Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of Purple Insider presented by Fanduel.

Matthew Collar here, along with Andrew Kramer of the Star Tribune.

And yes, we will continue to do hardcore previews of these football games, even though they don't have any playoff implications.

But that does not mean no

implications, Mr. Kramer, because Max Brosmer, undrafted free agent from Minnesota, will be starting

against the Seattle Seahawks in this game. So what we get here is a layer of intrigue. So I want

you to give me, let's start right out with this,

give me like a one to ten, how much intrigue you have for young Mr. Brosmer to get under

center? Oh, definitely an eight. It's up there. It's an eight. That's a solid, solid intrigue rating

because of what he's shown in the very tiny sample size so far.

In terms of the training camp practices, in terms of the preseason, I'm not going to get into the mop-up duty stuff because that doesn't matter.

But when he was out there in command of an offense for drive after drive, and again, the little that we've seen, he has shown the poise.

He has shown the quick release, as West Phillips again, the little that we've seen, he has shown the poise. He has shown the

quick release, as West Phillips mentioned, the quick bind to go along with it. I thought it was

interesting Phillips talked about how his mistakes were different than a typical rookie, how he was

speeding through progressions and practices where not hanging on certain things when it needed a beat

or two more, you know, in terms of the route progression against a coverage. And so he said typically rookies are late to things. They are hanging on things. They're not moving quick enough. And so for Max, he's got the headiness to it. It's just, he's going to see things he's never seen before. Mike McDonald, that Seahawks secondary is incredibly good. They're going to disguise things. They're going to rotate. He's going to have to think as quickly as he's shown in these practices. But I'm really intrigued because this is a talented offense still. I think we forget because of how bad McCarthy's been at times. And when they are thrown catchable passes, they generally catch them. Yeah, it's hard not to go down the

Purple Purdy Road and start talking about... Purple Purdy. Yeah, like what this could look

like if he plays well, because we'll go through it. The Seattle Seahawks defense is an absolute

nightmare. I mean, they are stacked from top to bottom and seemingly even getting better with

some younger players emerging for them.

But the thing that we saw really early on from Max Brosmer was a command of what he was being asked to do.

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