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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

ESPN's Mike Clay breaks down projections, from another huge Justin Jefferson season to CJ Ham's carries

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Sports, Nfl Team, Nfl, Nfl Draft, Football, Minnesota, Vikings

4.7958 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

ESPN's Mike Clay joins Matthew Coller to break down his 2022 Minnesota Vikings projections, everything from how many passes Justin Jefferson will throw to whether Kene Nwangwu will see more time out of the backfield to whether Dalvin Cook is set for a regression under a coaching staff that might want to throw the ball more often. Plus how many carries CJ Ham will get, whether Patrick Jones gets multiple sacks and more... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

and Hello welcome to another episode of purple inside of Matthew Collar, here and joining me for

0:25.2

Projections and Predictions Week is Mike Clay of ESPN. Every year, Mike, we get together,

0:31.8

we look at your projections,

0:33.5

down to the finest detail, and I mean that,

0:36.7

down to the finest full back and backup tight end detail,

0:40.6

which we will do.

0:41.5

What is going on, man?

0:42.4

Great to be with you again. Yeah, great to be with you too and I love this. I wish I could do this for you know with 31 other beat writers that I respect because this one that we need right these are projections that are

0:55.1

updated almost year-round and they're based on beat reports like those of your own and

1:01.3

you know obviously I start from somewhere,

1:03.7

based on roster moves and historical trends

1:06.8

and common sense, that kind of thing.

1:08.2

But things are always changing, right?

1:10.5

There's injuries, there's releases,

1:12.2

there's signings, there's trades, there's, you know, a guy having a good camp who moves up the depth chart. So these are always evolving projections and that's why you see the PDF change all the time that I have up live on the site.

1:24.1

So I love exercises like this.

1:25.9

I'm happy to be here and this should be fun.

1:28.2

So I always click on it through your Twitter, but where is the best place that people can find

1:31.8

your projections? Yeah, that's probably the best place that people can find your projections?

1:33.0

Yeah, that's probably the best place.

1:34.2

I do tweet it out quite a bit when I kind of just share a team sheet

1:39.0

and then kind of link to it.

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