Tight ends David Morgan and Tyler Conklin, two young blue-collar grunts dressing quietly in the shadow of captain Kyle Rudolph's postgame interview scrum, were discussing what was perhaps the best play call of Kevin Stefanski's one-game career as offensive coordinator.
The Vikings faced third-and-1 from their 36 while holding a nervous 24-17 lead late in the third quarter of Sunday's 41-17 win over the Dolphins at U.S. Bank Stadium.
"I bet nobody thought we'd pass there, huh?" Morgan said.
You got that right, bub.
Everyone knows how determined old-school coach Mike Zimmer is to run the football. So determined that he fired new-school offensive coordinator John DeFilippo six days earlier in part because of two final-straw third-and-1 passes he called that failed in the loss at Seattle.
The Vikings probably could have run the ball in that situation. After all, they were playing the 29th-ranked run defense and a team that looked disinterested until quarterback Kirk Cousins woke them up with the year's third pick-six while leading 21-0 early in the second quarter.
It also helped that Morgan returned after missing four games because of a knee injury. Two of his key blocks sealed the edge of the line and allowed Dalvin Cook and Latavius Murray to cut back and score on runs of 13 and 18 yards for that 21-0 lead.
"That's my guy right there," said Cook, who had 136 of the Vikings' 220 yards rushing, the most since they had 263 at Oakland in 2015.