and Hey everybody welcome to another episode of purple insider Matthew Coller here and returning to the show

Cody Alexander match quarters now also working with a very cool project called

Field Vision and Vikings cornerback mental trainer now Cody what's going on man how are you doing great no complaints here

Well let me explain that last part so a Evans, we were talking to him one day, the Vikings cornerback, and he mentioned you, and I was like, wait a minute, the Cody Alexander, the same guy that I know that's been on the show a bunch of times but a

Caleb's agent reached out to you in the off season to try to help him work on the

X's and O's part of the game. These players are always trying to get better

physically but mentally is a good idea as well.

And when I say that you are one of the foremost experts on defense, I'm not kidding. So explain

what you did working with the Caleb Evans.

Yeah, so I'm basically a bridge builder between his physical trainer that he has.

Most of these guys have some sort of like a footwork trainer that they work with in the off season but that's all going to be technical based and a lot of times that's footwork a lot of man coverage basics.

They're not necessarily working vision and reaction,

zones, how am I matching up with multiple receivers?

What do I do?

Like, they're not going through that's that's not part of that process

So where I come in is I'm kind of that bridge to think of me almost as like I don't want to use the term sport, you kind of said mental coach,

I think that's probably a good job of like it's probably a good term to use of just kind of like,

I help these guys watch film and what are offenses doing and then what we're trying to do is talk about what he's doing within his scheme so that I can then pair that back with the coaching.

Because the last thing I want to do is to tell him

to do something different than his coach is asking him to do.

And I want him to be able to excel within the scheme.

And so I want to be biased towards that scheme and so that's where I come in as kind of that bridge

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