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Good evening and welcome to Vikings Rewind on Kfan and the Minnesota Vikings Radio Network. Vikings Rewind is presented by Omni Viking Lakes and you can book your stay today. Just go to omnihotels dot com slash Viking Lakes. I'm Nordo from nine to noon. How you doing recapping yesterday's Vikings game? And it is four in a row for Kevin O'Connell and the Minnesota Vikings. They beat the Atlanta Falcons yesterday thirty one to twenty eight. They now improve
to five and four through nine games. And this is the first time that they've had a winning.
Record in twenty twenty three.
So from all those fumbles and weird losses starting out oh and three, they go four and one through October, and they find their way to victory on the road in Atlanta yesterday. And it was a game that started with a fifth round rookie and Jaren Hall under center for the Vikings, and it ended within a recently acquired quarterback in Joshua Dobbs, who barely knew anybody's name, didn't know most of the plays, and he found his way to victory, found this team's way to victory. It's unbelievable
some of the things. It's nothing if not always entertaining for a team very much in the NFC playoff race, a wild card team. The Vikings currently are at five and four. Next up the New Orleans Saints. Some injury concerns and things that took place yesterday. I'm going to play back on the other side of this next segment a nice portion of Kevin O'Connell's press conference with the media from earlier this afternoon, highlighting and getting some updates and some of the players that were.
Nicked up yesterday.
Hey, Justin Jefferson's able to come off ir and maybe start practicing and playing again, even as soon as this weekend against the Saints.
Is that gonna happen.
You're gonna hear some updates in some conversation and clarity there from the head coach. But first, in what is just yet another weird one the Minnesota Vikings and the Atlanta Falcons yesterday, let's rewind to the action. The Minnesota Vikings defense gets to start yesterday as they get on the field and they force a seven play twenty two yard drive that ends in a punt. So we like the way that started. And then it's time for Jaren Hall.
Jaren Hall comes in tough spot for him last week against Green Bay after the unfortunate achilles injury to Kirk.
He gets a couple of series.
There's a stripsack in the mix, cool third down conversion on his next possession to TJ. Hawkinson. So you didn't like some things. You liked some things, but now he's had an entire week to start well. Vikings offense goes three and out. Falcons would respond a five play thirty four yard drive. Nice long connection from Taylor Heineke, the former Viking. There were all sorts of connections and backup
qbs in the mix yesterday. Former Viking never took a snap in a game, but certainly a member of the team for a couple of seasons twenty fifteen and twenty sixteen. Taylor Heineke hits Cadaril Hodge and they settle for a young Way coup fifty plus yard field goal. Fifty two yarder that makes it three to nothing halfway through the first quarter. Now second possession, Jaren Hall still under center. It's nine plays, It's seventy four yards.
And a couple of nice connections too.
Johnny Munt with a catch and run and Alexander Madison for nearly fifty.
Jaron Hall with an empty backfield, four man rush. He's gonna fade one right.
Cott took a thirty five thirty Hangles took.
The left and is taken down inside the twenty. Alex Sander Madison with a long catching run forty nine yards first down for the Vikings.
Vikings offenses movie and Jaren Hall is orchonstrating all of it.
Later in the drive, they get a first and goal at the one.
Then they move backwards, still having trouble running the ball inside the five.
The Vikings offenses and it's third down.
Jaron Hall is trying to close the deal with his legs, and for the second time in two games, tragedy strikes the quarterback position.
Hall shot downe three receivers left to right, takes the snap four man rush.
Hall steps up looking to run.
Paddle to the metal leap through the end zone, and he came up short.
He got smacked at the goal line.
Jaren Hall slow to get up, and many members of the Vikings training staff have come out on the field to chat with the back, with the quarterback who used to be the backup but now he's the start.
I was so excited for better or worse. It could be great, it could be awful.
I was excited to see Jaron Hall take the reins of this offense with a full week of preparation and see what the kid has.
But he suffers a.
Concussion on his second series yesterday and he's forced out of the mix from that play, and the Vikings are then forced to settle for a field goal from the one yard line because they're still trying to scramble and like, hey, Joshua Dobbs, we did not intend on you playing today. Now we got to get you ready to handle the offense. It's three to three with about two minutes left in
the first quarter. Vikings defense does their job. They force a punt from the Falcons, and now we're seeing Joshua Dobbs plays all those games for the Cardinals earlier this year. Career backup is Joshua Dobbs, brought to the Vikings via trade on Tuesday, and as I mentioned earlier, jokingly but kind of seriously, he doesn't know everybody's name. He hasn't taken snaps from Garrett Bradbury yet cadence in terms of calling the plays at the line, getting everything organized.
This is all new.
This is all on the fly, and it started off a little bumpy.
Third and twelve from his own five and a tie game, Dobbs takes the staff he's looking out to the left from the end zone, steps up added to safety. The Falcons have trapped josh Dobbs in the end zone for a safety and have taken The Braves have taken a five to three lead over the Plans.
Yes weird score five to three Falcons early second quarter, and the safety means now the Vikings have to actually punt the ball back to the Falcons. So the Falcons go on offense. They have a ten play drive cam Binde them nearly had a pick on this drive by the way, couldn't close on it. Taylor, Heineke's gonna give you one or two balls every single game, and you need to take those.
Now.
We did later but early on an opportunity to keep points off the board. Falcons go up eight to three after another young Way cool field goal about midway through the second. Now, second opportunity for Josh Dobbs and this Vikings offense. You heard bumpy before and it only got rockier this time.
Dobbs under deep trump protected.
Okay, Now he scoots away from the pressure and he looks to throw the wall and it came out and it's picked up by Lorenzo Carter inside the ten to the five, stopped at the three yard line. So the Vikings have lost another fumble. The Vikings now have lost eleven pumpholes this year.
The defense down yeah.
Fumbles have been a problem for Josh Dobbs half the season with the Arizona Cardinals. Earlier this year, he had eight lost fumbles, and in just his second possession in Purple he's got one under his belt. Now for us. So Falcons take over. It's first and goal at the one yard line and they have some self destruction to them Atlanta does they immediately get a false start? It's Chris Lnstrom. Now they're backed up to the six yard line. And props to the defense yesterday keeping the Falcons to
field goals instead of touchdowns. You see the final score line thirty one to twenty eight, high scoring game, but the defense stood talk in a few spots, including this one. They keep the Falcons to a young way who field goal inside the five and it's eleven to three late stages of the first half. Now Vikings ball, they're taken over. They need they just a one score game, believe it
or not. As weird does this thing's already been. They go on a thirteen play seventy five yard drive to close the gap, and it doesn't happen without our new QB Joshua Dobbs making plays like this.
This is third and ten from the Falcons thirteen, trailing by eight deep on the first half, left by josh Dobbs, who takes the pratt Berry snap.
Here's a big blitz and Dodds is able to get away from the Blitzer prints out right. Now he gets to the twenty to the fifteen to the.
Ten ef fluid buck by cam Akers and Dops is inside the five. Wow done cam Akers, I mean, I know it's dob doing all the running and the elusive nature of the quarterback first down leads to an eleven yard first down run. How about cam Akers with the assist?
It was a great block by cam Akers, who sadly would leave the game later on with a devastating season ending achilles injury. But he was in the game there making plays and Alexander Madison catches a touchdown pass.
Christian Jackson in motion to the right. kJ Osborne out of the game. Dobbs under center, trailing eleven three play action, boots out to the right. He's looking for Madison, pep pell Madison touchdown.
Leander.
That touchdown comes with less than a minute to go in the half and after the extra point, a lot of people wishing they would have went for two, but the extra point makes it eleven to ten in favor of the Falcons at halftime. Vikings excited, Vikings fans excited. I know, I'm sure the coaching staff was in the locker room trying to continue to give that crash course to Joshua Dobbs on the offense.
Vikings fans are like, all this stuff is happening.
We got injuries. kJ Osborne leaves with a concussion as well. I mentioned Cam Akers who would leave earlier with an even more significant injury.
His team is hurting, and somehow they are very.
Much still in the mix with an opportunity to beat the Atlanta Falcons. But in yesterday, all the cool stuff that you're going to get to hear Joshua Dobbs doing on the field that came with some of the less perfect moments, including.
First possession of the second half.
It is another fumble loss by Joshua Dobbs, giving the Falcons the ball. Young way kup with another field goal on the day after the Vikings defense stands tall, and that's kind of how the third quarter started. You get the fumble from Dobbs, then both teams exchange field goals. The Vikings go on an eight play sixty one yard drive, takes about four or five minutes off the clock. So midway through the third it is fourteen thirteen, so not
a lot has changed there. But then every once in a while with this defense and Brian Flores and how good everything's been going with that defense, when you blitz well, sometimes you can get caught. And John hu Smith caught him.
And for Atlanta six penalties forty two yards. Heinike back to.
Pass girls right taught John hu Smith fifty forty farside twenty touchdown Atlanta a sixty yard touchdown Heynikey Tojhanu Smith and the Falcons have taken a twenty fifteen lead.
Extra point makes it twenty one to thirteen with just under seven minutes to go in the third quarter.
Getting a little sweaty.
Now, Vikings offense responds with the three and out, so you're starting to count the clock.
These weird up and down Falcons have an.
Eight point advantage, and you got Joshua Dobbs still trying to figure out what you actually got in him, and that's where you stand. But Vikings defense a Caleb Evans very first play of the ensuing Falcons possession. After the punt punches that ball out, Josh Mattelis recovers it, and one thing this team's been really good at doing over this four game win streak is turning turnovers into.
Touchdowns, and that's exactly what they do.
Josh Dobbs goes out of the shotgun, puts Brandon powllin motion, poor receivers, dops looks left, shakes the shoulders, gets away from the pressure, right, pumps on a Falcons linebacker, shakes the tackles to fifteen to ten. Just down, Josh Dobbs. Let's go twenty one nineteen Atlanta. It's an eighteen yard touchdown run.
The new kid in town, Shosh tops turnovers into touchdowns. The athleticism of Josh Dobbs to cap off that six play, forty yard drive. Looking at the two point conversion, it's Tristan Jackson.
In the end zone for the two. And it's twenty one twenty one, which is a couple minutes to go in the third quarter. Now it's the defense's turn. Let's force a punt.
Let's get the Vikings offense back on the field, keep this train moving and take the lead. But forget the punt. How about Byron Murphy just takes one away from Taylor Heineke.
John new Smith in motioned to the right, Heinekee back to pass nnerception. There it is we knew what was coming.
Hyron Murphy turns it up to the thirty carside twenty five. Hey's not a pounds at the twenty two yard line and the Minnesota Vikings, in the game tied to twenty one, have all the momentum on this midnight train to Georgia.
Vikings ball deep in Atlanta territory, but the offense gets stuck. Cam Akers, with a nice play to move the chains, gets some inside of the red zone, but then once again, not only is he hurt on this possession, but they are left with another Greg Joseph field goal. Fourteen minutes, eighteen seconds left on the clock, Greg Joseph good from thirty one yards and the Vikings have their lead twenty
four to twenty one. Now fourth quarter teams exchange a couple of punts, but then this was a moment where at some point you thought the Falcons might be able to pull away. They went on a thirteen play seventy nine yard drive, took seven minutes off the clock, and right around the two minute warning, the Falcons grabbed the lead back.
Seconding goal from.
The five for the Atlanta Falcons, Offset I left behind high to keep back through out here he has learning inside the five rinds his way into the m zone. Touchdown and Atlanta Falcons it is Tyler ral Jeer with his third touchdown this season.
And now it's twenty eight twenty four Falcons just over two minutes to go. Vikings have two timeouts left. They have to drive and score a touchdown to win this one one with Joshua Dobbs, Well, how.
Does it all play out?
How about eleven plays seventy five yards that included moments like this from rookie Jordan Addison, josh Dobbs.
With two receivers left and right, Madison to his right, four man rush. Dob steps up, He's gonna fire right and caught at the thirty five by Jordan Addison right next to the sideline, right on Jeffriokuda.
One of the more gorgeous sideline toe tapping catches you're gonna see from anybody, more or less the USC rookie in his seven touchdowns in his first eight and now nine games with the purple big play by Addison, But the moment of the game prior to the go ahead touchdown was a fourth and seven, and once again Joshua Dobbs finding his legs, his feet, and his will to win, carrying him across the finish line.
On fourth and seven at Vanda Blitzers, Dobs, He's gonna be hit as he throws. Can he get away from me?
Yes?
He does now on the right look at the right side, looking down five twenty Dobbs riding to the ten get he cut out of bounds.
Holy cowt With this, Josh Dobbs and a couple of plays later, need to get into the end zone. Clock ticking down, time running out. He finds the former Falcon.
Eleventh play of the sixty nine yard possession, dops back to pass.
On third down, he stays in the pocket, tires.
To the end zone, touchdown. Brandon Powell the further Falcon has Payton Dan Lena Falcons with a six yard touchdown pass crumb.
Josh Dobbs thirty twenty eight Minnesota with twenty seconds.
Ago thirty one to twenty eight Vikings and the Falcons get the ball back waning moments of the game. Heineke heaves it to nobody and the game is over. Vikings win their fourth consecutive game. Joshua Dobbs elevated to legend Slash Superheroes Datus for what he was able to do, including bringing that offense the Vikings on an eleven play game winning touchdown drive. Next segment, as I mentioned, you'll hear from Kevin O'Connell with some updates not only on injuries,
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by Omni Viking Lakes. And I got too excited last segment talking about the game playing a bunch of cool highlights that I didn't leave a ton of time for the Kevin O'Connell press conference from earlier today. So here's KOC offered some injury updates. You heard about the achilles injury ending the season of cam Akers.
Here's KOC on some other updates.
Hey, Ja Osborne and Jaron Hall are both in the concussion protocol, So don't want to get into, you know, the details of symptoms and all those things.
Will allow the medical professionals to.
Help kind of guide the week for both of those guys and what they're available availability looks like kind of moving forward will totally be deemed, you know, in in you know, as far as progressing through that protocol and what's in their best interests medically. And then CD and BA, both guys that kind of weren't available to us yesterday. You know, they'll probably be limited throughout the week and we'll see how they progress, hopefully to get into a place where we have both those guys.
And then t J.
Hockinson did you know, kind of sustain a rib you know, rib midsection kind of injury there, battled through it unbelievable toughness and and and he'll be limited throughout the week, but you know, hopefully we can progress him to have him available as well.
To camps up tear the sam achilles he tore.
A couple of years. No, no, it's I believe it's the other one.
He your plans knowing that it's Jaron's and concussion and are called quarterback to start this week.
And also as the back up.
Yeah, you know, just knowing that Jared's going to be progressing through and coming off of Josh's performance performance yesterday.
Uh, you know, we'll go into it, you know with uh, you know, making.
Sure we get Josh all the reps to start the football game, while also you know, we'll work through what that looks like. Nick Mullens is progressing really well. I do not know yet, uh you know, as far as wind will open or when will potentially open his window and activate him back to help us in some capacity. And then we do have Sean Manyon on the practice squad who would be an option for us to elevate as well.
So we'll see how Jaren works through it.
I want to do what's best for him on long term and at the same time make sure that we're ready to go for Sunday.
You're not looking to bring another quart again again, Yeah, as of right now, you know, unless unless that quarterback could be me.
I you know, as far as the uh, you know, the amount of time and energy will will now put into you know, making sure that you know Josh is ready to roll. Thought what he did was remarkable, but there's a lot of things that you know, we'll coach him through and get him a little bit more comfortable in what we do.
And like I said, Jared will work through it will.
Sean Manyon has always been, you know, ready mentally to to go take on the whole game plan. Sean's been phenomenal since we brought him back in the room with the guys and and Nick Mallens has been in there every single day, you know, regardless of his injury, He's been progressing physically, but mentally, he's been all in this whole entire time.
What does the process look like with Josh, now that you've kind of gotten through the first week and he learned what's on the call sheet?
Do you go back and do a larger install whatever?
How do you handle that?
Yeah, I don't you know, I don't know if it'll be a larger install, But I think we'll figure out what you know, types of concepts and schemes and how we want to marry everything together. We'll figure out what that looks like and then install that game plan, and then there'll be things that we'll want to make sure. There were some things that came up in the game where, you know, reactions to a situation.
Or how I wanted to go fast in certain times.
You know, I just needed him to say the words and then I could explain what they meant after that a couple of times, and he handled that with a ton of grace and execution. So now we'll kind of go back in and fill in some of those gaps and try to help him out a little bit more.
But I think the best thing about what happened yesterday is, uh, he can be very confident in this offense with the players and and people other people in the huddle with them, that he can just progress from here and just continue to stack one day at a time and get more and more comfortable with everything we're asking of him, and and uh, you know, we can shape a game plan around what he does best and which are a lot
of really good things. So it's going to be exciting for our coaching staff and getting to spend a little bit more time with him and him around his teammates, learning everybody's names and making sure.
Uh you know, he's ready to go. Stats.
Yeah, we're working through that. Uh you know, Justin has done a phenomenal job in his rehab. He's still been a part of meetings, he's mentally in it. We'll see as far as I'll give you guys an update on Wednesday, as.
Far as uh, where he's at.
You know, we're still working through that, and it's possible we will open up his window on Wednesday, but we're going to do, you know, what's best for Justin and make sure that we're doing everything responsibly to make sure that when Justin does return, he can be the Justin Jefferson we all know and expect to see out there, and I just credit him for how he's worked through it and through this whole process.
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