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Today's Thursday, so it's Ask Thor Anything.

We've gone through the mailbag and you guys draft us some really awesome questions. So excited to get into them. I'm here as always with

producer AJ. Let's do this, AJ. Yeah, you mentioned it's asked or anything Thursday. It's one of my

favorite days of the week. One, because it reminds me how like smart and clever. And frankly,

just like outside of my thought process our listeners

are but also just makes my day a lot easier makes it so easy uh we're going to start one off here

with an email from brandon balmer who says hey a j my question for you and thor is if there are any

players in this year's draft or maybe the next couple if not this coming year that could fill a fill a similar role to what Andrew Van Ginkle does with the Vikings. He's getting older and we

saw what Dallas Turner struggled in that role. So wondering if anyone throughout the draft could

be brought in as an insurance or an eventual replacement. Thanks for all the great content.

I appreciated this question because it made me do some digging. You know,

with the edge rusher class, you know, you have both four three traditional defense

ends. And then, of course, you have your three, four outside linebacker rusher types. And

most of the latter group are the attacking forward pass rusher guys, right?

There's not a lot of edge rushers that drop into coverage a bunch in college, right?

And so that's when you're trying to think through is there's some guy that could have a little like van ginkle in them in this class.

You actually have to dig a little bit

uh in in terms of the eddresher class i do have two names for you okay love it after after my

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