Welcome to the Bucky Brooks show. I am Bucky Brooks. And today, man, we have the man. I guess I call you Renaissance man. Netta found out today that you are published author. You're the podcast host of Purple Insider on the Believe Network. You know, it's funny because you spend a lot of time not only talking about those frontline guys or whatever, but a lot of your conversation was about Harrison Smith. And Harrison Smith is the defensive quarterback of that unit.

We all know when we talk about the Minnesota Vikings, it is about the quarterback situation.

Callow Murray, J.J. McCarthy, former number one overall pick, and Cala Murray makes his way from

Arizona to Minnesota.

J.J. McCarthy has 10 stars under his belt, trying to figure out if he can be the franchise quarterback.

What are you hearing?

What are you seeing from those two quarterbacks?

It's interesting the approach that Kevin O'Connell is taking here because he is saying this is a quarterback competition.

And you've seen someone like Tom Pelliserro report that they believe that it's going to be a true quarterback competition. And you've seen someone like Tom Pelliserra report that they

believes that it's going to be a true quarterback competition. I have a slightly different opinion

of that that it's not. I think that if you're Kyler Murray, you're not coming to a team when he had

his pick of the litter of teams that don't have quarterbacks. And he decided to come with Minnesota

to come play with

Justin Jefferson and be the starting quarterback. And when you look at what Kevin O'Connell has done

when he's had a veteran proven starting quarterback, he is 31 and 11 when Kirk Cousins or Sam Darnold

start. I think that says a lot about what quarterbacks who are veterans can do in this system.

And also I think that because Arizona fell out of relevancy and they were trying to rebuild while

Kyler was still there on the fly and didn't have a great football team that, you know,

people have kind of forgotten about how good Kyler Murray is capable of being.

And if you look at his

2020 season, he played, I'm going to call it real quarterback, because it

wasn't a system where he was, you know, going on one with the clap and sort of

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