and Hello,

Thank you look color here and joining me covers the Vikings for Sports Illustrated will ragots

making a return appearance what is up will you look you look exhausted like

you've been up 47 straight hours covering Harball Watch. The Vikings broke you in their

coaching search and finally landed on Kevin O'Connell. How are you?

I'd say that's a fairly fair assessment of where things are at but now I'm fired up

I haven't been excited this excited to do a podcast with you in a while we got a lot to

break down a lot of a lot of very meaningful big picture stuff going on here.

I know and so maybe you could just start off with giving your reaction to how this whole thing played out.

After talking with some people this morning, just what I have ascertained is that the Harbaw

side believed that this was much

and the Vikings did not see it that way very much from the start.

Not that they were completely out on Harball.

You wouldn't fly him in, as I joked on Twitter just to ask him about khakis but

Harball was telling everybody on the Michigan side as was reflected by the

reporting that like this was happening,

but there was no reporting on the Vikings side.

And even when Ian Rappapur or Adam Schefter

would come out with reports, it was kind of like,

we don't really see this as necessarily happening

until he was actually at the building and then it seemed like it was gaining momentum that he,

that they wouldn't let him leave or whatever else. But ultimately it seemed like Harbaw got his foot in the door for an interview and they talked and that was not a match. So they went with the guy that they probably would have gone with anyway in

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