You're going to. Oh, welcome to another episode of Monday morning Murph, Matthew Collar here, along with Brian Murphy, who wrote a very nice column about the only subject one could write about yesterday, which was, hey, Harrison

Smith, still really good at football.

And other than that, Murph, when I think about my time covering the Vikings when I'm 78 years old and I'm retired on a Minnesota lake and I think I remember the good old days I remember the Minneapolis miracle I remember the comeback game in Buffalo you know what game's not going to come to mind the Vikings beating the Carolina Panthers 21 to 13 I thought you took the right angle writing about Harrison Smith that was good to see that's why Brian Flores is here

But other takeaways are pretty tough to come by when it comes to that game

Yeah, I mean it wasn't it was certainly not entertaining. It was enough to make your eyes bleed at times. It was frustrating. It was boring. It was just not really good schematic or entertaining football for various times but then you forgot how good Harrison Smith is maybe and you forgot that this was this is a guy that is probably building a Hall of Fame

resume more brick by brick than you know big flashy plays all at once but he had a

flashy day yesterday and he had a flashy day that not only counted but at least for the time being really

tightens the turnicate for the Vikings. I mean obviously we know who's coming in town next week.

Patrick Mahomes,

Travis Kelsey, and maybe some pop singer

that you might have heard of as well

that'll be invading for the 330 national game next week.

This very well could be one and four. But at the very least you buy at least another week of time.

You sort of, you know, validate two things, one bringing in Brian Flores to really die up the

dial up the aggressive put a rookie quarterback in his place type schemes that that

really did flourish yesterday and also put an old guy old playmaker in a position

to make big time plays at big time moments.

And it was nice to see Harrison Smith come through like that,

but it was also nice to see how the team sort of,

at least in his comments and certainly on the defensive side,

certainly head coach Kevin O'Connell really rally around Smith and sort of

build him up as look this is a guy that is sort of the glue in a lot of ways to

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