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The Vikings won the coin toss to earn the first overtime possession but ended up punting to the Jaguars.
The game wasn't over, though. Not if "The Hitman" had anything to say about it. On Jacksonville's third play of the extra period, Smith made a diving interception at the Jaguars 46-yard line.
"I think you could point there to Kris Boyd played that route well, which allowed me to not feel much stress, so I think when everybody does their job it makes everybody's job that much – not easy – but it doesn't make it quite as hard," Smith told Twin Cities media members on Monday. "So when you're clicking like that, that's when big plays start coming around. It's never an individual effort; it's always the whole group playing off one another."
The perfectly timed pick put the ball back in the Vikings hands, and Minnesota drove down the field to kick the walk-off field goal.
"It would be nice to have a few games where it doesn't always go down to the wire, because it does tax you over time. That's just human nature – that's reality," Smith said. "But that's where we are. We have a bunch of guys who love to play and love to fight. It is what it is."
As mentioned, Smith's interception wasn't the only one Minnesota recorded on Sunday.