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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Vikings give away the game in Denver

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

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4.7958 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Matthew Coller and Dane Mizutani of the Pioneer Press break down the Vikings' 21-20 loss to the Denver Broncos in which they controlled the entire game but gave it away to Russell Wilson at the end. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're going to be. Hey everybody welcome to another Vikings post game show here on

0:23.5

Purple Insider Matthew Collard here along with Dame Mizetani of the

0:26.6

Pioneer Press inside whatever they call Mile High Stadium now after the Vikings

0:31.5

fall 21 to 20 here in a game in which they kept giving it away

0:37.1

Dane and that is the story of the game and I gotta tell you it's a little bit

0:41.1

difficult for me when the main story just is look they turned the ball over because a lot of times on the post game show after a loss what we like to try to do is look for things that are actionable, things that they could change, things that

0:56.5

caused this, whether it was decisions leading up to the, you know, the roster or, you know, the game plan or the play calling.

1:05.9

And there is certainly stuff that we will discuss for sure,

1:08.9

including the first drive and the decision to run some sort of trickery with Josh Dobbs, which has never

1:15.4

seemingly played out in Kevin O'Connell's favor, but still when it comes down to how both

1:21.7

teams played for the vast majority of this game the Vikings

1:25.2

moved the ball the Vikings stopped the first four attempts of the Broncos in the

1:30.9

Red Zone it seemed like the defense was on point, bailing them out pretty consistently.

1:35.4

The Broncos didn't run the ball well. Russell Wilson had some moments early on, but did not look great through most of this game.

1:41.6

And yet, they're on the doorstep of getting even

1:46.3

they didn't even need a first down just don't give the ball away kick another field

1:50.0

goal and you probably walk out of here with a win and Alexander Madison fumbles the game away.

1:55.0

I guess I don't know what I'm supposed to do with this other than to say that over the last five weeks they have dominated the turnover differential and what goes up must come down.

2:05.0

We don't have to be rocket scientists in order to know that and that's what happened tonight

2:09.5

that they got on the bad side of some of that turnover luck and they end up losing this game.

2:15.7

Now that is not a free pass to the things that we will talk about, including O'Connell's decision

2:21.7

there and a couple other ones that people have maybe called

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