and Hey everybody welcome to another episode of Purple Insider from the Ritz-Carlton in Orlando here at the owner's meetings and if you're watching on video

this background looks completely fake but I promise you it is real outside of maybe the coolest place I've ever been in my entire life.

Matthew Collard, Dane Mizitani from the Pioneer Press.

We have just wrapped up sitting exactly where we are right now chatting for about 20 minutes with

Kevin O'Connell in a private session with the Pete reporters he's also going to

talk at breakfast tomorrow morning so we'll have another reaction to that as well and

everything that was said here but thankfully to Vikings public relations

we got a chance to sit down with Kevin O'Connell and chat on the record about the Vikings quarterback

situation. I don't know that anything else came up other than Justin Jefferson

which we'll get to but I want to ask you this Dane to start right out.

What is your biggest takeaway from the vibe of

Kevin O'Connell knowing that the Vikings are in this quarterback mix? They're at the

center of all the insiders, all the rumors, everything going on.

I mean, they are one of the most interesting teams here in Orlando that everybody seems to

want to talk to and talk about.

And we had a chance to sit down with O'Connell so what was your what was your feeling coming away from that conversation?

I think right now as we sit here and like you said this this incredible background backdrop I'm thinking

about where we were two and a half weeks ago or two weeks ago when we were in TCO Performance

Center and Kevin O'Connell looked like he had just

seen a ghost because Kirk Cousins was no longer his quarterback. And if you take that

reaction and how he kind of looked in that moment back in Minnesota to

how he felt today I think he's excited and I think he's excited about the idea of

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