And the Hey everybody welcome to our first emergency podcast of the Minnesota Vikings off season.

It's been a while since we've had to do an emergency podcast, but here we are and we've got two big news items to talk about.

The first of which is the Minnesota Vikings have released Eric Kendrick's,

which just one podcast ago, I said if I was the general manager would be one of the toughest decisions,

but it was the first one that the Vikings decided to make because from a salary cap standpoint

and possibly a football standpoint with Brian Flores coming in.

It made a lot of sense to the Vikings. We'll deep dive into that in just a second,

but also

thought would not happen until Aaron Rogers made his decision but I guess it was the

New Orleans Saints all along that Derek Carr wanted to join.

So this does change the landscape a little bit of the NFC.

So we'll get into both of those things.

And since I'm doing this live on YouTube,

I'm relying on you guys in the comment section

to let me know if there is more breaking news

while we're talking,

because I can't talk and look at Twitter

at the same time.

So let's get right into Eric Hendricks. I want to say first before we talk about the

implications of this on the salary cap, how they're going to replace Eric Hendricks and so forth, which is of course the big question that they're going to face.

Just to say that of all the players that I've covered since arriving here in 2016 to cover the Minnesota Vikings.

Eric Hendricks is one of the most impressive people that I have ever come across

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