and Hello welcome to another episode of Purple Insider making his glorious return to the show,

former Minnesota Vikings Cincinnati Bengal and a long-time NFL broadcaster,

Solomon Wilcox.

What's up, Solomon, how are you?

Mad, I'm doing good, and don be offended by my bingles helmet in the back.

I do have a Vikings helmet around here as well.

Okay, no bitterness, but you know, I mean, I'll be honest, the Cincinnati teams, at least one of them that you were on,

went a little farther than the Vikings team that you were on. So I get it. I understand you can, you can identify as a banglesome.

I well I appreciate it. I still live in the Cincinnati area and

started working at television at the local NBC affiliated here so I'm still I still love all things purple though. I'm still a

huge fan of the Vikings. Well that's good to hear so you're also working with a

company that is working on solving ALS.

And so we want to talk about that as well.

But I really wanted the perspective of a defensive back

to talk about the Vikings secondary.

Now something that I've always thought,

Solomon, I want to test a theory or two by you here

as someone who played the position,

I've always thought that secondarys

are kind of like offensive lines in that everybody has to be doing their job and if one person isn't, it doesn't go so good even if the other guys are.

So explain to me the value of the Vikings drafting two defensive backs and what that could mean to solidify that position from where they've been in the last few years where it's been some good players like Harrison Smith, some not good players who have just been filling roles and getting attacked pretty often.

Yeah, I think you made a really good analogy Matt when you talked about the offensive line and the secondary is very similar.

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