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Hey, everybody.

Welcome to another episode of Purple Insider presented by Fandall.

Matthew Collar here.

A lot to get to on the show.

We've got a Deandre Hopkins update, a new tackle, Carson Wentz's money,

and a crazy monotraft.

And more, let's get into it right now.

All right, I would like to make two shout outs to begin the show.

First, to TMZ for talking to celebrities and athletes while they get off their airplanes.

And second to all the people who sent me TMZ's intrepid reporting

with Deandre Hopkins and catching him off of a flight.

And those who sent eyeball emojis, you get extra bonus points

of being true Purple Insider fans who wanted me to see this and talk about it.

So Deandre Hopkins, yes, was getting off a plane and someone who works at TMZ

interviewed him for about three minutes as they walked through whatever airport Deandre Hopkins

was in and he discussed with them where he stands on his future.

And it sounded like from what Deandre was saying,

is that he was interested in continuing to play in the NFL.

So eventually the person interviewing him gets around to asking,

well, hey, what about Kyla Murray?

What about Minnesota?

Would you think about a reunion there?

And the first thing I found that was interesting is that he said

Kyla Murray is like family and he said that he's been in contact with Kyla

a lot and basically if the Vikings need him, feel free to ring up the old cell phone.

Now one thing that that comes to mind is with Kyla Murray, just like with lots of different

players, some people have closer relationships than others.

And Deandre has made it very clear that him as a former wide receiver one for the Cardinals

had a close relationship and a very good relationship with Kyla Murray.

And as we've tried to project, well, what is this going to look like with Justin Jefferson?

Deandre has been the closest test case that we could possibly get

to what it would look like with Justin Jefferson.

Because most recently he really didn't have a number one wide receiver that was proven.

We can't say that about Marvin Harrison and Michael Wilson, I think is a good player,

but I wouldn't put him in Jefferson's category and Trey McBride is clearly a tight end.

So we had to go back to Deandre Hopkins in order to find someone who played with Murray that could

project similarly. And Hopkins more or less said, yeah, if the Vikings want me, it's something

that he would consider. I'm paraphrasing that, but that was the big takeaway from this.

So here is the question then, should the Vikings be hitting up Deandre Hopkins?

Now, last year Hopkins played for the Baltimore Ravens and he caught 22 passes on 38 targets.

So he did not get a ton of work. He did appear in all of their games, but was not their number one

wide receiver anymore. One thing that did stick out to me though, statistically with Baltimore.

Because remember Lamar Jackson was in and out. Didn't quite have the same year.

Was playing injured. There was Tyler Huntley as the quarterback for a little bit there.

One thing that I noticed though is that Deandre still has a certain skill that he's always been

very, very good at and that is contested catches last year he had 17 according to PFF contested

catch opportunities and pulled in 11 of them and only had one drop last year and overall got

graded very well by PFF caught a couple touchdowns 81.3 grade average 15 yards per reception.

It's hard to deny that somebody who could come in and give the Vikings 25 or 30 receptions

and make a handful of contested catches and be a red zone weapon. There's been plenty of

situations throughout history where we see a veteran wide receiver go from an absolute superstar

to much more of a role player late in their career and still have a good amount of success.

The one that always seems to come to mind for me is Anquan Bolden who just kind of kept going.

Larry Fitzgerald these are guys with Arizona connections who were still very effective and Hopkins

kind of falls under that Larry Fitzgerald type of category is someone with absolutely freakish

hands and a ton of knowledge and intelligence to go along with it and a built-in chemistry with

Kyler Murray the Vikings wide receiver three spot is wide open at the moment and we wondered

as different guys went off the board I've done what two or three here's the remaining free agents

or probably more than that podcast looking at on I always include a hey me what about this receiver

what about that receiver and so far absolutely nothing from the cash strapped Minnesota Vikings

which is maybe what this comes down to how much money would Deandre Hopkins play for or put

differently how little money would Deandre Hopkins play for how much does he want to really come

back and move to Minnesota and be away from his family for another year despite the long history

of success that Hopkins has had over his career and he does mention in this short interview that

you know he is having a good time with his family and he is a guy that has always seen himself

as being more than just a lifelong football player so he doesn't have to commit to continuing to play

it seemed like he would be at peace if this was the last year of his career was 2025

but how little money would be enough to get Deandre Hopkins into the Vikings building because

when we start to look around at other wide receiver three options now if they're planning on

drafting someone in the first two rounds then this story is a little bit different and that person

would be immediately projected to be wide receiver three for the Vikings and you know we'll talk a

little more about Ty Felton eventually but you know Ty Felton's in the mix as a draft pick from last

year but is certainly not locked into that spot as someone who barely played last year behind

Jalen Naylor so a one year duct tape type of solution with someone who could still catch the ball

and knows Murray extremely well and could maybe even help Murray's transition into Minnesota

it checks a lot of boxes when we look elsewhere at other veteran wide receivers who have signed

for not huge amounts of money not Mike Evans caliber type of money the going rate for the Hollywood

brown or you know somebody like Christian Kirk is kind of six to ten million dollars

do the Vikings have six to ten million dollars because when we look at the salary cap situation

right now I mean they have run it up to the very last dime in order to just get a punter

and a backup tackle like that's that's how little money the Vikings are dealing with right now so

how will they make enough to even give Deandre Hopkins a considerable offer I don't think that

you would have to come to him with 18 million dollars a year but you might have to come to him with

seven and a half to 10 to get his interest to be a wide receiver three and that is about the

going rate if not lower than the going rate for wide receiver threes in the NFL anyway even if

you took another player who got 20 something catches an average 15 yards of catch and had some

contested catches they're probably pushing about 10 million dollars I mean Jalen Naylor didn't

even have 30 catches either of the last two years and got a big deal from the Las Vegas Raiders so

that has to be considered when we're talking about Deandre Hopkins but in terms of an actual fit

a possession wide receiver for a quarterback who likes to get the ball out of his hands quickly

it makes a lot of sense to me there would be one other question is just if it's someone Murray is

so familiar with is it possible and I don't think that this would be the case because Hopkins

even when he was tweeting the other day said that he doesn't want the workload of a wide receiver one

anymore and that he couldn't handle the workload of a wide receiver one but would there be any

feeling from Murray of trying to get the ball to his guy and maybe not building as much chemistry

with Addison and Jefferson I don't think that that would be a big concern but it does come into your

mind that the Vikings have three weapons already that want the football a lot so what Hopkins

be comfortable with the idea of hey you might catch one you might catch three you might have one

play where it's a three yard touchdown and that is your only target for the entire day overall though

I think that it is a good idea for the Vikings to check in with Hopkins if he wants to be here he's

been a solid role playing wide receiver for a couple of seasons now which is always another question

I mean do you go from being a superstar wide receiver to somebody that can handle that type of

reduction in role and I think he's already proven that he can so there you have it the Andre Hopkins

maybe an option but the Vikings need to do something to create some cap space first whether that's

extend Brian O'Neill extend Blake Cashman the Jonathan Grenard thing continues to linger in the

back of everybody's mind something would have to happen I think in order for the Vikings to be

able to afford Deandre Hopkins and one of the reasons for that is they have a new tackle in the

building by the name of Ryan Van Damark the Vikings pick him up as an RFA they gave him a one year 4.2

million dollar contract and Van Damark comes from the Buffalo bills as a development project by the

bills undrafted free agent in 2022 and he has gotten better and better over the last couple years

last season he played the most football that he has played in the NFL 312 snaps 74.4 pff grade 74.9

in the run blocking and 65.6 on the past blocking side a little bit of that at left tackle most of that

on the right side for Ryan Van Damark and he is let's see 2022 so this would be the fifth year

that he has been in the NFL and specifically at the end of the season yet a very very good game

against the New York Jets where he gave up he started the game didn't give up a single pressure

so the Vikings have landed their swing tackle this was really important as we saw from last year

where just in school was experienced and at times school played just fine but there were other times

where it was not anywhere close to just fine and the pressure was coming fast and furious from his

side now there was some extenuating circumstances there where Christian Darisaw would play half of a

game and then come out of the game with the knee injury still recovering and we don't expect that

to happen again but should this issue with Christian Darisaw's knee persist they needed to have

a better backup option than a true backup type of tackle they needed someone who could possibly

start in multiple games and you feel relatively okay about that now Van Damark's past protection

numbers are not pristine they're not phenomenal as of this moment I think one thing the Vikings

are hoping for is that he is continuing to develop but another thing is that he is younger he's

got a size wing spans a big guy that goes six foot seven three hundred and almost 10 pounds

and the size is something you can't replace but maybe looking for somebody that you feel a lot

more comfortable with if Christian Darisaw was having problems the other thing that came to mind

for me is well one if you really started to love where the guys trajectory was taking him I mean

maybe you could end up with a future right tackle it depends on how much longer they're going to

extend Brian on yield as he want a three year extension to retire as a Viking does he want to

become a free agent after this year we don't really know I would assume that he wants to continue

to be a Minnesota Viking but this is somebody who has experience as a right tackle and has been growing

year after year in Buffalo and the other thing too about his run blocking ability that came to

mind for me is the Vikings very clearly want to improve as a running team and they may draft a

running back could be in the second round could be in the third round but whoever that running

back is unlikely to be Adrian Peterson right away which means that the Viking success on the ground

is going to have to have to do a lot with how they block could Ryan Van Damark be somebody that

they use as a sixth offensive lineman at times we haven't seen a ton of that from Kevin O'Connell

but the Buffalo Bills did it pretty darn often and maybe he's somebody that you can bring in along

with Josh Oliver in certain circumstances let's say let's just throw out one it just random in

general oh how about like second and one inside the 10 yard line or third and one or fourth

and one anywhere on the field that you need to convert with a handoff it would be nice to have

another run blocker now I don't think based on his profile based on what I've read and what some

people have said that he's going to be someone you'd want right now to start over a long period of

time from an athletic perspective it's very hard to be a left tackle in space there's a reason

why Christian Darisog gets paid what he gets paid but at very least the Vikings have solidified a

swing tackle position with maybe a little bit more upside than you would normally get from a David

Quessenberry or somebody like Justin school so this is a younger player who has a chance to maybe

be here over multiple years if it goes well but for now one year 4.2 million dollars a relatively

big investment to get Vandermark out of Buffalo speaking of investments the compensation for Carson

Wentz is out and this comes from Tom Pell Sero he said the Carson Wentz gets a one year 3 million

dollar deal and 2.6 of that million is guaranteed for Carson Wentz now I will continue to go back to

this time and time again as the quarterback situation comes up I don't think that the current

situation is all that confusing I don't think it's all that dramatic I don't think that Carson

Wentz arriving here as QB 2 or QB 3 maybe that's where the real battle is has a lot to do with J.J.

McCarthy in his future to begin with because I think Carson Wentz wanted to be in Minnesota I think

he enjoyed his experience last year with Kevin O'Connell as the backup quarterback it's a team

that he grew up rooting for he if you haven't heard is generally from the area in the Midwest

and the Vikings two different times have gotten to their number three quarterback in a season

and those last two times it did not go very well so now if Carson Wentz or J.J. McCarthy is your

quarterback three and you have multiple injuries well you're going to feel like you could still

keep the train on the tracks and considering all the pressure that is on this team to get back

to the playoffs Kevin O'Connell to have another winning season yeah I mean you'd want to have

somebody like Carson Wentz around not to mention that he's another top draft pick who's gone

through it all he knows the offense it can help Kyler Murray with it and also can help guide

J.J. McCarthy and push him as well in training camp it's much better than just having Max Brozmer

no matter who you got you wanted to have somebody with a lot of experience and I don't know maybe

Nick Mullins wasn't available so here you have Carson Wentz I don't see the controversy I really

don't but that doesn't stop people from trying to see the controversy I saw this pop up from chase

Daniel and it did kind of make me chuckle a little bit but maybe he's right maybe he's right chase Daniel

tweeted the Vikings aren't giving Carson Wentz three million to be QB three this will be really

interesting to watch unfold through the draft if J.J. is available there's one obvious fit

and he included a bunch of lightning bolts so I assume that you mean probably the Los Angeles

Chargers and he was cool tweeting himself basically saying that Carson Wentz coming to Minnesota again

means that the Vikings are done with J.J. McCarthy and I clicked his little video and that's

pretty much what he's saying over and over is the Vikings are done with McCarthy it's over good

night goodbye because they have Carson Wentz here now and I just cannot personally get there I

respect all journeyman quarterbacks like chase Daniel and he does really really good content

I just done some great stuff on Kyler Murray on his page so no disrespect meant but I just don't

see it that way they may trade J.J. McCarthy and they may trade for Anthony Richardson and a bunch

of other stuff could possibly happen I suppose but I just don't really see the connection

I mean he's saying they're they're not going to pay him three million dollars to be QB three

is three million a lot of dollars because I don't really think it is when the salary cap is

300 million that sounds kind of about right for a veteran QB two or QB three and we're going

to have to find out whether McCarthy can take the QB two job I don't think there is a competition

for the QB one spot but we're going to have to see how it all plays out but we are so far away

from these things actually happening and again he could be right the Vikings might trade J.J. McCarthy

I don't think that the bolts I again assume he's referring to that's the lightning bolt in his

tweet there the chargers actually think Cleveland or Pittsburgh would make a heck of a lot more sense

since neither one of those teams actually has a quarterback and they might come with legitimate

draft capital to try to get J.J. McCarthy to maybe take a swing at him being their quarterback I

mean it happened with the Panthers trying to get darn old trying to get Baker Bayfield and if they

had stuck with it they probably would have ended up being right and instead you know they move

down pretty quickly but we saw Miami do this with Josh Rosen it's happened many times where teams

acquire somebody else's quarterback and just roll the dice also heck the Arizona Cardinals would

make a lot of sense for J.J. McCarthy but I don't see where it really fits to trade him right now

or trade him at the draft unless you got an amazing offer that you just couldn't turn down

a the Cardinals are offer in a second and a third or something like that okay well that's a lot

for a guy that you might feel like since you're already turning it over to Kyler Murray the odds are

pretty strongly against but here's one thing we know about Viking land is that calamity can strike

at pretty much any time and the quarterback position is very unpredictable

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so why would you make a move when Kyla Murray's on a one year deal and what if he comes to training camp

and tears his ACL I mean it happened before you know knock on wood on that but if he suffered a

serious injury and then you're looking at wence and JJ McCarthy is your quarterbacks again I would

much rather have McCarthy start then wence wence knows the offense better but if McCarthy makes some

progress from what he did at the end of last year and then there's there is the find out element

at that point where you're just saying what can we find as a silver lining but he could also take a

big step forward if that where to happen you certainly don't want only Carson wence there trying

to save your entire chop which is why I guess I would put right now JJ McCarthy is QB two now on a

game day on a game day you might want wence at this very moment before we've seen them in mini camp

or OTAs or whatever at this very moment you might want Carson wence just assuming that he is more

experienced than can run the offense but over an entire season clearly if Murray got hurt in

training camp or early in the year you would want JJ McCarthy to be your quarterback so I think

the goal here is to have a highly competitive quarterback room meeting three guys I could trust to

actually play football and that they are not at this moment giving up or getting rid of JJ McCarthy

however it does you know make for a cool video so there is that I just don't see it it feels like

there's a lot of attempts to make this interesting and it's just really not that interesting

they brought Kyler Murray here to be their starting quarterback and the backups are going to fight

it out and if JJ McCarthy takes huge steps forward this year in training camp then he can make

things interesting for the future he's probably going to get in some games it's I don't know how

likely it is that any quarterback starts 17 but you know Kyler with injury history has only done that

what twice in his career played the entire season so there's a lot to still be determined I

think bailing on McCarthy now if they were to it would mean that they are really super duper out

but I just don't see that exactly but Carson Wentz will make a very solid 2.6 million dollars

to be the Vikings backup quarterback all right let's get to a blazing hot mock draft by our

friends at the athletic and Alec Lewis and just in terms of things that I'm a little perplexed by

but also maybe kind of fascinated is the idea that the Vikings should try to get Jeremiah love

so this is in Alec Lewis's latest mock draft and we'll talk to him on the show very soon and he's

got the Vikings in this mock trading up to the 11th pick to take Jeremiah love and they are giving

their pick number 18 along with a 2027 third and a 2027 fifth to move from number 18 to number 11 now

there's a few different parts of this that I would maybe a little bit shake my head I mean number

one is does Jeremiah love get to the 11th overall pick Adam Shaftar the other day was saying that he

doesn't think that the Tennessee Titans are going to draft Jeremiah love here's what we know about

the draft Shaftar can be trusted rapper poor palace air all those insiders with their breaking

news but no one tells anyone who they're going to draft this is a purple insider thing always

and forever put it on the t shirt along with you know draft wide receivers and we love fullbacks

or whatever teams don't go up to NFL insiders and tell them who they're going to draft I get the

sense that Jeremiah love though it's maybe a 50 50 shot that he makes it out of that top 10 because

teams do believe in positional value they are well aware that running backs if you eventually have

to pay them down the road are not the greatest investment on their second contract they are also

aware for a team like the dolphins that's totally rebuilding but there's a lot of teams at the top

who are that trying to build the whole thing around a running back doesn't exactly work which is

how the Vikings actually ended up training for her show Walker is that the Dallas Cowboys knew they

needed a lot more draft capital so is it possible that he gets the number 11 yes but you know you do

look at teams like Tennessee like the giants like Washington specially Washington that it might make

sense to draft a running back but okay I could see you never know we always think that we know a lot

more than we do even with the consensus boards and you know things like that there's always some

guys who slip through the cracks so maybe he'll get to the number 11 pick the price tag that we're

talking about for the Vikings to trade up to get Jeremiah love is 2227 draft picks now would Miami

have better offers is question number two because I have to think that somebody else might go crazy

if they started shopping that pick and you can move up and get Jeremiah love so would somebody else

be willing to go up for me then farther what about I don't know like the Seattle give up enough first

from the following season because they lost Kenneth Walker and think about that offense that offensive

line and Sam Darnell the Jackson Smith the Jigbo with Jeremiah love right there's got to be other

teams who are having the thought hey what if we got the best running back so I think that offer is

a little on the underwhelming side and I just don't generally love the idea of trading 2027 draft

capital because you see this type of move going up to get a running back is capital that you don't

for next year if you have to move up and get a quarterback and there's certainly a scenario where

the Vikings are not in love with any of the quarterbacks that they've had let's say Murray goes nine

and eight is just okay they don't love what they see from Kyler Murray and they don't love what they

see from JJ McCarthy behind the scenes well then what are you doing sitting on your hands let's say

you win you know nine games I mean are you drafting you know 18th again and you've got to try to trade

up but oh no you don't have extra draft capital that you needed on the other hand if they were to pull

off something like this and you start looking around the offense your backup running back is all

the sudden Jordan Mason which feels pretty good and your weapons are probably among the best in

the entire NFL they have I think when healthy a good offensive line they've added a little more

depth to that offensive line at tackle we'll see what happens at center if this was the price tag

if this was the player fundamentally probably not the best idea but for 2026 entertainment oh yeah

this is a great idea and also Kyler Murray you know how often has he ever had a great great running

in the backfield the answer is not that often you know David Johnson and that whole trade for

Deandre Hopkins once upon a time but I mean he has not had good running backs James Conner is solid

and I would put him under the same category as a Jordan Mason it's pretty good but nobody like

this who could potentially be a top five running back and we are getting to a world where you start

to go through the top running backs and most of them are first or second round draft picks we

haven't seen as many there was a real run there of four fifth sixth round undrafted running backs

who were thriving but we haven't seen that as much lately it's been a lot of the top draft pick

guys so I would be very conflicted on this and I do not expect them to sell out the future but if

the price was only a third and a fifth to move up okay maybe you might be able to convince

me that Jeremiah love would be the right move over whatever defensive player you can get but

they do need more capital more young talent not less so I don't know if I'm totally on board

with this one all right let's get to a couple of fan questions let's start out with this one from

Sean and actually let me stop real quick and say fan dual question of the day Deandre Hopkins

we're talking about him other acquisitions we've been waiting and waiting and waiting the mock

draft we just discussed so here's your fan dual question of the day the Vikings over under is

8.5 wins on fan dual is there anything left this off season they've added a quarterback but not

much more anything else that they could do in the draft or any other move that would bump that up

by a single win to get them to nine and a half is there anything that they could do give me one

move that they could make a trade a draft pick assigning that would bump up that number that's

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OK speaking of fan question let's get to Sean's question he wrote I see two likely outcomes for

2026 both of which make trading Jonathan Grenard now a good idea first we win 10 plus games and we

need the salary cap space that would go to jg to sign Kyler Murray second we are a disaster Kyler

gets hurt jj plays and is an effective so paying 30 a 30 plus year old past pressure 25 million

is a poor allocation of resources when we could have had a young top 100 pick in the building so

he's not quite 30 yet so that we need to keep that in mind that he is still in his late prime we

see lots of past rushers go into their early 30s if they were to extend Jonathan Grenard or

potentially just give him a salary adjustment because he is under contract through 2027 that's

something to keep in mind here when we talk about the Grenard trade possibilities so at least

for my read on over the cap dot com it looks like his guarantees have run out so he wants more

guaranteed he probably also noticed that Jalen Phillips got a huge contract and so did a doffy

those guys are good players are they way better than Jonathan Grenard no so you could see him

looking for a get me closer to those guys because that's what players at my position in that tier

are getting paid which is fair from Jonathan Grenard's perspective you're always looking for

guarantees and you're always looking for your performance to match what others in your fields or

your caliber of at your position are getting so Jonathan is coming from a very fair position in

wanting a contract adjustment from the Vikings but also the Vikings are coming from a fair position

of saying we don't have a lot of money to give you right now and also is it the best allocation when

you have Dallas Turner who's kind of waiting in your position right behind you and do we think

into the future that you're going to be worth 30 million over as you said uh in an intriguing draft

of ad rushers I wouldn't say a mind blowing draft of ad rushers but there's a lot of guys who have

a good case for maybe being rotational players or potential starters would you rather just pick one

of those guys even at number 18 and go from there and use the extra cap space to bring in Deandre

Hopkins or whatever two or three other free agents totally get it where you're coming from

working on the timeline the one thing about that is that they could still do this next year

now he's got more value when he's under contract through 2027 but since a team would have to give him

a new contract anyway that's kind of negated uh you also earn you know by cutting him if you want to

next year if you couldn't make a move to trade him away then you were in your cap space by doing

that if you needed to sign Kyler Murray so they can wait on this and let it play out through next

year and decide where they think they're at because if you play Jonathan Grenard on his current deal

and let's just say that he gets gosh 12 sacks 75 pressures he's an absolute monster well then

you're going to be wanting to resign him and thinking about going forward you know in your

scenario they win 10 plus games well you're going to want to run it back and you're going to

want to spend a lot on the roster and try to get every ounce out of you know Kyler Murray and

whatever contract that you want for him and if it doesn't go well you could still move on anyway

but you know I don't disagree totally with your point that Jonathan Grenard being a really good

player carries value that the Vikings could use spread out to other things so whether that's

cap space to spend or just draft capital I mean I just was talking about when it comes to the

mock draft about this team needs younger cost controlled players because they just don't have

very many of them they're all Jonathan Grenards they're all paid very well to be here which is fine

if you can afford it but at some point you're getting close to not being able to afford it

which is right now so if you were thinking about a now and later type thing you can add to other

positions where you feel like you're weaker and you could get more draft capital to build for

the future when I come back to though is let's not forget the most common sense and most obvious

thing we can say about Jonathan Grenard in his situation he's good and you just brought in a

quarterback who throughout his career has had times where he's good and if you're going to set your

expectation bar now at 10 plus wins if Kyler Murray plays the way that he did in 2024 only with a

much better team or the way that he did in 2021 with Justin Jefferson taking the role of Deandre

Hopkins and I also think that the you know the schedule is is easier I mean you're playing the

NFC South you're getting more home games you're in a pretty favorable situation to get to the top

of the NFC North what I'd like to do is see first with the NFL bumping back the trade deadline you

can really get a good idea of where you stand before you have to make decisions like this so let's

just say if the Vikings go out right now and teams are saying you know how about like a third round

pick we're not really sold on the idea of giving you a second rounder for Jonathan Grenard well

for me that's just not good enough okay well you know just getting the cap space in a third round

pick not going to cut it for me but let's say you have the trade deadline and things aren't going

that great and you decide well you are three and whatever three and four and teams are calling

but now they're desperate we need a past Russia this year's our year with one more piece

can you get a second then that might be more possible that you could get a second then it could be

that you could get a second for Jonathan Grenard if you wait so I'm in favor of waiting to see how

this thing plays out and then deciding with Grenard then rather than doing it now getting halfway

through the season and going oh Chaz Chamblis is now playing outside linebacker you know I like

Chaz Chamblis but I don't think he's quite on Jonathan Grenard's level at the moment okay one more

fan question here this one comes from Axel says hi Matthew thanks for this space is always when

are we supposed to expect something from Ty Felton stepping up to wide receiver three is entirely

out of the question and that's with a question mark so let me try to say that the way that he means

stepping up to wide receiver three is entirely out of the question it's not entirely out of the

question Axel I think the Ty Felton has the talent to be able to step up to a wide receiver three

I also think that it's relevant that the Vikings have at least four tight ends right now on their

team will count Ben Eurosik and Gavin Bartholomew who unfortunately got hurt before he even got a

chance to get into mini camp and OTA's a train camp and all that sort of stuff last year but they

did like they're very early impression of him and they certainly liked him coming out of college

they could use a lot more 12 and even 13 personnel with just a Jefferson out there I don't know if

they're going to get a fullback so far they haven't maybe they'll have some development fullbacks

in camp or something like that but as far as a wide receiver three goes I mean we do set the bar

fairly high because well nailer was good and also KJ Osborne was good but when we consider the

actual target share if Addison is healthy and has no other off you'll issues and Justin Jefferson

is healthy you know you're only talking about 30 receptions from that position and I think that

nailer did a great job with all the stuff with the blocking with clear out routes with knowing

everybody's position if somebody got banged up in the middle of the game and that to me is why you

need to have another veteran wide receiver who could handle the entire playbook and not just say

to a very young tie felton hey man just like go be Justin Jefferson cuz he tweaked a hammy so now

you have to pretend to be him I think that would be a lot to ask but I saw some good things for

tie felton last year both in training camp but really on the special team side of it which I know

no one ever gets excited about oh yeah congratulations you were on that kickoff thing I was at the

refrigerator but it is not easy to be a special teams gunner and I think felton if somebody got hurt

was the next man up and would have gotten more opportunities but he showed physicality ability to

defeat blocks ability to defeat somebody pressing up on him and they had one of the better punt

in terms of stopping teams returns in part because of tie felton and also when you look at his

college profile he did not have a ton of experience so he's still developing but he was really good

with the ball in his hands and this is something that I'd like to see some frank smith influenced

to this offense of somebody who can really be a playmaker on underneath stuff that even with

jalen nailer well I think he was maybe a little more competent when it came to ball in his hands

then he was given credit for felton like that's his thing is playmaking with the football in his hands

so I would like to see him get at least an opportunity but along with a veteran wide receiver so maybe

there's a rotation there it doesn't have to be one two three four forever it could be five guys

and you're working in the guys at the back of the rotation into different spots for different

situations I don't know if felton can block at the same level that nailer ended up being able to

block and you know they use trench or field so maybe they could bring him back in 2024 but I think

the idea of people writing off tie felton would be very very unfair to tie because he does have a

lot of talent as a third round draft pick but we have to remember is the last pick of the third round

it's not like we're talking about somebody who we should expect always going to walk through

those doors and be the next top wide receiver it's taking those guys time it's taking KJ Osborne

time it's taking jalen nailer time and this is another development project of keen and mccartel

so param with a veteran wide receiver or you know potentially draft someone that could ultimately

take over if Jordan Addison leaves or is not given the fifth year option and see what happens

from there as many young receivers as you can stack up and develop the better so that's how I

feel about tie felton all right that's everything is going on in Viking land I appreciate all checking

in and watching another episode here we've got we'll see about this week what comes up if there's

some slow times and a lot of time for more questions and comments and live streams or if we have

another Viking surprise and we get a Jonathan Grenard move or something else and then we'll

have the owners meetings in Phoenix the week after that so I will be there in Phoenix for that

and hopefully the airport and travel situation is cleared up by them so thanks everybody for

watching slash listening and we will talk to you all again very soon football

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