So that's where we know we are with Sam Darnold.

He's a free agent.

And I feel like I've had this conversation with you guys before about a player playing really well and earning the right to enter free agency.

But there are some unique aspects of the conversation.

And that's going to be the biggest thing is that conversation, the dialogue not only with Sam, his representatives, with Quasi and Rob in our front office.

But Sam knows how I feel about him, and he obviously knows what he's capable of doing in Minnesota.

That was a little more than a month ago in New Orleans in advance of Super Bowl 59.

Kevin O'Connell, the morning after being named the coach of the year for the 2024 season,

the conversation was Sam Darnold.

And up until last Friday night, it wasn't clear what the Vikings were going to do

because it wasn't clear there was going to be a market for Sam Darnold.

The moment Gino Smith was traded in principle by the Seahawks to the Raiders,

that's when the clouds parted for most. And I sent a couple text messages and received a couple

responses that made me think my hunch was dead on balls accurate, as they say in my cousin Vinny,

sorry, London, that Sam Darnold

would be the next quarterback of the Seattle Seahawks and Chris, he is. And good morning.

And well done yesterday with your three-hour live free agency marathon. You probably wish you'd

started at noon because it was effin nutty right out of the gates as we

expected it was it was it was nutty uh it was fun to do the show we went for about two hours live

right straight but you know between the weekend news stuff that happened yesterday the stuff that

was happening live if we had a dead, we could revisit weekend news or things

that happened earlier in the day. So, but either way, action-packed, action-pack day yesterday.

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