and Hey everybody welcome to the

to the emergency Vikings announced their 53-man roster

purple insider podcast right away it's important to mention that yes, my voice is back and

we're doing okay.

So I appreciate that.

I appreciate anyone and everyone's concern over that but we're a lot better off in a lot

better shape at the moment so good to go and anyway well excited to have everybody here and we're going to have a lot to break down a couple of surprises right off the bat for the 53 man roster.

I don't remember a time where I've covered a team that had four tight ends or six safeties, but especially not both.

Also multiple undrafted free agents making the team.

You don't see that very often.

So I'm gonna screen share for you guys watching live on YouTube

and of course I'll talk our way through it.

But I've got the 53 man up here so I can make myself put myself on the side there

hopefully all of you can see that or should I just make it the full screen do you need to look at me

You can have me in the corner there. All right. Today, by the way, I've just brought my usual

Diet Dr. Pepper. That shows you that I'm in better shape. Because I don't think that soda is very good

for your voice. So the fact that I'm able to handle that and still be

confident in doing the podcast with my voice tells you I've made a lot of progress since yesterday.

Just doing this many podcasts eventually it kind of wears you down, but we're good. We're good now. We're all set.

So let's start right out with the fact that they kept Jaren Hall that it's Kirk Cousins, Nick Mullins, and Jaren Hall, that it's Kirk Cousins, Nick Mullins, and

Jaren Hall. And there was somewhat of a debate about that because they probably

could have cut Jaren Hall and got him onto the practice squad. But when Kevin O'Connell

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