and Hey everybody welcome

welcome to a very special episode of Purple Insider Matthew Collar here and joining me on the show,

the general manager of the Minnesota Vikings, Quaysee Dauphalmenza.

Kaysi, it's great to have you on the show for the very first time. I'm pulling you out of meetings here, so I'm happy that you could make time to jump on. I guess I want to start out by just saying it feels it feels new around there. It feels fresh. It feels like one thing came to an end and another thing started with this draft. Does it feel that way for you?

You know, I think that that'll probably settle in when they arrive. I do think I do feel that sense a little bit

But I also want to say that that comes with a great appreciation for the people that came before them

You know I know you're specifically talking about the quarterback, but even just all the guys that have been here

these first two years built this culture, had us in the playoffs or competing for the playoffs right up until the last very minute.

I mean, my admiration and appreciation for those guys. competing for the playoffs right up until the last very minute.

I mean, my admiration and appreciation for those guys

will always remain.

I always say to tell those guys my relationships

are not transactional.

They have my number forever. And really just those guys but I am happy about the new guys coming in

The new you know these guys are going to pick up the culture for the next you know foreseeable future for the Vikings

And I'm excited to add them to the group we

had in for agency the guys that they inherited on this team already and just you know we're

fortunate bringing these guys it's probably so much different from any other sport when it comes to football the amount of players that come and go and you know Harrison Smith has talked about that over the years where it seems like every year in his press conference we ask him so you lost this teammate this

teammate signed somewhere else and he said like that's just kind of how the

league works but I think about when you guys arrived to how different this is

now and especially because Kirk was here for so long.

It feels like the Quasiad Affomensa Kevin O'Connell team has been formed over the last couple of years.

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