and All right, welcome back to another episode of the Will Raggots show on Purple Insider.

I'm Will Raggots. I cover the Vikings for SI.com.

And joining me today is a very special guest, Ben Leiber.

He is a former 10-year NFL including five years with the Minnesota Vikings.

Now a broadcaster and sideline reporter with K-Fann. He works with the Vikings Entertainment Network

and hosts the podcast Unrestricted with Ben Leiber.

And also was recently named the co-host of Twin Cities Live on KSTP.

Ben I went on your show Unrestricted back in January so this is pretty cool we're not coming full circle and I'm glad to have you on on my show how's it going man

Dude I'm doing great I'm actually so pumped that you asked me to be on because I'm you know like I said I wasn't just blowing smoke up you when I when I had you on my own podcast I'm like well you do such a good job of just

and keeping things concise and educational and I've just enjoyed all of your content

so I was happy to have you on so I'm happy to repay the favor if that's what you want to call it

it but it's good to see you.

Yeah, it's good to see you too now I'm excited about this and I want to talk about some Viking stuff this year

2022 Vikings but before we do that I kind of want to get into your playing career a little bit.

And for people who may not know your full journey played high school ball in South Dakota and

then played at Kansas State under the Hall of Fame or Bill Snyder.

And drafted in 2002 by the San Diego Chargers and played for four seasons under

Marty Schottenheimer.

So like right there, those are two kind of unbelievable coaches to have as like a young player trying to establish yourself in the NFL.

What did you learn from those two coaches as you were getting going as a player?

I think I learned that physically I could handle a pretty heavy toll because if you if you look at and the thing is I didn't know it at the time, but you look at those two guys, those two, you know, amazing coaches.

They didn't get to where they were by taking things light and taking the easy way out.

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