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hey everybody welcome to another episode of purple inside or matth Collar here and joining me on the show, not for a post game for the first time in a long time, Dane Mizatani of the Pioneer Press.

And, uh, Dane, I've been doing a lot of research and a lot of breaking down my future of the Vikings series over at

Purpleinsider. Football.

Make sure you all go check that out.

And I've been thinking about how much different the Minnesota Vikings defense could be

or might not be when we go into 2025.

So what I'm very interested in from you today on the show is your vision for Brian Flores and the Vikings defense. So I'd just like to you to read to me all

your signings, all your draft picks. Go ahead. Just read them all. No, I'm kidding. We're going to go

the different levels of the defense and all the possible permutations and how much the Vikings could possibly improve their defense.

But I think we have to start with the fact that Brian Flores is the coach of this football team.

And last year, he didn't even have any interviews. So it was foregone conclusion. He's coming back.

But this year, he did get a lot more attention. They won 14 games. They had a top five defense.

But from a player evaluation standpoint and a schematic standpoint, that already is an enormous win.

I think for the Minnesota Vikings 2025 football team to have

Brian Flores back as their DC. Yeah, and that's a good point because when you look at everything

that went right for the Vikings last year on the defensive side of the ball, all the signings that

we have rightfully so given credit to Quasi at off of Mensa for bringing in

a lot of that was rooted in Brian Flores taking a grocery list basically giving it to

quasi at off a Menta and saying these are the guys I want these are the guys I think it could work

with and it worked a hell of a lot better than I

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