And the Welcome to another episode of Purple Insider, Matthew Collar here along with

intern Haley English who has just finished up another very good article

about free agent Corners and the Vikings and also is preparing to go to the Sloan Analytics

conference. So what is up aly? Pretty good, I have a flight in a couple of hours but

I'm excited. So can you explain exactly what one does at an analytics conference

because I'm guessing the majority of our audience has never been so what do you do there?

There's a bunch of presentations that go on. It's every

sports, so it's not just football. So hockey's there, soccer's there, and there's a

bunch of tables that some companies can have. So it's like a big get together for the sports analytics community up in Boston

That is very cool and I am just about to leave Indianapolis and we've gathered quite a bit as far as news stories go around the league and buzz around the league because of course the NFL combine isn't just about the prospects

it's a lot about just what's going on in the NFL all the teams meeting about the

what's going on in the NFL, all the teams meeting and so forth,

and so I've got some different items with teams

and things going on for you to break down.

But also, maybe you can irritate another fan base after the Chicago Bears and their fans were all in the YouTube comments the other day.

Angry at you for saying that Fields isn't going to make it and if everybody

didn't hear the episode with Courtney Cronin go back and listen to that as she

breaks down the Bears thinking but we'll get to that in a minute I want to talk to you though about what you

wrote for purple insider.com where you analyze the Vikings free agent outlook when it

comes to cornerbacks and we did ask Kevin O'Connell

specifically about corners and how they fit

into Brian Flores' system and whether they would look to free agency or the

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