and Welcome to another episode of Purple Insider from Inside TCO Performance Center, Matthew

Collar and Sam Ekstrom.

We just were sitting in press conferences for what would just say maybe...

Two hours. Two hours total total but not of actual press conferences there's a lot of

waiting like a baseball game yeah oh yeah right right right right a lot of strikeouts not a lot of action

This is the one thing when people ask every once in a while, you know, like what do people not know about your job?

Like how much we spend time just doing nothing waiting for something to happen.

And that was today, but we talked with Brian O'Neill,

Patrick Peterson, Shannon Sullivan, Harrison Smith,

and Kirk Cousins, and so I think think let's not bury the lead and Kirk Cousins

talking with us for the first time since everything and if you were hoping for fireworks there were no fireworks if you were

hoping for him to say he's the happiest man in the world because Kevin O'Connell is

here he did not say that if you were hoping for him to give details of what he wants for a new

offense he did not talk about those if you were hoping for him to say the witch is dead

thank God Mike Zimmer is gone we football that didn't happen either

I thought Kirk went out of his way to dance around anything and just sort of avoid giving any of his thoughts aside from saying

that he wants to retire a Viking. Of course, you know, his contract doesn't really suggest that, signing a short-term contract,

but he has continued to use that line and reiterate that he wants to stay with the Vikings,

but you know, that's not a new line either so I mean am I being too like

flippant about the cousins press conference because I thought that there would at least be

something to walk away from that would be indicative of how the man feels about anything that's happened.

But they're just, in my mind there just wasn't. I don't know if you caught on to more than I did.

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