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Minkah Fitzpatrick – December 12, 2018 Download PDF version

Wednesday, December 12, 2018

S Minkah Fitzpatrick

(How often have you seen the play on social media and things like that?) – “I really haven’t been on social media too much, so I haven’t really seen it.”

(You’re not on Instagram or anything? You’re not scrolling by this when you’re looking at pictures?) – “No. I don’t go on there too (much). I haven’t been on there.”

(Did you watch the game on Monday night?) – “The Vikings-Seahawks game? Yeah.”

(What was Seattle able to do? They pretty much shut down that offense.) – “Seattle, they’re doing a good job. I guess it just wasn’t the Vikings’ best game. They have a really good offense – one of the best in the league, honestly. (Kirk) Cousins is Top 10 in almost all quarterback categories. The two receivers (Stefon Diggs and Adam Thielen) are the same exact thing. Top 10 in almost all categories. Seattle just played great defense. They were flying around out there, having fun. (Bobby) Wagner, he’s a ball hawk. He leads that team very well. I’d say they just went out there, decided just to fly around, play with a chip on their shoulder and just fought the whole game.”

(Was that kind of shocking?) – “No. I mean (when) you have two great teams like that go together, you don’t know what to expect. It happens. You kind of don’t know what to expect.”

(Do emotions play a role in this game Sunday considering where the Vikings are at and where you guys are at? Win and you continue to stay in for a shot at the playoffs.) – “Emotions as in what?”

(As in you know what’s on the line. Both teams know what’s on the line.) – “I wouldn’t say emotions. We try to play football with that emotion. It’s a game where you just have to do everything that you have to do to win. We were talking earlier in the team meeting room and coach said ‘You have to start doing things that you’ve never done before.’ That’s something that’s really true, especially with myself because I’m a rookie. I’ve never had to prepare for this long of a season. If we keep winning, we’re going to have to play five, six playoff games basically because every single game for us, from two weeks before all the way to the last game, have been basically playoff games for us. I think these type of games, you just have to go out there and just really focus on what you have to do to win a game. The emotions, you can’t really rely on them too much in this game; but you can definitely use it as motivation. Just go out there, play with passion and that’s it.”

(RB Frank Gore said it almost feels like March Madness.) – “Yeah. Everybody is all over the place. One week they’re up here and the next week they’re down here. That’s definitely true.”

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