and All right, welcome back to another episode of the Will Raggots' show on purple insider.

Will Raggots, I cover the Vikings 4 SI.com.

And joining me today is Jackson McIntyre.

He is an analyst and grader for Pro Football Focus, a University of Minnesota grad as well,

and a Vikings fan who is now living in Los Angeles.

Jackson, and thanks for coming on the show.

Yeah, thanks for having me.

So I want to start before we get into some stuff about your journey with PFF and what you do there

And some Vikings talk as well. I want to start kind of with your background a little bit

So how did you like get into the Vikings in the first

bite because you're not from Minnesota? We were just talking before this and and

then how did you end up like coming to the University of Minnesota and just kind of what's your whole relationship with with Minnesota and with the Vikings?

Yeah, so back in like 06.07 or so my grandpa was a big Oklahoma fan, I used to watch all those games with him.

And being born in LA and raised in LA, we didn't have a team back then.

So I was kind of like a free agent with the whole fandom thing and so when

Adrian Peterson came out to be drafted as I was a big fan of him in college I was just

kind of as a 10 year old 11 year old saying like wherever he goes I'm going to be a

fan of that team and liking drafted him and that became a Viking fan and then moving forward

I ended up going to the University of Minnesota in 2017 to 19.

That was mainly because I had a job offer for the Super Bowl that I thought would be really good for my career and stuff.

So took that. That was a really good time out there. Love Minnesota, love Minneapolis.

I lived in Dinky Town so that was that was an experience in itself but

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