and Hello, welcome to another episode of Purple Insider, Matthew Collar here along with WCCO radio's Paul

Hodawanick. Paul, this is the most important moment of your life in in a while since really like everything went down since there was coach search, Jim Harbaw, extensions, dead cap space in the future. Like all those discussions have kind of faded they have drifted into the past and now enter the

the gates are open to training camp this week so we have a very special five question hot routes to open training camp. So are you excited?

Yeah, I don't know if people would be able to tell throughout this. I'm just really, really nervous about this episode. Just a lot of pressure. I know it's super important. If you hear my voice cracker, I start trembling a little bit bit just know it's the weight of the

moment getting to me a little bit so I'm going to do my best to battle through and

get people ready for training camp because I know it's it's the pinnacle really of this last however long we've been in and I got to be I got to be great so we'll see how I do.

It's all about the big moments and I won't make a joke about

quarterbacks who don't come through in big moments and stuff. That's very big of you.

Yeah, you were you were getting very nervous earlier, panting heavily, but you've gotten it together and now we're ready to go.

So why don't we just kick it right off with our first question?

Or actually, well I could play the Hot Routes intro if you want, I can dig that up just you know just cause we

should okay here we go.

There's news in the NFL today and it's time to break it down in the only way we know how.

Hot Rob style with our spin on football headlines with a mix of frozen tundra's neck roll and grass stained Jersey.

Shout out as always to Manny Hill for that intro.

All right, let's begin right away here with our first question.

Paul, who will be Mr. Man, Cato, the thing that we all are watching the closest, which player, if you're not familiar with this, I mean you should be, but if you're not familiar with this, every year there's a player we don't expect to emerge and they do and sometimes they surprise us including

players like Adam Thiel and Stephen Diggs have been Mr. Mankato's of the past. So who will it be this year that we don't expect going in

and then by the end of camp,

we're all talking about this player?

Yeah, this is interesting because, you know, the ethos of this was someone we're not talking about and then I did an article breaking down who it could be and other people break down who it could be so it loses a little bit of it because it we're naming people that then don't become as unexpected because we've already talked about them about maybe being unexpected.

So I'm kind of going off the board a little bit maybe. I haven't seen the odds. I don't know Vegas has had the guts to put these

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