and So welcome to another episode of Purple Insider, Matthew Collar here and just returning

from U.S. Bank Stadium where the Minnesota Vikings held practice today, but that

really wasn't the story to tell you the truth. It was more of a walk-through to get the players

familiar with US Bank Stadium, and the only star of the day was Greg Joseph, who actually had a very good day kicking the ball

but since we don't have a kicking competition it really takes the juice out of

kicker analysis I guess so now you know I guess that he had a good day but other than that the biggest

story was twofold number one Jared Allen is going into the ring of honor and

number two Mark Wilf talked about the team's

off season moves and direction as a whole so let's start out with Jared Allen

and this was a pretty cool moment at U.S. Bank Stadium.

Jared Allen, after practice, all the players gathered in the stands, and he had a microphone

and he gave a speech to all of the players.

And then after his speech, they played up on the video board a bunch of

highlights of Jared Allen sacking people and at the end then it came up with a graphic

that said Ring of honor inductee and Jared Allen did not know

that he was going to be inducted into the ring of honor he was asked to come up and

speak to the team by Kevin O'Connell so he did that but he did not realize

that he was going into the Ring of Honor so a very cool surprise moment for

Jared Allen and of course deserved one of the great pass rushes in NFL history and Vikings history as well and

since they started keeping the SAC statistic third in team history though those who have gone back in pro football reference

and reviewed the purple people leaders days you won't be surprised to find out they had a

lot of sacks from back in the day but Jared Allen nonetheless one of the great defensive players in team history and very deserving and after practice

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