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Speaker 2: In the twenty twenty three NFL Draft, the Minnesota Vikings

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Speaker 2: select you asked for it, and You're getting it. Defensive

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Speaker 3: Blackman Night two.

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Speaker 1: Rounds two and three now complete in the twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: three NFL Draft.

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Speaker 3: I'm Tatum Everett. This is the Minnesota Vikings Podcast.

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Speaker 1: I'm alongside Jay Nelson, producer Eric Davidson, and on the

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Speaker 1: phone we have Pete Bursich, Vikings color analysts, and I mean, guys,

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Speaker 1: this was a you know, you knew it was gonna

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Speaker 1: be a late round pick. You knew we were gonna

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Speaker 1: be up a little layer than normal, right waiting for

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Speaker 1: this to happen, But to trade back for the last

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Speaker 1: pick feel like it was deja.

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Speaker 3: Vu from last year.

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Speaker 1: So the Vikings had eighty seventh pick in the third round,

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Speaker 1: or number eighty seventh overall in the third round, and

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Speaker 1: they traded that to the forty nine ers. They received

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Speaker 1: the one hundred and second pick overall, which is the

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Speaker 1: final pick in the third round and they received a

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Speaker 1: fifth rounder and a seventh rounder, so they made five

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Speaker 1: picks into seven by just moving down fifteen slots. Pete,

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Speaker 1: what do you think of the move?

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Speaker 4: You know, you still got It's hard to say, right,

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Speaker 4: it's hard to say. It's hard to say. You know,

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Speaker 4: if he was the number one guy on the board,

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Speaker 4: that's a direction that you wanted to go, was cornerback,

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Speaker 4: then that was a good move because obviously since no

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Speaker 4: one was chosen from that position group, you got the

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Speaker 4: guy you still wanted and you managed to pick up

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Speaker 4: two additional draft picks. So small victory. You know, you

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Speaker 4: still confined guys this late that that are going to

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Speaker 4: we'll see. So I'm not a I can't complain. It's

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Speaker 4: not not a bad move.

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Speaker 5: And had mentioned for him, you know, he this was

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Speaker 5: and they felt fortunate to be able to get him

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Speaker 5: at the end of the third I think, you know,

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Speaker 5: one of the things with with this pick here, Pete,

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Speaker 5: is you know, being able to pick up another cornerback

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Speaker 5: after we had such a turnover this offseason of cornerbacks.

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Speaker 5: You know, how do you feel like, is this a

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Speaker 5: a position of need and that it kind of fit

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Speaker 4: Well, no, I mean if there's a if there is

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Speaker 4: know who's I think one of the best, one of

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Speaker 4: man demand style cover corner that this team's hadn't quite

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Speaker 4: he's still counting on Andrew Booth being part of it.

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Speaker 4: And so for a guy like you know, Mikai Blackman,

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Speaker 4: he's got a really good opportunity to come in here

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Speaker 4: the nickel defender, which I would assume that's what they're trying,

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Speaker 4: that's what they're going to do with this guy. You know,

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Speaker 4: you're are still getting the guy who's gonna be on

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Speaker 4: the field seventy percent of the time, right, sixty percent

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Speaker 4: need bodies at the cornerback position. You know, I'm not

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Speaker 5: I think part of that too, Pete, is, you know,

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Speaker 4: I would be willing to bet you if you just

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Speaker 4: You're seeing urgence of all this seven on seven you know,

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Speaker 1: So he's obviously a teammate of the first round draft

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Speaker 1: He ranked as one of the top man coverage corners

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Speaker 4: And let me let me point to something else too.

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Speaker 4: the best cornerbacks in college you go out and run

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Speaker 4: Mind you you're you're sliding out of the first round,

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Speaker 4: And you know it's hard because again, you don't you

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Speaker 4: That's the way it is. Now. One thing I found

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Speaker 4: But you look again at Blackman and if he's gonna

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Speaker 4: questions about blackmen, you know what I mean, just trying

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Speaker 4: Anything else we should know, you know, it's common in interviews.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, he was here for a top thirty

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Speaker 4: You it's like you when you ask somebody about a teammate,

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Speaker 4: you know if they're just you know, given the corporate line,

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Speaker 4: I've asked you Tatum a dozen times what you think

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Speaker 6: Extremely I'm really really excited. Uh you know, I've seen

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Speaker 6: you know, a B and a Caleb. They're putting in

433
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Speaker 6: the work, And obviously Murphy's got you know, you know,

434
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Speaker 6: a resume to his name and obviously signed Joe one,

435
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Speaker 6: and then we got obviously Makaia added that group and

436
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Speaker 6: tomorrow's not done. We're just really excited the flexibility that

437
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Speaker 6: you know Mackai brings inside and out. Ab could potentially

438
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Speaker 6: bring inside and out a Caleb I think showed a

439
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Speaker 6: lot and as minimum time playing last season. So excited

440
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Speaker 6: about that group. And ultimately they're unknowns and you know,

441
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Speaker 6: and that's what football is, taking chances and seeing what

442
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Speaker 6: they are. And I think we got great coaches in

443
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Speaker 6: a great process to develop them.

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Speaker 10: And tell who got.

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Speaker 6: It's funny, I asked, because they were there, they were here.

446
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Speaker 6: I don't know if it's the same.

447
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Speaker 10: There with that.

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Speaker 6: Obviously they both say each other. keV told him who's

449
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Speaker 6: gonna win one on ones? I just can't wait to

450
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Speaker 6: see it. I know they're competitive. I've I've talked to

451
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Speaker 6: their coaches there about how their practices are excited to

452
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Speaker 6: get them. They're both incredibly insynctive players and they're going

453
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Speaker 6: to make everybody else around them better.

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Speaker 4: Crazy.

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Speaker 11: Did did McKai take a big step forward when he

456
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Speaker 11: went to USC? You see something there?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 6: I think so. You know, obviously there's always a growth

459
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Speaker 6: curve for players, but I think a lot of it was,

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Speaker 6: you know, he got to you go to a program

461
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Speaker 6: that maybe wasn't as successful and you go to USC,

462
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Speaker 6: where they were in a national title, you know, competition

463
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Speaker 6: the whole year. So playing with that urgency, that every

464
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Speaker 6: game mattering thing. I think, you know, something he spoke

465
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Speaker 6: about really you know, being important to him and obviously

466
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Speaker 6: getting going against a player like you know addits in

467
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Speaker 6: every day of practice and playing against Caleb Williams and

468
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Speaker 6: all those things certainly helped his maturity.

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Speaker 10: Much did did you and be flu like talk about

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Speaker 10: this position group and how much maybe did you learn

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Speaker 10: from these conversations about what he sees?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's you know, every one of those meetings that

473
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Speaker 6: he's in, he's first a really good evaluator just so

474
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Speaker 6: he's really understands the language helps you see the player.

475
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Speaker 6: But then second he'll finish with how we're going to

476
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Speaker 6: use them, how in this situation. Things he looks for

477
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Speaker 6: And you know, anybody who's watched his defense knows he

478
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Speaker 6: likes versatility, different pieces he can move around, and we

479
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Speaker 6: think Mackay has you know, inside outside flexibility and ultimately

480
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Speaker 6: at that position, just want people who can cover. That's

481
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Speaker 6: that's the main point of the job and and that

482
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Speaker 6: somebody can do that.

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Speaker 7: How do you, I guess, identify when someone can play

484
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Speaker 7: that nickel because it does have very different responsibilities from

485
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Speaker 7: playing outside.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think a lot of times you're projecting, right,

487
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Speaker 6: So there's it's like a running back with routes. A

488
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Speaker 6: lot of times in college you don't get to see

489
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Speaker 6: them run the whole roudree, so you got to project

490
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Speaker 6: it on a couple of cuts, and it's it's not

491
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Speaker 6: easy obviously. So in you know, for a nickel, maybe

492
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Speaker 6: you try and see when they go against a cut

493
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Speaker 6: split where it's more like a nickel rep or versus

494
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Speaker 6: certain quick guys that you maybe know have Nickel type

495
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Speaker 6: of sorry slot receivers type ability. Then from then it's

496
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Speaker 6: really its feed. It's competitiveness inside. You know, you got

497
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Speaker 6: to get in the run fit, they got to be willing.

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Speaker 6: It's a lot of different things, and yeah, ultimately you're projecting,

499
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Speaker 6: but it's something that we feel confident that they have

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Speaker 6: the traits to be able to do it.

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Speaker 7: Your high picks two years have been from four football

502
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Speaker 7: schools that.

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Speaker 6: I think that's there's no variables there, just you know,

504
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Speaker 6: we we have a process with our film, We've a

505
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Speaker 6: processed with our combine information, our character reports, all those things,

506
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Speaker 6: and you know, you can your first two picks of

507
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Speaker 6: me from the same team, and there's some odds that

508
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Speaker 6: that happens, and I doubt that would happen again, but

509
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Speaker 6: we'll see. You'll never know.

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Speaker 1: That was Vikings general manager Quasi Doofamensa, who we hear

511
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Speaker 1: from after every round, talking about Makai Blackman, whose teammate

512
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Speaker 1: is Jordan Adison. Who would have thought two Trojans and

513
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Speaker 1: the first two picks of the twenty twenty three draft

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Speaker 1: of the Vikings. I, for.

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Speaker 5: One, I'm looking forward to seeing these guys battle because

516
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Speaker 5: I'm sure last year was really interesting in practice and

517
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Speaker 5: I know that. Guys last night after we got Addison,

518
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Speaker 5: we're already chirping a little bit on social media saying,

519
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Speaker 5: you know, practice is going to be fun, and I

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Speaker 5: think now having two guys that are very familiar to

521
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Speaker 5: each other shown up to the same building, it's probably

522
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Speaker 5: gonna be really fun in practice.

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Speaker 4: Think about this, guys, I mean, you you sent scouts,

524
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Speaker 4: We're all over the country. Think about the world, think yeah,

525
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Speaker 4: think about the you know, the air miles that Ziggy

526
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Speaker 4: could have saved on you know what, you could have

527
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Speaker 4: sent two dudes out the Southern cow Yeah, we'd you know,

528
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Speaker 4: we'd be in the same spot.

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Speaker 3: So whatever, that's too funny.

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Speaker 4: Whatever.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, the West Coast Scouts were busy this season,

532
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Speaker 1: weren't they.

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Speaker 4: Yea, and yeah, apparently they were all hanging out at

534
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Speaker 4: the Los Angeles area.

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Speaker 1: It's sunny there, it's sunny and warm. I think I

536
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Speaker 1: might have done that myself. But we did welcome Jordan

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Speaker 1: Addison to Egan earlier today as well. He had his

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Speaker 1: introductory press conference. There's a one on one with Gabe

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Speaker 1: Henderson on Vikings dot com right now, and so let's

540
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Speaker 1: hear a little bit from his press conference with the

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Speaker 1: Minnesota media.

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Speaker 9: I just want to thank the whole Vikings organization, top down,

543
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Speaker 9: Kevin and Quacy just for making this childhood dream that

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Speaker 9: I had come true. So thank you guys for that.

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Speaker 9: And then I just wanted to thank my family for

546
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Speaker 9: just being with me every step of the way. It's

547
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Speaker 9: been a long journey, lots of ups and downs, but

548
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Speaker 9: you guys always been with me. So I just wanted

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Speaker 9: to shout out to fan for that. Any question, thank you.

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Speaker 12: About Justin Jefferson, Dre Cousins, and you know, do you

551
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Speaker 12: know a lot about the Vikings offense. I'm sure you

552
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Speaker 12: learned a lot in the last four hours.

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Speaker 9: Oh, I've seen a lot, you know, I'll watched them

554
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Speaker 9: a lot throughout the season and then just coming here

555
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Speaker 9: on my thirty day visit and just seeing how they

556
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Speaker 9: use their pieces, get their playmakers a ball and just

557
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Speaker 9: move all the receivers around, let them run there, let

558
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Speaker 9: them runner a lot of different routes. So just as

559
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Speaker 9: a receiver coming in, that's what you want to see.

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Speaker 4: Jordan, What was that?

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Speaker 11: What was that top thirty visit like from your perspective?

562
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Speaker 11: What stuck out about that day to you as you

563
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Speaker 11: were here?

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Speaker 9: Just the energy in the room, walking around, meeting a

565
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Speaker 9: l meeting everybody and just seeing how everybody just being themselves.

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Speaker 7: Jordan, what was your motivation, uh, transferring from pitt to

567
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Speaker 7: USC and and at that point did you have a

568
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Speaker 7: feeling you might be entering the draft of the stage right?

569
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Speaker 9: So that was just a gut feeling that I had

570
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Speaker 9: to go with a lot of coaching staff changes at

571
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Speaker 9: Pittsburgh the University of Pittsburgh, and I just went with

572
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Speaker 9: my gut feeling and stuck with it.

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Speaker 10: So what was the hardest part for you about tating

574
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Speaker 10: schools after having been there? And doing what you you

575
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Speaker 10: did do at Pittsford.

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Speaker 9: I say the hardest part was just going through that

577
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Speaker 9: transfer portal and then all the backlash that I was

578
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Speaker 9: getting from you know, the previous team that I left,

579
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Speaker 9: and just a lot of different fans media, So that

580
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Speaker 9: was just the toughest part.

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Speaker 10: Nothing, No, Jordan, Do you have any former collegiate teammates

582
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Speaker 10: in the league now that you've talked to kind of

583
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Speaker 10: give you an idea of what to expect now that

584
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Speaker 10: you're in the league and what have they told you?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 9: I talked to Kenny Pickott a little bit and DJ Turning,

587
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Speaker 9: those two guys in the league that I played with.

588
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Speaker 9: But the main thing that they told me was just

589
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Speaker 9: surround yourself, run a good group of people, remain being

590
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Speaker 9: yourself because I'm what God, you know, just be myself

591
00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:20,320
Speaker 9: because that's what you know got me here. But just

592
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Speaker 9: finding my routine and just attacking every day with that

593
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Speaker 9: same mindset.

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Speaker 5: I read the Notre Dame.

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Speaker 11: It looked at you as a corner going out of

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Speaker 11: high school.

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Speaker 10: Did you ever actually consider that?

598
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Speaker 9: Nah? I ain't never considered that. Well, I did, but

599
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Speaker 9: my brother had told me, like, you need the ball

600
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Speaker 9: in your hands, So I just stuck with the offensive side,

601
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Speaker 9: and I'm happy to say they paid off.

602
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Speaker 11: Or whether it was like it's playing corner playing quarterback

603
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Speaker 11: in high school? What has that done for you as

604
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Speaker 11: a receiver, just learning how to diagnose coverages as the.

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Speaker 9: Quarterback, it just showed me, like to look at the

606
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Speaker 9: bigger picture, so all on the offensive standpoint, just knowing

607
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Speaker 9: what every guy does and not just one position, so

608
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Speaker 9: x y z H. Just learning that whole concept, and

609
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Speaker 9: then it just makes it easier for me because I

610
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Speaker 9: know where everybody is supposed to be at when and

611
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Speaker 9: how much time I got in my route.

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Speaker 12: Dude, you're the biggest guy in the draft for the

613
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Speaker 12: biggest receiver. Do they try to get physical with you

614
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Speaker 12: a lot? Is that something you have from negator? Is

615
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Speaker 12: that something that's going to be a learning curve.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, that's something that a lot of people try to

617
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Speaker 9: do just just looking at me, eyeing me up from

618
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Speaker 9: the first point. But I just try to make use

619
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Speaker 9: that as their weakness. So some people just try to

620
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Speaker 9: get over aggressive, and I just use that to my advantage.

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Speaker 8: Obviously, you mentioned watching JJ and the Vikings last year,

622
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Speaker 8: but when you think about the history of the vikings

623
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Speaker 8: at receiver kind of what do you know?

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Speaker 9: Over over time, it's just really a prestigious place for receivers,

625
00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:49,120
Speaker 9: y'all know, for having more than one great receiver. And

626
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Speaker 9: then I'm just glad I get to add to this

627
00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:52,440
Speaker 9: great receiver room that you already got.

628
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Speaker 7: Jordan, when it comes to creating separation, seems like that's

629
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Speaker 7: your biggest strength. I guess, how do you master or

630
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Speaker 7: how have you worked to master the route running techniques

631
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Speaker 7: to create separation? Cause that's kind of the biggest thing

632
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Speaker 7: that wins in.

633
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Speaker 9: The NFL, really just taking pride in it and having

634
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Speaker 9: fun with it. So when I run in my ross,

635
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Speaker 9: I like to look at it like I'm an artist

636
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Speaker 9: and I'm going out there paying pictures. So I just

637
00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:18,040
Speaker 9: fell in love with the craft, and I feel like

638
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Speaker 9: that's what helped me succeed.

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Speaker 10: You said you watched the back of flat last year

640
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Speaker 10: with your impression of Kirk as a quarterback, and now

641
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Speaker 10: that he's gonna be the guy.

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Speaker 9: Just how he can make plays with his arms. You know,

643
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Speaker 9: you accurate, does a good job anticipating throws, and then

644
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Speaker 9: you know he feeds all his receivers and gets playmakers

645
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Speaker 9: a ball you.

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Speaker 11: Kind of just take us through last night, just the

647
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Speaker 11: whole moment leading up to getting a phone call and

648
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Speaker 11: just the realization with family and friends around what that moment.

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Speaker 4: Is like for you.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, that moment was crazy. I'm glad I came to

651
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Speaker 9: the draft to experience it, but just waiting on that call,

652
00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:51,800
Speaker 9: I had a lot of emotions of going through my body.

653
00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:54,040
Speaker 9: But once I finally got it, I was really excited.

654
00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:56,600
Speaker 9: Just seeing my family smile, jump up and down and

655
00:30:56,720 --> 00:30:59,680
Speaker 9: just it was just a special moment celebrating it with them.

656
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:01,960
Speaker 3: What was it like realizing it was Minnesota?

657
00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:05,640
Speaker 9: It was crazy cause this was my last thirty day visit.

658
00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:07,240
Speaker 9: The last time I was on a visit. I was

659
00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:09,240
Speaker 9: here and they told me if I'm on that board,

660
00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:11,520
Speaker 9: they gonna grab me. So once Minnesota came up, I

661
00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:14,200
Speaker 9: just kept checking my phone. Last two minutes came down

662
00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:16,760
Speaker 9: they called me. So just excited for that.

663
00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:19,680
Speaker 10: Did did any other team in your the top thirty visits?

664
00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:21,440
Speaker 10: I'm not don't know how many you made, but did

665
00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:23,600
Speaker 10: anybody else kind of leave you with that impression that

666
00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:26,440
Speaker 10: you may get you know, if you're there and they'll drafting.

667
00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:28,960
Speaker 9: Yeah, they said that, but they ain't stick to they word.

668
00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:30,800
Speaker 9: So I'm glad to be a Viking.

669
00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:33,880
Speaker 10: How many how many teams probably did.

670
00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:36,880
Speaker 9: That, all of 'em really, but this the one that

671
00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:39,200
Speaker 9: this one I'm supposed to be at. They believe in me,

672
00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:40,560
Speaker 9: and I'm just glad to be here.

673
00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:41,400
Speaker 4: There.

674
00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:43,880
Speaker 10: Who all of your family was there last night at the.

675
00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:44,320
Speaker 4: Draft with.

676
00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:46,200
Speaker 7: Uh?

677
00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:50,080
Speaker 9: My siblings? Was there? Mom and dad, grandparents? We had

678
00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:50,960
Speaker 9: a pretty big crowd.

679
00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:53,040
Speaker 4: It was fun. Remember one of the.

680
00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:57,000
Speaker 10: Main reasons why you're ready to play tribute like.

681
00:31:57,120 --> 00:31:59,959
Speaker 9: Right away, cause just my confidence and I'm willing to come.

682
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:02,240
Speaker 9: I'm here and work every day like I'm happy coming

683
00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:05,240
Speaker 9: into the building, studying and extractate and just being around

684
00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:06,320
Speaker 9: of guys.

685
00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:10,040
Speaker 12: They've got Jefferson, Osborne, they pick up Hockinson. You know,

686
00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:13,400
Speaker 12: they've got a lot of tools. Does that excite you

687
00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:15,320
Speaker 12: or do you see a role for yourself?

688
00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:16,800
Speaker 8: I mean, have you identified that?

689
00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:19,520
Speaker 9: So the role for me, I'll just lead that up

690
00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:21,320
Speaker 9: to the coaches and make sure that when I come

691
00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:23,480
Speaker 9: in here, i can run routes all day and I'm

692
00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:26,600
Speaker 9: ready to work. But just coming into a great receiver

693
00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:29,040
Speaker 9: group as a as a young receiver or a young rookie,

694
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:31,480
Speaker 9: that's what you want. You know a lot of great

695
00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:33,440
Speaker 9: receivers that are already proven themselves that I could go

696
00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:36,120
Speaker 9: learn from Jordan.

697
00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:39,040
Speaker 8: You describe kind of the arches street that goes into everything,

698
00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:41,200
Speaker 8: and then your brother say, you need the ball in

699
00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:43,760
Speaker 8: your hands. But how much happens before the ball actually

700
00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:46,440
Speaker 8: gets there and how much emphasis do you put on

701
00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:48,280
Speaker 8: those aspects of the game?

702
00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:51,000
Speaker 9: Right, Well, a lot happens goes and going into that.

703
00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:53,680
Speaker 9: You know, first you got to get off the line

704
00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:56,200
Speaker 9: of scrimmage and then you got to win your route.

705
00:32:56,280 --> 00:32:58,840
Speaker 9: So it's just a lot more that goes into it

706
00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:02,200
Speaker 9: that people don't really understand. But I take pride in everything,

707
00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:05,240
Speaker 9: every little detail about being a receiver, and I love it.

708
00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:08,760
Speaker 5: How did you start looking at route running like arts?

709
00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:11,240
Speaker 4: When did that come up for you?

710
00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:14,040
Speaker 9: When I got in high school, so I l I

711
00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:17,280
Speaker 9: I started watching I was well Stefan Diggs from around

712
00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:19,040
Speaker 9: my area, so he was just he was a top

713
00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:21,600
Speaker 9: receiver coming out of coming out of Maryland, and just

714
00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:24,680
Speaker 9: the way he ran routes and his mindset about everything

715
00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:26,920
Speaker 9: just kind of shifted my perspective. Cause I was a

716
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:29,160
Speaker 9: quarterback at first, So coming out of uth League, I

717
00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:31,760
Speaker 9: played quarterback and then I started looking up to them guys,

718
00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:33,680
Speaker 9: and then that's when I switched my positions to receiver

719
00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:35,920
Speaker 9: in high school, and then I never looked back.

720
00:33:37,120 --> 00:33:39,320
Speaker 1: Jordan, you talked about fulfilling a childhood dream.

721
00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:42,000
Speaker 7: I'm just curious kind of at what age did you

722
00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:44,920
Speaker 7: really get into football and kind of, you know, how

723
00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:45,960
Speaker 7: did you envision.

724
00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:46,840
Speaker 3: Being in the NFL one day.

725
00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:48,840
Speaker 9: I was five years old when I visited it, cause

726
00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:50,600
Speaker 9: I went I wanted to play since when I was

727
00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:53,080
Speaker 9: when I was three, but my mom used to always

728
00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:55,240
Speaker 9: tell me I had to wait a couple of years

729
00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:56,800
Speaker 9: to play. So when I was three, she told me

730
00:33:56,840 --> 00:33:59,400
Speaker 9: wait next year. So then when I turned four, I'm like, mam,

731
00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:01,400
Speaker 9: you told me wait next year, and then she said

732
00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:03,040
Speaker 9: it again. I'm like, you told me that last year,

733
00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:04,680
Speaker 9: and then she broke it down. See me like, I

734
00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:07,280
Speaker 9: had to be five. So once I once I put

735
00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:08,480
Speaker 9: them pads on, it was over with.

736
00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:11,440
Speaker 7: Who were some of the players when you were growing

737
00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:13,160
Speaker 7: up that you really enjoyed watching?

738
00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:15,400
Speaker 9: Michael Vick, Ohdale Beckham.

739
00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:18,319
Speaker 10: Are you comfortable playing in the NFL this weight or

740
00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:20,080
Speaker 10: if you told you need to add add.

741
00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:20,359
Speaker 4: A little bit.

742
00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:23,759
Speaker 9: I'm comfortable at this weight, but I feel like all

743
00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:25,200
Speaker 9: I need to do is just get stronger.

744
00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:26,919
Speaker 3: All right.

745
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:30,640
Speaker 1: That was new Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Jordan Addison, the

746
00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:33,399
Speaker 1: first round draft pick this season. And Pete, you were

747
00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:36,600
Speaker 1: at the pressor what did you like about what he said?

748
00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:38,200
Speaker 1: It was there anything that's stuck out?

749
00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:41,279
Speaker 4: I liked his intensity, you know, I mean when when

750
00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:43,000
Speaker 4: someone asked him a question, he would look him in

751
00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:46,520
Speaker 4: the eye. You know, he didn't he didn't say too much,

752
00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:49,319
Speaker 4: which is hard, right, if you're up there and you're

753
00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:51,960
Speaker 4: being asked questions, it's hard not to just ramble on.

754
00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:55,120
Speaker 4: He just answered the question and moved on right when

755
00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:59,400
Speaker 4: he was done, he and yeah, he's got a And

756
00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:03,520
Speaker 4: I encourage, you know, anyone to anyone listening to watch

757
00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:08,040
Speaker 4: the interview with Gabe because he's he's a funny dude.

758
00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:11,319
Speaker 4: He's got a he's really I think what I think

759
00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:15,560
Speaker 4: is a really dry but great sense of humor, you

760
00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:18,480
Speaker 4: know what I mean. And so that you know, because

761
00:35:18,719 --> 00:35:20,799
Speaker 4: I know in the media room everybody was kind of like,

762
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:23,440
Speaker 4: all right, you know, trying to pry in for me.

763
00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:27,279
Speaker 4: He's not justin Jefferson, right, JJ's got the smile and

764
00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:31,399
Speaker 4: you know that way about right, you know that way

765
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:33,960
Speaker 4: about him, and then this guy is just like yep, nope,

766
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:38,160
Speaker 4: you know, just just real and you kind of look

767
00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:42,839
Speaker 4: and go, okay, that's that's interesting. And then but then

768
00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:45,040
Speaker 4: you see him, you know, on the one on ones

769
00:35:45,080 --> 00:35:47,279
Speaker 4: and talking about him growing up as a kid and

770
00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:51,439
Speaker 4: you know, fighting over you're not fighting over, but having

771
00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:53,920
Speaker 4: a weight in line with his brothers to play video games,

772
00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:56,680
Speaker 4: and you know, he's like, yeah, you better be good

773
00:35:56,680 --> 00:35:58,440
Speaker 4: and you better win because if you don't need to

774
00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:00,719
Speaker 4: be sitting out again waiting for your X turn, which

775
00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:04,080
Speaker 4: could be a long It just it was good to

776
00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:06,720
Speaker 4: just get to see him in a couple of different

777
00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:10,680
Speaker 4: areas or different ways. But you know, he does seem like, yeah,

778
00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:11,360
Speaker 4: I wanted.

779
00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:13,239
Speaker 1: To see the guy that was in the floral pink

780
00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:16,239
Speaker 1: suit with the billion dollar bills on the inside of it.

781
00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:17,480
Speaker 3: But where's that guy?

782
00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:20,640
Speaker 4: Right? But that's exactly that's kind of like you're like, okay,

783
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:23,560
Speaker 4: you know you saw that outphait and you're expecting, Okay,

784
00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:28,279
Speaker 4: he's a wide receiver, right, He's gave it away and

785
00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:32,320
Speaker 4: he was all business like, and I'm like, okay, you

786
00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:34,879
Speaker 4: know what he's it's a puzzle. It's kind of That's

787
00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:37,520
Speaker 4: what scouts do, right. That's the fun part of scouting,

788
00:36:37,560 --> 00:36:40,719
Speaker 4: I think is you get to do that. You talk

789
00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:42,919
Speaker 4: to him and you see him in different you watch

790
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:45,080
Speaker 4: me on the scouts. I'll watch these guys and how

791
00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:47,800
Speaker 4: they are and not just during the snap at the

792
00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:49,879
Speaker 4: Senior Bowl, but how are they in their meeting room,

793
00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:52,600
Speaker 4: and how are they on the field and how you know,

794
00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:55,200
Speaker 4: what are they doing during warm up? So they you know,

795
00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:58,239
Speaker 4: they screwing around or are they you know serious and

796
00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:00,920
Speaker 4: you know they good teammates and for you know, a

797
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:04,120
Speaker 4: million and one little details and you pile them all

798
00:37:04,120 --> 00:37:06,760
Speaker 4: together and you try to, you know, paint a picture

799
00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:09,040
Speaker 4: of what you're trying to get and whether or not

800
00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:13,239
Speaker 4: they'll fit. So yeah, it's it's a lot of work

801
00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:15,759
Speaker 4: for it's a lot of work for that if you

802
00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:18,759
Speaker 4: know when that goes into all these guys. But I

803
00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:21,120
Speaker 4: really liked I like thatison, you know, I like them

804
00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:23,920
Speaker 4: on film even more too. I think he's he can

805
00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:26,600
Speaker 4: get he can create separation. Man, he's he's I think

806
00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:28,880
Speaker 4: he's going to be, you know, a good ad for

807
00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:32,200
Speaker 4: this team. He's going to be pretty productive. I think

808
00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:35,600
Speaker 4: I expect him to be very productive. I think this kid,

809
00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:38,759
Speaker 4: Addison can can beat somebody one on one. He can

810
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:41,560
Speaker 4: beat man coverage, you can create that space and separation,

811
00:37:41,719 --> 00:37:44,520
Speaker 4: and he catches almost everything that goes his way. So

812
00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:47,759
Speaker 4: I just think this kid's going to be a you know,

813
00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:50,840
Speaker 4: there's a lot of offensive talent now, right, He's not

814
00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:53,160
Speaker 4: going to be getting one hundred catches a year, but

815
00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:56,520
Speaker 4: I do think he's going to be a viable answer

816
00:37:56,560 --> 00:37:59,920
Speaker 4: to mandament coverage and some other things that we expect.

817
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:01,960
Speaker 4: I expect to see a hell of a lot more

818
00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:04,280
Speaker 4: of this year because of JJ's production.

819
00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:06,640
Speaker 5: My thing that I love the most about this is

820
00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:08,919
Speaker 5: Keeny mccardo with the giant smile on his face saying,

821
00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:12,359
Speaker 5: we got a lot of swag in that room. He's

822
00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:14,640
Speaker 5: got plenty of personalities. But you know, I think if

823
00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:16,360
Speaker 5: it's one of those things, if it does produce on

824
00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:19,040
Speaker 5: the field, he's going to be very very happy man

825
00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:20,920
Speaker 5: being able to work with all these guys.

826
00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:26,959
Speaker 4: Oh absolutely, I mean it's yeah. I mean, that's that's

827
00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:29,439
Speaker 4: the down you buy, right when you're a wide receivers coach.

828
00:38:30,040 --> 00:38:32,439
Speaker 4: And that's kind of the cool thing about with Keene

829
00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:35,880
Speaker 4: mccartell is you know, you think about that if you're

830
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:39,200
Speaker 4: a rookie walking in that building and you meet your

831
00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:41,080
Speaker 4: position coach and he looks at you and he's like,

832
00:38:41,120 --> 00:38:45,440
Speaker 4: I've done everything that you could do, right, I've seen

833
00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:50,680
Speaker 4: everything that you could possibly see, right, And so you know,

834
00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:53,120
Speaker 4: God gave you two years in one moleth for a reason,

835
00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:55,880
Speaker 4: so you'd listen twice as much as you talk. And

836
00:38:55,960 --> 00:39:00,319
Speaker 4: so you're, you know, be advised just listen, and you know,

837
00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:02,480
Speaker 4: hopefully you know the kids smart enough to do that.

838
00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:05,880
Speaker 4: But yeah, McCardell, he's got to. He's gonna have his hands. Well,

839
00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:10,440
Speaker 4: you can't have a fun meeting room meeting room coach,

840
00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:12,560
Speaker 4: I mean, you want to do.

841
00:39:12,520 --> 00:39:16,120
Speaker 3: That in the fashion fits.

842
00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:17,759
Speaker 4: Except you never want to be an offensive line coach.

843
00:39:17,920 --> 00:39:21,640
Speaker 4: Is offensive line. It's like, well, at least those guys

844
00:39:21,640 --> 00:39:24,000
Speaker 4: sit down and listen, like D Lineman. Now that's like

845
00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:27,840
Speaker 4: robber room. D Linemen. Are all the kids at ADHD

846
00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:32,120
Speaker 4: don't listen, can't sit still. Yeah, don't want to work together.

847
00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:32,800
Speaker 4: I don't know.

848
00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:35,239
Speaker 1: I feel like you're describing Chris Rump right now, who

849
00:39:35,320 --> 00:39:36,160
Speaker 1: is in charge.

850
00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:36,480
Speaker 3: Of that room.

851
00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:42,000
Speaker 4: So saying it's it's a defensive line meeting room is

852
00:39:42,040 --> 00:39:46,319
Speaker 4: one of the crazy it's it's hard to describe, but

853
00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:48,759
Speaker 4: it's it's it's one of the one of the weirdest

854
00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:50,480
Speaker 4: places you'll ever set put in.

855
00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:52,480
Speaker 5: The draft starts in less than twelve hours.

856
00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:54,120
Speaker 3: Oh Jay, when you put it that.

857
00:39:54,120 --> 00:39:55,239
Speaker 4: Way, when does it start?

858
00:39:55,520 --> 00:39:57,239
Speaker 5: Eleven am on Saturday morning?

859
00:39:57,320 --> 00:39:58,080
Speaker 3: What a great tease.

860
00:39:58,080 --> 00:40:00,720
Speaker 1: Eleven am Saturday morning for a rounds four through seven.

861
00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:02,640
Speaker 1: We'll have a lot of the same stuff coming at

862
00:40:02,680 --> 00:40:05,640
Speaker 1: you as far as the five picks that we will

863
00:40:05,680 --> 00:40:07,200
Speaker 1: see tomorrow.

864
00:40:07,320 --> 00:40:09,520
Speaker 3: Five right, yeah, five, we got now. Five.

865
00:40:09,560 --> 00:40:11,920
Speaker 1: That's a great, great day, great day. At the end

866
00:40:11,920 --> 00:40:14,319
Speaker 1: of it all, we will hear from the GM and

867
00:40:14,360 --> 00:40:17,840
Speaker 1: the head coach. We'll have those interviews posted online as well.

868
00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:18,799
Speaker 3: You'll hear their.

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Speaker 1: Press conferences from the draft picks. Those will be on

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Speaker 1: vikings dot com or the Vikings app or on YouTube,

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Speaker 1: and then hopefully over the next week or so, we'll

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Speaker 1: have some more reactions for you. But for now, thanks

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Speaker 1: for tuning into this edition of the Ministeroa Vikings Podcast.

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Speaker 1: But thanks to Jay for staying up with us, Eric

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Speaker 1: for still being alive over the here despite yawning in

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Speaker 1: our faces, and Pete Bursage, thank you so much for

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Speaker 1: staying up with us.

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Speaker 3: We appreciate it.

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Speaker 4: I'll be a four days in a row.

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Speaker 3: Just go on a bender.

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Speaker 4: He'll be fine.

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Speaker 1: I got a nice, genuine belly laugh on that one.

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Speaker 1: On that note, you guys have a good night. We'll

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Speaker 1: talk to you all tomorrow