WEBVTT - Minnesota Vikings Podcast: Rookie Pass Rusher D.J Wonnum Talks Offseason Program + Opportunities Ahead Learning From Danielle Hunter | Episode 50 0:00:06.519 --> 0:00:08.200 I didn't know what husband to said, but I had 0:00:08.200 --> 0:00:10.680 a great feeling, you know about coast Pattison know, talking 0:00:10.680 --> 0:00:12.480 with me and leaving to me and telling him it 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:17.160 was like, man like, I got a place for the Vikings. 0:00:16.960 --> 0:00:18.800 The things that I've learned to college and being able 0:00:18.840 --> 0:00:20.680 to you know, learn even more and the pros is 0:00:20.720 --> 0:00:22.159 going to be, you know, a big thing for me. 0:00:22.440 --> 0:00:24.000 How's a lot the stars the limit, you know, and 0:00:24.040 --> 0:00:34.080 I'm excited. I'm ready to get the work. Hey everybody, 0:00:34.200 --> 0:00:37.760 si Amondson here and welcome to episode fifty of the 0:00:38.040 --> 0:00:43.440 Minnesota Vikings Podcast. Fifty we have officially done fifty since 0:00:43.479 --> 0:00:46.040 it became the Minnesota Vikings Podcast. We've got a great 0:00:46.040 --> 0:00:48.080 show for you today. We're gonna talk about some of 0:00:48.080 --> 0:00:53.040 the changes going on pre preseason. Our Chris Corso has 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:56.400 an interview with new defensive end DJ Wantam, and we 0:00:56.520 --> 0:01:00.440 are probably gonna have to dive into the largest contract 0:01:00.480 --> 0:01:05.560 in the history of professional sports. Joining me from Vikings 0:01:05.600 --> 0:01:09.000 dot Com or Chris Corso and Jay Nelson and guys, 0:01:09.440 --> 0:01:13.360 let's start with the news that is relevant to everyone 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:15.800 in the league but also relevant to the Vikings, and 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:20.160 that is that, due to the ongoing COVID pandemic. The 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:23.240 NFL has announced that they are cutting the preseason schedule 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:26.640 from four games down to two. Each team will have 0:01:26.720 --> 0:01:29.160 one away game one home game, which means the Vikings, 0:01:29.680 --> 0:01:32.680 who during that time period had two away games, will 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:34.560 have to have a bit of an altered schedule here. 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:36.320 So we'll have to wait and see what it looks like. 0:01:37.400 --> 0:01:41.280 I think the players Union, you know, from my understanding, 0:01:41.280 --> 0:01:47.280 the players Association, wanted to scrap the entire preseason pandemic aside. 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:50.720 I mean, obviously that's what's driving this, but the preseason 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:54.400 has been a talker for a while. Now. Guys, how 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:58.880 are you feeling again past the obviously, let's be as 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:03.120 safe as possible. How does this change make you feel? Chris? Yeah, 0:02:03.120 --> 0:02:04.960 I think it's kind of like cutting off the dead 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:07.800 fat at this point. I think the players are pretty 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:12.600 excited about only playing two preseason games. I mean, I know, 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:15.840 as just being a part of it. Working wise, by 0:02:15.880 --> 0:02:18.880 the third fourth week, you're kind of like you're ready 0:02:18.919 --> 0:02:22.359 to be done with it. Most teams, including the Vikings 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:24.880 last year, didn't even play any of their starters in 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:27.880 that fourth game in the preseason, so I think it 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:31.400 should be two forever going forward. But we'll see if 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:33.160 they get to in as you As you said with 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:37.360 the NFLPA wanting to have zero preseason games, So I 0:02:37.400 --> 0:02:42.560 am very very excited for this. Hopefully they play the games, 0:02:42.560 --> 0:02:45.080 but I think it's a positive thing for the league 0:02:45.120 --> 0:02:47.720 and for the player's health as well, because when there's 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:50.160 a big injury like I remember Jordy Nelson a few 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:53.040 years ago for the for the Packers, which was good 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:55.240 for the Vikings, but you hate to see guys go 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:58.639 down in the preseason. You might learn some things about 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:01.000 your league. With the NBA, well, they find out that 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:03.840 starting at a different time and finishing at a different 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:07.200 time is better in an effort to grow their fan base, 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:09.800 you know. So with the NFL, I think there's a 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:12.280 lot of questions about this preseason thing. They always happen, 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:14.520 and obviously the players are going to love it. I 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:17.400 think most fans are gonna love it because they are 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:20.200 just ready to get to the football that matters. But 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:22.960 the other side of it is the conversation of the 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:25.760 coaches and the general managers and the team personnel that 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:28.600 are responsible for putting a good product on the field. 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:32.280 And you know, there's been all these proponents of when 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:37.120 training camp changed and the physical nature of offseasons changed, 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:40.760 has that diminished the level of play. I'm not taking 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:42.680 a side on that issue. I'm just saying that's been 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:46.920 a conversation that keeps happening. So now you're losing a 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:50.520 chance to evaluate depth good for some people, bad for others. 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:53.360 And if nothing else, it's something that needs to happen 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:56.360 because of the pandemic, and you could probably use it 0:03:56.400 --> 0:03:59.680 as a real learning experience to see how it affects 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:03.480 the quality of play, because to me, my answer to 0:04:03.640 --> 0:04:08.320 every controversial NFL question is what does it do to 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:11.400 the quality of play? Because you know, I remember a 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:15.000 couple of seasons ago, just throughout the year, for whatever reason, 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:18.479 it was just dud week after dud week after dud week. 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:20.799 And I think that was more coincidence than anything else. 0:04:21.200 --> 0:04:23.960 But you want to see football played at its absolute best, 0:04:24.000 --> 0:04:27.479 because when it is, there's nothing better on the earth. Yeah, 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:29.880 And I think what you're seeing from this stuff now 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:32.240 is that there is a lot of discussion going on 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:36.200 between the league and the players union themselves, just because 0:04:36.279 --> 0:04:38.200 I think the league is kind of saying, Okay, we're 0:04:38.240 --> 0:04:41.520 going to take what your goal was or what your 0:04:41.560 --> 0:04:44.680 wish was into consideration, but we don't have to. There's 0:04:44.720 --> 0:04:47.760 other stuff now that's coming out as far as percentages 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:50.560 and paychecks and other things like that too, now that 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:53.520 there's less games. I mean, I know internally here from 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:55.640 our side, there's a lot of different stuff that goes 0:04:55.640 --> 0:04:57.800 into it, not only from the logistics side, but just 0:04:57.839 --> 0:05:01.880 the business side. And I think, yes, there's been discussion 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:04.920 for a long time about adjusting from four preseason to 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:07.760 three or to two. I on the other hand, at 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:09.440 this point, will kind of raise my hand and say, 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:11.120 if there was ever a time to have a little 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:14.279 bit more preseason, it would be this year, purely because 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:17.160 they haven't had an off season. So as long as 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:20.640 those two weeks of extra time that they have to 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:23.320 work on this stuff instead of games, if they're able 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:27.120 to utilize that to help with practice, great, But at 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:29.320 the same point, if there was ever a time to 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:31.680 get some more live reps with these guys, it might 0:05:31.720 --> 0:05:35.840 be this season. It's just frustrating that the pandemic being 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:38.440 what it is, has been kind of the precursor to 0:05:38.480 --> 0:05:41.279 make this happen. Hopefully there is a silver lining in 0:05:41.320 --> 0:05:44.040 the future that maybe they do learn some beneficial things 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:47.600 moving forward when they have to do negotiations. But for me, 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:50.120 it's just a bummer that we're going to lose more 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:52.880 potential games in football. But you gotta do what you 0:05:52.880 --> 0:05:54.880 got to do at this point. I'm a big fan 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:57.760 of the prove it method. People love to argue, and 0:05:57.800 --> 0:06:00.360 they love to debate, and they love to be right 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:04.400 without any proof. So to me, this is a great 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:06.880 opportunity for the prove it theory. You know, these people 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:10.800 who are saying shorter preseason, no, all these things, Well, 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:13.320 here's your chance. We're gonna see what happens, and we're 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:16.239 gonna see what the football games look like. We're gonna 0:06:16.240 --> 0:06:18.600 get into week four, Week five, Week six, and we're 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:21.600 gonna go, hey, it would be nice to have some 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:24.640 depth right now, and it is very clear that the 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:28.480 lack of offseason preseason is affecting it. Or we're gonna 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:29.839 look at it and we're gonna go, you know what, 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:34.520 We're fine. I think it'll be pretty clear cut. The 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:38.320 great thing about the NFL is coaches are usually pretty 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:42.880 vocal about the things that make their job terribly difficult. 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:45.760 You know, you saw that last year with the past 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:49.960 interference challenges. So if we get halfway into the season 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:54.000 and all these coaches are recognizing what a shortened preseason 0:06:54.040 --> 0:06:56.680 did to their job, I have a feeling we're going 0:06:56.720 --> 0:06:58.760 to hear some of them say it. You definitely start 0:06:58.800 --> 0:07:01.799 to think about players like old BC Johnson who had 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:05.760 just such a great preseason. In those moments, whether it 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:09.159 was towards the end of the preseason and only two games, 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:12.160 that's limited reps for guys like that, limited reps for 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:14.920 the late round draft picks. And when you're the Vikings 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:17.040 and you have fifteen draft picks, you're not going to 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:19.520 be able to see these guys on the field as 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:22.240 much with two less games. But um, I think what 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:24.560 the players want is more practices, and that's that's what 0:07:24.640 --> 0:07:27.840 you see all over Twitter and all over ESPN. So 0:07:28.160 --> 0:07:31.400 they're they're going to have to value those practice reps. 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:33.600 I well, let me let me be selfish for a 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:36.920 second here. Now, the Vikings do have a lot of turnover. 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:38.600 We've talked about it at Ton. They have a lot 0:07:38.600 --> 0:07:41.600 of new names on defense, but they don't have scheme turnover. 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:45.840 You understand, they don't have like leadership turnover. You know, 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:48.280 you had Kirk is still here, Dalvin is still here, 0:07:48.360 --> 0:07:51.200 Theeland is still here, Rudy's still here. On defense, you 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:54.440 got a lot of the leader's bar, Griffin Harrison. There 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:57.280 is leadership and scheme in place here. So when you 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:02.160 when you look at what teams really like, just selfishly 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:05.280 as a Vikings fan for one season, do I think 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:07.600 there are teams that are in even better shape than 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:10.800 we are in terms of continuity and roster overhauled. Yes, 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:13.480 But if you're breaking the league down and where do 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:16.280 the Vikings land, I think you're near the top of 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:19.520 the list, or at least in the top half of continuity, 0:08:19.800 --> 0:08:23.040 and you should be able to walk out and play football. Yeah. 0:08:23.080 --> 0:08:26.440 I think that when it comes to you're talking about 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:28.920 the coaching side and being more vocal, you're talking about 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:30.920 these kind of changes with the players, are talking about 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:36.000 the leadership. We have a set team here as far 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:38.280 as being able to plug and play now. The biggest 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:40.840 question mark has been what's going to happen in the secondary. 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:44.120 And I think as far as we are set when 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:49.479 it comes to defensive line, offensive line, linebackers, wide receivers, quarterbacks, 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:52.719 running backs, we have proven people within our ranks who 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:56.120 can be the leaders on this team. What I'm hoping for, though, 0:08:56.720 --> 0:08:59.040 is that some of the younger guys from last year 0:08:59.120 --> 0:09:01.280 do step up. You do have guys that came back 0:09:01.320 --> 0:09:03.599 from injuries that you're hoping will be those leaders that 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:06.520 can step into some of those senior roles. And it's 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:09.719 gonna have to be a shotgun start for those players 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:12.680 that are new on this team, because man, I really 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:15.680 hope that this past offseason they've been paying attention to 0:09:15.679 --> 0:09:18.320 those playbooks because now they're going to actually have to 0:09:18.320 --> 0:09:20.160 put pen to paper when they walk in the door 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:23.040 and do it almost immediately. The thing that we are 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:25.240 not going to have to wait to see how it 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:31.160 develops for twelve calendar years is Patrick Mahomes's contract situation. 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:39.880 Who lee a ten year nearly if everything comes together 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:46.400 jay five hundred and three million dollar contract. It's an 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:51.280 extension on top of his already two year current existing agreement. 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:57.120 I have ten million thoughts about this, But first I'm 0:09:57.160 --> 0:09:59.839 gonna courso because I tried to ask you a question 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:03.360 about it before the show, and you sounded like an 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:08.120 eighth grader trying to like describe molecular biology. You were like, well, 0:10:08.200 --> 0:10:12.719 because when the thing for he throws it like it 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:14.880 was nonsense. So you and I are going to be 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:17.160 dummies and get out of the way, because Jay, you 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:20.000 explained it better because my first question was like, I 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:22.120 was surprised that none of it was tied to the cap. 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:25.080 There's some interesting triggers. Do you want to kind of 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:29.840 tell us what it looks like? Patrick Mahomes, I think 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:32.360 he's got five hundred and three reasons that he should 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:34.800 be very, very excited right now, and especially for his fas. 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:36.520 I gotta be honest with you, Chris. I want to 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:39.600 apologize to you. When I criticized you and sent it 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:41.719 to Jay, I didn't think he was going to use 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:45.960 the old hackey. Well, there's about five hundred three billion 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:49.760 reasons he's gonna love kids of city jeepers. Jay, what 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:52.800 are you my dad's dad? All right? All right, there's 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:55.160 twelve reasons why he should be excited with the next 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:59.520 twelve years of his career. How about that one, Patrick Mahomes, 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:02.640 at this point is set. Bruce is gonna love that intro. 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:06.359 Keep going. I love Bruce. The thing about this contract 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:09.840 is it is unprecedented. It is the largest American sports 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:13.800 contract on record, five hundred and three million dollars over 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:17.080 the next twelve seasons. Essentially the deal for him as 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:19.880 he's got four hundred and fifty million dollars for the 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:22.240 ten year extension, so that average is about forty five 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:26.240 million a year, another twenty five million in basically escalators 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:29.679 that he can hit on an annual incentive basis, and 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:32.320 then for the next two seasons he's due twenty seven 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:34.839 point sixty three million, so that gets you two year 0:11:35.000 --> 0:11:38.520 roughly almost five hundred and three million dollars. So the 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:42.160 crazy part about it is that technically people are citing 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:45.760 it as a team friendly deal, which is insane to 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:48.680 think about half a billion dollars being a team friendly deal. 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:51.079 But when you're talking about a guy who's twenty four 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:53.560 years old and who's essentially hitting the peak of his career, 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:55.439 he's going to be thirty six when he's done, and 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:58.040 the crazy part is he could actually hit another contract 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:01.360 after that. So the deal is the Chiefs are only 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:04.000 on the hook for sixty three million dollars guaranteed at signing. 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:07.560 There's one hundred and forty one million dollar hook in 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:10.240 case he gets injured that they would have to pay 0:12:10.320 --> 0:12:12.960 him off of this deal. But in general, the team 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:16.319 themselves have an annual year to year basis that they 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:20.560 can choose to honor the contract or choose to cut him, 0:12:20.559 --> 0:12:23.040 and it's a safety valve for them as well, to say, listen, 0:12:23.080 --> 0:12:25.760 as long as this guy is essentially our Tom Brady 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:28.040 for the next twelve years of his career, we're going 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:30.880 to keep hitting this contract year after year after year. 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:33.120 But there is a no trade clause, so their only 0:12:33.120 --> 0:12:35.439 options are either pick up this side of the contract 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:39.000 or cut him. And I think for a guy like 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:41.120 Patrick Mahomes, as young as he is, as talented he is, 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:43.720 and he's the face of the league, five hundred and 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:46.400 three million is a lot of dough. At the same point, 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:49.839 you just go Everybody always thinks those quarterback contracts that 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:52.560 are huge until you get five ten years down the 0:12:52.600 --> 0:12:55.320 road and then say it's actually not that bad. So 0:12:55.400 --> 0:12:58.120 I think, for a guy like Patrick Mahomes, good on him, 0:12:58.200 --> 0:13:00.320 Good on the Chiefs for locking him up. It's going 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:02.400 to be crazy over the next twelve years to see 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:06.120 how this whole thing changes the league in general. So 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:09.600 I looked at it in three ways. I'll tell you them. 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:11.240 From the moment I saw the tweet. Let me tell 0:13:11.280 --> 0:13:13.400 you the three ways the contract hit me. The first 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:16.120 way it hit me was as a fan, and I 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:18.640 thought about how great it would be to be a 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:22.560 fan of a professional football team who just locked up Patrick. 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:26.880 What a golden era to be a Kansas City Chiefs 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:33.360 fan yesterday had to have been amazing. Right then, I 0:13:33.520 --> 0:13:36.640 think of it in terms of an angry fan. I go, 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:40.880 damn it, the Chiefs are going to have Patrick Mahomes 0:13:41.040 --> 0:13:44.520 on a decent deal for the next not decent. It's 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:47.600 obviously a large deal, but a decent deal. Like you said, 0:13:47.640 --> 0:13:50.560 people are saying it's somewhat team friendly. This isn't a 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:55.040 Peyton Manning ruined your salary cap guaranteed situation with the 0:13:55.120 --> 0:13:57.199 Colts that makes it hard to put the rest of 0:13:57.240 --> 0:13:59.520 the team around you. They might have walked that line. 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:03.040 The third way I looked at it was what if 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:06.800 I were Patrick Mahomes And I was looking some stuff 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:09.400 up and I looked up in two thousand and nine, 0:14:09.679 --> 0:14:12.920 the top salary in the NFL for quarterbacks was Peyton 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:18.040 Manning twenty one million dollars. Second was I can't remember 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:19.840 who it was, but it was twenty million, and then 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:23.600 third was Matt Castle at sixteen million. Ten years later, 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:27.360 the top contract in the league is Russ Wilson at 0:14:27.360 --> 0:14:30.640 over thirty million dollars, and you have over sixteen quarterbacks 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:34.320 making nearly over twenty million dollars, which is what Peyton 0:14:34.440 --> 0:14:37.880 was making ten years ago. So with the popularity of 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:41.520 the sport and the unknown of the possibility of growth, 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:44.680 and you don't even know what the media landscape is 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:48.960 gonna look like in four years, Like who knows how 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:52.720 live TV changes and what the NFL does in terms 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:56.360 of putting their events on. Like you could see a 0:14:56.400 --> 0:14:59.640 situation twelve years from now where, like you said, you're 0:14:59.640 --> 0:15:03.280 getting forty fifty sixty million dollars and you could be 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:07.600 worth eighty five ninety. Do I think that'll happen. No, 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:10.960 I think it'll probably follow the trajectory of his contract. 0:15:11.960 --> 0:15:15.520 But if I'm him, I don't know, man, I might, dude, 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:18.120 I might just play. I don't know. It's hard to say. 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:20.680 Half a million, half half a billion dollars is a 0:15:20.760 --> 0:15:23.640 hilarious amount of money. Do you ever think about the 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:27.200 Bears just taking Mitchell Trubisky with the number two pick? 0:15:27.520 --> 0:15:29.880 I mean, you gotta love that. That might have set 0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:33.240 them back twenty years. Yeah, I just said the Bears. 0:15:33.640 --> 0:15:36.360 The Bears dodged a half. I saw somebody tweet that 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:39.720 the Bears dodged a five hundred million dollar bullet. The 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:41.600 funny part for me was that as soon as this 0:15:41.640 --> 0:15:43.160 thing had I have a really good friend of mine 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:46.080 who lives in Denver, and and I just sent him 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:49.320 an image of Emma Stone eating ice cream crying, and 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:51.800 I said, you can send us to your Broncos friends. 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:54.120 Given that they now have to deal with Patrick Mahomes 0:15:54.120 --> 0:15:58.160 for the next twelve seasons in the AFC, I think 0:15:58.280 --> 0:16:02.080 for a lot of team knowing that Patrick Mahomes is 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:05.480 going to be and sitting in their neighbor's yard for 0:16:05.520 --> 0:16:07.760 the next twelve years, it's got to be very daunting. 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:09.960 I for one, him happy he's not in the NFC, 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:13.960 But I think overall, a guy like Patrick Mahomes getting 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:16.120 rewarded at the age that he is, I think it's 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:19.520 smart on all sides to jump on this deal, because 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:21.400 guess what if it gets to a point where it's 0:16:21.440 --> 0:16:24.240 really crazy in the future. I am sure they'd be 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:27.400 willing to renegotiate if need be. But a guy like 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:29.880 Patrick's going to be able to somewhat call his shot 0:16:30.360 --> 0:16:33.280 and do what he needs to do. But for right now, 0:16:33.320 --> 0:16:35.320 I mean, it's a gigantic chunk of money and it 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:37.520 seems like it's going to work for all sides. Yeah, 0:16:37.560 --> 0:16:39.640 that's the interesting thing to me. I think the reason 0:16:39.760 --> 0:16:42.040 that I was surprised it wasn't tied to the salary 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:44.440 cap and I was surprised it was so long is because, 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:47.520 you know, maybe other than Lebron, I just can't think 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:51.320 of an athlete who has even remotely the type of 0:16:51.480 --> 0:16:55.400 leverage that a twenty four year old Super Bowl winning 0:16:55.800 --> 0:17:00.640 MVP quarterback like him. It's just it's nearly an precedented 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:03.600 amount of leverage, is what the man had. I think 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:05.560 he's smart enough to understand that they need to put 0:17:05.600 --> 0:17:08.199 a team around him. But you have to almost believe 0:17:08.440 --> 0:17:13.360 virtually any demand Patrick Mahomes had would be met, because 0:17:13.400 --> 0:17:15.840 if they won't meet it, anyone else in the league would. 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:18.480 It was just an odd amount of leverage. I will 0:17:18.520 --> 0:17:21.159 say that kicker that if he gets injured and his 0:17:21.280 --> 0:17:23.320 career is over, they have to write him one hundred 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:26.080 and forty million dollar check. That would make me pretty 0:17:26.080 --> 0:17:28.879 apt to sign on the dotted line, that's a pretty 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:32.280 good amount of insurance. Yeah, agreed. And I think the 0:17:32.280 --> 0:17:36.240 fact that it's only sixty three million as a signing 0:17:36.280 --> 0:17:39.879 bonus when he starts, I mean in general that number 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:44.600 is minor to any other contract you would typically see. 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:46.879 So you've got that and one hundred and forty one 0:17:46.960 --> 0:17:50.480 million dollar guarantee. I mean, how many quarterbacks have we 0:17:50.560 --> 0:17:53.199 seen kind of boom and bust and have something like 0:17:53.240 --> 0:17:55.160 that happened due to some sort of an injury. I mean, 0:17:55.160 --> 0:17:57.240 we've had a couple of cases here with the Vikings. 0:17:57.600 --> 0:17:59.600 I think for a guy like Patrick, that's a very 0:17:59.600 --> 0:18:03.080 good insurance plan and it's something that again the Chiefs 0:18:03.080 --> 0:18:06.800 are more than willing to put up there. So congrats 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:09.639 to Patrick Mahomes. You can put as much catch up 0:18:09.680 --> 0:18:11.520 on stakes as you want at this point for the 0:18:11.520 --> 0:18:13.960 rest of your career. All right, Well, let's go from 0:18:13.960 --> 0:18:17.359 a guy who got the biggest contract in professional sports 0:18:17.440 --> 0:18:20.480 history to a guy who just got his first contract 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:24.080 the Vikings this year in the fourth round drafted defensive 0:18:24.280 --> 0:18:28.640 end DJ want him out of the University of South Carolinas. 0:18:28.680 --> 0:18:33.560 Somebody I know that a defensive line coach slash co 0:18:33.720 --> 0:18:38.840 defensive coordinator Andrea Patterson, a guy he was really pushing 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:41.040 for in the NFL draft, a guy that he I 0:18:41.119 --> 0:18:43.160 know he really wanted, and we ended up getting him. 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:47.480 A guy who's speed in size kind of and this 0:18:47.560 --> 0:18:49.960 is laughable for me to say this because of the 0:18:50.080 --> 0:18:53.520 weird specimen that Daniel Hunter is, but he's got a 0:18:53.520 --> 0:18:56.879 little bit of that giant statue who runs really fast 0:18:56.920 --> 0:19:00.520 and crushes people vibe to him. Chris got to sit 0:19:00.560 --> 0:19:05.520 down with DJ and kind of get to know him. 0:19:05.760 --> 0:19:08.800 Anything you want to tell us before we run this interview. Yeah, 0:19:08.880 --> 0:19:12.120 I think the biggest thing was he talked about being 0:19:12.160 --> 0:19:16.120 with coach Andre Patterson at the combine and he said, man, 0:19:16.280 --> 0:19:19.800 that conversation was so good that I didn't know one 0:19:19.880 --> 0:19:21.840 hundred percent that I was going to be a Viking, 0:19:21.920 --> 0:19:25.920 but I felt pretty darn good about it. So you'll 0:19:25.960 --> 0:19:28.320 hear a little more detail around that in the interview, 0:19:28.359 --> 0:19:31.399 but that was really cool to hear how confident he 0:19:31.520 --> 0:19:33.280 was that the Vikings were going to select him at 0:19:33.280 --> 0:19:36.560 one point well, and as a staff and a leadership 0:19:36.640 --> 0:19:39.439 group that has put together a good roster since it 0:19:39.600 --> 0:19:42.640 basically came together when Zimmer got here. You know, there 0:19:42.680 --> 0:19:46.240 are very few things I'm more confident in than our 0:19:46.280 --> 0:19:52.960 ability to develop defensive lineman, and so knowing how Andre 0:19:53.080 --> 0:19:56.119 Patterson feels and knowing the buzz about DJ, I'm not 0:19:56.160 --> 0:19:58.760 expecting him to walk out and be a superstar day one. 0:19:59.119 --> 0:20:03.520 But honestly, everybody's everybody's talking about Justin Jefferson, everybody's talking 0:20:03.560 --> 0:20:06.280 about all these draft picks. DJ is the one that 0:20:06.400 --> 0:20:10.320 I am honestly looking the most forward to seeing what 0:20:10.520 --> 0:20:12.760 preseason and the regular season brings for him and what 0:20:12.840 --> 0:20:14.040 kind of player is going to be. So I was 0:20:14.080 --> 0:20:16.800 psyched to see you get this interview. Chris, Uh, let's 0:20:16.880 --> 0:20:22.720 let your other self take it away. This is Chris 0:20:22.760 --> 0:20:28.560 Corso here with the Vikings newest defensive end, Andre Patterson's 0:20:28.600 --> 0:20:31.600 pet cat is How is how we know him? At 0:20:31.640 --> 0:20:34.800 the Vikings Entertainment Network. It's DJ one on the Vikings 0:20:34.880 --> 0:20:37.800 fourth round draft pick out of the University of South Carolina. 0:20:37.880 --> 0:20:40.480 What's going on? Man? It's going home? Man? How you're 0:20:40.720 --> 0:20:42.800 doing a longside to be here? No, you know, give 0:20:42.840 --> 0:20:45.080 a little talk to King's Nation. So how ya do it? 0:20:45.359 --> 0:20:48.080 We're very excited that you're wearing that Vikings purple T 0:20:48.160 --> 0:20:50.919 shirt right now. You must have been pretty excited for 0:20:50.960 --> 0:20:52.800 this interview. Oh yeah, you know, I had to. I 0:20:52.800 --> 0:20:56.080 had to throw it on man, you know, allprop everything. 0:20:56.200 --> 0:20:59.919 So let's get it. So Vikings co defensive coordinator Andre Patters, 0:21:00.040 --> 0:21:02.159 and he is a big fan of yours. I mean, 0:21:02.200 --> 0:21:03.960 one thing that stuck out to me when he spoke 0:21:04.080 --> 0:21:07.000 last week is he said, DJ want him. I have 0:21:07.040 --> 0:21:08.920 a lot of things to teach him, but I can't 0:21:08.960 --> 0:21:12.360 teach these six foot five, two hundred and fifty eight 0:21:12.760 --> 0:21:15.800 pound body that he has. So other than that, he's 0:21:15.800 --> 0:21:19.400