Jay Deasy says sounded like the Panthers GM said

Thielen was begging him to trade him back to Minnesota.

He might have been.

I mean, look, if you live here,

I know I have a lot of people outside of Minnesota who love the Vikings

and love that you're here listening.

But for the locals, you get it.

You get it.

All of you folks, I learned this when I moved to Minnesota.

It's its own unique culture and there's no place like it.

I love it here.

That's why I started Purple Insider and didn't just go get another

sports talk radio job or go get another NFL beat reporter job. That's why I stayed here because I love it.

This is the perfect state for me and my dog and my wife and everything, even though when

winter arrives, maybe I won't talk like that.

Today was beautiful outside.

But you get it if you're here.

If you're from here, you never, you'll always say you're from Minnesota.

So Thielen, I mean, Mancato, Vikings, his heart's here, his family's here. He's 35. I'm sure he wanted to come back. And he even talked

about how difficult it was to move his family there and not have the friends and family that they

had been close with for so long. So it was a challenge for him. And yeah, I mean, if you're going to just

go finish your career somewhere, make it your home state, make it your home team. He's going to be in the ring of honor at some point. Like this is a, it's a, it's a, it's a, Justin Jefferson and him are very close. I mean, it's a great situation. Plus, I think, you know, Adam knows ball. The Panthers aren't winning the Super Bowl this year. They're, I think, on the rise, but they're not winning the Super Bowl this year. And he knows that. So he wanted to take one more shot with this team. I don't have any doubts about that. If he hadn't been traded, he would have done his job and he would have kept playing. But he wanted to be here. There's no question. Roland says, you guys forget O'Connell trusted Darnold enough to be pass happy. He will not

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