and Hey everybody welcome to another episode of Purple Insider Matthew Collar here along with

a reef Hassan of wide left dot football now it makes it very easy to get to your

sub-stack newsletter a reef So great to have you back. And this is kicking off a series where I answer only completely random questions from Vikings fans. I put it out there. If you ask me who's going to be

Wide Receiver 3 or the starting left guard, this is not your podcast series. This is

for stuff that you would never ask at any other time than June 21st in between mini camps and training camp.

So are you ready, Reef?

And also you've written a great article about quarterbacks and the idea of being clutch that I do want to dive into in a little bit.

But are you ready for total randomness?

You never can be, so I'm fully prepared.

That's a great point. That's really the point of it being random. Well let's start this out from organism 46B asks, do you have any logic to why kicking in the pros is harder than college. The

hashes are wider and the fields are generally worse in college so pro should be

easier shouldn't it? A Reef do you have any logic to why it's harder to kick in the pros than it is in college?

Well, there's a couple of reasons.

One is the timing, right?

You don't have forever to set up a kick.

The guy's coming off the edge are a lot faster

so you have to get that timing and footwork down as opposed to working at

whatever footwork and timing is best for you so that's like one I think the

second is because a lot more is demanded of

kick in the pros. If you can't kick from 45 plus in college, that's fine. You

could still be a top 10 college kicker in the FBS, but in fact we actually saw that the guy who got

drafted in the second round Roberto Aguillo couldn't kick from 45 plus he was with the

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