and Hello welcome to another episode of Purple Insider Matthew Collar here along with Paul Odooneck of WCCo radio and we were having a discussion right before we went on.

It's like, all right now we've reached this point where we've got O TAs and mini camp and so each week we're going to have a couple of

story lines in the middle of the week and there are going to be some things to discuss who's out there

practicing health updates things like that but also it

leaves the door open for some other conversations that can be fun and I have come up

with the Vikings randomizer where I push a button and it tells us what

player we need to talk about so we've got that but I wanted to ask you first though Paul

one of the things that Kevin O'Connell was talking about yesterday

during his press conference was about being more than just an offensive-minded head coach and I think what I've come to is the conclusion that the number one

storyline of the Minnesota Vikings 2022 heading into the year is their their head coach? Because the players on the

offensive side are not all that different and on the defensive side there are

different faces but a lot of similar talent level where they can adapt and they can be a little bit better than they were last year if things work out with Ed Donatell's scheme.

But what will eventually really determine the season is did they have a better offense and so give me a give me a one to ten

How much pressure should be on Kevin O'Connell.

Like how much pressure should we be putting on Kevin O'Connell

to be better than Mike Zimmer as a head coach?

I would say maybe a five.

I'm kind of right in the middle I think there's two contrasting styles to this I think

the Vikings didn't really change their roster and so that's telling you hey we believe we're a coaching staff

away from being a better team.

When they don't make big roster overhauls,

when they don't commit to a rebuild,

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