And the Hello welcome to another episode of Purple Insider Matthew Collar here with Will Regots of Sports Illustrated.

Will, good times, the off season, you know, I'm sitting here trying to book a little vacation so I can time out exactly when they're going to trade Kirk Cousins the minute I get on the plane you just know it I have to tell you I have

constant off-season anxiety syndrome I don't know if this has ever been diagnosed but I go to

McDonald's I go to the store to load up on Diet Dr Pepper and I just have to check my

felt like is anything going on what's going on and they have made it worse over the last couple of weeks because

there is rumors and nothing has happened so that's how I'm feeling how are you?

I'm good I deal with the same thing in the off season we're kind of in the same

business of needing to be on top of all the Vikings news and

There hasn't been any in a while but yeah when it's when it's mid-March or whenever really you have to just be monitoring the the Adam Shefter tweet notifications and all these different things and I managed to pull off a six hour drive to Chicago on the first day of the new Lee year a couple

Wednesdays ago and nothing happened and I was convinced that it would. I had a few things

pre-written just in case, but I managed to pull that off somehow and they did all the stuff on like Monday and Tuesday before I left that week, so that was nice. But I am always kind of dealing with the same thing. But hoping for some more news here at some point, and we do have the draft in about a month, but yeah, it's been a little slow for late March.

What did you pre-write that you haven't been able to publish?

I pre-wrote Zadari Smith being traded. Oh, I pre-wrote Harrison Smith's contract being

restructured which actually happened the following day while I was watching like four NCAA tournament games at once so I just hit publish and that was great.

There may have been one other that I think Dalvin Cook trade those were the three that I that I prewrote so I still have the Zadarius and Dalvin one somewhere in my in my saved drafts

So you think you're gonna have have to use them or not? That is a great question. I think at some point I think I will probably use at least one. I would guess just because I mean the something that happened another thing that happened while I was in Chicago was at a Chicago Bulls game and the Vikings brought back Alexander Madison and so I just waited a little bit to do that. But the numbers that came out of the Madison thing

sort of make you think they're not bringing Delvin Cook back

because you're not paying Alexander Madison that much.

I'm sure you've discussed this on the show to continue to just be a backup and get 100 carries or whatever it is.

So you think something has to happen there?

You think something has to happen was Zadaria Smith Smith who just clearly doesn't seem to be pleased with this situation and they bring in Marcus Davenport.

Are you really going to pay three edge rushes?

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