And the Hey everybody welcome to another episode of purple, Matthew Collar here with you.

And it feels like for the first time in quite a while,

we had a couple of days in a row with no Vikings news,

which probably means that there's going to be an

avalanche of Vikings news coming soon we're still waiting on things to happen

like Zadaria Smith Delvin Cook the stuff that you have heard us talk about and speculate about for quite some time now, waiting for resolution.

But until then, we have lots of fans only questions to answer about what is coming next for the Minnesota Vikings.

And you know what, folks, it's almost April, and that means it will soon officially be draft season and we will start to kick things into full gear with

draft simulations, draft experts and much more coming here on the show.

So it should be a very exciting lead up to the

NFL draft. Also, we did have a chance the other day to talk with Marcus Davenport

and Dean Lowry and I did want to mention before we got into some of your questions. Just my main takeaway was that both players were remarkably honest about

2021 being much better for them than

2022 and I asked both players what was the difference between

2021 and 2022 for them where if you look at the combined 2021 Sacks for Davenport and Lowry you get nine and five so 14 together from those two guys just one all of last year sack between these two players.

So of course the Vikings will need the 2021 version and Dean Lowry pointed to opportunity and he

in 2021, he was being used a lot more on third downs.

And of course, we have ways that we can cross check things like this,

and I did find that he had way fewer snaps in

past rushing situations in 2022 than in 2021. Lowry also said that he

talked with Kwesi Adopful Mensa about some strategies for him to add things

as he goes along in his career as far as Pass Rush moves.

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