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sweating Vikings football since the Randy Moss era.

Great day, Norman. Welcome to Thor Talks Purple. Welcome into Thor Talks Purple Friday

edition.

We teased this yesterday. We're going to get to the rest of the mailbag questions that we didn't get to yesterday. And then we are going to make up our three-round mock draft. So we will be mock drafting at the end of today's episode. AJ, we got a couple things to get to today. You ready to go? Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. Dipping back into the mailbag, the old are full from yesterday's show. Thank you again to everybody that did submit questions. Always helpful, always kind of, it makes my job a lot easier. So thank you so much. But David Winter is the first one we'll go to here. He says, I've heard a lot about how the Vikings need to improve the running game on offense. But what is confusing to me is what exactly needs to happen to make

the running game better. I'm assuming it involves more than just getting more rushing

attempts. So Thor, can you shed a little light on what you personally want to see to help

improve the Vikings running game into the 2026 season and what that all entails.

Yeah, I mean, it's probably threefold that one of the folds they, they probably haven't done to their heart's desire yet.

But the other two is, I think, what they try to address this offseason.

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