WEBVTT - Minnesota Vikings Podcast: Adam Thielen + Training Camp Observations | Episode No. 2 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:06.040 All right, let's do it. Want to give you guys 0:00:06.040 --> 0:00:09.799 a call to day topic team. Biggest surprise of twenty nineteen. 0:00:10.920 --> 0:00:14.120 You're listening to the Minnesota Vikings podcast. I'm Adam Dealing 0:00:15.000 --> 0:00:23.720 cousin Green Bay, Rusha's four Cousins Passes is he en? Hey? 0:00:23.760 --> 0:00:26.480 This is Kirk Cousins and the Minnesota Vikings. You're listening 0:00:26.520 --> 0:00:31.440 to the Minnesota Vikings podcast. Welcome to the Minnesota Vikings 0:00:31.480 --> 0:00:37.680 Podcast with your host Mike Wabshaw and Chris Corso. Alright, 0:00:37.720 --> 0:00:41.279 Episode two of the Minnesota Vikings podcast is here and 0:00:41.320 --> 0:00:44.680 you are listening to it. We are glad you're doing so. 0:00:45.000 --> 0:00:48.560 I'm your host Wabi from TCO Performance Center in Egan. 0:00:48.720 --> 0:00:52.320 Jam Packed episode two of the Minnesota Vikings podcast coming up. 0:00:52.320 --> 0:00:55.120 Before we preview it, let's bring in the producer, the 0:00:55.200 --> 0:00:57.400 co producer, and the co host Chris Corso. What's up man? 0:00:57.400 --> 0:00:59.680 What's going on? While we have a jam packed episode. 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:02.760 I'm really excited for our new feature and that's the 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:06.280 voicemails that we got from the fans. This right, God, 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:09.840 the imagination. So the listeners are most excited for the 0:01:09.920 --> 0:01:12.400 guest because it's number thirty three on the top one 0:01:12.520 --> 0:01:15.160 hundred players of twenty eighteen list. It's Adam Feeling. Yes, 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:17.840 Vikings wide receiver. Coming up. In a moment, we'll have 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:20.959 term of the Week. We'll get to Chrissie's new favorite segment, 0:01:21.040 --> 0:01:24.360 fan voicemails. You're gonna hear from Vikings team reporter Eric Smith. 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:27.600 He'll tell us what he's seeing out on the practice 0:01:27.600 --> 0:01:30.800 fields later on in the show as well. But first 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:33.680 let's get to some sound. We have two bites of 0:01:33.680 --> 0:01:35.920 the week that we want to share with you, and 0:01:36.000 --> 0:01:40.039 it begins with a little bit of levity from unsurprisingly 0:01:40.360 --> 0:01:43.200 defensive end Everson Griffin. I was just curious, though, what 0:01:43.280 --> 0:01:45.880 products do you use Amy Tips for someone like myself 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:49.360 aspiring to get a beard like that? I use Scotch Porter. 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:53.040 Scotch Porter. Yeah, it's a little shampoo, shampoo for your beard, 0:01:53.320 --> 0:01:56.920 and they have conditioner, and then also used their beer 0:01:57.040 --> 0:02:00.560 cream and machine they have On top of that, I 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:03.800 put a little black castro oil in there. Yeah. I 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:05.760 got a little routine. Then you use a wooden brush 0:02:06.000 --> 0:02:09.680 and you just brush it down. The wooden brush is 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:12.840 um so if you use a regular brush, if it 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:15.320 makes your beard puff out like afro, I want my 0:02:15.360 --> 0:02:18.320 beard at like after I wanted the wooden brush makes 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:22.639 the hair lay down flat. Yes, yeah, you're welcome, all right. 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:25.160 So you think Everson Griffin is just the sack daddy, 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:27.760 Now he knows he knows how to how to grow 0:02:27.760 --> 0:02:29.440 and take care of a beard as well. That was 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:32.240 Anthony Barr asking him the question in the middle of 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:35.720 a press conference, so that was really cool. And yeah, 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:37.680 you see that beard on Sundays, it kind of goes 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:40.280 out of the helmets. He's got it right, that's for sure. 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:43.680 Um So a funny moment from Vikings defensive end Everson 0:02:43.720 --> 0:02:45.959 Griffin from earlier in the week. Let's go now, though, 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:50.040 to a real moment from newly signed Vikings running back 0:02:50.160 --> 0:02:52.720 DeAngelo Henderson, who gives you a little bit a peak 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:55.760 of what life is like for a player who's at 0:02:55.840 --> 0:02:59.079 what you would call, with all due respect, the bottom 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:01.080 of an NFL or this is what it's like for 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:05.639 those guys. Honestly, after I got released from the Jets, man, 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:08.480 you know, just personally my body worked that I've been 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:10.280 able to do in the NFL so far, it hasn't 0:03:10.280 --> 0:03:12.960 been alive. So honestly, I didn't think I was gonna 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:16.080 get another chance. So I started applying for jobs. I 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:20.200 was on indeed, and this applying for job built my resume. 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:22.600 I called some guys like, Hey, who'd I need to contact? 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:25.280 Got in touch with some good people, and when I 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:27.600 got a call, I actually got to had an interview 0:03:27.600 --> 0:03:30.760 for a job this weekend. I had to turn down 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:32.800 because I told him, and I got signed by the 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:37.000 Minnesota Vikings, So I'm sorry. He was indeed. He was 0:03:37.040 --> 0:03:40.360 searching on indeed yeah, for a sales job yep, which, 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:42.600 as we were doing our production meeting earlier in the 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:45.400 week four, episode two of the Minnesota Vikings podcast, co 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:49.520 producer Jay Nelson referenced Adam Feeling sounds like Adam Feeling story, who, 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:52.880 at one point before he became the number thirty three 0:03:52.920 --> 0:03:55.040 player on the NFL's Top one hundred list, didn't know 0:03:55.120 --> 0:03:57.840 if he would keep playing football after college. So it's crazy. 0:03:57.880 --> 0:04:01.240 And you see where Feeling is today, It's it's wild. 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:03.280 He's our guest this week, so you'll hear more from him. 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:06.360 But this guy, D'Angel Henderson, he was looking to move 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:10.240 to Atlanta, Georgia to be a salesman where his girlfriend left, 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:12.720 which is what any guy would want to do. And 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:14.640 now he's with the Minnesota Vike trying to make this 0:04:14.800 --> 0:04:16.960 roster man. I love it. Yeah, we'll see all right. 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:19.599 Speaking of Adam feel he is our guest today on 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:22.680 the Minnesota Vikings podcast. Let's bring in Adam right now. 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:29.400 Top wide receivers that I have on my list. Obviously 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:32.840 you got ab every year. Adam Feeland is one of 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:34.560 my favorites in the league. Got a lot of respect 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:38.839 for that guy. You look at the numbers and you 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:42.680 look at how he's getting it done. Nine hundred yard games, 0:04:42.720 --> 0:04:47.120 really incredible. I see him go for one hundred yard 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:50.320 East game. At first, I don't think he was getting 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:53.520 the respect that he deserved. I think just because he 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:56.920 didn't pass the eye test, but he passed the stat test. 0:04:57.160 --> 0:04:59.720 Fifty eight catches, the most in the history of the 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:02.240 A Bell for the first six weeks. He has more 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:06.000 than one hundred receiving yards for an eight consecutive game, 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:08.880 tying a National Football League record. And I think it's 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:10.760 not gonna flash. But you know, before you know, he 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:12.800 got a honey yards on you. You don't even know how. 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:16.760 Adam has always been a great route run. Now probably 0:05:16.800 --> 0:05:19.280 you're wit over right, Yeah, you run a lot of 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:21.960 misdirection routes, so can make it think you're going one way, 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:26.960 go to total ocasite. Certain things come up in the 0:05:27.040 --> 0:05:29.360 game where you have to you know, I would say 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:31.960 improvised a little bit during the route we played the Lions. 0:05:32.000 --> 0:05:34.400 I wouldn't even playing, but I'm watching. He went inside 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:37.120 and he broke it off for his teschdown. Any other 0:05:37.120 --> 0:05:39.320 receiver probably would that went outside, and we were planning 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:41.400 to go outside. But how the guy was planning you 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:44.159 went inside. But to know that they make that decision 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:46.479 real quick shows you how swatty is. I'm like, okay, 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:48.680 he's running the incut right there and any breaks on 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:51.640 the outcut, but had two guys on him, Jason mccordy, 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:53.880 let's him get to the corner and so even and 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:56.000 when you think you had the right call against the 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:59.680 right receiver, he beats him all right. Adam Feeling joins 0:05:59.760 --> 0:06:02.279 him in a sort of Vikings podcast. What's it like 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:06.120 hearing all that stuff about you? Uh sor right? I 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:08.040 guess Yeah, it's kind of weird, isn't it. That's a 0:06:08.080 --> 0:06:11.560 little weird. Yeah, mostly weird. Yeah, um, you know, and 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:14.520 it's nice stuff. People are saying nice things about you. 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:17.200 But I know that you don't like to get wrapped 0:06:17.279 --> 0:06:19.440 up in that. You want to act like they don't 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:21.360 no one respects you. You want to have that chip 0:06:21.360 --> 0:06:24.120 on your shoulder, right. Yeah, honestly, I forget about some 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:27.560 of that stuff until I started talking about it. So, yeah, 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:30.000 it's a little weird. You know, number thirty three on 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:33.600 the list. I mean, you're Madden ratings ninety four. You 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:36.479 know you you were at one point, you were a 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:39.320 kid who just loved football and wanted to get as 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:41.920 far as you could. You played video games, probably no 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:44.200 doubt all this stuff is and now you're living it, 0:06:44.240 --> 0:06:45.920 You're actually living It's just it's just got to be 0:06:45.960 --> 0:06:48.480 a surreal thing. You know. I'm so focused on on 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:51.440 my job and trying to get better and uh, you 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:53.000 know what we got going on right now. It's it's 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:55.680 not easy to have success in this league. So I'm 0:06:55.680 --> 0:06:57.560 just trying to make sure I'm taking care of business. 0:06:57.640 --> 0:06:59.400 But I think, you know, what i'm done playing, I'll 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:01.360 be able to look back at things and be able 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:03.200 to reflect a little bit. But but right now, like 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:05.640 there's just really no time I guess to to start 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:08.400 thinking about what you've done in the past. Yeah, and 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:11.720 then you know you, you know you. It's kind of 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:14.800 a weird thing because it's like no one respects me, 0:07:14.800 --> 0:07:17.080 I'm gonna show them, I'm going to prove them wrong, right, 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:20.040 Like that can be a mentality. But then when you 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:23.120 get showered with praise and everyone's respecting you, like I 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:25.920 hear them talk all the time about about that, where 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:28.160 it's almost like you're in a better position when you're 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:30.880 under the radar or people aren't talking about you, because 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:33.600 then you can use that as motivation. Right, Yeah, for sure. 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:35.880 I mean I think that's that's you know, really been 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:37.600 a big part of how I got to where I 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:41.520 am because using that motivation. Um, using that that uh, 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:45.080 you know chip on your shoulder to to create success, right. Um. 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:47.680 But I think there's always something. There's always somebody doubting you. 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:51.120 There's always somebody that doesn't think that you're as good 0:07:51.120 --> 0:07:53.840 as you are or things like that. So there's always 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:56.920 there's there's always ways to find motivation. Well I found 0:07:56.960 --> 0:08:01.240 one this morning, and um, Good Morning Football ranked their 0:08:01.320 --> 0:08:04.680 top twelve Fantasy football wide receivers. So I took a 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:06.720 look at the at the ranking, No Vikings in there. 0:08:06.800 --> 0:08:08.880 So I responded to him with a gift of zim 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:11.160 with his arms crossed like with the skyl on his face. 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:13.280 So there. I mean you find stuff like that. Yeah, 0:08:13.320 --> 0:08:15.120 But now when you have all the noise and the 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:18.760 attention and you're a pro athlete, isn't that what a 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:20.920 big part of the appeal of like going home to 0:08:20.960 --> 0:08:24.280 your family and your kids, especially because your kids don't 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:27.040 know don't know that part of you, Like they don't 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:29.480 know who like quote unquote, they don't know who you are. Yeah, right, 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:31.960 isn't that part of the appeal of like life at home, 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:34.120 life with your family, whether it's the off season, or 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:36.439 you get home from a game win or lose, or 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:39.000 you get home from a tough practice in the late 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:42.319 dog days of training camp. Yeah, that's part of the appeal, right. Yeah. 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:45.079 I mean I even look back at yesterday or off 0:08:45.160 --> 0:08:48.679 day and just being able to watch Asher's baseball practice 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:51.560 and and hang out my wife and the two boys. 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:54.240 So it was it was the best day I had 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:57.480 all week. So yeah, no, it's definitely great. I'm so 0:08:57.520 --> 0:09:00.280 thankful for my family because of that. And my wife 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:02.120 hates when I talk about football when I come home 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:04.640 or if I'm angry about it or or or happy 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:06.559 about it. So it's actually been a big focus in 0:09:06.640 --> 0:09:08.600 mind this year is too. When I do come home, 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:10.560 it's it's I don't care what I did on the 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:13.120 field the day before. I gotta make sure that, uh, 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:16.560 you know, I'm happy and uh and uh, you know, 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:19.360 being in the same husband and father that I that 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:21.360 I am in the now. You guys don't get to 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:23.840 go home during this part of camp right now, as 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:26.160 much as you wish you could, right right and um, 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:29.760 and that's probably some good parts to that allows you 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:31.360 to sort of be in the zone and all that 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:34.560 stuff I would imagine, But it just and as great 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:36.960 as we love TCL, we love camp here. It gives 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:39.640 you guys a ton of resources. But it's different not 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:41.560 being a main catle, isn't it. It is. It's a 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:44.040 lot different. Yeah, there's definitely pros and cons to both. 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:47.679 I'd say, um, I'd say that the biggest pro for 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:50.040 us having a family is, you know, my wife can 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:52.240 bring the boys out the day, Yeah, any day, and 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:53.960 it could be at the end of practice even just 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:56.400 to uh, you know, she didn't have to watch practice 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:57.720 just to be able to come and the boys can 0:09:57.760 --> 0:10:00.320 run around and uh can see them for you know, 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:03.680 twenty thirty minutes, which is fantastic. So uh, that's that's 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:06.520 that's a big pro. And and obviously just the facility here, 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:09.920 I mean having the resources and and um, you know, 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:11.640 the things to take care of your body, to watch 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:14.400 extra film or what whatever you need, it's it's here. 0:10:14.440 --> 0:10:16.960 You know, the the lunch room and things like that. 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:19.400 I mean, it's it's a special place and uh definitely 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:21.679 helps you become a better football player. Yeah. Um, I 0:10:21.720 --> 0:10:24.319 want to ask you one football question before we let 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:28.520 you go, and um, I like to always ask you guys, 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:32.199 not about after we get done talking about you and 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:33.839 and the wide receivers. I want to ask you about 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:36.360 the corners because you're going up against them every single 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:38.559 day in practice. Okay, so how's that group of guys? Look, 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:41.040 how did the corners look for the Minnesota Vikings. Yeah, 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:44.520 obviously see a lot of Trey and and Zay Um. 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:47.560 But uh, you know, I think I think you know 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:49.640 it's it's iron sharp AND's irons. You know, it's a 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:52.760 it's a cliche thing to say, but it's the truth. 0:10:52.800 --> 0:10:56.120 I mean, I get I get angry sometimes when I 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:59.000 don't beat beat those guys. But you know, sometimes you guys, 0:10:59.000 --> 0:11:01.439 remember that those guys are are getting paid to play 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:04.240 this game too, and they're they're really good football players. 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:06.000 But it's good. I mean, it's good to be a 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:09.079 little angry if if you're not beating them or they 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:11.440 get they get you one time. And um, I think 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:13.640 I think you know, that's how this team is. You know, 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:15.760 we want to be great. We want to win every 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:18.720 time we go against h whether it's our team or 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:21.000 someone else. And um, and I think we practice the 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:22.760 right way too. We're not trying to hurt each other 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:26.079 and um, you know things like that. So um, you know, 0:11:26.120 --> 0:11:28.880 I'm very thankful that we got really good football players 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:30.640 on outside of the ball that that when we get 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:33.800 to games, it almost it almost seems, um, you know, 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:36.280 like you actually have. And I was talking to Digs 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:38.440 about the state when we go hard and and we 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:40.640 face the guys we face and face and practice, you know, 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:42.719 games come a little bit easier. Yeah, for sure. It's 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:44.760 kind of like you know, the baseball batter in the 0:11:44.800 --> 0:11:47.120 on deck circle with the donut on his bat right, 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:48.679 and then you get into the batter's box and it's 0:11:48.679 --> 0:11:51.679 the lighter, lighter bat to swing. It feels that way. Um, well, 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:54.000 I know you're really happy to relieve. Like we launched 0:11:54.040 --> 0:11:56.880 the Minnesota Vikings podcast last week and you you weren't 0:11:56.920 --> 0:11:59.000 on it, and you were all over me about wanting 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:02.640 to get into the radio to do this interview. So yeah, exactly, 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:08.040 I mean, seriously, can you ignore any more of my text? Well, 0:12:08.280 --> 0:12:11.640 there's much of this stuff I can avoid the better team, 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:14.240 But you know, you always say it's like, oh, it's 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:16.640 me quick, you know, two minutes. But you know, well, 0:12:16.720 --> 0:12:20.080 now I don't have dinner and have to be you know, 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:23.360 pushing it for my meeting, because well you can skip 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:25.679 dinner or your special teams meeting. So what's gonna be? 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:27.640 Pick you pick one or the other. It's all good, okay, 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:29.480 all right man, Well thanks for joining us. We appreciate it. 0:12:29.760 --> 0:12:35.120 Thank you, all right, our thanks to Adam Feeling for 0:12:35.360 --> 0:12:37.679 taking some time out of a busy training camp day 0:12:37.720 --> 0:12:40.560 to come into the radio studio and tape with us. 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:44.199 We appreciate it. Okay, what's next? I think we're talking 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:48.000 some content? Yeah, who's excited about content? Content? Let's get 0:12:48.040 --> 0:12:50.880 some content? That's right. The head coach. Content, Let's get 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:53.920 some content. He's big on content. He's always saying that too. 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:56.319 He walks by the VN room when we're having our 0:12:56.440 --> 0:12:59.559 weekly meeting, and I just imagine what's going through his mind. Content. 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:05.400 Let's get some content. Okay, I'm sorry. New content coming 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:08.520 up from the Vikings Entertainment Network in twenty nineteen. You're 0:13:08.559 --> 0:13:11.240 listening to one of them. The Wobcast has turned into 0:13:11.280 --> 0:13:13.400 the Minnesota Vikings Podcast, so that's one of the new 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:17.160 pieces of content. Vikings game Plan is not new, but 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:20.400 it's beginning. In fact, we've filmed the first episode of 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:25.200 Vikings game Plan today, so you'll hear from Vikings players. 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:27.960 You'll hear from I believe the interview is IRV Smith 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:30.720 Junior will be the player on Vikings game Plan. Ron 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:34.160 Johnson yours truly Pa will be batting around some topics 0:13:34.160 --> 0:13:37.480 in the final segment of Vikings game Plan. So twenty 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:40.679 plus episodes of Vikings Game Plan. The first taping was today, 0:13:40.679 --> 0:13:45.600 so that's coming up. And Chrissy's favorite piece of new 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:48.280 content is the fan voicemails, and we're gonna get to 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:51.360 those right now. That's right, we got some fan voicemails 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:55.280 I can't even like stress how appreciative we are of 0:13:55.320 --> 0:13:58.000 the fans who just reached out right away and send 0:13:58.040 --> 0:14:00.319 some voicemails to us. I mean, it's all of Actually, 0:14:00.360 --> 0:14:03.000 we're gonna get to that call in type deal we 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:05.040 can call into a show like this, but right now 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:07.320 we have the voicemails from the fans, so we're gonna 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:08.880 get to this segment, and I think it's going to 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:12.880 be way more engaging than the just reading off the 0:14:12.880 --> 0:14:15.679 fan emails. Well, and we'll still do the fan emails, 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:18.400 so we want you all to keep sending in your 0:14:18.400 --> 0:14:20.800 emails because we like those. We use them for the 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:24.200 mail bag, we use them for the Pick six, you know, 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:26.560 and we'll use them on the Minnesota Vikings podcast. But 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:29.160 we have this new technology that you know, the Will 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:31.280 family gave us and we're gonna use it. So we 0:14:31.360 --> 0:14:34.640 want you guys to call us and leave us voicemails, opinions, questions, 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:37.200 whatever it is. The number is nine to five two 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:42.600 nine one eight eight four three eight nine five two 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:46.680 nine one eight eight four three eight is the number 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:48.800 to call and leave us a voicemail. Now we're going 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:51.600 to do this again in future weeks and what we 0:14:51.640 --> 0:14:55.680 want from you for next week's show for fan voicemails. 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:58.800 Is the current you know this is Hall of Fame 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:01.200 week for the NFL to Hall Fame game is this weekend? 0:15:01.480 --> 0:15:04.120 A new class of Chinese is going in over the weekend. 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:06.320 We've had a bunch of Vikings go in in the 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:09.440 last decade or so, like and yours truly J. Nelson, 0:15:09.480 --> 0:15:11.440 a bunch of other people from the Vikings Entertainment Network 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:13.200 have been able to go to Canton and take in 0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:16.280 the ceremonies, the festivities and cover it for you all. 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:18.960 So you've seen it. So I want to know from 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:23.120 you guys. Call into that number the current Viking most 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:25.880 likely to become a Hall of Famer. Let us know 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:28.840 who it is. The next one, yep, it current Viking 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:32.480 not retired like not Jared Allen or not Adrian Peterson, 0:15:32.480 --> 0:15:34.640 who's a former Viking, the one on the roster right now? 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:37.040 Who you think's most likely to be a Hall of 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:39.600 Fame candidate someday let us know who you think it is. 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:41.960 But for now, let's listen to some of the voicemails 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:44.520 you guys sent us from last week. This first one 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:47.880 is is awesome. Um, there's an imitation that goes on here. 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:52.240 Everybody's talking about mcquon Treadwell, who is battling for a 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:55.680 spot in the Vikings wide receiver room. This is van 0:15:55.840 --> 0:16:04.040 in Texas col s with the Vikings from development. Mc 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:10.360 has been shrinning with Morpheus from the matrix to actually 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:14.760 acquire us some ward receive about talent. No, Morpheus has 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:18.760 been shrinning in the matrix. Who will it be the 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:28.320 third receive king? Vikings love it? I mean, could you 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:32.160 start off with him? So so last week we said 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:35.320 call us in for a surprising development. That the topic 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:38.640 was call us leave us a voicemail a surprising positive 0:16:38.680 --> 0:16:41.400 development for the Vikings. What could it be? In training camp? 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:44.280 Howard Cosell, God bless him. He called us and left 0:16:44.360 --> 0:16:46.320 us a voicemail saying he thinks LaQuan Drudwall is going 0:16:46.360 --> 0:16:50.760 to emerge. Texas version of Howard is what we get 0:16:50.800 --> 0:16:53.160 for our first voicemail? I mean, can you beat it? 0:16:53.240 --> 0:16:55.120 I mean I don't know, can we can? We got more? 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:57.320 We got a few more, so let's see, but let's 0:16:57.320 --> 0:17:00.920 go to number two. Let's go. Yeah. Curtis from Easton, 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:04.480 Pennsylvania in regards to the biggest surprise for the Vikings 0:17:04.480 --> 0:17:08.440 twenty nineteen. I'm going to go in a different way 0:17:08.440 --> 0:17:11.479 on this one. I think twenty nineteen, I would be 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:15.840 a big surprise if our defense when uh didn't play 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:19.520 as well, um like when we did against the Saints 0:17:19.560 --> 0:17:21.680 and the Eagles and then the first couple of games 0:17:21.680 --> 0:17:25.159 of last year. Um, I hope we don't tend to 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:27.600 go in that direction. Said that would be a major 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:30.600 surprise if our defense did not play well this year. 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:34.200 Thanks for taking my call, and you take care um 0:17:34.480 --> 0:17:36.800 Zim doesn't like that content. Yeah, that was a little 0:17:37.040 --> 0:17:40.000 didn't like that. I mean, we had some entertainment for 0:17:40.040 --> 0:17:45.840 the first one. That one. Curtis Curtis is a regular emailer. 0:17:45.920 --> 0:17:47.320 We did him in the pick six and the mail 0:17:47.359 --> 0:17:49.440 bag a lot. So Curtis is a big time fan 0:17:49.800 --> 0:17:52.200 from Easton, Pennsylvania. So and he's he's he said a 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:54.399 surprise would be as if the Vikings defense took a 0:17:54.400 --> 0:17:57.280 step back. Yeah, and we wanted positive developments. Maybe I 0:17:57.320 --> 0:17:59.960 didn't stressed that last week. That would be a negative development. 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:02.040 And I don't think that's going to happen. I don't 0:18:02.040 --> 0:18:03.879 think it's gonna happen either. It did happen. In the 0:18:03.960 --> 0:18:06.000 first four games the last season, things didn't go the 0:18:06.080 --> 0:18:08.400 right way, but Zim got that thing switched around. Remember 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:10.439 we had the short week against the Rams on Thursday 0:18:10.560 --> 0:18:12.480 night and it didn't look good. We give up thirty 0:18:12.520 --> 0:18:14.720 eight points. I think we came back had a long 0:18:14.800 --> 0:18:17.440 week the following week because we played on Thursday. We 0:18:17.480 --> 0:18:19.680 didn't playa until a week from that. Next Sunday. We 0:18:19.800 --> 0:18:22.480 want to Philadelphia and we won. We want at Philadelphia 0:18:22.560 --> 0:18:25.200 thanks to a large party, to a big time defensive performance. 0:18:25.240 --> 0:18:27.199 I think the Eagles only had three points at halftime. 0:18:27.200 --> 0:18:30.880 If I'm not mistaken that Lynvall had a defensive touchdown, right, Yeah, 0:18:30.920 --> 0:18:33.760 So so Zim got that thing turned around. So Curtis, 0:18:34.240 --> 0:18:36.720 you're right, that would be a surprising development for our season, 0:18:37.000 --> 0:18:38.840 but it's not going to happen. I think our defense 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:40.840 is in good shape, all right. What's next? Number three 0:18:40.960 --> 0:18:43.720 is a positive development. And this fan talks about a 0:18:43.800 --> 0:18:46.480 player who he thinks is going to really step up 0:18:46.520 --> 0:18:49.920 this season. What's going on? Guys? This is Josh over 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:53.440 here in Portland, Oregon represent for our Vikings. Just want 0:18:53.480 --> 0:18:55.880 to give you guys a call today because I saw 0:18:55.960 --> 0:18:59.399 you post on Twitter and topic being biggest surprise at 0:18:59.440 --> 0:19:03.760 two thou nineteen. In my opinion, I think McKenzie Alexander's 0:19:03.760 --> 0:19:06.359 going to be a guy who really finally comes into 0:19:06.440 --> 0:19:09.439 his own going into his third year. We saw a 0:19:09.480 --> 0:19:14.400 lot of marked improvement last season. Obviously, everybody who knows 0:19:14.480 --> 0:19:17.399 McKenzie knows he's really smart on and off the field. 0:19:17.480 --> 0:19:20.520 He's a competitor, he's a gym rat, he's a he's 0:19:20.520 --> 0:19:23.359 a he's a guy who's kind of nose in the books. Um, 0:19:23.400 --> 0:19:28.359 I really think that year three, McKenzie Alexander might be 0:19:28.680 --> 0:19:32.360 Pro Bowl status. Maybe I'm reaching here, Maybe I'm not. 0:19:32.760 --> 0:19:37.440 We'll see skull bikes. Love it all right, my man, McKenzie. 0:19:37.720 --> 0:19:41.520 You know, Um, Josh listed lots of things that McKenzie is. 0:19:41.920 --> 0:19:44.600 Do you know what else McKenzie is What he's a twin. 0:19:45.240 --> 0:19:49.520 He is a twin. Yeah, the twin connection. I mean, 0:19:49.600 --> 0:19:53.680