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at Liquid Death.com slash insider. Well, welcome to another episode of Purple Insider, Matthew Collar, along with Jeremiah Searles,

and we just finished up an entire podcast as the Vikings announced that they have traded,

or I'm sorry Adam Schefter have announced but that they have traded for T.J. Hawkinson of the Detroit Lions and they're not getting us

Jeremiah we were still sitting here. We were still ready.

So even though we completed the entire podcast in which we talked about the passing of Adam Zimmer and the things that they're facing going forward here with some of their offensive line issues and so forth.

But one of the things we did not touch on was Irv Smith's injury and now they bring in one of the top

tight ends in the NFL,

a move that pushes the chips to the middle of the table,

something I've been kind of advocating for for some time.

This is a huge move for the Minnesota Vikings to get T.J.

Hockins. He's a top five tied in the NFL in my opinion.

I mean this dude can do it all. He can block, he can run, he can catch.

I mean, this is a young Kyle Rudolph. This is what Kyle Rudolph was when he was young

and he could go in an all-pro caliber, pro-bulliver caliber, and you know,

Jared Gough just wasn't using him the way that they needed to use him.

I mean, this is an instant upgrade at Tied End.

No offense to Irv at all, but this is a first round pick.

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