And the Hello welcome to another episode of Purple Inside or Matthew Collar here along

with Will Raggots of Sports Illustrated as we get together for our usual Thursday session.

And this comes on the heels of Will getting owned by Brian Flores.

Will, I was just on a radio hit in one of the Dakotas and the hosts played the clip of you asking

Brian Flores about Cover Zero and I also included on yesterday's podcast as well

that he was not gonna tell you about Cover Zero.

But also, I think that after,

it was almost like he felt bad that in front of many people he was just like no well I will not tell you about my blitzes

He actually gave a relatively insightful answer so even though you had to take that punch from Brian Flores you kind

of dusted yourself off got back up and got us a little bit of insight into his

thinking. Yeah I didn't I didn't take it so much as like a punch. I know you're not saying that either. It was it was a funny reaction where he's like it all coaches do this where like you get the boilerplate questions and then someone asks you like a relatively innocent question about the actual sport and they're like, oh, you want all the secrets, huh? Like Kevin O'Connell has done that not to me but to other people like so I wasn't necessarily

surprised by that but yeah afterwards he didn't give like he didn't really

answer my question which was like what's the risk reward of Blitz Zero and like what are the keys to doing it well and I guess I maybe shouldn't have expected him to answer that but he talked about like yeah that's something he likes to do he said I like to give that presentation of but zero because then there are things

I can do off of it is it zero is it not zero it confuses the offense they have to adjust and

those are things you kind of can tell if you watch his his 20-20-21 Dolphins teams play at all, but it was cool to hear that from him and we'll see I mean I'm just very excited to see what that looks like in terms of the Minnesota Vikings the season.

Yes, and I am 100% just giving you a hard time about that because there are dozens of instances where we have asked questions and Mike Zimmer would do it too.

It's like, I'm not telling you guys what we're doing.

Like, okay, sorry man.

And Mike Zimmer would do it without then laughing afterwards, like Flores.

Right. But, but here's what I did think was at least notable is after he said,

I'm not telling you the game plan will.

Kevin O'Connell said something like sort of in the flow of the joking around,

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