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Speaker 1: Before we get things going on this week's episode of

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Speaker 1: early morning Wednesday, before multiple roster moves were made later

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Speaker 1: in that day. Jay Nelson will join me in the

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Speaker 1: back half of this podcast to discuss the latest on

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Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings roster. Until then, enjoy the episode and

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Speaker 1: be sure to tune in to the end for more

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Speaker 1: on the Vikings move to pick up Jalen Raker. All Right,

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Speaker 1: identity as an old line was just you know, to

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Speaker 1: I mean, our identity was just like we was all

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Speaker 1: already close with each other, but we all had one

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Speaker 1: that's what we did. I mean, were always expecting them

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Speaker 1: to catch it at LSU and then justin Jefferson jamar Man.

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Speaker 1: As soon as we threw the ball up, we already

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Speaker 1: This is the Minnesota Vikings podcast and we are in

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Speaker 1: the sweet spot. The preseason is over. In the initial

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Speaker 1: fifty three man roster's been set I'm Tatum Everett alongside

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Speaker 1: Gabe Henderson, Jay Nelson. I'd remove the producer name since

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Speaker 1: we've got Eric Davidson recording the podcast for us from

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Speaker 1: now on. Eric tweaking the ones and twos at this point,

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Speaker 1: just the extra voice in the room at this point,

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Speaker 1: we love it. We'll also have starting right guard for

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Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings, rookie ed Ingram. Later on in the show,

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Speaker 1: it's the greatest time of the year, guys, and I'm

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Speaker 1: not talking about the State Fair. That might hurt some

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Speaker 1: people feelings. What are you talking about? It's football time?

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Speaker 1: Thanks you talking about cut Day. I was like, that's

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Speaker 1: not the great seasons upon but it is nice. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I do get the business side, I get the personal side,

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Speaker 1: but it is nice to see the decisions that the

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Speaker 1: front office is starting to make and this roster come together.

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Speaker 1: Just means we're like on the doorstep of the season. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think. You know, while cut day is, you know,

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Speaker 1: tebor for a lot of people, it's also a great

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Speaker 1: experience for other people like Luigi Villa. This is an

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Speaker 1: and like you said, once you get past cut day,

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Speaker 1: I think you can finally start counting down to days

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Speaker 1: until Week one season opener Green Bay Packers at US

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Speaker 1: Bank Stadium. This is kind of the beginning of what

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Speaker 1: we've been talking about all offseason, which was the speculation side.

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Speaker 1: We also understand that there is a lot of moves

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Speaker 1: against the Packers. This is always kind of the weird

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Speaker 1: spot because yes, you survived the fifty three man roster cut,

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Speaker 1: but the front office period is going to be making

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Speaker 1: make it as solid as they can. So for those

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Speaker 1: initial guys that made the fifty three man roster cut,

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Speaker 1: you hit a giant hurdle. At the same point, you

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Speaker 1: that the front office has made the right decision. I

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Speaker 1: think the key word right now is always initial. Yes,

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Speaker 1: the best way of putting it, because you don't know

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Speaker 1: if there's another trade in the books. Especially with this

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Speaker 1: back to the old. Quasi likes his trade days, right, Like,

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Speaker 1: big question. Mark, Okay, like what is the reasoning behind this?

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Speaker 1: I'm excited just to see the excitement. There's practice today.

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Speaker 1: what is your top talker from cut day? Someone hit

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Speaker 1: And he's a guy from Michigan. He played with Quitti pay.

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Speaker 1: That's the thing I think that you enjoy seeing as

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432
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Speaker 1: that twenty nineteen LSU Championship squad that you were on

433
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Speaker 1: Tatum miss rocking her fist right now, we've always heard

434
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Speaker 1: it from their perspective as far as like this skill

435
00:20:36,920 --> 00:20:39,960
Speaker 1: guy position. But what was it like being on the

436
00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:43,199
Speaker 1: offensive line blocking for those guys one? That's the first question.

437
00:20:43,359 --> 00:20:45,119
Speaker 1: And when did you know that team was going to

438
00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:48,119
Speaker 1: be special? I mean, like our line coach. I always

439
00:20:48,160 --> 00:20:51,280
Speaker 1: talked about like the guy that we had in the backfield,

440
00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:55,160
Speaker 1: which is Joe Burrow. There's like, I mean this this guy,

441
00:20:55,200 --> 00:20:57,480
Speaker 1: we have to protect this guy like this is our guy,

442
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Speaker 1: Like we can make it with him. So just knowing

443
00:21:00,520 --> 00:21:03,720
Speaker 1: that what he can do, and our identity as an

444
00:21:03,720 --> 00:21:05,520
Speaker 1: old line was just you know, just become like the

445
00:21:05,520 --> 00:21:08,000
Speaker 1: best officer line in the SEC that year or just

446
00:21:08,040 --> 00:21:10,720
Speaker 1: in the league that year. And uh we won to

447
00:21:10,800 --> 00:21:14,359
Speaker 1: Joe More Award for that reason. But um, I mean

448
00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:16,680
Speaker 1: our identity was just like we was all already close

449
00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:19,200
Speaker 1: with each other, but we all had one thing in mine.

450
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Speaker 1: I was winning a national championship. And that's what we did.

451
00:21:22,119 --> 00:21:24,080
Speaker 1: And then two when did you know that team was

452
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Speaker 1: going to be special? Um? When Joe Burrow came in. Um,

453
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Speaker 1: the first thing, like he sat down with everybody, had

454
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Speaker 1: a meeting. I mean he never't even talked to a

455
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Speaker 1: lot of us, but he kind of saw like the

456
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Speaker 1: culture and where everything was at and he kind of

457
00:21:40,040 --> 00:21:41,960
Speaker 1: came in and just sat everybody down and just told

458
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Speaker 1: him like, hey, I came here to like to win

459
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Speaker 1: a national championship, so we're gonna change some stuff up.

460
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Speaker 1: So the way he kind of like took control of

461
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Speaker 1: the whole situation. I was like, yeah, we have a

462
00:21:52,040 --> 00:21:54,280
Speaker 1: chance to win it. Yeah, it was the Texas game

463
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Speaker 1: for me. Yeah that's a game El shoe blows in

464
00:21:57,200 --> 00:21:59,000
Speaker 1: the past, right, Like that's the game that you're like

465
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Speaker 1: sweak two And it was like I think it was

466
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Speaker 1: down to the last drive or something like, yeah, down

467
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Speaker 1: the last drive. So I yeah, that was the game

468
00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:10,720
Speaker 1: for me that changed at all. But you obviously have

469
00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:13,280
Speaker 1: been a part of We had this debate last season.

470
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Speaker 1: One of the I'll say one of these just to

471
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Speaker 1: be kind best college offenses in the history of the game, right,

472
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Speaker 1: so you know, when everything's working on all cylinders, what

473
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Speaker 1: it feels like, what it looks like, a lot of

474
00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:28,320
Speaker 1: these vikings fans don't really quite know what this offense

475
00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:30,679
Speaker 1: looks like yet. We don't know you guys have been

476
00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:33,359
Speaker 1: at practice, We've seen little bits of glimmers here and there.

477
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Speaker 1: We haven't seen you guys against another team yet. Can

478
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Speaker 1: we get a little preview what you can say about

479
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Speaker 1: what how this offense is going to look? Will you

480
00:22:41,480 --> 00:22:47,160
Speaker 1: be taking any handoffs? This says right handoffs, but uh,

481
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Speaker 1: I mean I feel like our offense We're gonna be

482
00:22:49,840 --> 00:22:53,600
Speaker 1: utilizing all our best weapons. I mean we have Justin Jefferson,

483
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Speaker 1: we have Adam feeling Um, and then we have Dalvin Cook,

484
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Speaker 1: and then we also have time you know, back there now,

485
00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:03,080
Speaker 1: and so we're just gonna be utilizing every one of

486
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Speaker 1: our weapons as much as possible. No, that's what we're

487
00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:07,960
Speaker 1: playing with doing, all right. I got a funny question

488
00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:12,280
Speaker 1: for it. When's the last time you actually watched a play?

489
00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:15,520
Speaker 1: Because offensive linemen don't watch. They don't really know what's

490
00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:18,360
Speaker 1: going on until the end of the play when it's like, oh, touchdown,

491
00:23:18,440 --> 00:23:20,600
Speaker 1: we scored, Like the last time you like watch to play?

492
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Speaker 1: Let me see, Dan, that's been a minute. I can't

493
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Speaker 1: even remember an instance right now. But it's a good

494
00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:30,399
Speaker 1: problem to have. Yeah, it's a good problem to have.

495
00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:31,960
Speaker 1: I mean we used to have those all time in

496
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Speaker 1: twin nineteen, just blocking and all of a sudden you're

497
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Speaker 1: just looking up and just watching the ball float up there,

498
00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:41,040
Speaker 1: just hoping he'd catch it. And he catches it, and like, yes, yeah,

499
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Speaker 1: but we never I mean we always expected him to

500
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Speaker 1: catch it at LSU, I mean Justin Jefferson, Jim Jamaar,

501
00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:47,840
Speaker 1: I mean, as soon as he threw the ball up.

502
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Speaker 1: We already knew they're gonna catch it and make a

503
00:23:49,880 --> 00:23:53,280
Speaker 1: big play before you get in here. We Gabe said,

504
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Speaker 1: he spotted you at the Minnesota State Fair. How I'm

505
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Speaker 1: guessing only because I'm guessing you've been to the Texas

506
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Speaker 1: State Fair before. Yeah, I have time or two. How

507
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Speaker 1: do you think it compares to the Minnesota State Fair?

508
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Speaker 1: Still tops to Minnesota, but you know, I was I

509
00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:10,520
Speaker 1: was extremely surprised when I went to the Minnesota State Fair.

510
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Speaker 1: I wasn't expecting it to be so big and have

511
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Speaker 1: so many people there. So I did have a great

512
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Speaker 1: time there. And I don't know if they said it's

513
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Speaker 1: the second best state fair, what's the second largest in

514
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Speaker 1: America behind Texas. I've been saying, I mean, everything's bigger

515
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Speaker 1: in Texas, but the Minnesota. When you go, you're like, okay,

516
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Speaker 1: yeah it was. It was pretty good. And the food

517
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Speaker 1: there was was excellent. The people there were crazy, you

518
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Speaker 1: get I mean, I get it. The thing that I

519
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Speaker 1: love the best was the fried twinkies that had. That

520
00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:45,280
Speaker 1: was the best thing. Yeah, that was my first time

521
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Speaker 1: to eating fried tink It was good. Yeah, I had

522
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Speaker 1: a fried Green team. So I saw you and I

523
00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:52,840
Speaker 1: was getting a fried green tomato and I was like,

524
00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:55,840
Speaker 1: that's add right there. So I wasn't gonna say anything

525
00:24:55,880 --> 00:24:59,720
Speaker 1: to you, but yeah that I didn't sleep that night

526
00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:02,600
Speaker 1: because like I had, like the fry foods what. Yeah,

527
00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:06,040
Speaker 1: but the food there is just amazing And I'm sure

528
00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:08,080
Speaker 1: you'd be pretty much child down while you're there, right,

529
00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:13,760
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, pickles, fried pickles. Yea, man, what's your goal

530
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Speaker 1: for this year? I know that's kind of big, you know,

531
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Speaker 1: kind of general, but like, do you have any set

532
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Speaker 1: goals this year for yourself? I know it's your rookie year.

533
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Speaker 1: You don't really have an NFL season to base that

534
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Speaker 1: off of outside of your whole college team making it

535
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Speaker 1: to the NFL. But going from there, do you have

536
00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:33,760
Speaker 1: any um, Well, like my main thing is just like

537
00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:36,800
Speaker 1: be the most consistent like rookie office alignment coming in

538
00:25:37,119 --> 00:25:39,200
Speaker 1: and um pretty much kind of like making a name

539
00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:42,639
Speaker 1: for myself and established myself in the league. It was

540
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Speaker 1: like one of the best right guards and to possibly

541
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Speaker 1: be in the future. Well, all starts with winning the

542
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Speaker 1: job on during camp, which you did, so congratulations on that.

543
00:25:52,119 --> 00:25:54,960
Speaker 1: Best to luck this season. And I know that you've

544
00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:59,680
Speaker 1: been involved in a lot of great rivalries being in

545
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Speaker 1: the CC. Uh. This Green Bay Packers one though, it's

546
00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:05,439
Speaker 1: kind of next level to kick it off, kick it

547
00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:08,440
Speaker 1: off with the Vikings Packers games gotta be pretty special. Yeah,

548
00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:11,560
Speaker 1: that's definitely special and it's uh, it's gonna be fun.

549
00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:15,480
Speaker 1: Have you started watching film yet? Uh? Yeah, we've watched them. Well. Look, man,

550
00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:18,119
Speaker 1: it's so great to have you on. It's it's I know,

551
00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:20,840
Speaker 1: there's a there's a same offensive lineman aren't supposed to

552
00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:23,760
Speaker 1: do interviews, so so thank you for taking some time

553
00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:26,400
Speaker 1: out of your busy day to sit down with this. Man. Yeah,

554
00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:28,400
Speaker 1: I'm probably gonna get fined by the old Line group

555
00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:32,040
Speaker 1: for doing this, But man, did did Was it part

556
00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:33,879
Speaker 1: of the challenge though during camp to like make you

557
00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:36,960
Speaker 1: guys go out and do the school collapse too. Yeah,

558
00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:40,080
Speaker 1: that's the rookie stuff. It was like you they'd be like,

559
00:26:40,119 --> 00:26:43,480
Speaker 1: just go go do a skull change today, all right,

560
00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:46,000
Speaker 1: you can't really argue, you just gotta go do it. Yeah,

561
00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:48,040
Speaker 1: and then you become a fan favorite song, and then

562
00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:54,520
Speaker 1: you start taking notes for the next rookies that wait

563
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Speaker 1: tee it in real life, wait to see it in

564
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Speaker 1: the US Bank Stadium. Thank you so much. Edie Ingram

565
00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:03,560
Speaker 1: rookie right guard here for the Minnesota Vikings. Big thanks

566
00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:05,680
Speaker 1: to ed Ingram for taking some time out of his

567
00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:07,800
Speaker 1: lunch period to come here and talk to us here

568
00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:11,560
Speaker 1: on the Minnesota Vikings Podcast. I'm excited to see this

569
00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:13,720
Speaker 1: line really come together. I know there's been a lot

570
00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:16,800
Speaker 1: of talk about what this rotation is going to look like,

571
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Speaker 1: and we've talked about the excitement that we have for

572
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Speaker 1: Christian dare Saw and seeing this line come together with

573
00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:24,479
Speaker 1: its youth that it just kind of feels like they

574
00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:27,800
Speaker 1: finally are really settling in their identity. Yeah, you got

575
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Speaker 1: a first year guy and Ed Ingram, you got a

576
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Speaker 1: second year guy and Christian dare Saw, a third year

577
00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:35,840
Speaker 1: guy in um Ezra Cleveland, fourth year guy, and Garret

578
00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:39,119
Speaker 1: Briberry and a fifth year guy and Brian O'Neill. So, um,

579
00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:43,480
Speaker 1: it sounds like a like a like a the Michael

580
00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:46,280
Speaker 1: Jackson Michael Jackson songs like like you should count it

581
00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:51,640
Speaker 1: and saying at the same time, exactly okay, So maybe

582
00:27:51,640 --> 00:27:54,040
Speaker 1: they're the Vikings butt and I'm just I'm not gonna

583
00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:55,480
Speaker 1: go there. Well, the thing for me is that it

584
00:27:55,520 --> 00:28:00,560
Speaker 1: just shows you there was always a feeling of needing

585
00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:03,560
Speaker 1: to address this issue of the offensive line and trying

586
00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:06,199
Speaker 1: to find starters that really fit and that work for

587
00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:09,560
Speaker 1: long term success. There's been plugin play over and over

588
00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:13,280
Speaker 1: again at multiple positions. They've put a lot of draft

589
00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:15,760
Speaker 1: capital into first and second round draft picks to try

590
00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:18,640
Speaker 1: to fix this offensive line. Now you're at a point

591
00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:21,120
Speaker 1: where you're you're feeling like you've got a solid group

592
00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:23,119
Speaker 1: of people that you're going to start the season with.

593
00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:25,080
Speaker 1: You want to see how it's going to pan out.

594
00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:28,520
Speaker 1: But at minimum, it just shows you that, yes, the

595
00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:32,280
Speaker 1: intentional to use that word again, the intentional use of

596
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Speaker 1: those draft picks at that point to try to get

597
00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:37,920
Speaker 1: your running back some bigger holes to run through and

598
00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:40,880
Speaker 1: your quarterback more time to throw. Hopefully we see it

599
00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:44,760
Speaker 1: payoff this season, I hope. So I'm excited about at Ingram.

600
00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:47,320
Speaker 1: I think he can do a lot for this offensive

601
00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:49,520
Speaker 1: line and open to your point, JF opening up holes

602
00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:53,000
Speaker 1: for Dalvin Madison, so on and so forth. So we'll

603
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:55,240
Speaker 1: see how this thing shakes out. That rookie year is

604
00:28:55,280 --> 00:28:57,360
Speaker 1: always the toughist year, and when you talk to some

605
00:28:57,400 --> 00:29:00,720
Speaker 1: of those rookies like Christian darisoul or as we're Cleveland

606
00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:02,520
Speaker 1: in their rookie year to say, you know, they figure

607
00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:04,240
Speaker 1: it out eventually, but you have to go through those

608
00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:07,240
Speaker 1: growing pains. So it'll be good to have Brian O'Neill

609
00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:09,240
Speaker 1: beside him to help him look a little bit better.

610
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Speaker 1: But I'm excited to see what ed Ingram does. I

611
00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:14,160
Speaker 1: think he's going to be a game changing right guard

612
00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:17,240
Speaker 1: for years to come. Coming together this season, we're changing

613
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Speaker 1: things up a little bit when it comes to the

614
00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:21,320
Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings podcast, So I thought it was a good

615
00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:24,240
Speaker 1: time to address the ELpH in the room that it's

616
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Speaker 1: now becoming two episodes on a Monday on a Friday,

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Speaker 1: so you have to keep your heads up and look

618
00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:32,600
Speaker 1: for those to drop. Then looking to me twice as nice.

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Speaker 1: This season, you'll be getting a double dose. You'll be

620
00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:38,840
Speaker 1: getting the podcast side of it straight up early in

621
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Speaker 1: the week and then on the back end of the week. Gabe,

622
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Speaker 1: you're going to be helping lead that Minnesota Vikings podcast

623
00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:49,160
Speaker 1: for the kind of the final look back and review

624
00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:52,560
Speaker 1: leading up to every game this week. So it's something

625
00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:55,120
Speaker 1: that we've already been doing, the Minnesota Vikings podcast and

626
00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:58,240
Speaker 1: Vikings Vantage. We're kind of transitioning in order to help

627
00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:01,000
Speaker 1: it be that Vikings Podcast will be labeled for both

628
00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:03,240
Speaker 1: of them, so you'll be getting kind of double the

629
00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:05,680
Speaker 1: episodes each week. But the bigger thing is to make

630
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Speaker 1: sure that we're covering this game completely from the front

631
00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:11,200
Speaker 1: end of the week of what you can expect to

632
00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:13,000
Speaker 1: the back end of the week of kind of what

633
00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:15,680
Speaker 1: you may have missed, and leading into the game each week.

634
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Speaker 1: So hopefully, um, you know, fans will be able to

635
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Speaker 1: enjoy that as much as they can. I'm excited just

636
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Speaker 1: to see, like just to like get all of our

637
00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:25,880
Speaker 1: initial reactions from game day, like we've we've never really

638
00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:30,440
Speaker 1: done anything like that, especially internally, so to recap Sundays

639
00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:33,520
Speaker 1: or Monday's game, um, and then preview the fought the

640
00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:36,520
Speaker 1: upcoming game. I think it'll be a lot of content,

641
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Speaker 1: a lot of great content coming towards Vikings fans and

642
00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:40,960
Speaker 1: this This would be a lot of fun. This would

643
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Speaker 1: be a lot of fun. The Friday podcast is on

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Speaker 1: kVA and right, yep, it's gonna it'll it'll drop on

645
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Speaker 1: the normal podcast network. So yeah, there's multiple ways to

646
00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:48,880
Speaker 1: listen to that one, right, Like you can listen to

647
00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:50,760
Speaker 1: it the normal way, like you're listening to us right

648
00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:52,920
Speaker 1: now on your however, you listen to your podcast, so

649
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Speaker 1: then they'll be the But what time on Fridays, it's

650
00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:58,360
Speaker 1: sixty six thirty broadcast. It's the same thing as it

651
00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:00,680
Speaker 1: was with Vikings Vantage from before. We're just kind of

652
00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:03,200
Speaker 1: shifting it slightly in order to be missed of Vikings

653
00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:05,680
Speaker 1: podcast with a little bit of a coverage content just

654
00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:08,600
Speaker 1: slightly different. But you will be getting as much Vikings

655
00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:11,280
Speaker 1: as possible all through the week. Yeah, I mean twice

656
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Speaker 1: as nice, Like how you put that? Should that be?

657
00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:18,280
Speaker 1: That should be their tire tagline? Somehows there you go

658
00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:24,120
Speaker 1: after wins, I guess right exactly which will be? There

659
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Speaker 1: will be seventeen? Right, that is correct? Yeah, eighteen if

660
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Speaker 1: you include a bye week, right yeah, yeah, that's a

661
00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:35,400
Speaker 1: win for sure. The bye week is always win. The

662
00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:38,720
Speaker 1: bye week is for sure when well, I guess, so

663
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Speaker 1: you don't have to wait as long this time around

664
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Speaker 1: for the next episode of the podcast. We'll drop one

665
00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:47,080
Speaker 1: on Monday, because guys, next week is game week. We

666
00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:49,840
Speaker 1: head into the kickoff of the twenty twenty two season,

667
00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:53,480
Speaker 1: the season opener against the Packers in US Bank Stadium.

668
00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:55,800
Speaker 1: We've been talking about this moment for so long and

669
00:31:56,280 --> 00:31:59,560
Speaker 1: we are so close it's crazy. Yeah, it's gonna be fun,

670
00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:02,680
Speaker 1: and I'm just looking forward to the season officially kicking off.

671
00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:06,640
Speaker 1: Everything then starts to count, and more than anything, we

672
00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:09,040
Speaker 1: all get into our normal routines and are able to

673
00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:11,640
Speaker 1: provide as much content as possible for the fans. So

674
00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:14,120
Speaker 1: I know, Jay, you're really heavily involved in the game

675
00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:17,360
Speaker 1: presentation side of things. So if I'm a fan going

676
00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:20,280
Speaker 1: to US Bank Stadium for the game, what am I

677
00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:23,000
Speaker 1: looking forward to? The fact that it is going to

678
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:26,240
Speaker 1: be a kickoff at home against the Packers with fans

679
00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:29,160
Speaker 1: for the first time in Vikings history. That is going

680
00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:32,320
Speaker 1: to be unbelievable. I know that those games always ramp

681
00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:34,880
Speaker 1: up to eleven. This is going to be no different.

682
00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:39,000
Speaker 1: I know coach O'Connell was calling for no tickets to

683
00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:43,960
Speaker 1: be sold to Packer fans, and I think for fans

684
00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:47,760
Speaker 1: the excitement of the twenty twenty two season kicking off

685
00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:50,239
Speaker 1: with a new team that let's be honest, we do

686
00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:54,120
Speaker 1: not know a ton about, especially offensively and defensively. Neither

687
00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:55,800
Speaker 1: do the Packers. They're going to have to try and

688
00:32:55,840 --> 00:32:59,200
Speaker 1: game plan for what maybe, But I think it's going

689
00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:01,880
Speaker 1: to be the inside for our team to be able

690
00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:03,880
Speaker 1: to kind of come out with a brand new playbook,

691
00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:06,600
Speaker 1: a brand new look that nobody's ever seen before, and

692
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Speaker 1: so you're gonna want to be there at the stadium

693
00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:10,480
Speaker 1: to be a part of it. It's going to be electric,

694
00:33:10,560 --> 00:33:13,880
Speaker 1: so the twelfth Man will be in full effect. I'm excited.

695
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:16,840
Speaker 1: I'm like I said this yesterday on the fifty three

696
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Speaker 1: Roster Cut Show segment that we did. My first ever

697
00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:23,840
Speaker 1: home game as a Vikings employee, was the first ever

698
00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:26,320
Speaker 1: time that we played the Packers in Week one and

699
00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:29,000
Speaker 1: at home, and it was crickets, and it was crickets.

700
00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:31,120
Speaker 1: It felt like a road game. So to be able

701
00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:33,960
Speaker 1: to experience this this year, I'm just pumped. I know

702
00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:36,920
Speaker 1: you guys on the game presentation side or thrilled to

703
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:39,840
Speaker 1: keep fans entertained, but I'm just excited to see how

704
00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:42,400
Speaker 1: all this thing comes together. There's so many people that

705
00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:45,360
Speaker 1: have put in so many hours to get ready for

706
00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:47,440
Speaker 1: this point of the year and so on and so forth,

707
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Speaker 1: So I'm just excited to see you guys work. Also,

708
00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:53,400
Speaker 1: since the schedule was announced, everything has been circled for

709
00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:56,400
Speaker 1: this week and there's just a lot of planning that

710
00:33:56,400 --> 00:33:59,000
Speaker 1: has gone into a lot of really fun activations for

711
00:33:59,040 --> 00:34:02,080
Speaker 1: the game. So buy your tickets or you know beg

712
00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:03,760
Speaker 1: borrow and steal and harfor you can get them and

713
00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:05,240
Speaker 1: get your button those seats. It's gonna be a lot

714
00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:08,640
Speaker 1: of fun. Yeah, I cannot wait. It's going to be amazing.

715
00:34:08,640 --> 00:34:10,920
Speaker 1: And obviously, like like you mentioned, Jay, we get back

716
00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:14,440
Speaker 1: into that routine. We'll have the Audible will return, We've

717
00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:17,000
Speaker 1: got all of our big segments of all of our

718
00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:19,520
Speaker 1: content really kind of just kicks off on Monday, Yeah,

719
00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:23,080
Speaker 1: and it's it's basically Vikings Rewind for KFA and Vikings

720
00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:25,440
Speaker 1: Country is going to be out at the local establishments

721
00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:29,000
Speaker 1: and the control Yeah, Mike Musman with player guests at

722
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:31,680
Speaker 1: different locations. So check out the website. They'll have a

723
00:34:31,680 --> 00:34:33,680
Speaker 1: full itinerarya of where they're going to be in with

724
00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:37,279
Speaker 1: which players. And then Wednesday night we've got X's Nose

725
00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:40,120
Speaker 1: with Coach O'Connell. Thursday night, we're still doing the Audible,

726
00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:42,239
Speaker 1: it'll be a half hour this year, and then we're

727
00:34:42,239 --> 00:34:45,080
Speaker 1: adding in another half hour brand new show called The Tailgate.

728
00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:48,600
Speaker 1: Siaminson's gonna be working with his comedian friends to kind

729
00:34:48,640 --> 00:34:52,080
Speaker 1: of break down fandom and look ahead at the upcoming

730
00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:54,920
Speaker 1: matchup between the Vikings and the other comedian's favorite teams,

731
00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:56,880
Speaker 1: and I'm looking forward to that. Yeah, and then Friday

732
00:34:56,960 --> 00:34:59,399
Speaker 1: night's going to be Minnesota Vikings podcast show to kind

733
00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:01,640
Speaker 1: of wrap up the week. So we're looking forward to

734
00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:03,799
Speaker 1: all of this. It's there's a lot of things that

735
00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:06,480
Speaker 1: are going to be kind of stay the same so

736
00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:08,160
Speaker 1: that you're you're used to it, but at the same point,

737
00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:10,719
Speaker 1: there's a whole lot of adjustments and revamping that's going on.

738
00:35:11,160 --> 00:35:13,719
Speaker 1: And all of this is being done to give the

739
00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:17,200
Speaker 1: fans the content that they're looking for, what they're interested in,

740
00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:21,120
Speaker 1: and to be able to provide information and entertainments as

741
00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:23,160
Speaker 1: much as we can, so hopefully you all enjoy it

742
00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:24,840
Speaker 1: the season. Yeah, that's our ultimate goal at the end

743
00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:27,760
Speaker 1: of the day, and we hope they'll have an entertaining

744
00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:33,080
Speaker 1: game in eleven days on the stay of recording celebrities,

745
00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:37,360
Speaker 1: Entertaining is forty one to zero Vikings over Packers, Like

746
00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:40,560
Speaker 1: anything outside of a blowout is not entertaining. That happens

747
00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:43,200
Speaker 1: because there were too many games last year where I

748
00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:45,880
Speaker 1: feel like mar Harve was about to jump out of Okay, no,

749
00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:47,680
Speaker 1: but in all series you think you're going to blank

750
00:35:47,719 --> 00:35:51,359
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers in the season opener. No, that's entertaining though.

751
00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:54,120
Speaker 1: Oh of course if that happens, you can just take

752
00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:58,040
Speaker 1: my car keys. I'll be forwarding home. Jason be like,

753
00:35:58,040 --> 00:35:59,560
Speaker 1: all right, can we wrap up the twenty twenty two

754
00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:01,880
Speaker 1: seasons to day. I'm just probably going to hand in

755
00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:04,160
Speaker 1: my resignation because it's the greatest day I'm walking out

756
00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:06,080
Speaker 1: of here. So well, let's hope for the greatest day

757
00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:07,880
Speaker 1: as we kick off the twenty twenty two miss on

758
00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:10,520
Speaker 1: A Viking season. We will catch you guys on Monday.

759
00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:14,000
Speaker 1: Fast forward a few hours. This is only our third

760
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:17,160
Speaker 1: taping of the Vikings podcast. Jane Nelson alongside me here

761
00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:19,719
Speaker 1: with Eric Davidson, who is so kindly met with us

762
00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:22,799
Speaker 1: three times today because we spoke early this morning about

763
00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:25,960
Speaker 1: roster cut day. Yeah, Evan, we met again to talk

764
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:28,719
Speaker 1: to Ed Ingram, which was awesome. And now here we

765
00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:31,920
Speaker 1: are because right before practice we get the news that

766
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Speaker 1: the Vikings have traded the Philadelphia Eagles a twenty twenty

767
00:36:36,239 --> 00:36:39,400
Speaker 1: three seventh round pick and twenty twenty four conditional pick

768
00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:44,120
Speaker 1: to Philly four wide receiver Jalen Ragor, who saw that

769
00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:46,960
Speaker 1: one coming. There were some rumors that had hit in

770
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:49,480
Speaker 1: the last probably forty eight ish hours or so, that

771
00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:52,960
Speaker 1: there was something possibly brewing. But it's interesting that it

772
00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:55,840
Speaker 1: is Jalen Ragor. You think back to the twenty twenty

773
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Speaker 1: NFL Draft and the fact that the twenty first pick

774
00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:01,960
Speaker 1: was Jalen Regger, the twenty second pick was Justin Jefferson.

775
00:37:02,640 --> 00:37:04,839
Speaker 1: Both these guys have been tied for their entire career

776
00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:09,520
Speaker 1: so far as far as productivity goes. The Vikings obviously

777
00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:12,200
Speaker 1: saw Jalen Reger as an asset, as somebody that they

778
00:37:12,239 --> 00:37:14,799
Speaker 1: think has something similar to what we talked about before,

779
00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:17,239
Speaker 1: some untapped potential so far in his first couple of

780
00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:20,040
Speaker 1: years in the league. And it feels like he's another

781
00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:23,040
Speaker 1: young guy to come into this receiver corps on a

782
00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:26,160
Speaker 1: fairly decent price. If everything works out, I think the

783
00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:28,680
Speaker 1: fans in the public should be really excited for the

784
00:37:28,680 --> 00:37:30,400
Speaker 1: fact that we are paying what we are. If you

785
00:37:30,440 --> 00:37:32,880
Speaker 1: get the productivity out of him, you're given up a

786
00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:35,080
Speaker 1: fourth round pick, but you're getting the usage. Well, you

787
00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:38,239
Speaker 1: know how these transactions work. One guy on means one

788
00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:42,120
Speaker 1: guy off, and today that meant the Vikings waived wide

789
00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:45,480
Speaker 1: receiver Amer Smith Marsett, who was part of that eleven

790
00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:48,080
Speaker 1: person draft class from last season, which now makes it

791
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:52,319
Speaker 1: seven of eleven guys from last season not currently on

792
00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:55,600
Speaker 1: this year's roster, and Jay I think that part of

793
00:37:55,600 --> 00:37:59,439
Speaker 1: this and Quacy and Kevin Wilt speak tomorrow about all

794
00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:01,799
Speaker 1: the decisions and moves that they've made, so we will

795
00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:04,160
Speaker 1: get an update from the front office tomorrow and a

796
00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:06,840
Speaker 1: press conference. But for now, I think you have to

797
00:38:06,880 --> 00:38:09,880
Speaker 1: look at the production as far as a punt returner,

798
00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:12,200
Speaker 1: because I think that was a huge question mark even

799
00:38:12,239 --> 00:38:14,799
Speaker 1: after the preseason. Who is going to be that punt

800
00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:18,920
Speaker 1: return guy? Yeah, and Rayger could be that guy. He

801
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:21,440
Speaker 1: stepped in as a punt returner for Philadelphia last season

802
00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:23,680
Speaker 1: where he returned thirty one punts for two hundred and

803
00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:26,560
Speaker 1: twenty seven yards, which is tied for eighth most punt

804
00:38:26,560 --> 00:38:29,759
Speaker 1: return yards in the NFL last season. And so just

805
00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:32,480
Speaker 1: by his body of work, I think that the staff

806
00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:34,919
Speaker 1: is saying, you know what, we need help in this

807
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:38,000
Speaker 1: position and we need to go outside of who we've

808
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:40,759
Speaker 1: worked with during training camp in the preseason to fill

809
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Speaker 1: that role. I think part of it, too is if

810
00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:44,319
Speaker 1: you look at it, you know the fact that it

811
00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:46,480
Speaker 1: was a mirror was the one that was cut. He

812
00:38:46,560 --> 00:38:48,439
Speaker 1: was one of the guys that everyone was pointing to saying,

813
00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:51,239
Speaker 1: what's going to happen with him with special teams during preseason,

814
00:38:51,239 --> 00:38:53,680
Speaker 1: whether it's kick return, punt return, or whatever. If you

815
00:38:53,719 --> 00:38:55,880
Speaker 1: remember back to the second game, he did have that fumble,

816
00:38:55,960 --> 00:38:57,520
Speaker 1: and so there were a couple of things that had

817
00:38:57,520 --> 00:39:00,600
Speaker 1: happened where it just it must have been something in

818
00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:02,440
Speaker 1: the coaching staff in front office wise, where they just

819
00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:05,719
Speaker 1: felt like there's just this question mark of is this

820
00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:08,160
Speaker 1: going to be the right fit or not. Obviously they

821
00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:10,960
Speaker 1: decided to move on from a Mirror at this point. Um,

822
00:39:11,120 --> 00:39:13,480
Speaker 1: you also had people like ty Chandler as people that

823
00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:15,560
Speaker 1: they were pointing to saying, what's going to happen with him?

824
00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:18,000
Speaker 1: Is he going to be a returner? Another guy like

825
00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:20,640
Speaker 1: ragor coming in. I think there's just another body there

826
00:39:20,719 --> 00:39:23,640
Speaker 1: that has some run, that's done it, that has proven

827
00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:26,040
Speaker 1: that if you can be a receiver, great, but if

828
00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:28,440
Speaker 1: he can help solidify special teams, that's an even bigger

829
00:39:28,520 --> 00:39:30,200
Speaker 1: need that we have at this point. Yeah, and the

830
00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:34,000
Speaker 1: Vikings keep five receivers now, so justin Jefferson, Adam feel

831
00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:37,719
Speaker 1: and kJ Osbourne, Jalen Naylor and Jalen Rager, which we

832
00:39:37,719 --> 00:39:40,359
Speaker 1: were joking about, like we're probably going to mess that up. Yeah,

833
00:39:40,920 --> 00:39:43,479
Speaker 1: some tunk clisters going on there at times, just trying

834
00:39:43,480 --> 00:39:45,839
Speaker 1: to keep them straight. But um, you know, I think

835
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Speaker 1: especially if both of them and all of them are

836
00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:51,719
Speaker 1: able to find ways to contribute on this roster on

837
00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:54,719
Speaker 1: you know, offense and on special teams, that's going to

838
00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:56,680
Speaker 1: be a huge win for all of them. Yeah. I mean,

839
00:39:56,760 --> 00:39:58,640
Speaker 1: we we've talked about this and I feel like it's

840
00:39:58,680 --> 00:40:00,839
Speaker 1: it's the same storyline every sing season. If you can't

841
00:40:00,880 --> 00:40:04,360
Speaker 1: make your case to be a special teams factor and

842
00:40:04,520 --> 00:40:08,439
Speaker 1: your fifth wide receiver, fourth wide receiver on this depth chart,

843
00:40:08,760 --> 00:40:12,400
Speaker 1: your case for making yourself have a solidified spots very slim.

844
00:40:12,520 --> 00:40:16,359
Speaker 1: It's tough because especially in those wide receiver, cornerback, linebacker

845
00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:19,520
Speaker 1: type positions, they are seen as the speedier guys. They

846
00:40:19,520 --> 00:40:22,640
Speaker 1: are seen to have other duties than just catching the

847
00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:25,759
Speaker 1: ball or you know, defending. I think when it comes

848
00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:28,080
Speaker 1: to a guy like Ragor, I mean he was at

849
00:40:28,120 --> 00:40:30,520
Speaker 1: TCU for three seasons. He was number one in the

850
00:40:30,520 --> 00:40:33,719
Speaker 1: Big twelve and twenty nineteen with punt return yards per

851
00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:36,480
Speaker 1: return at twenty point eight. So like this guy has

852
00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:39,480
Speaker 1: done it. He was comfortable in that role, especially in college.

853
00:40:39,719 --> 00:40:43,120
Speaker 1: I think that Jalen as an addition here just feels

854
00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:45,600
Speaker 1: like right now, you're not quite sure what you've got,

855
00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:47,640
Speaker 1: but there is a lot of positives to what his

856
00:40:47,719 --> 00:40:50,040
Speaker 1: game could bring. And again, if he turns into a

857
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Speaker 1: specialist for us, that's going to be even better. Yeah. Well,

858
00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:55,919
Speaker 1: there's also the practice squad was announced. Obviously this will

859
00:40:55,960 --> 00:40:59,359
Speaker 1: still be a work in progress. Some notable names. There

860
00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:02,960
Speaker 1: are two wide receivers in Tristan Jackson and Dan Chisenna

861
00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:05,960
Speaker 1: who are on the practice squad. Titan nick Muse, who

862
00:41:06,040 --> 00:41:09,560
Speaker 1: was the seventh round draft pick this season, Perry Nickerson

863
00:41:09,640 --> 00:41:13,160
Speaker 1: at corner, Miles Dorn at safety. Someone that we've seen

864
00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:15,520
Speaker 1: here a couple of years now, and I think a

865
00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:19,360
Speaker 1: really cool one though, is William Quenku, who is a linebacker.

866
00:41:19,400 --> 00:41:22,640
Speaker 1: I think he's an undrafted free agent that the Vikings

867
00:41:22,640 --> 00:41:25,000
Speaker 1: picked up, and he showed a lot of flash at

868
00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:27,560
Speaker 1: times during camp, so he's definitely one to look out

869
00:41:27,600 --> 00:41:30,879
Speaker 1: for there. Jaylen Twyman really great to see him get

870
00:41:30,880 --> 00:41:32,560
Speaker 1: a chance at the practice squad. I know he was

871
00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:34,719
Speaker 1: really gunning for a roster spot, but I'm happy to

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00:41:34,719 --> 00:41:37,120
Speaker 1: see him on there as well as Jennarius Robinson. Yeah,

873
00:41:37,120 --> 00:41:40,520
Speaker 1: with Twyman, especially given his circumstances last year, We've talked

874
00:41:40,520 --> 00:41:42,440
Speaker 1: about it this offseason just to see what was going

875
00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:44,520
Speaker 1: to happen with him. The fact that he has earned

876
00:41:44,560 --> 00:41:48,200
Speaker 1: this at minimum practice squad spot currently, that's a big deal.

877
00:41:48,360 --> 00:41:51,239
Speaker 1: I think it's it's great. He came in off of

878
00:41:51,280 --> 00:41:55,200
Speaker 1: the offseason program looking like a completely different the Hulk. Yeah,

879
00:41:55,280 --> 00:41:58,359
Speaker 1: he came in, you know, no offense when he came

880
00:41:58,360 --> 00:42:00,359
Speaker 1: out of pit, but he definitely was not a cut

881
00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:02,880
Speaker 1: and as big as he is now, went through the

882
00:42:03,120 --> 00:42:06,040
Speaker 1: medical issue last year and then he came back this offseason.

883
00:42:06,080 --> 00:42:09,400
Speaker 1: You could tell he took it extremely seriously and he

884
00:42:09,480 --> 00:42:10,920
Speaker 1: knew that he was going to have to earn his

885
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:15,120
Speaker 1: way after missing last season. It feels like he definitely

886
00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:17,560
Speaker 1: did what he was supposed to do, and so far

887
00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:21,040
Speaker 1: he's been rewarded with a practice squad spot for this season,

888
00:42:21,040 --> 00:42:23,120
Speaker 1: and we all know how important that is when you

889
00:42:23,160 --> 00:42:26,120
Speaker 1: get into the seventeen game season. These guys, there have

890
00:42:26,160 --> 00:42:28,120
Speaker 1: been several guys that have to be elevative and practice

891
00:42:28,120 --> 00:42:34,000
Speaker 1: squad that get multiple starts, multiple active roster rules once

892
00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:37,600
Speaker 1: their name is called, and so it's you know, from

893
00:42:37,600 --> 00:42:41,000
Speaker 1: a personal standpoint, as far as like being here covering

894
00:42:41,040 --> 00:42:43,319
Speaker 1: this team and seeing these guys work hard for it,

895
00:42:43,440 --> 00:42:45,480
Speaker 1: I'm a personal point. I like seeing a lot of

896
00:42:45,520 --> 00:42:48,360
Speaker 1: familiar faces in the practice squad, guys that are getting

897
00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:51,040
Speaker 1: their chance. Maybe it's not right now, but maybe it's

898
00:42:51,040 --> 00:42:54,720
Speaker 1: in next season or the next It's kind of cool. Yeah, exactly,

899
00:42:54,760 --> 00:42:56,840
Speaker 1: it's a big deal and you'd like to see people

900
00:42:56,840 --> 00:42:58,839
Speaker 1: that do it the right way get rewarded. I think

901
00:42:58,840 --> 00:43:01,480
Speaker 1: coaches are the exactly the same, and as long as

902
00:43:01,880 --> 00:43:05,200
Speaker 1: you're proving that you have assets that can be positive

903
00:43:05,200 --> 00:43:07,440
Speaker 1: for this team, coaches in front office are going to

904
00:43:07,480 --> 00:43:09,359
Speaker 1: be willing to stick with you. You know, you brought

905
00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:11,880
Speaker 1: up the fact that Dan Cherson is on the practice squad.

906
00:43:12,160 --> 00:43:13,960
Speaker 1: He was a guy that was used a ton as

907
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:17,160
Speaker 1: a gunner on special teams. I would assume moving forward

908
00:43:17,239 --> 00:43:19,000
Speaker 1: that you know, they're willing to keep that speed on

909
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:21,520
Speaker 1: this roster, that they're gonna try and find ways to

910
00:43:21,560 --> 00:43:24,799
Speaker 1: get him in there. But again, there's just a ton

911
00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:27,439
Speaker 1: of names here that you look at, even your Kyle

912
00:43:27,520 --> 00:43:31,440
Speaker 1: Hinton's or how about Bryant Kobak. You know, he was

913
00:43:31,520 --> 00:43:33,719
Speaker 1: good he looks so good this preseason alsnot like the

914
00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:36,319
Speaker 1: aj rows of last year. Huh exactly, And that's just

915
00:43:36,360 --> 00:43:38,279
Speaker 1: it is, like you're That was the one of the

916
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:41,560
Speaker 1: questions was the embarrassment and riches at running back, this

917
00:43:41,640 --> 00:43:43,400
Speaker 1: feeling of you know, how are we going to slide

918
00:43:43,400 --> 00:43:46,239
Speaker 1: different people to different positions. The fact that they did

919
00:43:46,239 --> 00:43:48,600
Speaker 1: bring him back just showed that, yeah, they saw something

920
00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:51,239
Speaker 1: they liked from him in preseason and so with that

921
00:43:51,360 --> 00:43:53,200
Speaker 1: being the case, you know, him getting a shot on

922
00:43:53,239 --> 00:43:55,000
Speaker 1: practice squad is great. At least it gives you more

923
00:43:55,040 --> 00:43:57,279
Speaker 1: depth that you can feel comfortable with. Well, I'm glad

924
00:43:57,320 --> 00:43:58,960
Speaker 1: that we got to take this extra time to talk

925
00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:01,920
Speaker 1: about this. Give the practice squad guys some love. Need

926
00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:05,080
Speaker 1: to welcome Jalen Rager to town. Ross Blacklock was out

927
00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:09,600
Speaker 1: of practice today real quick, lots and yeah, don't don't

928
00:44:09,719 --> 00:44:12,040
Speaker 1: lug off your Twitter too fast because you never know

929
00:44:12,080 --> 00:44:15,040
Speaker 1: what you're gonna miss, right, But yeah, if you really

930
00:44:15,080 --> 00:44:17,040
Speaker 1: want to take more of a deep dive, of course,

931
00:44:17,080 --> 00:44:20,120
Speaker 1: all of the rosters, the moves, articles about these new

932
00:44:20,200 --> 00:44:22,360
Speaker 1: guys and what's going on here in the front office.

933
00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:25,800
Speaker 1: We'll be on Vikings dot com And like I mentioned,

934
00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:28,480
Speaker 1: a little bit earlier. We will hear from general manager

935
00:44:28,560 --> 00:44:33,000
Speaker 1: Quasia Dopamensa and head coach Kevin O'Connell later on Thursday,

936
00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:34,799
Speaker 1: so we'll be able to hear what they like, what

937
00:44:34,840 --> 00:44:37,560
Speaker 1: they thought, why they made the decisions they made. And um,

938
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I think it really proves your point

939
00:44:40,080 --> 00:44:43,799
Speaker 1: J from earlier in this podcast that not afraid to

940
00:44:43,840 --> 00:44:47,680
Speaker 1: make moves, will like the draft capital, like the projects.

941
00:44:47,719 --> 00:44:49,239
Speaker 1: It kind of feels like where they think they see

942
00:44:49,239 --> 00:44:52,320
Speaker 1: a lot of upside and willing to make the risks,

943
00:44:52,640 --> 00:44:54,719
Speaker 1: like risk it for the biscuit, right something like that,

944
00:44:55,040 --> 00:44:56,719
Speaker 1: They're willing to take the risk and try to do

945
00:44:56,719 --> 00:44:58,480
Speaker 1: it if they feel it's the positive thing to do

946
00:44:58,480 --> 00:45:01,959
Speaker 1: on a calculative move. So again, like we talked about

947
00:45:01,960 --> 00:45:04,120
Speaker 1: her in the pod, it's the idea of they're willing

948
00:45:04,160 --> 00:45:07,160
Speaker 1: to make their trades. They're willing to add and kind

949
00:45:07,160 --> 00:45:10,799
Speaker 1: of subtract different positions here that they feel that they

950
00:45:10,840 --> 00:45:13,440
Speaker 1: can at least solidify their roster even more and they're

951
00:45:13,440 --> 00:45:16,240
Speaker 1: going to keep putting their their stamp on the roster

952
00:45:16,320 --> 00:45:17,840
Speaker 1: here to make it feel like it's theirs and what

953
00:45:17,880 --> 00:45:21,080
Speaker 1: they want and just cannot get complacent here. There's gonna

954
00:45:21,080 --> 00:45:22,759
Speaker 1: be a ton of moves, not only in the next week,

955
00:45:23,080 --> 00:45:25,560
Speaker 1: but I would assume moving in through the season as well.

956
00:45:25,600 --> 00:45:27,440
Speaker 1: It just gets a little more difficult, especially if that

957
00:45:27,600 --> 00:45:29,320
Speaker 1: week one. You know, when you start to get the

958
00:45:29,480 --> 00:45:31,719
Speaker 1: when you don't have to have guaranteed contracts anymore and

959
00:45:31,760 --> 00:45:33,919
Speaker 1: you can just pick up free agents and not pay

960
00:45:34,160 --> 00:45:37,520
Speaker 1: their guaranteed money, aging veterans. We'll never know who you're

961
00:45:37,520 --> 00:45:40,480
Speaker 1: going to see, that's correct, So yeah, definitely stay up

962
00:45:40,480 --> 00:45:42,319
Speaker 1: on Twitter, stay up on vikings dot com, and make

963
00:45:42,360 --> 00:45:44,560
Speaker 1: sure that paying attention to all the moves because it's

964
00:45:44,600 --> 00:45:47,120
Speaker 1: moving fast and furious. Yeah, sometimes we're even like, whoa wait,

965
00:45:47,120 --> 00:45:48,040
Speaker 1: did you see that? We got to go over to

966
00:45:48,040 --> 00:45:50,359
Speaker 1: report the podcast again, which is what happened today. So

967
00:45:50,760 --> 00:45:52,880
Speaker 1: thanks for tuning in and hanging with us today. I

968
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Speaker 1: hope you guys enjoyed it as much as we did.

969
00:45:55,200 --> 00:45:57,640
Speaker 1: As we mentioned earlier in the show, we will see

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00:45:57,640 --> 00:46:01,240
Speaker 1: you again on Tuesday of next week for a game

971
00:46:01,440 --> 00:46:04,399
Speaker 1: preview ish, maybe a preview of the game preview. Yeah,

972
00:46:04,400 --> 00:46:06,840
Speaker 1: it's the preview of the preview, Yes, the pre preview,

973
00:46:07,120 --> 00:46:09,200
Speaker 1: the pre preview. We'll hopefully have another player guest for

974
00:46:09,239 --> 00:46:12,400
Speaker 1: you and get you guys ready for Sunday's big season

975
00:46:12,400 --> 00:46:13,560
Speaker 1: opener against the Packers.