and Hello, welcome to another episode of Purple Insider Matthew Collar here joining me

returning to the show from Pro Football Focus, Cap Guru also occasional

newsbreaker and analyst Brad Spielberg. What's going on Brad how are you? Hey hey Breaker and

analyst Brad Spielberger what's going on Brad how are you?

Hey hey doing well how about yourself?

I am doing okay and I know that everybody wants

OTA practice updates well they're gonna practice tomorrow or at least whenever you're

listening to this is probably when they're practicing. So of course we will have

analysis of how every guy looks in shorts out there and you know actually rookie mini camp usually provided at least one guy like oh this one guy had a good catch or two but they only did seven on seven drills so that made it pretty impossible to even do breakdowns Brad but I know you'll be

listening closely for that but what I wanted to do with you is I wanted to now that we have a chance to take a

pause here do a little quaysiafel-Mensa report card because you have been focused on this pretty

closely since Quasi Adafel-Mensa got hired and I also force you to be because you're on the show all the time.

But let me just start like with a broad,

the broadest view you can do on Koesi Adafel Mentz's

first couple of months as general manager.

How have you viewed it?

Yeah, you know, I think in some ways that is a continuation of the prior regime and that it can be viewed from a bird's eye view of, you know, trying to get a lot out of a roster that is probably I mean in my opinion a playoff roster but probably not an actual

contending roster and so you know as we talked about probably before you would think Quasi might be a guy that would say, you know, even if he's not going to tank quote unquote, but he's just going to intentionally not be very good, maybe trade Kirk Cousins in a hot quarterback market, and then we try to be competitive as fast as possible.

He obviously has not done that, that they sign a lot of players on defense, a lot of older players,

but it had, once you break it down, and the big one for me was Zadaria Smith the original

reporting I thought was one of the more short-sighted extensions of their

contracts of the entire off-season once the real details came out it's basically a

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