and All right, welcome back to another episode of the Will Raggots show on Purple Insider. I'm Will Raggots, cover the Vikings for

S.I.com. And joining me today, I have the honor of being joined by Arif Hassan, another member of the Beat, covers the Vikings for the Athletic.

Arif, how's it going man?

It's going pretty well, man.

Just got back from Vegas for a friend's bachelor parties, so continuing to ride that high, bringing that energy in here,

maybe both throw out some hot takes, probably more successful than my gambling if I'm going to be

realized. So I can imagine.

I appreciate you coming on and it's starting to feel like football

season a little bit.

We're kind of in that stage of the off season where you can start to sense the season coming a little bit around the corner

There's OTA is happening right now that the schedule came out

It's not really real football yet. Like there's nobody's hitting anybody, they're not wearing pads. We've still got a ways to go, some long summer months, but you're starting to taste it a little bit. And I want to talk about some of kind of the early

storylines that are coming out of O TAs and how much we should maybe buy into them or

whether they're not really that useful or interesting at all. And one that kind of popped up in this first

OTA practice that was open to reporters was Galvin Cook being used more as a receiver and even lining up in the slot in some

bunch wide receiver sets and just in general what are your thoughts on on if the Vikings might actually use

Delvin Cook in more of a hybrid role or or just maybe increase his past game and

kind of the variety of it in this Kevin O'Connell offense.

Yeah, I mean, I feel like this is like a classic O-T-A storyline, right?

And it's not so easily recognizable that people don't dismiss it out of hand.

It's no longer like I'm in the best shape of my life and people just kind of laugh it off.

This is the kind of story that always like makes the rounds, right?

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