and Hey everybody welcome to another episode of Purple Inside. I'm at New College here along with

Daniel Zatani of the Pioneer Press inside TCO Performance Center where we just finished up listening to Kevin O'Connell and Qua C. Do

Mensa give their opening remarks regarding training camp and Dane unfortunately

those remarks were mostly about Kyrie Jackson and how the team plans to honor him, how they dealt

with that loss and how they will continue to deal with the loss of Kyrie Jackson.

It's hard to have many takeaways or opinions on this other than just to say

that it will clearly have a significant impact on Kevin O'Connell for a very long time to come and they are doing everything they can

resources wise they got players together right after it happened to talk about

it and they're trying to do everything they can to honor Kyrie Jackson there's

going to be a patch there's going to be some other things and Kevin O'Connell and Quaisee Eiffelmentza

are going to his funeral they're also going to have a celebration of life here in Minnesota for Kyrie Jackson, but it really, I thought in that room you could feel the strain, the pain that Kevin O'Connell is going through and both guys

O'Connell and Koesi D' Afflementa talked a lot about just getting to know

Kyrie Jackson they said something that stuck with me that in their culture here

inside the building they work a lot on getting players to connect with each other and

connecting from coach to player which means that even

though they were only together for a short period of time they got to know Kyrie

Jackson very well and quayside Eiffelmenta got to know him at the Senior Bowl and things like that and it's very much felt even though they weren't around him for that long

It is someone that they got close to really quickly. Yeah, I think you can tell just kind of how special of a person

Carter Jackson was. We got to talk to him right after the draft and you could tell that but

now hearing you know Kevin O'Connell

Koiezzdopamens to talk about him I'm sure how we'll hear his

his teammates talk about him in the coming days you could just tell he was a

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