Hey, everybody, welcome to draft night.

The NFL draft is just about to begin.

And I can't tell you how excited I am to take you through the entire first round here.

And we've just done so much along the way. So many

questions, so many mock, so many draft sims, so many scenarios, consensus boards and reports

and rumors and all those things, all leading up to this evening. So I can't say enough how honored I am to have you

joining me for this very special night. And I think just to open it, what I'd like to say is

that this is probably the most fun draft night we're going into from a Minnesota Vikings perspective

because there isn't really a lot of pressure on the Vikings to draft one thing or another

or it's a failure do it a certain way or you've screwed it up quacy you're fired if you don't

fill whatever need as I was talking to people

today, I went golfing with my friend Sam Extra and we were having a conversation out there.

And we were just going back and forth. Like, who do we think it's going to be? Who do I think

it's going to be? And we came up with like 13 different people. And to have the amount of intrigue that they have going into this

pick is just so much different. Now, they did surprise us last year by drafting Dallas Turner,

but we knew they had that second first round pick. And we knew that if they didn't use it on

moving up for a quarterback, that they were ultimately

going to use it on a defensive player.

It surprised us that Dallas Turner was still there, but it didn't shock us that they were

getting a defensive player in the back end of the first.

And you go back years to the draft where they absolutely had to draft Garrett Bradbury as a center because they

needed that position so badly.

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