and Hey everybody welcome to another episode of Purple Insider Math and Collar here.

It is a yearly tradition for me to get together with ESPNs Mike Clay who I think that your actual title is NFL senior writer, but to me you are the projection wizard.

That is how I look at you. You have your projections out with the Vikings now knowing who their quarterback is going to be.

So we always get together around this time in the summer, go through these projections.

I always enjoy this and what's funny is you're usually more accurate than me when it comes to thinking about how these guys are going to end up producing at the end of the day.

So we got a lot to go through you have a very intriguing target number for the Vikings

full back CJ Ham that we have to break down in depth. I actually really do want to

get into the kick returning stats because the kick return is back baby but

Mike I mean this this project that you do every year with these projections is

absolutely wild to me and how accurate you are with it how good it is in terms of the depth

chart like even your offensive line I think is correct for the Vikings and who's playing left

guard how much time do you put into this man is wild?

All of the time that's how much time it's just not it's non-stop. I get us that question a lot and you know it's not like

There's a day one that I started it's year round this thing

evolves every day of the year and never you know the one season ends and as

soon as you know for example Minnesota is eliminated whether it's after week 18 or whether it's in the middle of the playoffs.

I update everything for next year.

I get the IR guys back on the roster.

I pull the free agents.

I, you know, all those kind of things are adjusted and it's just constantly a living document.

So, and then of course there's a whole I go down in the off season where I study league and team

trans, coordinator trans, all that that stuff because you have to tweak things

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