All right, from Match Quarters, a former football coach and the premier brain of defense in the National Football League Analysis Universe.

Cody Alexander, what is going on, my friend.

Welcome back to the show.

Yeah, thanks for having me off.

Appreciate it.

Yeah, man.

So I think it actually is going to be a different looking Minnesota Vikings defense that we just assume.

Oh, Brian Flores.

So good.

We're all set there.

And let's talk more about what's going on to the offensive side.

But I am very intrigued, actually, by the draft pick of Caleb Banks, how he will be used,

and Dominique Orange in the return of the giant noseguard.

So why don't we also, we don't know what's going to happen with Harrison Smith.

So we'll talk about if he does or does not return what that could look like.

But why don't we just begin with this defense is going to have a nose tackle again and how much different that could look versus what we saw last year

with more of, you know, penetrating defensive tackles who were veterans that wanted to get after

the quarterback in Hargrave and Allen, how do you view the shift of using

Dominique Orange as opposed to having those two guys that are more of like three technique

types of DTs?

Yeah, this is definitely an early down call.

And I think the Vikings have really been a five-man front defense now under Flores. That really hasn't changed.

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