Hey everybody, welcome to another episode of Purple Insider presented by Fanduel, Matthew Collar here here along with Dane Mizatani of the Pioneer Press,

and we're inside TCO Performance Center

as we just came from Nolan Teasley's introductory press conference.

We heard from him and the owner of the Minnesota Vikings, Mark Wilf.

And a lot of interesting stuff coming from this, Dane, but I think we should just begin

with our very first impressions of Nolan Teasley and then we'll get into the power structure,

how he talked about the quarterback, how he talked about working with Kevin O'Connell and all of

those things. But Dane, what was your first impression of Mr. Teasley?

Yeah, he seemed cool, calm, collected.

Kind of exactly what I thought he would sound like,

just having listened to some of his clips on the internet,

having talked to certain people behind the scenes.

But this was a guy who came across extremely confident,

not cocky, but believing in himself in his process.

And his journey up the ladder to this point, I actually thought the least comfortable he looked was during his stand at the podium when he was reading a speech.

Like it didn't seem like he was super comfortable giving the speech. But when we got to the Q&A portion and we were just talking ball, he loosened up. He didn't give everything,

but I think that's probably how a GM should operate in those scenarios. A couple sentences,

few sentences, move on, always seemed to understand what the question was and answer it

accordingly, never seemed flustered. I thought he aced the press conference. There's a lot of things that

he has to do now moving forward to ace the job. But when we walk away from these things, whether it's

a GM, a head coach, a quarterback, a first-round pick, we tend to talk about, well, how did they perform in the press conference?

Nolan Teasley nailed it, I thought.

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