Hey, everybody, welcome in.

Hey, everybody, welcome inside TCO Performance Center.

Matthew Collar here, along with Dane Mizatani of the Pioneer Press.

After we just listened to about 45 minutes of the Vikings brass,

Kwayce Adafel, Mensa, general manager, and head coach Kevin O'Connell talk with us

about a myriad of topics. And you guys won't believe this. The quarterback situation came up.

And why don't we just not waste any time with that? Dane, what was your biggest takeaway? I'm

going to throw this to you first because I'm very conflicted on how I felt about their words. So what was your biggest takeaway? I'm going to throw this to you first because I'm very conflicted on how I felt about their words.

So what was your biggest takeaway on the way that Quasi and Kevin O'Connell addressed the future at quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings?

I think the biggest thing is that it wasn't definitive one way or the other. I was

expecting to walk into here today and walk out thinking, okay, I have a pretty good grasp on how

they feel about Sam Darnold because that's the first domino that needs to fall, right? We can talk

more about how Jay J.J. McCarthy's back on the field, how he's progressing towards having a positive offseason from start to finish, which is what Kevin O'Connell said.

But before we can talk about any of that, we need to address the elephant in the room, which is what to do with Sam Darnold.

So I thought walking in here today, we would get a good sense of, okay, do the Vikings feel like they've squeezed as much

juice out of that orange as they can, that is Sam Darnold and they're ready to move on?

Or do they feel like we need to run it back?

We need to look at the large sample size more than the small sample size that was the two

disastrous games at the end.

But in all the words and the meandering that was said, it was basically just like,

we're going to continue to evaluate it.

And that's true.

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