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

And we are continuing tape guy week with one of our favorite tape guys of all time here

on this show, Brandon Thorne of Trench Warfare, once known as the O-Lline guy originally on this podcast. And guess what

we're going to talk about? The Minnesota Vikings trenches. And just before we went on,

I said to Brandon, look at us. Who would have thought? We're talking about the Minnesota

Vikings offensive line in the offseason as if it could be one of the five best in the national football

league it's taken so many years brandon there's so many guards along the way we started way back

talking about t j clemings many years ago and the names that they've gone through to get to

this point uh even through last year pretty remarkable but uh am i am I getting too jacked up, Brandon, about this Vikings offensive line?

Because I feel like we've gotten to a point where it could actually be a difference

maker.

No, I don't, I really don't think so.

I mean, I see this as a, I don't know, top five, six, maybe seven at the worst

offensive line entering the year. I haven't done my official rankings yet for,'t know, top five, six, maybe seven at the worst offensive line entering the year.

I haven't done my official rankings yet for establish the run, but they're, you know,

kind of have like a rough draft right now. And yeah, they're going to be in my top seven for

sure. So, yeah, that's as good as it's been since we've started talking years ago. So, yeah, I don't think

you're getting too far ahead of yourself. Before we get into just kind of each guy and their

outlook and a little bit on the depth, you've been doing trench warfare for a while. You've

been following offensive line and O-line masterminds, which is the huge event in Texas with all the

offensive linemen and ex-offensive linemen talking about

the craft and all that. And you've been involved in that now for a long time. Let me first get

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