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So head on over to Oakley.com for more information today. Oh, Hey everybody welcome to a whole-blown emergency podcast. I don't yesterday we had a semi-blown emergency podcast.

I know yesterday we had a semi-emergency

podcast to talk about Daniel Hunter,

but this one we actually have Delvan Cook news.

We have waited a very, very. have maybe I don't know the very end of the season what the Vikings would do with

Delvin Cook and now this morning Tom Pell-Saro of NFL Network reports that the

Vikings will part ways with Delvin Cook and this has been the expected outcome

for a very, very long time and there was always the kind of possibility that lingered over this situation that they would try to work something out that they would try to find a trade partner or wait wait wait to find a trade partner until someone got desperate or that they would you know at the very last minute come up with a deal for him to take a pay cut and stay. But the minute Alexander Madison came back to the Vikings, it seemed inevitable that someday we would be talking about them releasing Delvin Cook and it appears that's where it's going

unless there's some last second trade that happens. The release of Delvin Cook is not

official yet but as Hunter says in the comments, it was the most obvious move from the very beginning of the off season, but I want to get into that and of course take lots of your comments and your reactions to the Vikings cutting Delvin Cook and we'll have lots of coverage of this.

I did an interview just the other day about the fantasy angle of this kind of assuming that this was coming.

Also Sam Monson, Dane Mizatani are also going to react with me for tomorrow's show.

So lots going on to cover the exit of Delvin Cook.

But I think that the place to start here

was that the Minnesota Vikings did not have to do this.

So what I mean is that when you look at their salary cap situation right now, they have 9.7 million dollars in cap space according to over the cap.com. Of course they can use some of that to you know

lighten the load for extensions for Justin Jefferson, TJ Hawkinson, possibly

Danile Hunter and so forth and they can push some of that money into 2023 which is helpful for

negotiating those long-term deals but they did not absolutely unequivocally have to move on from Delvin Cook.

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