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Hey he the know nonstop Vikings talk it’s purple daily on score North and scor.com and away go yeah and away we go into the off SE the offseason discussion starts in 3 2 1 right now gentlemen right here on Vikings vent line purple daily YouTube channel presented by our friends

At Quick Trip Vikings vent line is the most fan-friendly interactive show in all of Minnesota sports we pride ourselves on just turning it over to you guys so you guys can have a plat form and speak your mind about your favorite football team Phil Macky Jud zolad and

Our executive producer Dean Goff if you’d like to get on the show send a request to the email address Vikings ventline gmail.com we’ll try to get to as many of you as possible over the next hour and change just keep it clean okay don’t uh don’t get us fired is basically

Our our only request and we’d love to hear you answer the question I mean I know if you have thoughts on today’s game I guess you know but but we’re really we want to turn this discussion forward we’ve got several months of team building draft leadup free agency big organizational questions at quarterback

Denil Hunter’s a free agent what do you want to see happen this off season that’s the theme here today on Vikings V Line we’d love your thoughts we’d love your takes if you’ve got Reckless speculation let’s start it up right now here uh Jud what’s your overall takeaway

Here as the Vikings wrap up a seven and 10 non-playoff regular season uh well I I think personally my takeaway is that today went fantastic because this is as far as the Vikings go you know what they tried to H hang in there at the end Nick Mullins gloriously did what he’s going

To do um I need some time to sort this whole thing out though now that it’s done because there’s the oneof four start extremely disappointing and that was with Kirk and JJ and I know it’s not all on them but but you you did have your best players then once Kirk gets

Hurt you sort of had that short-term sugar high but the reality set in so what I need to do is I need to figure out personally where I think this franchise is at I think I sort of know how I feel about it and it’s not super

Optimistic now can that be changed with some good drafting yes absolutely um but you know the division’s getting tougher Green Bay if Jordan love can play and it looks like he might they’re going to be tougher than I thought I think Chicago is ascending Detroit certainly is solid now

So I think the real question that needs to be answered is where do we think this this team and more importantly the franchise as a whole is currently at with quazy and Kevin and are they on the trajectory of this show and of all Vikings fans to actually not make the

Playoffs but actually make the playoffs and win a Super Bowl yeah Dex where are you at now where’s your head at here after the the finale has finally passed we’re into the off season now uh I I wouldn’t say it’s like cuz you’re not going into a full reset but it’s just

Let’s wipe this slate clean like it was a disappointing year disappointing finish it was kind of like played in thirds do a degree they got off to a slow start then they won five in a row and then they lost what seven of eight I think or six of seven to close the

Season and there’s a lot of questions have to be answered and I’m just looking forward to bkings the bking trying to figure out the answers to those questions and whether that’s in the draft free agency I just I want a clean slate here this was a a roller coaster

Like season um a lot of lot of what ifs to a degree but I’m honestly ready to kind of clean this up a little bit get get after it in the draft talk to Miles and on 402 and just kind of attack this offseason man I’m really excited for

That you know it’s I spent most of the game just kind of because we’re going to starting on so we’ll give our hottest takes tomorrow on the Monday episode and and jud’s going to do a a pie chart of blame for not making the playoffs but I started looking ahead to Tuesday’s

Episode which we’re going to do our first sort of offseason blueprint episode on Tuesday and I I did some research just during the game and it is when you start to lay it out this team has so many holes and openings they have to account for with free agents leaving

With even even if you just look at positions where they do have Personnel they need to upgrade certain spots I mean Kirk Cousins and denil Hunter their best offensive and defensive player I guess Justin Jefferson’s probably their best offensive player but maybe their most important offensive and defensive

Positions and players both free agents on the offensive line they do have the tackles and that’s great but Garett Bradberry is going to be 29 and he wasn’t great this season Dalton Ryner is a free agent schlotman quizenberry a lot of your depth becomes free like offensive line

Still needs work KJ Osborne Brandon Powell two of your rotation receivers are both free agents on defense too DJ wanam free agent Jordan Hicks free agent Marcus Davenport didn’t do anything but he’s a free agent uh like you have a lot of holes to fill and you don’t have a

Ton of cap space so I I think my number one takeaway is this was another great loss so they they did what they had to do late in the season I I know they weren’t trying to lose it was kind of a perfect result because they kind of fought and Justin

Jefferson went for like 200 yards and they scraped and at the end they just came up short so they they improved their draft positioning but my biggest takeaway is I’m ready for this franchise to find the next quarterback watching CJ strout and the Texans celebrate in that locker room yesterday and watching some

Of these other young quarterbacks last few years light it up the Eagles and Jaylen Herz making a run last year like I’m ready for a 22 23y Old stud franchise quarterback to come into this organization and put a stake in the ground for the next 10 years that’s my

Primary focus looking ahead at the next four months I think there’s also an um a very fair and interesting discussion to be had as well about this question uh beyond that because yes get getting the quarterback right is the most important thing um and if you can get a stud young

One on a rookie contract that’s awesome but the next question too is is do you trust um quazy for the most part to build all or to fill or to help fill all of the holes that you just broached because you’re exactly right like this

Is one of the most in in my opinion it’s going to be one of the more interesting off Seasons that we’ve ever done shows on because yes the quarterback is just like one a and one b one b but after that you you up the most intriguing

Thing which is you got to fill a lot of holes and it ain’t going to be with Allstar players and Justin Jefferson is going to get paid like I am not concerned about him uh I’m not concerned about him trying to leave and I know he

Was frustrated today but he also to what you said it had a great day but you know once Jefferson gets paid you’re gonna have to get creative again too so like there are just so many things that quazy and and the people around him are going

Going to have to get right and yes it starts with QB but then from there there’s a lot of other things to fill in yeah I mean if you’re just being objective about this roster it’s certainly not a bad roster they’re not they’re not sitting in the position that

Like the Panthers are in where you know Adam thielen went for a thousand yards he’s their number one receiver but he’s not really right like the the Vikings have some studs at key positions and that’s a good starting point but this franchise is not just kurk cousins

Health away from running it back and making a Super Bowl run like if you look at this roster objectively and the pieces that are becoming free agents and the holes they have it’s not just get Kirk’s Achilles magically healed up resign to Neil Hunter and go beat the

San Francisco 49ers and go beat the Dallas Cowboys and Eagles on the road right like they have a lot of work to do and so if they have a chance I mean man if you can get your quarterback for you know a rookie scale contract it makes the other work easier because now

You have more money to spend and now you have something solidified so uh let’s get to the first Vikings fan here on this look ahead episode of Vikings vent line on the purple daily YouTube channel Dean who we got all right let’s go to Corey from Iowa he’s been on a few times

This year what’s up Corey Corey guys hey guys how you doing today good man good good good uh glad the season’s over uh that was uh I’ve heard you guys every day and I’m with you guys 100% uh we need good draft pick I’m glad the

Season’s over get it over with um I think this what we should do let kurk go as we’ve all been talking about as you guys been talking about let Kurt walk I think we reached the ceiling with him years ago I think that’s as far as we’re

Ever going to get with him uh either pick up penx Jr or uh Daniels from LSU I like the penck Jr and I like I think I can’t remember which who said it or was a it was a question um but with penx JR being the left-handed uh quarterback and

You now you can get you know say if you want to trade Dar Shaw get some more picks for him and then you know do do some moving around and stuff like that because what you said Jud you know after you pay Jefferson and say you keep you

Know denil Hunter you’re paying these guys now you got to get a little more creative so if you do go that route getting rid of Dar Shaw wouldn’t be a bad thing because he is a left-handed quarterback you know you can get some more assets for that if they do it right

You know quacy and them do this right um I think would just looking around and looking at the Young quarterbacks like you guys are talking about it’s time um I don’t want to waste any more time with Justin Jefferson Jordan Addison TJ hackinson in the future um we need a

Running game defense um if we do an upkeep of Flores I hope that they listen to Flores and let him pick his defensive players that he wants and leave him alone with that and let him pick his players and let him do his thing um in this offseason I really think KC really

Needs to look itself in the mirror and watch these other head coaches in the playoffs and see how aggressive they are with their play calling and with their and how they’re running their their systems I think that’s what he’s really lacking I know he did okay with the Rams

But that was the Rams that was that was their team you know with with your team you got to run your team how you have you have too many offensive weapons not to be aggressive all the time I think he got aggressive at times uh with the pass

To JJ for the touchdown that was aggressive those are aggressive plays now I know you have Nick Mullins back there which you know he can always throw a turnover in given time but being aggressive in your play in your play calling I think he was really lacking

That this year I really think he needs to really look into these other head coaches that are playing in these playoffs uh these rookie head coaches that are playing with these playoffs with the younger talented quarterbacks because that could be you next year um so you really need to look into that and

I just think with quacy him being this numbers guy I just think he needs to listen to his team listen to you guys the fans he really and I understand saying that’s a lot but listen to the people that that you guys know what you’re talking about when with the

Missing holes and everything that we need and I know it’s hard for them not to you know to do it all at once but you know it’s just Little Steps Little Steps but it’s going to start with the quarterback and it’s time to get the quarterback and build around that and

And see where we go but I appreciate you guys letting me on love you guys’ show and I’ll keep listening uh throughout the throughout the offseason and everything else love it man Cory and Iowa leading us off here that was great let’s let’s just keep rocking here we

Just we want to know what would you guys like to prioritize what would you do if you were given the keys to the franchise what do you want to see happen this off season which starts right now because the season’s over all right let’s go to

Wiggy he’s got it before I die with them too outside what’s up Wiggy hey guys so I’m here in La I was in the north loop for the Saints game had get some before I die but also I feel like it’s the last game of the season and it’s Harrison

Smith last game is a viking so to celebrate his great career pour out a little before I die not all of it it’s a good beer on it good yeah I was worried yeah but I mean it might be and and actually not to get

Like too far ahead here and and uh get two in the weeds but the Vikings don’t have if they’re looking to clear cap space they don’t have that many contracts they can tap like previous years you could go and like restructure Brian O’Neal or go to Kyle Rudolph for the 100th time

And take money off of his base salary the only contract you can really tap like to cut a guy or ask for a drastic pay cut is probably Harrison Smith so that’s going to be that’s going to be an interesting conversation man these next few months yeah I love the dude but I

Think it’s just time to pray for louisine to get better or find someone else it’s a lot of praying man start now and don’t stop till training camp opens okay thank you for coming on dude we appreciate it look at that blue sky beautiful day there La all right man

Yeah Vikings fans representing in warmer parts of the country who do we got next here on Vikings vent line all right let’s go to Aiden next Aiden what’s up buddy you’re on vent line hey what’s up guys I wrote down a few notes during the game um I know that probably the focus

Is going to be the offseason and I just wanted to quickly say that for any of the fans that are disappointed that the season’s over today don’t be because purple daily is the best during the offseason you get mock drafts daily it’s just fun time on purple daily as far as

Today um I saw that running the ball I mean we didn’t have over I don’t know probably around a 100 yards just from the ey test I haven’t really looked at the box score but we ran the ball well I saw KO called a couple of screen passes

And it just felt like why did we wait till week 18 to try this out you know we still had the aggressiveness with Nick Mullins we still threw the ball well um there was just I don’t know just a disconnect between what I feel like KO should be calling

And what he was actually calling for most of the season but moving forward um I’m just excited to see the mock drafts and how everything falls um on the draft board I did want to just pose one question to you guys what would you guys do let’s

Say you know we see the Raiders and the Bears win we’re picking at nine and by some miracle Marvin Harrison Jr Falls to us and there’s still two quarterbacks you know like say there’s Jaden Daniels Michael pennick on the board what are you guys taking Jaden Daniels personally

Yeah me too yeah I mean I I would love for the draft to be that crazy where those guys all fall to the by the way because there’s some people asking too right now before we know the result of the Bears and Raiders games uh the

Vikings are slotted in the 10th spot in the draft order if the Bears win against the Packers and if the Raiders beat the Broncos then the Vikings would hold at the 10th overall pick and if the Bears beat the Packers the Vikings would play a fourth place schedule so they’d have

Three easier opponents uh then they or they’d have like the commanders the Patriots and some other Slappy team the Panthers right so they would so the the Bears beating the Packers today is imperative for the Vikings to hold their draft position and for the Vikings to have a weaker schedule in

20124 yeah Absolut well thanks guys appreciate it and I look forward to the off season bent lines offseason mock drafts and just everything you guys put out keep putting out daily content it’s awesome thanks right thank you Aiden appreciate the kind words there senior bow is next then the

Combine let’s go dude then then off then free agency combined with with workout days which become really important as well that that’s the best thing is is like the the mock drafts which are in full force right now are going to change like three more times that’s the best

Part of this whole thing well tomorrow yeah we’re we’re going to get cuz tomorrow we we’re going to know the top eight team picks you know the non-playoff team so we’re going to get we’re going to get a flood of mock drafts tomorrow all over the Internet

And to to Aiden’s point you know this is if because there’s a lot of people I think that maybe jumped on board on purple daily as a listener or a viewer on YouTube in the past maybe 6 months or 12 months right this show throttles the

Day the season is over like we’re we’re all in during the season but we’re all in just as much if not even more once the season ends from right now until the NFL draft we are uh we are your home for daily speculation theories roster building MRA everything really really

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Reckless speculation during the offseason who’s next eckan all right let’s go to a trio here we got Eric Danny and Dereck I’ll even go full screen boys can you hear us hey what’s going on we’re calling in from Austin Texas at the warehouse billiard bar home

Of the Austin Vikings fan club for 30 years it’s the 30th Anniversary wow a couple friends I met there got to say we love the show first time calling in go what are you guys let’s go dudes what so yeah what do you we what are we drinking

We got a turnover chain we got uh Lone Star come on Lone Star Adit ad hopefully crazy cook something up this offseason we need it pie chart pull the pie chart out you got the ovit I got get one of those Eric and I are unemployed right

Now so all we do is watch purple daily every day call God bless you guys you’re brother you’re speculating recklessly while updating your LinkedIn profile we joking speculation we were joking about the end of the game Mullen going over 400 yards maybe with no turnovers and of course

Literally the next two uh drives turnover turn it Nick the pick Nick the pick he’s a blast I want I want to see they they had like 40 different advertisements for this the spring League the the two leagues that merged the UFL I want to see Nick Mullen carve

Up the UFL can the Vikings like loan him to who are some of the teams the Rough Riders or somebody he might get it I mean he might take it if they pay him right but all I got to say is through the thick and thin you got to believe we’re building something

Don’t forget skull Vikings we’re going to make this happen amen awesome thanks guys we watch you every day maybe next year you know we we say it every year but love you guys take care hey Che appreciate you guys that’s the Austin Texas contingent of purple daily listeners Vikings fans love it those

Guys are awesome that is great that’s that’s how you have a positive attitude today was ultimately a good this season injuries dumb turnovers early on like some years are just weird and fluky in the NFL and there’s a lot of a lot of fun things ahead for the Vikings so and

For uh and for this show who’s next Ean who do we got all right let’s go to Clayton next year what’s up Clayton how you guys doing um what’s going on man well these last couple of weeks have been absolutely painful back the whole month of December has been that that

Three to nothing win against the Raiders and you know that that Bengals game on that Saturday afternoon just made me angry I I had to go work out after that happened just to get that get that frustration out um I went I went to that game on Christmas Eve at home versus the

Lions and you know obviously that was pretty disappointing Mullins throwing 400 something yards and four picks and uh well the the topper of all the uh last week when we played the Packers at home I threw a New Year’s Eve party had a couple of my good friends from

Southern Wisconsin up here for that to watch that game with me so uh a little bit of an extra spit in the face there but yeah it’s all right the season’s over um this offseason’s going to be pretty interesting okay so here’s what I want to see happen um sign JJ you know

He deserves it he he’s obviously very frustrated at times not only in this game but just the way The Season’s gone who could blame him um he you know he’s not out there trying to lose games he was giving it his all he had a good game

Today um so you signed him sign denil Hunter uh Kirk I love you but it’s time to go um good luck on the Falcons or the Buccaneers or whatever new team he’s goingon to be playing on right it’s time to go find our new franchise quarterback

And I’d say use that for first round pick to get them no matter where they and are they 10th right now right now right now they’re 10th and we’re and we’re just awaiting the next three hours so if you’re if you’re watching Red Zone if you’re watching these games at home

You’re rooting for the Bears and the Raiders today Vikings fans that would that would be the best I got that game on right now okay so before I go here I’ve been waiting for this one I’ve had I feel like I’ve had this one in the uh

Oven for a couple of weeks but I want give out my hottest take for the 2023 season I might get blasted in the comment section for this but for this team I’ll do it I don’t care um so let’s play the what if game if this wasn’t the

Most fundamentally broken team I’ve ever seen in my life um if you even if you just take away one turnover from each of their losses and if Kirk didn’t get hurt and if JJ didn’t get hurt even with all the hes that this roster has this 2023

Vikings team is not only the number one seed in the NFC they’re possibly 17 and0 whoa now there’s whoa Clayton I told you it was going to be a hot take I wasn’t afraid to tell it just just think about it think about how weak the NFC has been

This year the 49ers Eagles Cowboys lons obviously they’re playoff teams they’re good teams but they’re not perfect right they’re they’re beatable even even the 49ers like we’ve been talking about how they’re one of the best teams in the league they got troun on at home Christmas day um so they’re beatable

Right so the playoffs are unpredictable like even if the Vikings were in that number one seed and the the hypothetical 17 and0 there’s no telling what would happen but the solution to fixing this regular season for the Vikings it’s simple the fundamentals right the turnovers and just staying healthy and

If all three of those things were just perfect they could be the number one seed that that’s my hottest take wow clay thanks for coming on perfect season yeah thank you guys man Dolphins the 7 dolphins are like we can’t pop we can’t pop our champagne because those bastard

Vikings cheeky I thought he was going to be cheeky and then all of a sudden he turns it into 177 and0 I like I like the evolution of that take yeah oh and they did play so today today was a 10-point game so they played I think it was 14

One score games this year after going was it 11-0 last year in one score games and I think it’s easy to get tripped up when man they’re in these games they were like six and eight in those 141 score games but you’re you’re not going

To go and I know they went 11 and0 in one score games but that regressed hard back to back to uh to Earth so just cuz you’re in every game and you’re never going to have a Full Slate of Health you’re never going to have you know no

Turnovers those are things there’s just a baseline of now the Vikings I think probably went beyond like the normal level of injuries where you lose your two best offensive players for half the season or more um but like there is a level of injuries and turnovers and bad

Things that are just Baseline and you have to find a way to be better on top of those and yes yeah and you I don’t think you you can control I mean they they in uh 2022 had great Fortune with guys not being hurt right so like that’s

Not not really a controllable thing turnovers you you are to blame for when it gets to to be you know the absurd amount that the Vikings had this season but it’s why last year is somewhat frustrating still because like you had some luck and yes it’s luck but like the

Question becomes how far can you take that then hey by the way uh bear down three nothing Chicago Bears right early at Lambo field bear down we are all Bears fans today we are we’re part of the h family baby today let’s let’s make it happen Chicago absolutely come on

Guys all right let’s get to uh another Vikings fan here we want to hear what do you want to see this off season Vikings fans all right let’s go to AJ next what’s up AJ hey guys not to not to come at uh a fellow listener here but I don’t know if

That was a hot take in the oven or a weed brownie that was just so Clayton’s into the Clayton’s into the Edibles today yeah but I mean I think it’s I think it’s time to clean the Slate um I’ve had enough of Kirk and Harrison Smith and just kind of these older guys

With the contracts kicking it down the road so I’d love if they would bring in Garder menu or Baker Mayfield as as a bridge cheaper than Kirk on the short-term deal and you’ll get Jaden Daniels or Michael pennix who is like I think the number one choice in my head

If they can’t draft up um I I would really hope that uh KLC just I don’t think he needs to look at all the other coaches and like mimic what they’ve been doing around the leag but I think he just needs to look at his opening press

Conference and just deliver on the stuff that he said like married marrying the run in the P that was completely out of whack this year um situational Masters the handling of the middle L like all of that stuff that just has gone by the wayside due to the injuries and I think

It’s I mean I don’t know about you guys but I think it’s money time for him um this almost feels like that offseason that they were going into after 2017 where it was just like Make It or Break It um I think he needs to go I I saw I

Know you guys haven’t talked about this on the show yet but I saw this interview with Mina KS and one of the beat reporters where he was kind of saying um he thinks it’s gone under the radar how much the Vikings were willing to give up to go get Anthony Richardson this off

Season like it was huge Hall I think he needs to go to the wils and make a swing because he’s tried to do it their way and slow play this rebuild but it’s just not happening um I don’t know if you guys saw at the beginning of the game

They were going through the last three drafts for the for the Lions and it was just like five starters here five starters there five stared there and it’s like I think he needs to have one of those drafts to save both him and KLC and lock up the future of the team yeah

It’s some great stuff here from AJ thanks for coming on here and and giving us your thoughts and like on mirring of the pass on the Run game and I get that they were down 13 nothing right away so they’re down two scores early on but man even with backup quarterbacks KOC would

Rather throw the ball twice for every run Nick Mullen and hey he threw for 396 yards nine yards per attempt a couple big touchdown passes should have had another one to Jordan Addison on that Flea Flicker um but it was 44 pass attempts another four sacks so call it

40 eight dropbacks and then the two runs so he was it was 50 dropbacks for Nick Mullin versus 20 called runs in this game yep and and Tai Chandler when he got a chance to look good again so like that’s another like that that’s G to be

A um if if there are four or five mysteries of the 2023 season the Tai Chandler thing is definitely going to to be one and I don’t know what Daryl Johnston thinks Madison has done in like a previous life or something something but if I had to hear him talk about I

Really like this guy I really it’s like dude did you watch any did you talk to anyone outside this team about him um but I I think that the best point that was just made is this I I actually think if you break this thing down going into

Next season I think there’s more pressure on quazy than oconnell that’s probably fair I think that that’s the hidden like we we get on Kevin because he calls plays and he’s out there every day and he talks to Media con conly um but that’s a really

Good point like the Lions if you look at why the lions are successful it’s because they’re building teams you guys Andrew boo Jr played today is almost unplayable Evans has taken steps backwards you know uh when when you look at uh Brian asima like you are these are

Guys that have you know I’m sorry but first and second day picks have to at some point contribute and it can’t be special teamers it’s got to be know they move into like Jordan hix’s role right and you just aren’t getting that consistently and that goes well beyond

Scene um by the way on Tai Chandler so with 12 carries for was it 60 69 yards today uh six yards per carry today for Tai Chandler he winds up with four and A2 yards per carry for an average which puts him right above Jonathan Taylor and

Bree Hall among running backs I’m not saying that he would that he’s Bree hall or that you know he’s a fully healthy Jonathan Taylor but like huge difference over and he and he carried the ball 100 times 100 two times on the season even after barely not uh like barely getting

The ball in the first you know two and a half months or so all right let’s uh keep it rocking here Vikings vent line on the let’s go to Josh next year hey Josh what’s up hey guys how are you uh first things first I absolutely love

Your guys’ show listen to it every day uh appreciate everything you guys are doing uh I’m not a Kirk Stan uh so you know before this game I was looking at it like I’d like to see Kirk come back on short-term deal so we could have a rookie quarterback sit behind him and

And get to learn I I don’t know that that’s the the thing to do I still think you’re going to be spending way too much money there even for a short period of time we definitely need to uh see what we can do to draft high or get a

Quarterback on a rookie deal that way we can sign Jefferson darasa some of these other players and then really fill the holes to judge Point defense is it’s amazing how bad some of the the defensive picks that we’ve had in the last couple years that they they can’t

Get on the field and when they do it’s they’re just absolutely horrible to play uh they’re behind several other uh players that are coming off the practice sad it it it’s amazing I I just don’t see how some of these young defensive players will be able to step up and

Start long term uh and I I really feel like we need to we need to start drafting on the defensive side uh you know the the defensive line is huge we have a a number of holes there and then on the offensive side um rookie quarterback and just see what we can do

We’ve got we’ve got too many high uh paid players that are coming up or they will be high paid players when we resign them on the offensive side to pay a quarterback a bunch of money we need that rookie deal you know no good points here Josh appreciate the kind words and

And thanks for for coming on the show who do we got next here on Vikings vent line decks let’s go to our guy Austin Austin what’s up buddy you’re on vent L what’s going on guys nice to hang out with you again I don’t have any sirly so

I do got some Kentucky bourbon that I’m going to be sipping on kind of celebrating little something stronger today good one for the season absolutely I got one of those little ice cubes that you freeze up and it’s in one of the spears so I don’t have to actually waste

Ice so it’s pretty cool um ju just a couple things I mean thank goodness the season is over and we’re we’re we’re finally in a position to work guys we can finally draft one of these stud quarterbacks coming out but at the same time we’re jaded Vikings fans right I

Mean we we we see what this ownership can do something just tells me I know I came on bent line a couple weeks ago something just tells me I went on ahead and said that we were going to draft Michael pennick but something tells me after seeing the performance today that

The will say God I mean we almost did it with with Nick Mullin you know if we could just beef up this defense a little bit and just we just gotta plug Kirk peasants right back in there I could totally see that happening you know maybe this kind of falls into the same

Draft and something tells me that it’s kind of like the Teddy Bridgewater draft maybe we go defensive player early and then I don’t know what kind of what kind of capital we had to give away for something that trade back up into the first round early second to kind of yeah

Go snag our guy I think that that’d be pretty cool too but I I guess on the other hand it’s it’s also kind of bittersweet because this is another season a Vikings season where we’re just talking about next year right I mean teams are kind of passing us up I’m

Watching the fal I’m watching the the Texans in the Colts game yesterday yeah and you kind of hear them well they they’re going to be set up for years to come they’re looking good look what the Colts have been doing without the without their guy you know with Gardner

Muu and I know it was kind of fun at the beginning of the Season like yeah the lions at least it’s not the Packers right it’s it’s it’s a little old Lions well guess what they’re for real they have a coach this isn’t a a popup season

It’s and it just seems like every every time the Vikings are good it’s it’s a popup season you have you have the 2009 you got Brett Barre this is your destiny right or you have the you have the Super Bowl in Minnesota and you you finally

Beat the Demons of the Saints and had the Minneapolis Miracle let’s go do it or you’re so close 13 wins last year let’s go do it this year Destiny and it it just always seems like every year we all always sort of get passed up when’s

The last time you ever seen that the Vikings were we good going into next year or playing with house money last time I can remember that was a Seattle game and Teddy Bridgewater and you know what happened that next year so yeah no great stuff Austin thanks for coming on

Man we appreciate you and uh go enjoy that exctly that Kentucky bourbon after a tough seven- win season here let’s keep it going here we got some some good stuff we just want to know we’re a half hour in 35 minutes we want to know what

Do you want to see happen this off season that’s the main question of the show here as we look ahead to the next few months on purple daily all right let’s go to Jim next year what’s up Jim hey guys I learned something today if everything is perfect you can

Go 17 and0 it’s true hey hey find a lie I don’t I don’t think he was lying if things do go perfect you can go 17 and0 that’s fantastic anyway you know I’m not going to talk quarterbacks or wide receivers I mean we all know that those

Are the sexy players um I just it’s I’m not going to talk about that because everyone knows that to me what’s sexy is um going deep in the playoffs uh maybe going to a Super Bowl and God forbid winning a Super Bowl and to need that and to do that I think the

Sexiest players in the world are just the dogs in the trenches I think I think we’ve been overlooking that football yep oh the lines CU like look at Detroit they built up their lines yeah and that’s the thing is and and Phil’s right the Vikings tackles are

Really good okay so when O’Neal and Dara are both playing and healthy but you know there’s a lot left to be desired at guards and at Center really and if you look at the the defensive side Harrison Phillips is basically I think being asked to do something that’s not his

Strength right he’s not a run stopper he’s not that big three four Ted Washington fat man so we need like a yeah we need like a a Pat Uh Kevin Williams Pat Williams we need Williams yeah we just yeah we just we need dogs

In there yeah it is and and even as thin as the defensive line is in terms of like talent and just high-end players even a lot of those players that played a lot of Snaps are becoming free agents like Jonathan Bullard played 600 snaps on the dline not very well necessarily

But he’s a free agent kyrus Tonga is a restricted free agent so yeah they’ve got they got work to do and those are I would say Edge rusher quarterback and in dominant interior defensive line players those are players that you don’t I know the Vikings have found some denal

Hunters and everon Griffins later in the draft but those are guys that you hunt in the first round y so they need all three of those things and they have one first round pick but they also are going to have like a pretty early second round

Pick but they have to decide you know are we are we going to build in the trenches with our top 10 top 12 pick are we going to start with a quarterback and try and find defensive line help elsewhere yeah you know it’s just it’s so frustrating because damn it I mean

The NFL game is one and lost in the trenches and damn it we’re so soft yeah we’re so soft in in on both sides of the ball it’s just it’s true man yeah Jim thanks for coming on talking trenches here not Vikings and and then part of your

Problem too is you’ve uh recently whiffed on so many cornerbacks that that’s another priority position but like you’re to to your point Phil you’re gonna have to pick and choose like you can’t go get so are you gonna like try to go to free agency are

You g to think that with a year in the system Murphy’s improved but you know my God if Booth could play that would be huge now I think Blackman can that’s good but I mean there are just a so so many decisions to be made because there’s there’s a lot of question marks

At positions that usually get get taken pretty high in the draft right now I would also say because the the Vikings they didn’t have like denil Hunter was their only really like organic pressure generating Edge rusher or defensive lineman of any kind right so they had

They had to send more blitzers than any team in the NFL and that puts your cornerbacks in a tough spot so I I just wonder if they had if they had better or organic pass rush where they didn’t have to manufacture it by sending six and seven would the backend Fair better in

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Jersey please tell me I mean is this Jared Allen yes I was to say CU you look like Jared Allen and this is this is a beautiful Avatar happening I’ll I’ll kick it off with a with a story then um so I’m sitting here last November October watching the pregame ceremony

With my wife and here comes Jared Allen on the field on his horse his locks flowing in the wind I look at my wife and I’m like what am I doing why I don’t why don’t I have a mullet so I convinced her to let me grow out of mullet until

Jared Allen is inducted into the Hall of Fame which is the number one thing I’m looking forward to this offseason and maybe more so my wife um because down here in Texas a mullet can get pretty hot pretty quick but wow I love the you had this existential discussion with

Your wife about honey it’s my calling I have to have them do you chop it off when the announcement comes that he’s going in or do you wait till the July induction when he gives his speech it’s a great question I haven’t talked to my

Wife about it you know part of me wants to do it as soon as I know uh but it feels like the induction is probably the right time to do it but July is pretty hot here so um some debates to be had there wow amazing man just C calf roping

Your way yeah in that faded Jared Allen Jersey exactly I’m hoping to you know find find something to put um some some marks in here for uh different life events but um just wanted to join in and say like hey it’s been a great season I’m a little uh mixed emotions here

Because it’s the last game of the season I just now found out that there’s a Minnesota Vikings group that meets in South Austin so I’ve got to wait until probably the draft before I can uh go hang out with those guys but um glad we lost kind of mixed emotions I

Have a son who’s basically the same age that I was whenever Randy Moss was a viking and so he’s getting to you know in parallel live vicariously through the Justin Jefferson years um so it’s it’s fun to have that but you know trying to tell my son it’s good if we lose today

Uh it’s a foreign concept um you know he’s off he’s like I’m going to go play outside now but um yeah I just wanted to join in and say hey I’m excited about the offseason um if I had to name one thing that we need to do this offseason

I would have to agree with Jim we’ve got to get bigger and nastier on defense um offensive line is I think okay I think that side of the ball is very finesse and it’s okay I think if we stick that way but our our defense needs a little

Bit more of a personality outside of um whatever mind uh Brian Flores has but yeah yeah no hey great stuff here James in Texas with the Jared Allen God I love it mullets are so oh man that that was my my he because I I had hockey hair AKA a mullet in the

Early 90s wow just a great look didn’t you have a perm at one point too in my teen yeah when I was like a sophomore in high school bad idea terrible idea the perm was not need to bring more of these the mullet the mullet was but the mullet

At the time I embraced that that was great but it wasn’t like that one like he’s got that’s a really impressive one I had one but it wasn’t that long obviously is Jared Allen still trying because remember he we we sort of facilitated years ago he jokingly we

Thought kind of jokingly said yeah I want to I want to be a part of the US curling team I’ve never curled before but I’m captivated and we connected him with like a higher up at one of the curling centers and that kind of sparked his

Is he still trying to do that I don’t know I think he is he definitely he definitely he like he like went like multiple years down the path he was on a team that tried to qualify for the Olympics I want to say the last winter

Games I don’t think his team didn’t make it and I don’t know I I know he’s doing different stuff as well now I think he gets bored easily okay there’s okay there’s a story from April 1st 20123 on olympics.com so from like a few months ago mhm and NL star turned curler Jared

Allen on 2026 Olympic dream I know what we have to do to accomplish what we want to accomplish nice okay so he is still targeting 2026 good for him oh man all right let’s keep this conversation going here who’s next on Vikings V Line all right let’s

Go to Dan Dan what’s up man hey guys how you doing hey man excellent all right I got a couple questions for you so this team had no identity for like the entire season and I feel like at the very beginning part of the Season there were so many

Turnovers that they had no idea what type of team they were they were like a finesse team then they’re like oh crap we forgot to run the ball and then they’re like oh well Madison can’t really run very well so and all these other teams have like identities you

Know what I mean they like they know what they do well and they just Hammer at home so I urge you guys to look back at the when KOC was with the Rams I urge you guys to look back at that team team and figuring out how the similarities

Were between that Rams team and the Vikings team cuz like they’re not too far off you know cuz they they did lose some games in that season too but like would you take like a healthy Matthew Stafford in his prime over a healthy Kurt Cousins in his prime oh God a a 100

Times out of 100 yeah and they had like what Aaron Donald and they had some other things so they had some better pieces but like do you guys think if you like here’s a serious question do you think Mike Zimmer is sitting back in his right now in his Ranch just

Laughing I think I think he is probably still at the point where he enjoys watching the Vikings fail after the way things ended a thousand per a thousand per. so I don’t know there’s some serious questions and like I was listening to your take this week about

How the Vikings are in one of three categories always with QBs it’s time that they go into that third category where they need if they’re going to rebuild and be serious they need to get in the trenches they need to get a rookie QB and they need to just face the

Facts because like I’m convinced the wils and like they’re two teams in the NFL I think that are always like average and I don’t know if like the league like wants them to be average but like the Vikings and the Steelers are always like middle of the road and they like will

Not bow down to like be bad to get good I don’t know what do you guys think yeah the Steelers have but the Steelers have the the Championships in their past like that’s that’s the thing is I think if we had let’s say in the 1970s the Vikings won three of the four

Appearances right I think we’d perceive this whole thing differently then the thing is you don’t have a championship the Steelers do I know what you’re saying um but to your thing about identity too and the comparison to the Rams I I think there’s actually a case

To be made and I’m curious if the statistics or the or the um Personnel grouping stats would show this I think the Vikings I think ok conell coming at from the Rams in 2021 to 22 had much more of an identity of a identified identity for last year’s Vikings team

Which was a lot of 13 Personnel the mcvean way right and then in the off season and I don’t mind this they said hey let’s take some Shanahan principles right let’s play Let’s play a little bit more um with an extra tight end they signed Oliver let’s use CJ ham

Differently and so I think that part of the issue that I don’t get but it became a problem was the identity of this team to me got far more confused from an offensive standpoint of personnel groupings than it was a year ago yeah and some of this is based on you know

Who do you have as weapons on offense but the you kind of alluded to it the main thing with the Rams when Kevin oconnell was there is the Rams ran more 11 personnel than any team in the league they ran like 85 or 90 or maybe I don’t

Have it’s like 80% I want to say of their first down plays were 11 personnel which is one running back one tight and three wide receivers on the field right and the Vikings were not quite that aggressive with 11 personnel in koc’s first year but they were like among the

League leaders in running 11 personnel out there and they scaled back on that this year it’s almost like after the first season he said yeah I don’t know if we can do it quite the way the Rams do we we want to run the ball better so

We’re going to go a little heavier we’re going to sign Josh Oliver we’re going to bring CJ ham back and we’re going to and we’re going to lean into heavier Personnel packages and the running game got worse so there’s a I think schematically Personnel there’s a lot of

Things to just go back and look at here yeah if you’re uh the front office and the coaching staff the next few months Beyond who is the quarterback going to be for 2024 and Beyond and part of the problem too was the guy who was going to

Run more didn’t trust the run like that’s the thing if is if you’re going to commit to it you’ve got to commit to it and and it was as if they said well Madison’s not what we thought but we’re still going to keep it you know at some

Point in time flip the script and they didn’t want to and and that’s the thing is I think far too often it became predictable I think that was part of the problem yep all right let’s keep it going here Vikings vent line purple daily YouTube channel all right let’s go

To Jamie next what’s up Jamie hey guys uh coming from Arizona uh and I I was gonna say I sure wish I had a quick trip out here so I could go get a box of dunkers and kuuba coffee to drown my sorrows from the season and so but we

Don’t unfortunately there’s not any within a few thousand miles of here yeah yeah we see we’ll see if we can uh talk to our people and get get one somewhere in the Phoenix area for you out in the desert for you uh and on a more serious

Note like um I turned 45 yesterday I’ve been a Vikings fan for about 36 years I want to say uh and another year you know we look without you know even sniffing a Super Bowl yeah um and you know you know it’s the Mantra of the show of before I

Die is is fun but it’s also like there’s a lot of Vikings fans out there that this is their last season that you know and with that in mind I we kind of wanted to look at Kurt Cousins and you know that’s the biggest decision coming

Out of the season and pose a question to you which is if your choice if your only two choices are resign Kirk Cousins let Danielle Hunter walk draft a edge rusher in the first round with that pick in that place or let Kirk walk uh draft Jaden Daniels or pennx uh

And resign denal Hunter which one puts us closer to getting to a Super Bowl if those are your two choices yeah Jamie thank you for uh for jumping on here I’ll I’ll take a stab at that I think the only way I’m bringing Kurt Cousins back is if he is not the

Centerpiece of my offseason plan if he wants to come back for way less money and he wants to be a part of this thing and be comfortable with a firstr draft pick being on the roster then okay but I don’t I I mean he’s probably going

To go test the market and see what Pittsburgh has to offer and and the Falcons and so I just don’t see a world where you bring him back for for two years and 7580 million and you find all the other necess pieces to win big in those two

Years like that’s like if you’re if you’re not if you’re not going to contend for a Super Bowl in the next two years then what’s the point of continuing to pay Kirk any more than like a super Team friendly contract that’s kind of where I’m at with this

Discussion I would say your best chance if you want to win a championship is door to and take a take a quarterback um because you know I’ll go back to what I’ve said I don’t think Kirk is going to win a Super Bowl now if you just want to

Get to the playoffs next year so if if you say you know what I just like making the playoffs it’s just fun then yeah you probably bring back back Kirk and you pay Kirk and you you know if Kirk stays healthy I think you make the playoffs

But if you want a Super Bowl championship you got to start to take some chances here and you know now now you could say well O Okay the kid you know stoud with the Texans is unbelievable but what about young and he had a terrible start and that’s you well

Or you might wh for a year and then he comes in a year two I mean Bry Young’s not done yet so but that’s my thing is I I I would rather roll the dice and be wrong because the thing is if you if you roll the dice and are really wrong it’s

Going to get people fired yes but you’re also going to have some great draft picks for a while yeah you know for a couple of years so so that’s that’s the thing is but if you’re chasing a Super Bowl championship I think you’ve got to start to take chances and and I think

What one of the reasons why the this franchise does not have a Super Bowl championship is far too often especially it feels like in recent years they don’t take the ultimate chances yeah and like in just one more thought and then we’ll get back to to Vikings fans here but if

If you’re telling me like okay Super Bowl blueprint is the goal the goal isn’t to get to nine wins again and to get in and see what happens the get in and see what happens is based on what because the 2007 Giants did it okay well

That’s an anomaly and that team had Hall of Famers too like that team had a crazy good defensive line one of the best fourman pass rushes in the last 20 years in the NFL y so if you’re telling me okay here’s two options you can resign

Kirk and let’s say it’s 3540 million a year which If he if he gets into a bidding war with three other teams that that’s probably what the price is going to be and I no longer have Financial flexibility to go fill defensive line

Holes or to go and I don’t have a ton of draft Capital right it’s not like I have three first round picks you know like the Vikings did uh eight or 10 years ago or I can take a gamble on a first round quarterback and for the next five years

I have extra money to spend I can plug holes in free agency because I’m drafting 10th I didn’t have to give up three future first round picks to move up from 23rd to 5ifth or whatever right people are only thinking about well what if you whiff on the quarterback then

What I would say well yeah there is a chance you would whiff on that quarterback and then you’re going to be like bad for a minute and then you’ll flush it try again which they’ve done this this franchise outside of the first like six expansion years has never had

An extended period where they’ve been garbage they always bounce back after one or two bad years because ownership front office they’re pretty well-run for the most part the last very important thing though to keep in mind is for this year CJ st’s been great and the Texans are a

Great story but that does not mean Bryce young sucks and it does not mean that the the quality of the performance by those two won’t flip at some point so like so like if you draft penck or Daniel’s first rounde okay and they don’t get off to a great start it’s not

The end of the world they might be absolutely fine yeah exactly so that’s the other thing is I feel like we now judge um especially High picks High rookie drafted QBs on year one as as as if you signed them like Kirk like we’ve seen that experiment that was ktk

Cousins 2018 you’re a veteran come in here wi win a Super Bowl oh that didn’t come close to happening that’s that experiment now we’re talking about Drafting and cultivating a kid and it might take him two or three years but guess what if it works you are now in

For long-term stability that this that this franchise has not consistently had y all right let’s go back to Vikings fans here what do you want to see happen this off season is the question of the day here on Vikings vent line purple daily YouTube channel all right let’s go

To Scott what’s up Scott hey guys how are you good man so just a quick historical deal thinking about uh since we’re looking at number 12 11 or 10 it would so this 24 draft it’ll be 25 years since we took C Pepper with the 11th and

13 years since we took Ponder with the 12th so we’ve seen the opposite ends of yeah of drafting um you know it’s year three with KOC uh coming up and the reason we got him and I was looking at him you know molding a quarterback I I I would like to see

Cousins come back but I just don’t think it’s possible with the salary cap and everything um I just hope that this has been a good learning season for K and what he wants in that quarterback room and really thinks about number two as well as number one because we’ve seen

You know it’s just been like a undatable girls in you know in the quarterback room from the sense where he just keeps going back from you know one to two to three to back to one to two to three it’s like a three step so you know

I I’m really curious to see what we can do in the draft in and I love the NFL off season but I do wish it was like the NBA where we had the draft before free agency because that makes free agency difficult you don’t know what you’re

Going to be able to get in the draft you know with the quarterback and with cousins cousins might be elsewhere can’t get anybody in the draft what where they really wanted to go and uh it’s too late I wonder that’s a great question Scott thank you for for jumping on here I’m

Sure it’s been talked about behind the scenes with the league but would it be a better off season if the draft was held in you know mid-march around the time where free agency is and then and then free agency but the but the problem there is in the NBA the season ends in

June and then players know where they’re going to land less than a month later cuz free agency opens up in the NFL if you waited until like April or May for free agency you’d literally have guys not knowing where they’re going to live not knowing where their families are

Going to be for like four or five months so that’s probably why they do it this way and plus it’s a plethora of guys too because I mean that involves a lot of just you know Journeymen uh guys trying to sign so plus I think this is fun

Because it forces like I I like the uncertainty of things at times too like it’s probably more of a pain in the ass for teams but it’s a but it’s fun but I mean the Kirk thing there is so much there because the the Kirk thing as we

Discussed last week also involves this whole thing of you have to make a decision on Kirk because you can’t allow that dead cap uh cash to hit your cap if you’re keeping him yeah but could you get him to back that up are are there ways I mean there’s there’s a ton of

Ways to do things and manipulate contracts because keep in mind his contract he’s not a free agent it’s going to void out so like it’s not the exact same it’s close but the point is like what is the timeline as well so like going into the draft I’m guessing

He signed somewhere perhaps here but there’s just so many um tentacles off of this entire discussion of decisions that are going to have to be made not super quickly but they’re going to come on you Prett you know pretty fast yep yep all right who’s next on Vikings vent line

Decks all right let’s go to Josh Josh what’s up on gentlemen I’m gonna break open the uh the fire hose here so asck the floor is yours yeah what do you want to see happen here what what do I want to see happen here uh free agency this year I

Think if I’m not mistaken we have some money to play with a lot of expiring contracts get rid of uh um you know Marcus Davenport who obviously did not do anything was big a waste of time this year um yeah so we’ve got there’s a lot of defensive end and Def defensive

Tackles cornerbacks available if you look at the 2024 uh free agency Josh Allen Chris Jones uh Jones Brian Burns um obviously we have um denal hunter that we could resign as well so I think we in free agency we got to pick up at least two

Three all po All Pro um type uh defensive players and then in and then the draft uh we go quarterback first round if not and if we decide to keep KT cousins maybe we go in round two but either way I think we do a defensive end

Or defensive tackle in those first two rounds one of the two and I I still think we need help at quarterback we might even need another free agent cornerback offensive line um I still think we need help uh we we need to figure out wide receiver three because I

Don’t know if KJ is gonna be around here anymore um backup uh backup running back I think um I think we need another running back I think cam Acres should be potentially resigned at A Team friendly deal he did pretty good I know he’s injured didn’t he just tears Achilles

For like the sixth time or something twice he’s t I wouldn’t spend a lot of money on him obviously um I you know what I think wanam too is definitely he he did pretty good this year I think he has a future with us obviously on a team friendly

Deal um we need to figure out safety help is Harrison Smith gonna be back is you know are we gonna just plug in what’s his face I don’t even know his name anymore Lis correct I don’t even know the guy’s name I don’t think they

Can plug him in I don’t think so they don’t and here’s the thing and Josh thank you for coming on here and like that’s a good segue into what we’re going to start doing on Tuesday but here’s the problem they don’t actually have that much money to spend like

That’s but like Josh just laid out all the things that they need and he’s 100% right boy boy they need at least two dominant defensive lineman or an edge and maybe even three if we’re talking about competing for a Super Bowl based on where their roster is at right now

They need three dudes up front an edge or two edges and a guy in the middle that they don’t have under contract right right now next year they probably need an extra outside cornerback they probably need not probably they for sure need a number three wide receiver an actual starting

Or backup running back to Tai like this that the other this that the other you’re not you’re not going to go sign they don’t have enough money to go sign like five All Pro players in free agency nor do those players all necessarily want to play for the Vikings right so

That’s just kind of the reality of where they’re at they’re not just like a move away in the off season from bring Kirk back go sign this guy and let’s go win a Super Bowl that is not where this franchise is at right so with with that

In mind that does make this the perfect time to draft a quarterback and sort of I don’t know if take your lumps is the right term for it but like this would be the perfect time I think to turn a page because if you bring Kirk back you are

Committing to trying to be as competitive as possible immediately again and then there’s in an inherent pressure to try to win with guys who aren’t who aren’t necessarily the guys that you want to fill out your roster and we didn’t even mention if Brian Flores is coming back who by the way did

A masterful job until the end once Murphy went out guess what those quarters got exposed bad so like that’s a whole that’s a different question but I I think that this this actually and what he’s pointing out makes a great case for why drafting a quarterback is

Really right now yeah but I would I would not do that I would it’s it’s funny like the Vikings have spent so many years and they’ve hit on Jefferson they hit on Addison they’re trying to build from the outside in more often than the other way around they don’t

Draft Edge rushers and defensive linemen in the first round no I no I said quarterback I would draft a quarter quarterback in this draft in the first round no but you said cornerback too you you were talking about cornerback they’re bad they’re bad at corner the

Point is there’s too many holes to fill so I’m not going to try to bring Kirk back and make an immediate like here we go again I’m drafting a quarterback in the first round and then eventually you would like to fill in but you’re going

To have to get that right as well and you’re not there right now my first two picks are going to be some combination of edge interior defensive lineman and or quarterback leaning toward quarterback in the top 10 but like I don’t I oh they’re thin at cornerback

They’re at this they need doesn’t matter like fix the quarterback and the trench is long-term on defense all right let’s let’s keep it going here Vikings vent line purple daily YouTube channel all right a few more left let’s go to Adam you’re on vent line what’s up Adam hey

Boys promise my wife won’t jump in this time um so it’s okay um I do like the idea of a quarterback in the first round but here is what I’m mulling around with bringing cousins back PFF says he’s probably do in I don’t know if they use the

Algorithm or if they really dug down to it a two-year $60 million contract so 30 a year right that’s what they roughly value him as um but this would be the first time in his career where he would have the same offense for third time now

Granted he is not young right so he but the thing we always talk about he’s a system quarterback he is not an improviser that’s not in his bones he needs to go through his projection right but and when he kept having all these uh turn around offensive coordinator it’s a

Different checkdown right or number one number two number three is different but this is the third year that he’s goingon to have it for the first time in his career Rich Ganon was uh uh MVP for the in his 15th season right so granted he had two Hall of Fame receivers on that

Doesn’t hurt anybody you know but we have a future Hall of Famer and JJ a potential with Addison you know and hopefully Hawk you know is you know pulls Adrien Peterson you know and comes back you know sooner rather than later not the full calendar year but that’s

The only thing that’s that makes me wonder what if with Kirk is that we this is the first he’s never the only time he’s only had the same offensive coordinator for more than one year once in his career and that’s when he had Shawn McVey for two years in Washington

Ever since then it’s been another another another another another yeah now granted they run kind of a similar system and here’s the other thing with KOC he ain’t going to change he we saw it he tried to run the same offense with you know with all of our backups he

Didn’t change the Playbook he’s a little bit of children like that this is a kickass offense type deal yeah but you gotta have a kick-ass quarterback to run that kickass offense yeah that’s the only reason why I kind of think about that Adam thank you for for jumping on

Here and I think he represents a lot of fans that are still in that sort of what if mindset with Kirk which has been his whole career right well what if he just had more stability at offensive coordinator what if he had what if he had more stability with a franchise that

Would give him a guaranteed contract in Washington what if he had better weapons over here what if he had better offensive line well what if the defense wasn’t ranked 25th even though it was ranked third or fourth the first two years he was a viking right it’s it’s

How how confident are you that this train of wh ifs when it comes to kurk cousins will lead to an actual pot of gold at the end of the rainbow that’s my question well and I think but I’ll absolve cousins completely by saying this I think when you look at the

Current state of this franchise and the current Personnel deployment and what this team has they don’t have like bringing Kirk back is fine but is there enough around Kirk outside of Jefferson Addison and maybe hackinson to win and my answer is in my opinion there is

Not to win a Super Bowl so like you this isn’t a Kirk thing to me as much as a reset thing and I’m not saying burn this thing down but when you look at what we just went through right with all of those positions and all of the areas

Very high priority of need is bringing Kirk Cousins back going to catapult you in 2024 to a Super Bowl and my answer is no it’s not Kirk came here look the opportunity we it’s so funny because we still talk about Kirk like it’s 2017 going into 18 the opportunity to plug

Kirk in and win a Super Bowl was when Spielman did it and he knew that yep like he’s not a complete he knew what he was doing he said you know what case was a great year Ain’t Gonna Last everyone was right on that right and they plugged this guy in team had

Defense up to Wazoo was incredible defense uh the team had Thelen the team had Diggs the team had a young Dalvin cook and they plugged him in and that was your chance and then maybe 18 to 19 that this ain’t the same team now and so

It’s time I think and again this isn’t dumping on Kirk I think it’s time to hit the reset to start fresh because this is an opportunity where you’re going to have to build this thing back up a bit Also let’s say you decide to move on from Kirk Cousins and you’re wrong right

Like he has a couple really good years left in the tank really good for Kirk meaning like he’s he’s still going to do some Kirk things here and there and and he goes to Atlanta goes to the Steelers and that team goes to the playoffs and

Maybe wins a game and gets beat in the second round like I guess I find it funny that people treat the wo you better be careful what you wish for getting rid of kurk cousins like it’s the Patriots from five years ago oh my

God is it time is this the year that we have move off Tom Brady oh I don’t know it’s like I mean you’re they’re literally talking about moving off a dynasty caliber quarterback right and and and there’s a fact action of Vikings fans that act that way with Kirk that oh

You better be careful boy you better watch out if you get rid of Kirk Cousins then what and I would say what do you mean then what they literally have one playoff win in six years with Kurt Cousins they haven’t gone to the playoffs in back-to-back Seasons but

What if this what if that okay well I mean yeah maybe maybe they’re wrong but what are it’s not like they’re moving off a dynasty no so anyways all right who uh before we get to a couple more here let’s shout out our friends at neutr source so mayami is fueled on neutr

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Bears to beat the Packers and the Raiders to beat the Broncos for the Vikings to improve their draft position from 10th actually it’s they’re holding strong at 10th right now if those things happen then they’ll then they’ll at 10 right now the Packers lead the Bears 7

To6 almost halftime the Raiders lead the Broncos 10 to7 so if those scores held the Vikings would pick 11th in the draft all right who do we got next here and what do you want to see happen this off season is our main question of the day

All right let’s go to uh big Spen here Spen what’s up buddy hey guys thanks for having me on um yeah man greatly appreciate the three of you in your content giveing me the ammunition to uh defend myself down here in Iowa where but Chiefs Bears and Packers oh just GL to

Help thank you very much um you know went up to three home games this year you know went to Chiefs you know uh Tampa Bay saw three losses you know I’m taking my daughter now I’m taking my wife they’re getting as into it as I am

I mean game day we look forward to every year and I don’t think I’ve seen a home win since uh the Giants game last year um right I mean drove up in that blizz yeah that that was yeah uh but you know totally worth it you know about bout

Went off the road took eight hours but totally worth but uh no what I think this off season um you know first of all you know focus on the positives I think uh B flow right I mean uh you had Zimmer you had Donell now you got a positive in

Brian Flores and I think if you can get him locked down I mean I’m sure he’s going to take some meetings right I mean he’s going to take some interviews things like that but if you get him locked down then you got consistent on on defense now you go into the draft use

That 10 pick I mean outside of Lamar Jackson and Patrick Mahomes I mean how many top top guys are really killing it I I I don’t know I off top my head but hitting on a top 10 quarterback I mean uh you know it’s possible but if you

Trade that 10p pick back let’s say you grab some those defensive players that you pick up a JJ McCarthy maybe later on in the draft something like that you know someone’s playing for a Jim Harbaugh I mean he’s playing tomorrow night right I mean clar’s doing

Something right so to me I you know building more of those pieces and then the Kurt Cousins it’s that’s a tough one I mean like like I think Jud was saying if he’s willing to cut some of this dead money next year maybe you work something out how bad

Does he want to stay in Minnesota don’t know but that’s my opinion is you have you have very little money to spend you don’t have a ton of draft Capital either you have tons of gaps to fill why not fill as many as you can with what you

Have versus going all in on one position that’s no big Spence coming in here I mean it wouldn’t I wouldn’t fight the Vikings too much if they decided hey we’re going to have you know a top 10 top 11 pick in the first round and the

Second round and we love some of the trenches players and we’re going to keep building our car and if that means missing out we don’t we love Drake May and we love Caleb Williams we can’t move up that far we like the other guys but we love these Edge rushers like if they

Wanted to keep building their car out I know that it’d be kind of a buzz kill for for fans and people looking for that franchise quarterback but I would not fault them if they said let’s just let’s keep stacking let’s build the trenches so if if they made a valiant

Attempt to trade up last April uh uh to get Richardson in what the top three right I believe he went the top three if they made a real attempt there and were hellbent on trying to do it and just fell short if you’re at 10 or 11 you’re

Going to be in pretty good shape to potentially make that same type of trade and be successful what I would say is this if you identify and this is mostly account if you identify a quarterback that you absolutely love like if Jaden Daniels is the guy and you are sold on

On him and you know he’s going top five which is a probability I I would guess by the time the draft comes around I would have no problem with making a big splash move to get him if you’re not in love with any of the quarterbacks and

You’re going to for lack of a better explanation force a Ponder pick then yes then trade back get picks um but I think my first eye would be towards actually trying to go up because if you get the right guy who’s going to fit into your

System and this is also like I think the one thing that we forget too is I don’t think we take in into account the um the culture and structure of teams who draft these QBs like I think Deo Ryan in Houston has set a really good tone there

And if you took CJ strout and threw him on the Panthers right now we all assume he would have gotten them to the playoffs right I think that’s flawed so like if the Vikings are building what we think and I will continue to say I think oconnell has built a good culture there

Um a lot of this also is you identify the quarterback but then you also give that guy a really good chance because we have seen and we’ve talked about this before we have seen some what look to be really good prospects get ruined by going to the wrong place this is the

Right place for a quarterback prospect is is it the perfect place no Kevin oconnell there’s still some questions but by and large there’s some weapons you’re going to have Hockinson coming back you’re going to have three excellent pass catching weap weapons you’re going to have a franchise left

Tackle franchise right tackle you’ve got infrastructure a a coach that’s going to pour energy into developing and communicating with a quarterback so from that standpoint this is a much better environment for a quarterback to jump into than maybe some of the other like that I mean Zimmer loved Teddy

Bridgewater but Zimmer wasn’t developing Teddy Bridgewater on a on a micro level he was the defensive coordinator basically as a head coach so uh let’s I think it’s Taylor Who’s going to wrap this thing up for us on Vikings vent line what’s going on fellas can you hear

Hey man yeah we got you uh I actually think this team’s too soft to be honest with you I think KLC to be honest was never gonna win a championship I think he’s too soft I might he might relate to the people uh to the players and stuff

But I don’t see him being like that uh that guy that brings us to the promised land if anything uh I think it’s more of like who are our defensive coordinators be flow I know he had some problems in Miami and stuff but I see him actually

Getting something done with uh with her team and stuff but it’s just KLC I guess I don’t know I’m looking at him right now a picture and I I’m just disgusted just Taylor’s just like looking at S A WF throwing darts at like a picture of Kevin oconnell yeah it’s it’s almost to

That point where it’s just like man just grow up here dude grow up here get the job done for us you know we’re all dying for it uh so that that’s all I really got to say is we just need a beef up a little we need to start hitting the Arby’s diet

You know beef up a little with the beefs and the cheddar uh and we’ll be all right but uh that’s probably it man that’s a great way to finish thanks for jumping on dude that awesome I mean you know we went over on Thursday last week

In terms of just the Finesse soft nature of this team that this team has played in 14 one score games with mostly backup quarterbacks and they’re still 28th in rushing attempts and they’re like 25th in yards per attempt whatever it was even just from a play calling standpoint and a philosophical standpoint close

Games with backup quarterbacks are we going to run the ball now no not going to no no we’re still GNA we’re going to throw that pill Nick and on defense it’s I mean it really is like one of the smallest defenses in if you took like the starting 11 players on every defense

And just added their weight up from 1 through 11 the Vikings probably have one of the lightest defenses right they’re they play with three safeties it’s a it’s a 34 sort of Base but they don’t have like the big 320 pounder in the middle that takes up space so it is they

Are super finesse and it has to be by Design because they’ve done nothing otherwise like schematically and everything else like they’re small and they pass the ball all the time so and it’s not really working that well no not this season at least it didn’t yep so

All right wow what a season of of Vikings vent line and by the way Vikings vent line will continue weekly throughout the offseason every Sunday with Dean and listeners it kind of shifts from you know this reactionary you know hour and a half of vitriol and takes or celebration to more big picture

Offseason discussion but uh this show will remain a staple in the offseason led by deck on Sundays yeah super excited I had a blast last year talking to a bunch of different Vikings fans so if you want to uh get on that show just stud us an email just like you typically

Do Vikings gmail.com I comb through a bunch of the invites and stuff so if you want to get in on an offseason Edition yeah just hit us up normal email Vikings ventline gmail.com yeah so much to talk about God this GNA be fun and it will

All start we we kind of started today but like all of this offseason discussion and speculation will start this week on the show we’ll give our hottest Vikings takes tomorrow we’ll start to go through Blueprints and different Reckless speculation Tuesday Wednesday so yeah this is going to be I

Know that there’s a lot of fans that are still trying to sort of comprehend the buzz kill ending to this season and they look for a while like they were going to make a run and they won a bunch of games in a row but the offseason fodder and

Discussion on this show tends to be some of the most fun that that we have so stick with us here this remains a daily Viking show here daily Vikings entertainment one more time oh you want you want to wave the flag this is it the the show’s

Done for the season it doesn’t need the music I’m just it here it is you know what half mask I’ll take it down a little bit Bo you kind of bet you just backed you back backrack hardcore there that’s it that was very much like the Vikings season let’s do

This just waving like let’s get the flag he’s like no okay you don’t have to play the music it’ll just be half MK actually flag is waving in of the Season I’m not going to wave it with Great Wave it if you’re going to

Wave it wave itev no no this is it no this is it I’m being as soft as the Vikings were just a soft wave there it goes bye there it is that’s a good microcosm of the Vikings season here we will see you guys tomorrow for hottest Vikings takes live

At 9:00 a.m. Central Time on the purple daily YouTube channel thank you for making this one of the top football podcast in America we look forward to what this offseason brings see you guys