 Yeah, how how am I looking? I'm good. I'm solid. Is there a thing we can like put it on? I wish you could see what I'm doing right now. We're gonna talk about it in a minute. I just want to figure it out. You're gonna get tan sanitizer all over your phone. No, we're gonna figure something out. Can you see me? I mean you should stick to football because I don't know if this whole like TV production camera guy thing. I have a box. I have a hand sanitizer station and I have a chair. It's all You need some duct tape, a couple rubber bands and chewing gum and you can make it all work somehow. 33 points down. How are you feeling? Honestly like at halftime I remember I remember just thinking like you know my mom came in to visit this week you know what I mean and uh she's in the stands watching. Um we gotta do something different you know we gotta we gotta we gotta band together you know obviously we knew we knew what the situation was but we had to just really take it. It's cliche but we really had to take it one step at a time you know because uh nothing was gonna get done the way we were doing it the first half. You really did on the field thinking about your mom? I remember I remember just like right the seconds before going into halftime being like damn my mom's here. I gotta fix it. And the Minnesota Vikings have completed the greatest comeback in the history of the national football league. Eric you were really in the post game. I've listened to it several times full of feeling. But that second one man that second one that was so hard to come back to. Are you surprised at how emotionally work? Honestly I'm not. I'm a very emotional person you know what I mean and I'm not really surprised when I look back at it but in the time I feel like I was just so deep into my my thoughts and my feelings and just just my just the joy of you know doing that with my teammates and it was it was a special moment. I know that especially in this league uh wins are hard to come by and you know winning the north is hard to come by. I just wanted to take advantage of it and and make sure that my teammates knew especially the young ones how special this moment really was. What did your mama say? My mom was happy you know obviously we gotta get away when she comes in town. But you know that and that's you know that's what kind of made me emotional about it. I feel like it's you know this is a game that I've played that I've wanted to play since I was a kid and you know just seeing my mom's work ethic growing up and you know me trying to emulate her work ethic and work hard at this sport. You know sometimes that gets overlooked and you know you you work so hard during the week and you and you and you grind with your teammates and you know you put your body through all this and um to sit back and enjoy a win how we just had that's that's that's the really the culmination of everything and that's why I got emotional because I was really just smelling the flower flowers in that moment. Okay so here's the lesson to Kevin O'Connell get your mom to every game because I don't know you know what like if it's like that every game you know maybe she needs to stay sometimes because you know we've been doing good other times. Congratulations NFC North Champion. The first time in five years that Vikings win the NFC North it is hard to win that is a tough division you said that NFL games are hard to play so at this point in your career how important was that to you? It was it was huge you know that was that when we when we set goals at the beginning of season that was the first goal that we set so to say it wasn't it wasn't big deal you know it's a lot you know it definitely was a huge deal but now that we you know we've completed that we've got that we've got that done we need to lock in for the rest of the remainder of the season and um figure out what we got to do you know to to keep to keep this thing rolling. As an NFC North Champion what would you like to say to Aaron Rodgers? To Aaron Rodgers? I don't know maybe just like you know take a look at some of the stuff you may have said earlier. You're just like all the other teams in the NFC North that seems like every single year uh you know I think their fan base and their teams feel like this is our year to win the North hasn't really been the case during my time for the most part. You know I'm not I'm not talking I'm more about that action so. I'm more about that action I love it. I want to talk about your quarterback enough about Aaron Rodgers seven fourth quarter comebacks for cousins who isn't this guy? Man I've said this since we got Kirk on the squad but people love to hate Kirk for some reason and the guy is so he's so tough first of all you know what I mean he's he's mentally very strong uh he goes to the beat of his own drum and that's what I love about him you know the confidence he has uh this year is is amazing and we're all following where he's going. Does he know all the like other people think he's corny or whatever does he know that and just not care and like this because to me I'm like he has to know this and then I think he just sort of feeds into it even more which I love. Yeah I feel like he he embraces every bit of himself and it's not the fact that you know you know um he it's what everyone else thinks no no it's you know he knows who he is in his heart and he's okay with that and that's how I feel like everybody should be. Are you saying that Kirk Cousins 2022 Kirk Cousins NFC North champion Kirk Cousins who he really is is this guy wearing Kirk O'Chanes without a shirt on? No but it's the it's the fact that everybody's like so surprised by it and it's like this is the Kirk we know but it's like he's playing off that and he's just having fun with it I love that part about it. Do you have a new year's resolution you're thinking about? I want to get better at Spanish. Okay how good are you? I said it I said it so I have to like kind of like work towards that now for sure so. I'll hold you to it how do you speak Spanish fluently? No. No do you speak Spanish at all? Paquito. Paqueno. Masa menos. Masa menos yeah exactly. What makes you want to learn? Um I think it's just a great tool to have uh you know obviously I've been I live in California um I was born and raised there so obviously I have a ton of friends who speak Spanish and um I just I just have always wanted to do it and I've never done it so here I am. I love that. And the crowd will go nuts with booze this is a stadium and a team in search of momentum. Minnesota fan base is one of the most tortured fan bases in the NFL. They deserve a win they show up they hit you with that skull chant it literally gives me goosebumps when I see it. Let's get them some wins yeah. No doubt and I think that it really is a testament to our fans especially this last week when we were down like that by that much you know if if we were if we were in the LA if we were in any you know place of other places the stadium would have been a lot you know a lot yes a lot less people in the stadium so our fans stuck it through and they were there to see the see the greatest uh come back in history. Giants weird team streaky never know what you're gonna get sometimes they're great sometimes they're not great but they do I mean they have Daniel Jones in the safe on Barkley those are the two guys what kind of a threat does Daniel Jones pose to. He's a sneaky athlete if things get things get uh sketchy on third down he can he has ability to take off use his legs to his ability as well. Good luck and thank you great job on turning it around and making history and really congrats to your mom because she's the reason it happened that's what I learned here today. Thank thank god for mom. Thank god for you thank you so much thank you for joining us Eric I appreciate you. Appreciate it.