Saints do? They matched up those linebackers against those running backs and they got a couple of big plays off of that. So thank you for watching our show.

That's right. That's what it all kind of comes down to. The Saints, by the way, they actually were able to get to the quarterback. I feel like the back end sort of helped out the pass rush a little bit. Absolutely. They stacked Kirk four times. They hit him nine times. This is something that we haven't really seen that much this year. We saw it a lot last year, but maybe a little switching up on the back end there.

Ken Kural. nine times. This is something that we haven't really seen that much this year. We saw it a lot last year, but maybe a little switching up on the back end there. Ken Crawley, he was a healthy scratch yesterday. So they had a delight. What you're trying to say, Colleen. There, cross from Marshall and Ladmore. I'm just saying, I don't know, maybe mixing things up, and it kind of worked. Okay, James Winston, 18 for 35, 276 yards, 1, TD 4 interceptions.

Same game plan, same for 35, 276 yards, 1 TD 4 interceptions.

Same game plan, same wind conditions, same everything.

Ryan Fitzpatrick goes out 11 for 15, 194 yards, 2 TD, zero interceptions.

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