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This is the athletic football show.

Welcome to the athletic football show, presented by YouTube and YouTube TV, the new home of NFL Sunday ticket.

I'm Robert Mays.

Fun show for you guys today.

It is the last installment of our going camping series, traveling around to various NFL training camps over the month of August.

Had a great time doing these.

I went to see, I think, 20 different teams in about a month, which was a lot, but it was very fun. I can't even tell you how enjoyable it is to be having these football conversations, getting to see the country, getting to spend time with all these different people. It was a blast. I hope you guys enjoyed it. I hope you enjoyed the insights from these people who cover the teams and just understand them in a way that we can't not being there every single day. And these are our last three. It's a run through the NFC North. My old stopping grounds went to Minneapolis, went to Green Bay, ended things in Chicago. Very excited for you guys to hear from Alec Lewis, who covers the Vikings for us. Matt Schneidman, who is our Packers writer here at the athletic and Kevin Fishbane who's one of our Bears writers here at the

athletic I don't think Kevin has been on the show as part of the series before we had Adam Johns on last year. So very excited for you guys to hear from all three of them. Let's get to it. Joining us now, I think, for the first time on this show.

You only started on the beat last year. Don't give me that much shit about it. No, no, no. I'm just happy to be here. I mean, I don't know, Mizzou guys. It's just, it's about time. It's a long time coming. Joining us right now, it is our Vikings writer at the athletic. It's Alec Lewis. How you doing man i'm great robert i uh it's been a it's been a

blast of a camp uh you came in yesterday on mustache monday kirk cousins has embraced his uh goofy

for a few weeks now which has been uh it's been interesting he's a star now movie star so i guess

i get it a team that is in such an interesting space they went 13

games last year i think all of us know that it wasn't a real 13 win season but maybe maybe that's harsh

it the underlying metrics would tell us that the 13 wins maybe were not indicative of where

this team was in the process there we go go. Let's do it that way.

Now you have this new version of it or the second act of Quasi Dofa Menza and Kevin O'Connor after they came in last year where they were a playoff team.

And this idea of competitive rebuild that they've been trying to sell from the beginning

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