The Vikings red zone defense saves the day against the New York Jets

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

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4.8 • 907 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Matthew Coller and Paul Hodowanic talk about the Vikings' 27-22 win over the New York Jets which, unsurprisingly, came down to the final play. Why did the Vikings look so good in the first half and struggle so much in the second? Did the Jets defense show the weaknesses of the Vikings' offense? What happens to the defense in the biggest moments when they are able to come through. And why we're analyzing everything through a Super Bowl lens now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Purple Insider is presented by Liquid Death, delicious water that's bringing death to plastic.
0:05.7	Learn more at Liquiddeath.com. Insider. Hello welcome into the Minnesota Vikings actually can keep getting away with
0:28.1	this post-game podcast Matthew Collar along with Paul Hodawannick, also we are streaming on YouTube.
0:36.0	If any of you were watching there, then welcome to this where we have the same conversation
0:40.6	we have been having after almost every Minnesota Vikings game.
0:44.4	It really is mind-blowing, Paul Hodawanick, that the Vikings can get up against Mike White,
0:51.7	who I jokingly in my recap called Generic Jets quarterback X,
0:55.8	and then get up by so much that you think, okay, now this is the one.
1:00.0	This is the one where they run away, they win by three scores. They cruise to victory and we all go home early without any tension. We don't have to feel any tightness. There is no gripping the side of the chairs and eating an extra cookie or whatever in the press box out of stress and yet somehow he turns into Mike White Brady Manning and creates big play after big play in the second half,
1:27.0	gets down to the goal line and the Vikings find a way and are a little bit assisted by a drop in the end zone as they have been this season by other teams when they have that chance to come back completely against the Vikings and they can't quite do it.
1:42.5	So here we stand with this team at 10 and 2,
1:46.4	still with a point differential that would be reflective
1:50.8	of maybe a six or seven win team.
1:52.6	It's just, I don't even know what to say anymore, Paul,
1:56.3	but it's really funny that we talk about all of these regression things
2:00.5	and these close games will eventually start going against them but one thing we know is that it doesn't have to
2:06.8	doesn't have to anytime soon and we will talk about every part of this thing we'll talk about the offense
2:13.4	and how much it struggled today.
2:15.4	Kirk Cousins had a very, very tough day and got beat up.
2:18.3	We will talk about the difference in the defense
2:20.9	between the first half that looked like it was going to have maybe
2:23.2	its best performance of the year and then the second half where it was big play
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