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NFL Preseason Insights, QB Battles, and Vikings vs. Giants Highlights · Scene Projects Sports Network

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  Jackson Dart is on B Flo's hit list once again, and the nerve of NFL rankings having him above
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  our guy, Kyler Murray, and even JJ McCarthy.
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  For that matter, let's talk about
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  Welcome into the Scene Project Sports Network tailgate show.
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  This is our preview of the matchup between the New York Giants and our Minnesota Vikings.
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  My name is Bubba Starts.
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  We wanna thank our sponsors, Odyssey Exteriors, for presenting the show today, and I gotta
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  bring in my guy, r a p.
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  Hey.
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  What's going on?
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  Appreciate you.
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  Appreciate you, man.
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  I'm ready for this football season to kick off.
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  I'm excited about this game, Vikings versus Giants, man.
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  Let's see.
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  Football is back, and Absolutely.
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  We're excited.
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  We got some really big position battles, obviously, on the Vikings.
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  The Giants have some storylines as well.
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  So let's jump in and talk about it.
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  We're not gonna bury the lead here.
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  It's gonna be QB battle time.
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  We're I would expect that we're gonna see all three guys on the Vikings.
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  What's your takes off the top talking about Minnesota Vikings position battles?
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  I I think it's interesting what we have going on in in camp leading up to this moment.
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  It's I'll be curious to see who takes the lead here, and I think this is important.
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  This is an important game for the Minnesota Vikings.
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  It's gonna tell us a story that we need the answers to, really.
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  I'm looking forward to Colin Murray.
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  I'm looking forward to seeing if JJ McCarthy also took a step forward.
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  Not too much concerned about Carson Wentz or Max Grossmer.
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  I think those guys kinda are where they're going to be, as an as emergencies if needed
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  throughout the season, which we hope we don't get there.
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  But I think the most the main focus is Colin Murray and JJ McCarthy who can go out there and
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  and impress not only the fans, but impress the coaches.
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  It's gonna be most curious to me to see what the splits are in this first game, especially,
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  because Kyler needs to get work.
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  If he's gonna be QB one, he needs to get some time out there.
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  Is KOC gonna give him a quarter or even two?
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  And then are you gonna see JJ and Wentz get time in the second half, or is it just gonna be
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  maybe split by half with your two kind of battling quarterbacks leading the charge in
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  this as we get, you know, moving into the second and third games.
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  I would expect you see more of your, you know, guys lower on the roster.
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  So this game's really a big one as far as who's gonna get the play and how those reps are gonna
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  be split out there because nobody to this point has earned their spot on the team.
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  No.
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  I agree, but I I do ex this is what I I do expect.
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  I do expect Colin Murray to look similar to the Sam Darnold situation in 2024 where he played
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  one drive and then he gets pulled out.
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  And I and I think that's actually what should happen.
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  Not that I know that that's going to happen.
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  We have to wait and see, but I think Kyler Murray from reports coming out has been in the
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  lead as far as being the starting quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings in 2026.
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  So if that is the case, they're probably gonna try to lessen the risk of something happening.
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  So I would say Kyler Murray goes out there for one drive, and then all of a sudden we see JJ
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  McCarthy.
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  And that's great, actually, because that gives us fans an opportunity to see if there really
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  is growth there.
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  We will be able to notice the difference.
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  And I know there it's going up against second stringers and things like that.
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  But if you pay attention to the mechanic things, I think it it'll tell us a story.
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  And then after this game, we'll be able to talk about it and say how we really feel about JJ
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  McCarthy's growth.
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  Because we know the Vikings, they're they're locking down practice.
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  We're not able to see a lot.
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  You know?
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  We've been able to show some things the first couple practices, but after the Vikings caught
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  wind of it, of of fans recording and we're getting this evidence, they said not anymore.
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  So now we have to wait and see the the football on the field.
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  Well and exactly because of what we've seen is why I'm curious to actually see a little bit
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  more of Kyler Murray out there.
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  I don't think that you have to protect him.
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  You have no long term commitments to him.
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  You're not paying him anything this year regardless or next to nothing.
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  I mean, a million bucks is a lot to me and you, but on football terms for a guy that has a
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  $40,000,000 contract, it's pennies.
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  So I would like to see them at least stick him out there for a quarter, and then maybe in the
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  second and third games where you know, hey.
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  He's gonna be the guy going out like you said.
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  Moore gets a series.
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  I don't even care if he plays in that last game, to be perfectly honest, once you know
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  he's the guy.
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  But I think moving up to this point that there really needs to be some evidence, and I think
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  more so for the fans necessarily than for the coaching staff because practice being locked
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  down, we're not seeing it.
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  What we are seeing, Kyler hasn't impressed to this point outside of maybe one day and to all
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  of the reporting that we're hearing coming out, has a lot left to prove yet to this fan base
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  and to this coaching staff regardless of how the head coach feels about who's getting that
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  starting job.
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  No.
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  Absolutely.
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  I agree a 100%.
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  I agree a 100%.
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  It it's a great it's a great time to be a Minnesota Vikings fan.
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  I know some people may look at it like, well, this is an unfortunate situation because they
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  always say if you have two quarterbacks, that means you have none.
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  And, that's kinda what what some of the OGs have been telling me behind the scenes when it
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  comes to our quarterback situation.
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  But as as a fan in my from my point of view, I actually think it's exciting.
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  I think JJ McCarthy is actually going to be he's going to be better just because he's
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  always been about competition.
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  If you know anything about his story, going to visit Ohio State and committing there, and they
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  kinda, you know, gave him the cold shoulder, and he intentionally wanted to go to their
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  biggest rival to compete.
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  And when he got in in Michigan, he had to compete to then earn that job.
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  And so he's he's a competitive guy.
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  So I'd I'd always said this at the beginning of this, the quote, unquote competition that we
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  have going on.
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  I said one thing about one thing I know for sure about JJ McCarthy is he isn't gonna lay
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  down.
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  You have a lot of guys that would after you bring in somebody like Kyle and Murray, they
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  would they would kinda back back down and just go through the motions.
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  Now he's trying to make it interesting, man.
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  So it it's a good situation for us.
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  I can't wait to see what happens.
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  Well, and what's really interesting is that on the other side of the field with the Giants,
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  they have a young quarterback in Jackson Dart, who as you alluded to in the open, ranked above
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  both of the Minnesota quarterbacks by, you know, GMs and people inside of the league.
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  But this Minnesota Vikings defense last year held them to 33 passing yards in our season
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  matchup.
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  So it's interesting to me to come in here and on paper, you're telling me that Jackson Dart
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  is a better quarterback than both of our guys, yet I've seen no evidence of that whatsoever.
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  Yeah.
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  Like and and I don't I won't take too much away from Jackson Dart.
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  I will say I'm on record, saying how I'm a fan of Jackson Dart coming out of college.
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  I actually had him as my number one quarterback in that draft class.
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  But, you know, he he has a lot to learn, and the team didn't have success.
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  And and for me, if you if the quarterback is good, your team usually is going to have
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  success.
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  The Giants didn't have that.
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  So I I don't understand why he's ranked above especially Kyler Murray.
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  Now, JJ, I can possibly get make the argument, and that's just due to the lack of games that
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  JJ McCarthy was able to play, only being able to play 10 games last season.
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  But Colin Murray, if you look at the track record and, you know, I don't wanna keep going
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  to the past, and they let bygones be bygones.
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  But at the end of end of the day, Colin Murray has shown that he could play at a high level if
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  he's in the right situation.
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  So, Jackson Dart hasn't showed he can do that yet.
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  So that it's just it's just crazy how they have him ranked that high above Colin Murray.
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  Exactly why, us here at at the Scene Project Sports Network and at the VocalVyke YouTube
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  channel where you can find RAP daily putting out fantastic Vikings content.
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  We don't pay too much attention to these.
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  Obviously, we have to report on them, but I'm not putting a lot of stock in in all of these
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  rankings and things, and especially if they're coming from the press and not from, you know,
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  players and coaches themselves.
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  Absolutely.
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  Yeah, man.
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  Grain of salt.
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  That's what they say.
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  Take it with a grain of salt.
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  For sure.
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  And on the other side of the field, sticking with some of the Giants headlines, they got a
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  new coach, a guy that had a lot of success in his tenure.
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  I I think a lot of people were surprised to see him not coming back in purple himself this
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  year, although in a Ravens jersey.
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  John Harbaugh is the new coach of the New York football giants.
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  What do you think the coach is gonna bring to a team that, by all intents, struggled mightily
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  last year?
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  I will say it's definitely an upgrade.
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  I I think he will change the culture there, honestly, because Harbaugh is is a guy that's,
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  he he makes an impact on players.
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  That's obvious.
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  He's he's had a ton of success in Baltimore.
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  So I think it is going to benefit the New York Giants fans, and it'll benefit their team.
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  And this goes to guys like Jackson Dart.
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  Like, one thing I like about Harbaugh is when, Lamar Jackson got drafted, and they're they
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  went from they went from what what's the what's the Joe Flacco.
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  They went from Flacco to Lamar, and Harbaugh didn't hesitate to mold his offense around his
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  young quarterback.
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  I expect him to do a lot of the same when it comes to Jackson Dart.
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  So, you know, there there's some positives there to take.
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  But the biggest crypt tonight is going to be Brian Flores, and it come when you talk about
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  Brian Flores' defense matching up against young quarterbacks, so tonight, he makes it a
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  nightmare for them.
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  But all in all, I think Harbaugh was definitely an upgrade from what they had last year.
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  Just I don't think it's a big enough upgrade to beat the Minnesota Vikings.
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  No.
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  And, obviously, in a preseason matchup, we're not putting a lot of stock into the win and
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  loss at the end of this.
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  Yeah.
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  So speaking of that beefalo defense, not a guy typically that puts a lot of faith into younger
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  players, at least in his tenure here with the Minnesota Vikings.
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  It hasn't gone that way.
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  But Yeah.
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  This year's draft had Brian Flores' thumbprint all over it, and you are seeing in training
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  camp for the Vikings that these young guys are getting a lot of runway out there.
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  I think there's a couple of guys up on that defensive line that are gonna show out in their
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  first chance to really get some game action.
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  It's very hard for a defensive lineman to show what they have in training camp practices.
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  Mhmm.
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  Yeah.
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  No.
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  We've been we've been hearing a lot of great things about the young players that we drafted.
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  So I'm super excited.
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  Shout out to the to the Vikings front office this year, especially when you think about
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  everything that went down, and it went down fairly quickly right before the draft was
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  happening.
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  So, you know, there was a lot of moving around the pieces of the puzzle there and having to
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  figure out how to still execute at a high level.
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  When you're bringing in new faces and you had Rob step up and kinda take the lead there with
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  with the help of Kevin O'Connell and Brian Flores.
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  But to your point, yes, this draft absolutely had Brian Flores' name written all over it, and
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  we're already hearing success stories from a lot of these young players from and and coming
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  from somebody like Brian Flores who doesn't, like you said, really doesn't like to rely on
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  younger players to step in and be pivotal pieces of the defense.
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  But this year, it seemed like we're gonna have not only one, but maybe multiple.
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  You get up to three or four guys that are going to be day one starters making impacts out there
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  right away.
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  So I'm excited about that, and we get a chance to see that in this preseason game coming up.
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  Yeah.
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  Finally.
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  Guy making big splashes and headlines all over training camp practice.
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  Charles Demings is all over there.
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  Chuck E.
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  D.
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  Has just been making some splashes.
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  But a guy like Caleb Banks, who I don't wanna call it a controversial pick, although I think
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  a lot of Vikings fans were surprised because of his foot injury at the combine, a lot of people
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  had taken him out of the first round completely.
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  But I think what you're seeing at training camp is that the Vikings got a steal at 18 with a
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  guy that a lot of teams had as a top 10 overall pick before the foot injury at the combine.
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  Yeah.
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  Absolutely.
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  Like, he was easily a top 10 pick according to the consensus to to the top draft guys.
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  But, you know, pre foot injury, everybody had Caleb Banks' top 10.
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  I even had I even seen a couple that had him even as a top five pick.
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  So you know?
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  And then the foot injury happens, and then all of a sudden, the player isn't going to be
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  generational.
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  Because people were scouting him as a generational talent just based off his size and
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  his speed.
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  Because usually, guys, his size don't move like that.
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  Like, he doesn't they don't move like that.
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  So I had the the pleasure to have a good friend named Skoldoc, who is a actually, a ankle and
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  foot doctor.
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  And I had a chance to sit down with him on my show on Vocal Vike, and he told us, relax.
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  He broke down the exact injury that happened, the exact process to how to heal that injury,
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  and also answered questions if the injury would reoccur, if it's something Vikings fans should
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  be concerned about the moment we see if we see Kayla Banks go down or start holding the foot,
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  is it something that's gonna continue to just be a damper on the process?
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  And he told us, absolutely not.
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  The the surgery, once it's done, it actually is better than your actual bone that goes there
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  when they put that screw in there.
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  I mean, he said it's actually even in a lot of cases better than the bone.
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  So now, you know, that really took a weight off my shoulders and said, you know what?
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  I think we really struck gold on this pick.
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  And not only that, after the couple practices, man, that's all you're hearing.
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  Oh, Caleb Banks is explosive off the line.
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  Sack here.
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  Sack there.
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  Would have been sack here.
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  Pressure here.
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  I mean, this dude is just doing what he's supposed to do.
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  So it's possible that we might have got us a generational defensive tackle with the first
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  round pick this year.
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  Yeah.
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  And to pick him up at 18, is an absolute steal because of the way the contracts are
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  structured.
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  You still get him in the first, so you can, put that fifth year option on his rookie contract
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  as well.
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  So massive.
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  And I know it surprised a lot, and no video exemplified that more than the Vikings' own
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  video from inside a US Bank Stadium when the pick was announced.
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  But I had watched your episode with Skoldak.
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  And that was eye opening to me to put all of my fears to rest, and I think it should for the
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  rest of Vikings nation.
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  And now you're seeing it play out in training camp.
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  You're not even seeing him operate at a 100 or, you know, at top speed right now at practice.
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  Right?
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  You are seeing maybe 80% of that, and I think that once they get in this game, he's gonna be
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  hungry to really show what he can do.
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  And that's not to take away from anything.
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  His brother in the trenches, Big Citrus, Dominic Horn, who I think has been impressing
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  as well.
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  Absolutely.
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  Yeah.
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  We've been hearing not we haven't been hearing as much about Big Citrus as we have been
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  hearing about Kayla Banks, but you see you see the name splashing here and there.
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  I think it's easily Kayla Banks and Chuck d are the two younger players that are really making
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  their mark at training camp thus far.
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  You know, somebody who I was kind of excited about going into training camp was Jacoby
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  Thomas, the safety we got out of Miami.
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  I was thinking the way we're talking about Chuck d and what we're hearing about Chuck d, I
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  was thinking that he was going to be that player.
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  And it wasn't gonna be surprising to me to hear those type of things about him, but he's been
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  kinda under the radar.
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  Jake Olde had had a, a couple good days too.
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  So, you know, and that's somebody who I think Brian Flores is really intrigued about and and
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  can't wait to see how he utilizes him.
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  I mean, he said right when he walked in the building, Brian Flores straight up told him,
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  hey.
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  I want you to learn multiple positions because you're going to be moved around.
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  So that kinda answers our question.
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  Is he gonna be a pass rusher?
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  Is he gonna be a linebacker?
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  Well, guess what?
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  He's gonna do all of it.
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  So I'm excited to see that too.
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  He wound up getting himself an interception at Pratt or or tip he forced an interception with
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  a tip.
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  So shout out to Jake Olde, man.
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  But, yes, this young this young draft class we got in 2026, man, I cannot wait to watch them
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  match up against the New York Giants.
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  We I think it's gonna be fun.
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  It's gonna be fun.
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  Well and really in one draft class, you're able to build an entire new backbone of this
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  franchise on the defensive side.
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  And I I don't have any questions about Jacoby Thomas and his impact that he's going to have.
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  I think it's hard for guys that play his style to make an impact at practice because he's a
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  hard hitting strong safety.
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  Right?
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  His job is to really stuff the run.
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  He's not the free safety kinda lurking.
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  I think also training camp is an opportunity for cornerbacks, especially like a Demings
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  who's just getting his hands on everything and locking guys down.
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  It's much easier to see that in the the practices because of how the practices are
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  structured.
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  Right?
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  And what you're being asked to do, defenses that are being called in that maybe a little
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  bit more vanilla than what Brian Flores is going to show when you're playing an opponent.
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  And I honestly feel a little bit bad for the Giants being the first victims on the list even
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  in preseason action because these rookies are gonna get play out there.
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  There's only so many guys on the roster, especially on that defensive side that are
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  gonna get trotted out there.
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  So you're gonna see a lot of Demings and Thomas and Goldae and Big Citrus and Kayla Banks out
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  there and and really watching the future of the Minnesota Vikings defense blossom right before
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  our eyes, and we're gonna see it right away in this first matchup.
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  Absolutely.
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  I agree a 110%.
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  This is an exciting time, man.
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  Football is officially back, baby.
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  Well, in flipping sides of the field on the offensive side now and not a lot of offensive
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  rookies.
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  I I know we have a couple of offensive linemen that are gonna get to see out there.
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  Tiernan being, you know, on the the top of that list there, but also a guy that we were hoping
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  to see a bit more of.
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  I know he had a slight injury, but your guy, Damon Claiborne, we wanna see that speed
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  action, hoping that whatever slight injury he had is behind him, and he's gonna get a lot of
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  carries and a lot of chances to to go out there and show what he can do on the offensive side
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  of the ball.
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  Yeah.
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  Damon Claiborne, after having to sit out for a practice and was a little concerning.
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  I had I had a couple guys at practice, and they let me know right away, hey.
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  Your boy isn't out there.
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  So, you know, it was concerning, and news didn't come out right away either.
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  It took, like, two days before they even mentioned that what what was going on.
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  And, you know, I'm I'm like, is it is it something like a hamstring?
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  Is it is it family matter?
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  Whatever the case may be.
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  But then he wounded up showing back up at practice.
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  And the first day he got back, he kinda just was working by himself in the rehabilitation
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  area where they're kinda just taking it light.
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  And then the following day, he was able to come out and actually practice with the full team
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  and do a full practice, and he was flashing.
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  You know?
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  Hearing the information, oh, Damon Clayborne, it's real.
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  The speed is real.
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  The person, the player is real.
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  And that got me excited.
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  I know there are some beat writers that have been at practice that have not been so high on
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  Damon Claiborne.
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  Some of the bigger Vikings, channels also have been talking about how they may they they don't
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  even believe he's gonna make the 53 man roster.
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  And I and I have to disagree respectfully because with his skill set and you see him at
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  that practice when he came back, the way he flashes and how fast he is, just that ability,
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  the I'm sure they're going to find a reason.
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  You know, they don't even have to look for a reason.
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  They're going to find a way to make sure he's part of that 53 man.
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  Yeah.
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  And the only thing that he has to really work on is his hands and ball security.
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  If if he straightens those out, this may be a guy that is a multiple year starter for this
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  team.
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  If he can learn how to do the other things.
• 21:24
  We know he has the breakaway speed.
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  We know that KOC is gonna find a way to accentuate that.
• 21:29
  Young man just has to hold on to the ball and, you know, rip off those 60 to 80 yard runs that
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  this team just has not seen in, I would say, a few years at least.
• 21:40
  Yeah.
• 21:41
  No.
• 21:41
  I agree.
• 21:41
  I agree, man.
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  Dalvin Cook esque type player.
• 21:44
  Jamere Gibbs is really who I compared him to.
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  So if you're a fan of Jamere Gibbs, not the Lions, but Jamere Gibbs as a player, you should
• 21:52
  get excited about them on Claiborne because there's the similarities are there.
• 21:57
  Alright, Wrap.
• 21:58
  Let's get your your game prediction real quick.
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  Now we're not putting a lot of weight on these early in the season because it is still
• 22:06
  preseason.
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  But who do you have winning this game?
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  I have the Minnesota Vikings winning this game twenty four fourteen.
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  I I expect the offense to be explosive.
• 22:15
  A lot of it goes to what we talked about.
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  Like, people gotta understand that we have two starting caliber quarterbacks that are gonna be
• 22:23
  playing.
• 22:23
  This isn't like your average, you know, you got your starter that plays a drive, and then all
• 22:28
  of a sudden, you got a the the the talent level just drops off from there.
• 22:33
  We're putting in we have two guys, if not three guys, that actually have the potential to be a
• 22:38
  starting quarterback in this league.
• 22:40
  So I think the offense is going to you know, it's it's gonna run against twos and threes,
• 22:46
  man.
• 22:46
  I think we're gonna be putting up some points here.
• 22:48
  And then I also just look at the defense.
• 22:50
  Reason why I give them only 14 points is like we talked about as well.
• 22:54
  A lot of these rookies that we drafted in 2026 on the defensive side of the ball, they're
• 23:00
  gonna make it tough on that backup quarterback for the New York Giants.
• 23:03
  I just don't see it being that much of a competition.
• 23:04
  I'll give us a double digit lead.
• 23:06
  Yeah.
• 23:07
  I think it's gonna be tough for them to score two touchdowns, to be perfectly honest.
• 23:10
  Raph, I think the Vikings win this one handily.
• 23:13
  I think the league starts to talk more about the Vikings defense than the quarterback battle
• 23:20
  on the national media side after this one, and that there's gonna be some fear stricken into
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  our NFC North opponents and everyone else that's on the schedule for the Minnesota
• 23:31
  Vikings.
• 23:32
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• 23:33
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• 23:37
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• 23:41
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• 24:03
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