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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

2022 Vikings cutdown day: Armon Watts and many members of the Vikings 2021 draft class are out

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Football, Sports, Nfl Draft, Nfl, Vikings, Nfl Team, Minnesota

4.7958 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Sports Illustrated's Will Ragatz joins Matthew Coller to break down an interesting cutdown day for the Minnesota Vikings in which they surprisingly released Armon Watts and traded for Ross Blacklock. They also cut most of the 2021 draft class, including Kellen Mond and Wyatt Davis and then left the door open with cap space for the possibility of adding someone else. Suh? Beckham? Who knows. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

and Hello welcome to the cut down day reaction Matthew collar along with

0:26.9

Will Ragg at Sports Illustrated Vikings reporter and will I hope you got a pot of

0:31.3

coffee on because we are going to broadcast non-stop through the night if we have to

0:37.4

until the Vikings do something with the cap space that they created with their cut downs today. Are you prepared?

0:45.0

Yeah, I'm prepared, but I mean in reality we know that as soon as we stop recording here

0:50.4

they're gonna do something but we'll do our best to talk about what has happened so

0:54.7

far today and maybe what could happen in the future. All right then we'll start

0:58.7

with Luigi Valain making the team. Congratulations to him. No, I mean, actually it's a cool story for

1:05.2

Luigi Vallean. He's an undrafted player who has a great final look in the

1:09.6

preseason and ends up making the 53. As we know, 53's are not completely set,

1:15.2

so hopefully his family doesn't celebrate him

1:17.5

making the team and then they make a change quickly,

1:20.0

but clearly that is not the biggest story of the day.

1:23.0

It is the Vikings shockingly cutting Arm on Watts.

1:27.1

And this is always the like oxymoron that is,

1:30.7

what surprise cuts could be coming?

1:32.4

It's like, it won't be a surprise if I see it coming,

1:35.4

and this was a surprise.

1:37.3

I, in fact, I might even go a shock, Will,

1:41.3

that a guy who practiced with the first team all summer long first and second

1:46.3

team rotating in would just get to the end of training camp and they say no we're

1:51.8

good we're gonna get Ross Blacklock from the Houston Texas like what why

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