and Hello, welcome to another episode of Purple Insider, Matthew Collar here along with

Andrew Kramer of the Star Tribune inside the walls of TCO Performance Center

with a picture or two of Sid Hartman or three looking over us as we do this. So I guess we need to be very

positive to honor Sid about this OTA practice that we just covered.

So I think actually we should start off with some things that we took away from OTA practice

and then we can talk about other stuff.

Where do you want to begin?

There were, it was not a hardcore super intense practice unlike 2018 Kirk cousins didn't throw the ball into the road or anything out of frustration in In fact, it was so lacking in intensity, Kirk wasn't even

throwing the ball and the plays that he was out there. He was like pretending to throw. And so that's

kind of where we're at. but what was your biggest number one

takeaway that will lead all of Star Tribune sports coverage tomorrow?

Oh this this won't lead Star Tribune sports coverage but it will lead Matthew

Collars Purple Insider podcast because I was surprised

and maybe delighted for Kellyn Mon the amount of time he was talking to Kevin O'Connell.

I have seen him speak now more to Kevin O'Connell than I ever saw him speak to Mike Zimmer

in just this one open O-T. A. If this kid has any kind of chance in the NFL, he's got a much better chance

under this coach who seems to take an active interest,

obviously he's an offensive guy,

but an active interest in giving him the reps

and giving him the work.

The reps and the work that frankly we all know Sean Mannion just doesn't really need at this point right

Sean Mannion is learning a new offense yes he did spend some time in LA yes but he is kind of a formed entity at this point we know who he is so I just

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