and Welcome to another episode of Purple Insider, Matthew Collard here and this is yet another fans only

podcast. I still have so many great questions but you could get yours in the

mix by sending me an email at purple insider.com or on Twitter shoot

me a DM or an at mention and I will throw it into the Google Doc which is

extremely full right now but I am working my way through your

questions so if you haven't heard yet yours yet just be patient because I think I've got

like six pages of fans questions to get to and you know what just amazes me is how

we haven't had any new information about the Vikings in quite a while and yet every question is different and every question is creative and interesting and so you're really making me enjoy this journey through all of these questions that you guys have sent. So keep them

coming and just be patient if you don't hear it on this episode. It's probably

coming in a in a future one very soon. So let's open up the diet Dr. Pepper.

All right, get a sip here.

And let's dive right into these questions.

So we will begin with Tony.

Can you explain defensive play calling to me?

I can imagine offensive play calling with routes and reads, etc. on defense I don't understand it as well.

I know there's zone versus man coverage and one could stack the box for a

Blitz or a fake Blitz and I understand the down and distance will affect at all.

My question is, how much is defense players reading and reacting to offensive looks versus

designed plays?

That is a very much in the weeds football question Tony and a really good one.

Yeah, so I think that I mean first there you're absolutely right to say that there are so many different combinations of things

and that defense has to morph a lot based on what they're seeing depending on different systems.

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