and Hey everybody welcome to another episode of Purple Insider Matthew Collar here and

this is a fans only episode of which get ready there's going to be quite a few so that means

send your questions to me at the purple insider website purple insider.com or

on Twitter feel free to shoot me a DM or an at mention at Matthew Coller because it's summertime and we had it won't be our last breaking news that Zadaria Smith was traded but there aren't that many more right maybe I'm speaking too soon

it's the Vikings they could break news at any time but there's some O TAs there's some mini

camps for the most part it is summertime which means we get to have some

really fun discussions about the Vikings leading up to training camp and I want to hear

everything that is on your mind so we can talk about it. We'll be doing more live shows on YouTube, hot routes, everything that's going on as always. So you want to keep it here, but I need your help. So send me everything that's on your mind and I will be happy to answer it with fans only.

So before we get into it, I was out at rookie mini camp and I have to say from years past quite a bit different under Kevin O'Connell.

I wasn't sure if last year was just different and he was going to go to a more intense style of rookie mini camp this year.

He did not.

So in years past, what we saw from Mike Zimmer was 11 on 11s You had guys out there running full stuff that as much as they could teach in a couple days and we could get a lot out of practice. We could really watch the rookies, especially if it was tight ends, wide receivers. Can't really tell on offensive linemen when they're playing without pads, but you would get a sense for what was going on out there defensive players how they were moving but under

O'Connell it was really just individual drills so we did watch Jordan Addison run a lot of routes

and he looks like someone that should have been drafted in the first round.

Clearly the most smooth the most quick intense route runner that there is out there on the rookie mini camp field, but man, does that really tell us a whole lot? I don't know.

Other than that's exactly what he was expected to look like and Kevin O'Connell said the same thing. That's what a guy who's drafted in the first round should be doing out here.

Aside from that though, when the natural question is who look good at rookie mini camp? I don't know. The coaches though by watching the

individual drills and seeing different skill sets that they're looking for and

maybe somebody who's a tryout will end up on the team that happened before this receiver

named Adam Thelin was a tryout guy.

I don't know if you ever heard that story.

Google it if you haven't.

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