and Hello, Welcome to another episode of Purple Insider, Matthew Collard here and we've got press conferences to look at and plenty of fan questions to answer as I'm recording this on the Vikings day off on Thursday, so we will not have another practice to analyze.

The Vikings are at padded practice number two, but I am excited as tonight there will be a football game with the

Hall of Fame game and I know that by the time you get to about the second

quarter there's no players you recognize in the Hall of Fame game, but at very least it tells us football is here, more

football is on the way.

But let's start out by talking about some of the things that I took away from the last day's press conferences

starting with Irv Smith Jr and his injury and Kevin O'Connell explained how

Irsmith Jr got hurt.

It's actually on a kind of a simple, just, you know, a everyday type of block and just the way guys are fitting their hands and, you know, practicing hard the way the way he was and obviously they are on the other side

that stuff's going to happen from time to time and just a simple simple play that happens

every single every single year in this league and if it was another position where you know catching the football wasn't such a necessity for a guy like Irv

We might tape that thing up and get them right back out there, but we wanted to fix it

Use this time smartly and make sure we give Ir the best chance to have a

great 22 season. You're going to be hearing the name Zach Davidson and

Johnny Munts quite a bit and Kevin O'Connell also talked about their outlook what they're going to be asking of the backup tight ends and also he did not entirely close the door to the idea that the Vikings could potentially bring in someone else if they don't like

what they see.

Yeah, I think you come into camp with some good numbers for a reason just in case, you know,

not really knowing exactly where Irv or Johnny would be

coming off of their injuries from last year so we have some depth there and we got some

guys we really don't really want to see kind of handle the different roles.

I know with this group, we talked a lot about the role of a tight end,

what that really looks like offense to offense in the NFL nowadays.

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