And the Hey everybody welcome to another episode of Purple Insider, Matthew Collar here with you and thank you so much for joining on the live stream if that's how you're watching or if you're listening appreciate you as always on a March

Madness evening so have March Madness on the TV listen to some Vikings talk here

and we've got a lot to discuss tonight including an interesting twist to the Vikings off season that happened today out at TCO Performance Center.

So as always, welcome in the comments section, your questions got a lot of great questions from fans today for the Friday mailbag tomorrow and I imagine you guys have a lot of same things on your mind so fire them up. I'll put some comments on the

screen and answer any questions that you have here over the next, you know, 45

minutes to an hour. But the place that we have to begin with is Harrison Smith, who is coming back. A very interesting move today for Harrison Smith to decide to restructure his contract. And tell you the truth I think that I expected it for

Harrison Smith to come back I mean for one I don't think that last year was really the year that

Harrison Smith wanted to end on.

I mean playing for Ed Donatell, being misused,

and we can really point to it on paper

how he was the smoking gun in a way for ironically the hitman the smoking gun for Ed

Donatell not adapting his system to his player strengths in the ways that he

should have.

And you don't have to look any farther than the amount

that the Vikings blitzed Harrison Smith

compared to the past and played him in the box compared to the past where Mike Zimmer had always used him a lot at the line of scrimmage, always used him as a blitzing weapon, and that was something that Ed Donatell seemed allergic to doing and there couldn't be I think much more of an obvious mistake than not using Harrison Smith up at the line of scrimmage.

He is one of the best box safeties of the last decade.

You know, you had kind of Troy Paul Amalu

before that and Harrison Smith and what Cam Chancellor

going back a little bit.

Those are your box safeties and to not use him in that way.

It just struck me as bizarre and I think that when he looks at how Brian Flores uses his safeties and the defense that he deploys, he's going to be a lot happier. He's going to be used a lot better. And I also didn't look at Harrison Smith as somebody last year that was washed in the same way that you may have looked at other players that they've moved on from recently, but I didn't think that Harrison Smith had nothing left and they had to absolutely move on from him.

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