And the Hello welcome to another episode of Purple Insider Matthew Coller here along with

CBS Sports Draft analyst Chris Trappasso as we've just gotten done listening to Kevin O'Connell's

podium session and he sat down on the side with

beat reporters and an interesting thing came up just as the Vikings head coach

was about to go to the podium which is the NFL players association

put out a survey that they had given to all the players that ranked teams on a lot

of different cultural elements from their facilities to how much they

trusted the training staff all things like that and let's just say that the

Washington commanders won't be too happy in seeing it but the Minnesota Vikings were they

ranked number one Chris and I wouldn't bring this up if I didn't think it was

actually important because Kevin O'Connell of course was very happy to talk about how they were the number

one team and got A's across the board.

But what really got me thinking about is last year at this time we were discussing

about the Vikings changing cultural elements and sort of

we roll our eyes a little bit when coaches say culture and things like that but and you could

tell me more about the different elements of it and kind of what stuck out to you, but the training staff, the facilities, how much they felt appreciate, all sorts of things like that, that they got A's across the board. And I think that it was important

for them to grade really highly because that was their big selling point. And I thought

throughout the year they delivered on those cultural elements more than even I expected.

I thought that they would do better with O'Connell being a former player, but really well.

And if you're considering like signing with teams that's why the

NFL PA wanted to do it is to sort of give them a like you know what you're getting

into and for the Vikings to rank number one they don't have a lot of money to work with so they're an F minus when it comes to cap space but I think that this is a this is a home run for them for like Kevin O'Connell to be here and have his players saying that about

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