unequivocally we never ever one time discussed internally amongst the

leadership I don't know you know some people have sources far and wide but I would

say amongst the leadership amongst the decision

makers the people that are directly involved with the situation

there really was not one time that that was ever discussed

game planned, contingency planned.

And I think that's really important because it's not just about the result from today, Kevin.

It's about the process at which we're pretty proud of.

That's our good friend Kevin O'Connell from earlier this week discussing the long-term contract signed by Justin Jefferson and emphasizing that they never considered

discussed etc a possible trade of Justin Jefferson. Well look we know that

teams will engage in whatever semantics they have to engage in and I'm not calling

Kevin O'Connell a liar.

I think he's a very honorable man.

He's a great coach.

But based upon everything that we've heard and we'll get to some of the details but just the mere fact that the Vikings showed no urgency to try to sign Justin Jefferson until after the draft.

I think that they were sitting back and waiting to see what happened.

And if a Herschel Walker package comes along, so be it.

But I was told firmly over the weekend, there was no urgency to try to get him signed

before the draft after the draft that's when all of a sudden the Vikings are ready

try to get this done.

Right.

Common sense tells us that even if they weren't activating the Let's try to trade Justin Jefferson plan,

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