and Welcome to another episode of Purple Insider, Matthew Coller here.

This is mostly a fans only podcast,

except for I was out at TCO Performance Center

for Kevin O'Connell and Mike Petten and Eric Hendrix press conferences.

So I figured I would talk just for a few minutes about some of the quick takeaways from

that and then we can get into your fan questions.

Of course, if you have questions, go to the Purple Insider website,

send me a question through there.

There's like a contact us, use that.

You can always Twitter DM it to me, dams are open or just send me an

at tweet and I will throw it in the cue and will continue to go through your

very awesome questions but just real quick the first thing that I took away from listening to Kevin O'Connell talk on Wednesday

was about Irv Smith Jr. and how they're trying to bring Irv Smith along and his importance in the offense, what his role is expected to be.

And so we saw Irv Smith doing some route running in 11 on 11s, but the 11 on 11s that we saw at the 1-O-T-A practice open to the media were not particularly intense. I mentioned that on some of them,

Kirk Cousins didn't even throw the ball in one section. He did on some other ones but not

all of them and so that sort of speaks to it was not like this high

flying super intense training camp like practice situation it was more of almost a walk-through type of spot

with the way they were doing it when we were watching 11 on 11s and it sounded

from what Kevin O'Connell said like they were going to have more intense

seven on seven situations to practice their passing, you know, scheme and stuff that

Irv Smith wasn't ready to be a part of something like that

so he's still coming along but I think as far as good signs go for Irv Smith Jr to be out there at all at this point when it sounded much more

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