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

SI.com. And I'm joined today by Paul Hoduanick of Purple Insider and WCCO. Paul recording a little bit later in the week on a Friday. So happy Friday, man. How's it gone?

Thank you. I am excited. Will. Play golf this morning, ready to now just fire off my Vikings hot takes couldn't be in a better mood

excited for this. I love that that's the energy that we need on on this we need.

So the Vikings are kind of wrapping up or getting close to wrapping up this phase

of the off season.

They've got another week of O TAs

and then they've got the mandatory mini camp.

And then it's kind of just a dead period until training camp,

which isn't too far away, but we're getting towards the dog days

of summer here.

But I wanted to just kind of talk generally about how we're feeling about this Vikings team as the 2021,

2022 seasons, sorry, gets closer and closer. And so I've written down a list, not a super long list, but a list of reasons for optimism about the Vikings.

If that is the angle that you want to go and you are optimistic about it.

You can also kind of turn them into reasons for pessimism if you're not sold.

So I want to go through these and kind of see what you think and how much you agree with each of these and then I will give my takes as well. But to start kind of the main story of this

off season is the new coaching staff, the new regime in general. But Quaysee Adolfo Menza has kind of done his part in this

off season. Now it's really a lot of focus is going to be on Kevin O'Connell on this coaching staff.

So the first statement I have here is that for a reason for optimism for the 2022 Vikings is that the

new coaching staff will make a big difference.

And there's kind of a lot of different sub-context

to that, like specific coaches on both sides of the ball.

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