RANKING THE VIKINGS: Who Sneaks Onto the Practice Squad? | The Minnesota Football Party
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We got through 91 through 81 on Thursday. Today, we will endeavor to get through 20 of them. 80 through 61 as we count them down the entire roster for top 91 Vikings series. Hope everybody had a happy Fourth of July, good holiday weekend. We’re back at it here today. Um, let me share the screen. We’ll show you and and quickly review uh where we were at with the rankings when we left off. We were going to try to get through 20 last Thursday. Didn’t happen. That’s okay. Uh, we ended controversially where I said that Tim Jones was in my bottom 10 and Luke Braun attacked me. I mean, he he just opened a firing line on me and basically told me that I don’t deserve to have a football podcast because I had Tim Jones number 81. So, that’s where we left off. Um, you know what’s crazy about that, Sam, is that I agree with Luke Braun’s take, but also Luke Braun shouldn’t have a football podcast. Yeah. Nobody said anything wrong so far. Uh, nobody has lied or been incorrect yet today. So, that’s good. For those listening, our Mr. Irrelevance on Thursday. A lot of people probably had the holiday weekend. Maybe you need to get caught up. My Mr. Irrelevant was Robert Lewis. A reefs was Miles Price, the wide receiver. Inman went with the Aussie punter, Oscar Chapman. Luke Braun went with the journeyman corner, Khiff Hilasi. I won’t recap everybody’s bottom 10, but let’s get to number 80. Now, reminder, we’re dealing with 69man rosters now. You get 16 16-man practice squad, 53man roster. So, we are nearing pra the practice squad bubble um as we get into 70 through 61. But let’s start with number 80. I’d like you to rattle off five. Rattle off five to move it along a little more quickly. We’ll go clockwise with Luke Inman. Uh 80 for me. Bryson Nesbit, uh UDFA tight end, North Carolina. Uh light, uh pass catching, pass catching tight end. I want to say he’s like 238, more of a tweener right now. A big wide receiver, small tight end. Uh feels like very far away from being like a true inline blocker right now, but maybe they like him as a pass catcher. Obviously, they need some tight ends back there, too. Uh 79 Moosh Moosh Williams. I think a reef had him um last episode, I believe. 6’7. They got him listed at 291. Um I know he started at Ohio State. He went to Vandy, Middle Tennessee State, got a seventh year of eligibility. Goes to LA Tech. For all that, I don’t think he’s played a lot of football. I I I think from what I gathered, a lot of like four or five game seasons in there. But a monster, 6’7, 291, big boy, tall, linky. Uh maybe you just get your hands up, bat some balls down. Maybe maybe that’ll be his only shot. But he’s got to be like at least 25. 7 years of eligibility. I couldn’t find his age, but at least 25 years old. 78, Dante Fleming, wide out, two lane, UDFA. Uh 6’2, 180, I believe. Pretty light. Kind of worried about him getting knocked around a little bit. 77 uh the linebacker Dorian Masi, five-year guy, four years at Duke, finished at Auburn. Again, just small, 6’1, 234. Did lead the team in tackles at Auburn last year. Um but again, lack of size, strength, athleticism, nothing really popping out there. 76, my fifth guy here, Joe Huber, offensive guard, Wisconsin. Um right tackle, right guard, left guard, four-year starter, I want to say like 37, 38 starts in there. Um got invited to the East West Shrine game. I remember too. So um a little bit bigger, 6’5, 310, something like that. Um decent. I think it was broad and three cones, something like that. But again, just a long way to go I feel like to make it an NFL roster. So, those are my first five here. 80 through 76. Who Who was uh who was 78? Dante Fleming. Dante wide receiver. Two lane. Two lane little guy. Yep. All right. Um I don’t think there’s anything incredibly controversial here. I uh I I think Moosh Williams definitely is a a non-candidate, which is I I if there’s an obvious non-candidate, I’m always asking myself, why is it so obvious? What am I missing? Um, yeah. I I think that this is a fair a fair 80 through 76. Luke, uh, who’s clockwise here? Let’s go with Ariasan. I guess we’re not clockwise. We’re more of like a stack on the left side of stack. If you’re if you’re watching, uh, also, are you guys impressed with my Excel game? How I froze those rows on top so everybody knows like whose column is whose? I’m I’m glad that you’ve learned that, Sam. You 83% of your storage has been used. You can clean up space or get more support. You can delete some of those Thanksgiving drafts, Sam. It’s um press the X on the reminder, Sam. Believe it or not, I’m already at the 100 gig. I’m already at the 100 gigs. So, we’re t What’s the next level? 500. Uh I think I think it goes right up to a terabyte. They go from 100 gigs to a terabyte. Big jump. I think for everybody watching at home, if you the notification, that would be great. Yeah, just X the notification next to the button that says manage storage and it will go away. Goodbye. Excellent. Okay, everybody’s having a much better time. Also, why I’m not going to We’ve We’ve We’ve solved one aesthetic problem. There’s no reason for me to keep going. Um, all right. It’s just the top row was completely empty and it’s part of the frozen. Anyway, so uh got them perfect. Got him. There you go. And the exclamation point. The listeners are just This is great. No, audio listeners, I’m going to be honest. You’re not what you have missed, you’re going to be happy you missed. Don’t go back for this. I I love doing this to the audio listeners who I believe are the majority of our audience. Um, this is a mess, Sam. Wow. We are in players peak off season right now. There you go. That’s sure. All right. So, hey, Sam, are we ready? Ready. Are we rolling? Okay. Uh, Dante Fleming. I usually like two lane wide receivers. I’ve liked a lot of them. This guy is not on that list. So, 621 180. I wouldn’t characterize him necessarily as small, but he is thin. Michelle Powell, safety for Miami. I don’t know anything about him, so here he goes. Uh, the emperor of Ethiopia, Kof Hilasi, uh, is my 78. I believe everyone has him lower than me. That’s fair. Uh, Keenan Garber, cornerback rookie from Kansas State. I did have the opportunity to watch him between last time and now, and I did not come away overly impressed. And then uh because Luke slandered Jonathan Harris, I looked up at Jonathan Harris and I’m not going to say Luke was right. Uh go that far. We’re not going to go that far. But I he ends up like four spots different on our Yeah, I don’t I don’t anticipate him necessarily being a high tier candidate for the practice squad is how I’ll put that. Nice. Uh that’s Arie 80 through 76. How about Luke Braun? Yeah, this is kind of where you just start looking at all the undrafted rookies and making your choices. So, it’s going to be just a big uh you know, we’re we’re past the like journeyman clear camp body types and we’re into just all right, here’s your undrafted rookies that are maybe going to fight for practice squad slots. Uh so, I’m starting at 80 with uh Alexander Moosh Williams. I next I have Zeke Carell. I think he’s got a great path to the roster. Um, but you know, undersized center from NC State. Maybe I’m maybe maybe I’m a little uh I’m not over it yet. All right. Maybe I’m not over it and I’m not ready to replace him. Uh, Niche Powell is next then Dante Fleming. And then I have one that I know I’m going to be lower on than everybody else and it’s going to maybe be controversial. My next is Chaz Chamblas. Uh, mostly because when I watched Tyrion Ingram Dawkins, I also got to watch a little bit of Chaz Chamblas playing next to him and um, uhoh. I I have I have Chamblas on on my next round, so you’re not that far off. All right. Yeah, that is um Look, he was supposed to be a pretty good get consensus boardwise, but I I know what you’re saying. I think that is driven almost entirely by sack totals, and I’ve never seen a clearer example of like fake college production. Just a lot of like one-on- ones with, you know, superstars next to him all the time uh at at Georgia. a lot of, you know, finesse kind of stuff and uh a lot of really ugly moments of getting bumped to Timbuktu by tight ends. That’s that guy needs to gain like 40 pounds before he’s an NFL player. Or maybe maybe they they’re going to make him an offball linebacker specializ or learn how to cover. Either way, not loving your roster odds. It it’s got to be a Will Ferrell mid 2000s movie name. Chaz Chamblas. He’s a Will Pharaoh mid2000s movie guy, too. If you ever do yourself a favor and look up an interview with him um in like when he first joins Georgia and listen to just how thick that accent is. Oh boy, that is a country boy. All right, I guess it’s my turn reading some comments here. Yes, Sloth absolutely right. We are getting into that territory of uh Chaz Chamblas could be that guy that gets a really cool sack and then everyone’s like why didn’t he make the team we’re about to hear Chaz Chamblas’s name from uh from yours truly. I don’t hate him as much as Braun. I thought I mean certainly undized but um you you think he really struggled to play play the run Braun? You thought that was Yeah, it was rough. This is the again, this is why Braun watches the real football and this is why PFF is not the beall endall because the story that PFF tells would be that, oh, he’s undersized, but he actually played the run, okay, or he still tackled, okay, and Braun uses his eyes and he makes judgments. Uh, I’m sure that there are like TFLs that are like ballooning his grade. Uh because there are times when he can, you know, swim past a guy and make a really cool play and I bet that that balloons his grade, but the way in which he loses is like, “Oh yeah, NFL players are all going to take advantage of that.” Number 80, tackle Marcelus Johnson. For me, practice squad guy last year, so he’s not like bottom 10 because he’s got a little bit of experience, but I I don’t think he’s really got a shot. Miles Price, um I think it was a late UDFA, and I believe everyone else has him in their in their bottom 10, I think. Actually, Braun, you have him higher. I don’t see him on your list yet. No, he’s right there at 84. Oh, yeah. Oh, did I forget him? My mistake. My mistake. Go back. Go back. I like to use my mulligan. One mulligan per day is allowed. Austin Keys. I like him more than Dorian Mazy. They played in the same Auburn front seven. I like Keys a little more than Mazy. I’ve got Keys at 78. I’ve got Ben Urase, the tight end at 77 at a really interesting. Too high, too low. A little low, but I mean, again, we’re I think I had him on my initial 53. Yeah, I I think that makes sense. Yeah, as the fourth tight end. Yeah. Not over Bartholomew. The thing the thing between guy ranked 52 and guy ranked 70 is that the there’s not actually a ton of daylight there. That’s very true. The It’s just the slander of the Italian Stallion just knows no end. I mean, this was pre-Italian Stallion, but I will when will it stop? When will it stop? Um, so I go Johnson, Price, Keys, Urase, and then Chaz Chamblas at 76. Um, right in the same spot as Luke Braun. Let’s see where are we at. We got 7571 coming up. We’re going to take a quick pause. I think we have to stop sharing the screen as well. And we’ll be right back with uh our next five on the Minnesota Football Party. Don’t go anywhere. Do you like live sports? I do. 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Download the Game Time app today. Last minute tickets, lowest price guarantee. Moving on and continuing with our top 91 Vikings. Let’s share that one more time. Luke Inman, take it away. 75. Uh Michelle Powell, safety Miami. I too don’t know anything about this guy. I want to like him. Safety from Miami. Sure. But uh until I find out anything about him, he’s going to have to be 75 on my list. Uh Jonathan Harris, Edge. Uh been in the league a handful of years if I’m not mistaken. UDFA for the Bears in like 2019. Uh went to Denver, actually played in Denver for like four years. Uh I want to say 55 almost 60 games. Goes to the Dolphins. Dolphins cut him. Ends up here. Don’t know a lot about his skill set. I know he he sets the edge pretty well, but the fact that he actually has played games in the league, um I had to put him at least in this second or third round here. Elijah Williams, Edge, Morgan State, UDFA, MEAC defensive player of the year. So, watch out, guys. Started 42 games. Do that to him. Nice. Nice inflated stats down there at at Morgan State. I like to see you do it, Luke. Oh, I can I can tweak my back though, so maybe a little bit. Uh, just you know how it goes. Small school guy. Just a a big jump in competition. Just just feels like a long road ahead. I feel like, but two, three years on the practice squad. Who who knows? Um, where we at now? Uh, Marcelus Johnson, offensive tackle, UDFA for the Giants. I know last year, uh, Vikes picked him up, I believe, after like week one or week two last year. Uh, left tackle for Eastern Michigan, started at Missouri the first couple years at right tackle. Uh, had an ankle injury, only started like five games. Uh, and then Chaz, linebacker, Will Ferrell movie. Chaz Chamblas, linebacker, Georgia. Uh, rounding out this next top five right here. Yeah, Jonathan Harris is a controversial as controversial as you can get. I feel like we all have different opinions of what it means that you’ve been in the league, you’ve played NFL games, does the experience matter or if it’s not good experience, does it is that actually a detriment? I don’t know. I I think when you’re in the bottom of a roster like this and you have you’ve played a little and that will help you. You know, you’ve made teams before, you’ve been through camps before and that will help you because you’re battling these other guys for a spot. Jonathan Harris is battling Elijah Williams and Chaz J Chamblas for that practice squad or that roster spot. Um, but I I think for me the reason I have him as low as I do is I’m asking the question what like what what is the future for Jonathan Harris hold and how likely are the Vikings going to use a practice squad slot on a guy that doesn’t have the same future as one of these undrafted rookies they might be excited about. It’s not like we’re going to wait for Jonathan Harris to develop. He is who he is. So like what what’s the potential there? Or are we getting this guy at the tail end of his career? it feels a little more likely that this is the tail end of his career. And good for you that you got in for the Broncos a little bit, but it kind of feels like we’re past that point, whereas there’s a little bit more of an unknown to the the undrafted guys that that I have above him at least. No, again, it’s just he’s beaten so many Elijah Williams and Chaz Chamblases along the way to get here. So, I just I just think a a a typical undrafted free agent has lower odds because most undrafted free agents never make a roster, but not recently. That’s the what landed him here is losing those battles like the last couple times. That makes sense. I mean, I do have him 76. I don’t want to like push back too hard, but like I my thinking is is just that someone has beaten Chaz Chamblas and Elijah Williams before and it’s Jonathan Harris, right? some previous iterations of those guys. Um, but yeah, no, I I think that that’s kind of why we looked at those differently because I was like, well, most undrafted rookies just don’t make rosters. So, Right., hey, we’re still down here in the undrafted rookies that aren’t making Yeah. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Just Yeah. Yeah. I I get what you’re saying, though, Bron. I totally get it. Like, okay, we got one roster spot. Do we want to give it to a guy like Gabe Murphy who he brought in to be that developmental guy or do we want more of the veteran who, you know, god forbid, you know, our fifth, you know, edge guy has to play. Do we want a guy who’s actually played in the league for four or five years? I get it. I think it just depends on the coaching staff and where the team is at roster-wise, too. Are you in win now mode or do you have the luxury at a couple positions to keep some of these developmental guys like a Gabe Murphy, for example, again, um, on the roster or not? So, um, yeah, interesting to see where both you guys I guess. Sam, do you have him on your list actually already? Let me see this. I do not. I have them a little bit higher. Interesting to see where Go ahead. Yeah, I I I I am valuing the experience a little bit more, but but not not a ton more. I feel like we’re all going to have them within 10 spots of each other in the end. Going to be still Tim Jones still going to be the most polarizing. I feel like at this point, Tim, you guys are going to forget about Tim Jones by September 20th. Um the uh the next I’m not I’m not going to he’s not on my list for today. I’ll be watching the special teams tape. What are you talking about? Tim Jones is is making it. Uh Tim Jones and Ty Felton punt gunner is like a very likely scenario. Oh, who is the who was the Giants guy a handful of years ago that was like supposedly wide receiver five? Can’t remember his name, but that that’s the exact that’s the same type of person. I’ll look it up. Yeah, go ahead, Arie. I’ll figure it out. I I I’m trying to remember who you’re saying. It’s not a guy named Pharaoh Brown. That’s a different That’s a Rams guy, but it he had Pharaoh Brown vibes to me. Um, uh, what am I on? 75. Uh, Zeke Carell, uh, who Luke talked about a little bit. Ready Stewart, quarterback from Troy, uh, ranked 444 in the consensus board two years ago, I think. Uh, I don’t know a ton about him, but he’s 24, 178 pounds. He’s a quarterback. uh Deshawn Jones. Uh so this is the first appearance from somebody who appeared last year, I think, uh on my list that I at least remember. Um I think you’re right. I I I had really high hopes for him when he was a rookie last year, but I just think he wasn’t meeting them. So there he is. Uh Chaz Chamblas, uh we already talked about him a little bit. And then Bryson Nesbbit, um Nepo baby tight end. I definitely thought Chaz Chamblas was going to have a little more hype. I thought it was going to be fighting uphill there. Yeah, it’s I mean like he is a really well- reggarded undrafted free agent according to like the data, right? So, uh I also would have expected that. I feel like I’m picking against uh type here on that one, but whatever. Hey Arief, can you put together a consensus board once we’re done and then see how like the wisdom the wisdom of this crowd plays out when it comes to like 53 man? Yeah, this might be tough. Uh just send it to me after we’re done. Great. I will. Luke Braun next five. Uh I can’t see it. Where did I last? Okay. Uh next up I have Austin Keys. I don’t know a ton about a lot of these uh undrafted free agents, so I’m kind of just putting them in like the middle of the undrafted free agents and kind of hoping I’m not too wrong. Uh Austin Keys, I got Verson Lee next, which I I think that makes me a decent bit lower. Um I also have Joe Huber ne just right next to each other. I don’t know what to make of those two guys. I don’t really know what to expect out of either of those two guys. Uh then I have Elijah Williams out of Morgan State. And then the last one here is going to be somebody that I haven’t again have not seen yet on anybody’s list, but it’s Silas Balden. I know a lot of people are stoked on him as a possible returner. I do not think he he’s I mean he’s he’s competing right now, but I kind of think that that job is Ty Felton’s. I think he’s just going to get it. Uh that’s going to be or at least that’s a tough out. That’s a really tough one to beat when you like drafted a guy kind of on the premise of him being the returner a little bit. really hard to win that job away as an undrafted rookie. It also doesn’t help. We talked about Dante Fleming and we all put him lower than Silus Balden on our lists in part because he’s only 180 pounds. Try 160. I that’s like n suicidal like that. That are you going to live the first time you get hit on a punt return. Sanders did it for like four years. Uh like, okay, I’m looking at like Rond Del Moore who also is known, you know, small and people blame his size and the injury issues that he’s 181. This is this could get ugly. Uh and he’s never going to get tackled. He’s just not going to get tackled. He’s just going to a touchdown every time. If he does that, he gets the job. Fair catches. Fair catches. That’s what I meant. And and the only reason I don’t have him below guys like Dante Fleming or guys that you know have like reasonable special teams upside and could like sneak onto a roster based on that um is because he has already been confirmed given a look at the punt returner job. like we know that he is competing for it and therefore he has a clearer path to the roster than any of these guys that either have to like upend Gabe Murphy and get a fifth edge spot or do some special teams thing that we don’t really know what it would be but it would have to be something um at least we know what it is for Silus Bulldogs which is why I even have him this high but I kind of feel like he is uh looking at a pretty locked door onto the roster. Okay. My Ace Sanders joke that Ace Sanders had 484 receiving yards in 2013. Yeah. 22 Atwell hanging on with the Rams at 5’9 165. Try 58160. This is a person smaller than 22 Atwell. But don’t you remember um who is the guy? Alexander Hollands almost made a catch in the playoffs. Almost made a catch in the Was like 180. Damn. I don’t think that that’s fair. Was he? No way. No way. He was like tall, too. So, it felt he was like Emanuel Forbes, man. I I think um my Here’s my vision. Backup special teams drills. Oscar Chapman is just banging these like low line drive punts. No, he these Aussie punts. Bullets. Balden. Balden. Yeah. Yeah. Like on the bounce like he runs to his Oh, yeah. These weird bounces. You get an angle. Dante Halls. Yeah, Silus is going to look really good returning those kicks. Um, Bowens, uh, at one point was 170. Um, I feel like at one point he like 6’2 though, right? 6. 6. Okay. Well, still. Yeah, he was slender. For Silus Balden to make the roster, he would have to usurp Ty Felton out of the return job. And by the way, that job might just go to like Isaiah Rogers and nobody gets a chance to. But I kind of feel like Brian Flores might not let that happen. But like you have to kind of win that too. It just it feels like a really really tough even if he does have a couple good moments in practice, it just feels like a really tough cell when they drafted a guy in the third round in part because of his ability to do a lot of special teams jobs. Yeah, you make a good argument. I think I’m gonna hang my hat on the uh on Silus Balden being something, but I think the odds on would be uh Braun to be correct here. I’ve got Chapman, the Aussie punter at 75. I just think that if you’re a backup punter and unless you’re behind the best punter in the league, I mean, he could he could win the job. It’s not impossible to win a job against Ryan Wright. I mean, Ryan Wright is a is a fine punter who could be beaten out if he has a bad camp. Uh so 75 Oscar Chapman Elijah Williams uh let’s not forget rookie camp sneige sometime and Arie you’ve done the research on this the Vikings have a history of making something out of that type of player correct I mean this is something that happens to say you are four times more likely I think that’s the number four times more likely to make the roster as a a camp sneige rookie camp sneige tryyout sneige than a typical undrafted free agent cuz I mean and that makes sense. I think you’ve already cleared a hurdle which demonstrates something. Yeah, it’s fun because I think I’m the highest on Elijah Williams now because I haven’t listed him yet. Yeah, I like uh I like Elijah Williams. I like the rookie camp angle. I like the the college production angle. We’ll see. Um I’ve got Logan Brown 73. Apparently you you guys have told me he beat up a guy in college. So I’m going to dock him for uh for the team chemistry as aspect. I do kind of like his uh his resume though. Uh after that, I’ve got offensive lineman Henry Bird. And that I I don’t know where you guys have Bird or if you’ve put Bird yet. Two years of practice squad experience, so he’s more experienced than a lot of your camp bodies, but again, hasn’t really made a roster. I think he’s mostly a tackle if I’m not mistaken. And then uh 71. Here’s a a big one. Brett Ripen. Ron has Ron has swayed me with his Max Brosmer propaganda. This is This is just a take for take sake. Got it. Let’s Let’s not forget. You don’t have Bromer on your list yet, right? This is your take is Brosmer wins a QB3 job here, right? You should Everyone should have a QB on there somewhere now because some somebody’s getting ousted. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I uh I think that Rip Ripen’s thrown like nine interceptions in four NFL games or something like that. I’m uh I I think we’re forgetting that he’s had been a bad NFL player. So that’s my my number 71. We’re into our 70 through 61. Why don’t we knock out five more before the next break and let’s fly. Uh Luke Inman, hit me. Yeah, Zeke Carell, center North Carolina State, transfer to Notre Dame. I am ready to get my heart broken again on this guy. Who’s he sound like? Football IQ. Wins with technique. Not really that strong. doesn’t have the raw power. Um, I’m kind of intrigued by him. I know he was a top 10 fourstar recruit coming out of high school. Um, and apparently he he was very solid right in the middle of that Notre Dame offensive line last year. Max Bromer, here’s my first quarterback. Max Bromer next. Uh, Jon Jones next. Again, another Maryland guy. A lot of not hype, but just we were intrigued about him last year. Uh, entering year two now. Just seems like uh he’s got a long shot to make the roster. Trey Stewart, running back, UDFA. Uh, and then Austin Keys, uh, three years at Old Miss, two years at Auburn, uh, I want to say 6’2, 245, 250, somewhere in there. Um, kind of intrigued about him as a a backup special teams guy, maybe after a year or two of bulking up, but um, there’s my next five right there. Love it. Um, Trey Stewart, that’s that’s a that’s one that I have like the asterisk next to. I that’s another kind of small school production guy. Um, Arie Assan, uh, Xavier Scott, running back out of Maine. I actually do like him as a guy that can basically do everything. So, he’s actually my lowest ranked running back. I don’t think I have a running back anywhere else on this list yet. Um, so I think I think the running backs are fairly compressed. Uh, Silus Balden, wide receiver, Texas. We already talked about him. Dorian Mossi, we talked about him a little bit. I do actually like what he’s put on tape, but like linebacker, right? Uh, Lucky Jackson. I feel kind of bad about this, but I do like the I I like the middle of the receiver group, right? So, it’s kind of tough. Um, and then, uh, and then Henry Bird. So, no Elijah Williams yet for me. All right, Luke Brown. I found myself fairly persuaded by all this Elijah Williams talk. Uh, I I might use my mulligan and switch him with Silus Balden. I might just push him up a push him up because you know he has a he has a clear path to the roster I think just by the history of being the the the rookie mini camp guy. So you’re switching him one spot. Yeah. Symbolically as a way of of of saying good points stock up. Stock is putting up stock up. Straight up. My next five are uh Dorian Mousie. Then I have Keenan Garber out of Kansas State. Um I have Ready Stewart. I I similarly don’t know a lot of what to make out of him. Um I I kind of have a then a string of guys that like feel like they have decent grasps on a practice squad slot which are Ready Stewart, Henry Bird, and Marcelus Johnson. Who was six? Uh sorry, who was 70? Kenan. Uh it was it went Dorian Mousie, Kenan Garber, Ready Stewart, Henry Bird, Marcelus Johnson. Dang it. Dorian, you screwed it up. Mossi. Also, you spelled Ready Stewart wrong, I think. No, double check. R E D Y Stewart, right? I would bet a substantial amount of money that it’s No, you got it. No, you got it. Stewart. Yeah. And who was the who was your number 69? Nice. After Dorian Mousie was Kenan Garber. Keenan Garber. Aras. Again, it’s it’s like a lot of undrafted rookies kind of here. and the practice squad will be comprised of most of them. So being in the sort of 60s and 70s and having mostly undrafted rookies feels appropriate. There were two guys that you’ve that you guys have mentioned that I’m wondering if I goofed in my list and I left out. So I got to decide on the fly where I put Xavier Scott because I think I left him off. Um Oh, this is hard. So, number 70, I had Ready Stewart. I I read a dispatch that uh Ready Stewart had a big a big preeason with the Bears or a good training camp. One of the two. I like I like uh the Ready Stewart. Did that result in a roster for him or Hey, you can’t always make it when you’re stacked like the Bears. When you’re as deep as the Bears are, it is hard to make a team in Hail Mary situations like the Bears are, right? especially on that D line where they’re so satisfied with their production obviously. Um number 69 for me, Giovani Reichi. Perfect. Ideal 69 here. Yep. The Italian Stallion. Number 68, Jonathan Harris. So, we have a 13 spot discrepancy on Harris. I think I’ve got him at number 68. I’m I’m going to lean on some of that experience and say that he’s one injury away. He’s an injury away to Jiren Ingram Dawkins. Um I don’t know. He can play inside a little bit, right? He’s not just an edge. Like he could be an injury to um Jaylen Redmond. I don’t know what he play wherever you want. Is he going to be good? We don’t know. But quarterback say, right? Uh, I used my mulligan last time on Tyler Baddy because I was chastised for putting him too low. So, I’ve I’ve inserted him here. Tyler Baddy, number 67, squarely in practice squad contention. Then I’ve got Brosmer, number 66. Max Brosmer. So, not a huge difference between uh Brett Ripen and and Brosmer for you. No, no, just giving him the edge. Just a little edge. Um, and I think those are my next five. Again, I don’t know what I’m doing with Kenan Garber or Xavier Scott. I got to figure that out. Let’s pause. We’ll do our next five on the other side of this very short break. And it’s Luke Inman’s turn for 65 through 61, the final um segment of today’s ranking. Uh, Ready Stewart, Silus Balden, Lucky Jackson. RIP Henry Bird, and then I got Theer Thomas. As much as it hurts, Henry Bird. So, you you stocked up on the wide receivers here, Balden, Jackson, and Theer. Always like there. We’ll get into the Is this year three for the This has got to be third year. Did he have an injury that wiped out one preseason or am I am I thinking of like that does sound familiar Blake P? Like I feel like I’m I’m lumping them together maybe. But maybe Yeah. Why Why would that be do you think? Why don’t you put Chad BB in there too? Did Theer have a famous father? I’m assuming that that was that Yeah, that would that would probably be the connection I would think. Does he play music? Does the Thomas play guitar? Does he sing? Maybe that’s aspiring DJ. Arif, uh, this is where I put Elijah Williams at 65. Um, outstanding PFF grades, by the way. Um, tested well also, right? Tested well. Yeah. Yeah. Know, he’s got he’s I think he’s a little bit shorter than you want at the edge, but other than that, like the testing is great. Um, then I have Austin Keys, who also had really outstanding PFF grades. Um, like 62247, right? Something like that. Um, this is also where I have Trey Stewart running back. So, it’s not too much of a difference between him and and Xavier Scott. Um, and then Joe Huber and Michael Jerkens, which I think is uh one of the few repeats after Lucky Jackson, right? Yeah. I think that’s the only the only one after that who was on the roster recently. Uh, that so that’s cut territory. You’ve got Jurgens. Yes. On the bubble, correct? I would love to be wrong about this. If he gets cut and and not to spoil the rest of your list, but if he gets cut, who’s the backup center? Who’s to say? Do you have Where do you have Carell and Huber? Do you have them? Uh, they’re Huber’s right next to Jurgens, right? So, there’s that. Okay. Do you not have Carell yet? Yeah. No, Carell is Carell is Oh, you got Verse way back there. Yeah. So, Okay. So, I don’t think it’s crazy to imagine a world where one of these guys does beat out Michael Jurgens. He was a mess in the preseason last year. Correct. But the Vikings coaches would have you believe otherwise. Maybe I’m just wrong. Maybe they Yeah. Also like important to note that like uh this isn’t like you know when we get to the top 53 that’s not our 53man rosters. This is just like a ranking of however we want to rank these players in terms of like probability that they’ll make it or probability that they have an impact. So at somewhere like what I’m really kind of expressing here is that the guards and centers that are at the bottom of the list are really close together, right? And so one of them is going to beat out my ranking, but I think that uh they’re all so close to each other and none of them are like that good that it it’s almost immaterial. Plus, they could again, they could just grab a guy for waiverss. Ron, give me five. Uh I kind of did the same thing that you guys are starting to do where it’s like, okay, one of these guys is going to get a practice squad slot. I don’t really have any idea who, but I have uh Xavier Scott and then Trey Stewart as my next two. I one of these guys is getting a spot. There is a spot for one of them. I have no idea what to make out of them or which it is. I guess if I had to gun to my head pick one, it’s Trey Stewart, but they’re next to each other kind of for that reason. Uh then I have Zamaya Vaughn. I think I’m a little higher on him than a lot of people. I’m going purely off of the fact that there were some reports that he looked pretty cool at OTAAS. That is literally it. I think I think this is I think you’re the lowest out of the four of us. Nobody’s had Von. Nobody’s had him. I could have sworn. Okay. Well, I’m misremembered. All right. Well, yeah, but apparently he’s a dude. And then I have uh Logan Brown and then Tyler Baddy as we’re getting into the undrafted rookies that people seem to think have an outside shot at the 53. Um those are those are the next kind of two of mine. Well, Zayon is my number 60 and I ranked him quote this high for the same reason that you did because like Yeah, it’s Yeah, people are starting to talk about him. It’s why I haven’t said Jon Jones yet either. Um, final five for me. We’re gonna go Ambry Thomas at 65. Has anybody said Thomas yet? No. He was Ron Johnson’s guy, right? He’s also big time. So, same high school. Yeah. Guy with starting experience. At least you have to give him put him in the in the mix for the 53, right? Not not that far removed from meaningful snaps with the Niners. I don’t know if they were good snaps, but we’re we’re having that same debate about Jonathan Harris, about like anyone who’s played on NFL roster. His snaps better than Jonathan Harris. He had a really big moment in uh the 49ers 2021 season where they went to the NFC Championship and then lost to the Rams and Sofi. The first time they played the Rams in SoFi and they needed a win and he got the game-seeking interception. like he had like a pretty good run of play which I think is very distinct from Jonathan Harris who like got in as a random reserve kind of Bo Richtor type snaps and then like didn’t make a team for three years. Yeah, I I think the Vikings would love to have a veteran corner on their practice. They they do every year. They have one or two veteran types that have starting experience in the building. They get elevated couple times a year. Feels exactly like Avery Thomas. I’m gonna slide Xavier Scott in here where I uh had not included him previously. I’m gonna go Keenan Garber next. Uh big Rascore. I think it was in the nines. And is he Kansas State? Believe he was Kansas State. Yeah. Yep. Um Deshawn Jones 62. And my 61 is Zeke Carell. Interior flexibility. I’m saving Joe Huber for next show, so consider that. Carell out of uh North Carolina State. And I also have not mentioned Vers Lee. Yeah, that’s right. You’re pretty high on him. I’m high on for Sha Lee, as a Reef knows. Uh we did it. We got through 80 through 61. Next time we’ll do 20 more, ranking all 91 Vikings. Wow. Good job, guys. That was a pretty efficient 42 minutes. Well done. Let’s uh let’s dive into this. minutes on the undrafted guys. Good job. That’s what That’s what it’s all about. All right, so Chris Carter called out Chad Johnson. He said he’s got no shot at the Hall of Fame. Asante Samuel, not to be confused with Asante Samuel Jr., but maybe this influences Asante Samuel Jr.’s decision. Maybe his dad is like, “Hey, you cannot go to Minnesota now because Chris so funny and stupid.” Would the same thing happen to Philadelphia? You can’t go to Philly. That’s the only connection, right? Hey, he played for that team. Screw that guy. The Dolphins are off the table. The Dolphins are off the table. The Dolphins got rid of Jaylen Ramsey. No, you can’t go there. You cannot replace Jaylen Ramsey. Um because Chris Carter calls out Chad Johnson. Asante Samuel chimes in and says Chris Carter is overrated. Who’s more wrong here in in these big uh hot take hot take statements? Um what do you got Arie? You have a good historical. Sure. I mean when Chris Carter retired he finished second in receptions and touchdowns I believe. like I like I’m not a huge volume guy, but also Chris Carter’s first three years in the NFL functionally didn’t exist aside from the 11 touchdowns he had. Um, Asante Samuels argument seems to just be he was just a possession receiver and didn’t get many yards after the catch. And while it is true that he didn’t get many yards after the catch, having some of the best hands in the history of the NFL and producing like multiple 120 plus catch seasons uh in, you know, generating the touchdowns that he did. I that’s ridiculous. I mean, just like look at his 1994. I think it’s insane to say that a guy is overrated because he specialized in one skill versus another. I don’t think anyone has ever said Chris Carter is an all-around receiver. So, I don’t know what overrated means in this context, but like there’s no question he’s a Hall of Fame receiver who has talents that are uniquely his that he’s the best at in the history of the NFL. So, that’s like very weird to me. I do think oo is probably a little overrated, but it wouldn’t shock me if he made the Hall of Fame. He’s like 11,000 receiving yards, right? So, like that’s he’s probably going to make it. So I but I think that the odds that oosenko makes the Hall of Fame are lower than the likelihood that Asante Samuel is correct. Which by the way, speaking of overrated guys, Sante Samuel, who was really good at his peak, but his peak was like pretty short. Um, and he was a gambler. Sante Samuel’s legacy would be better if he caught that one in the 2007 Super Bowl. Correct. Um, that’s kind of what he’s known for. But like, yeah, maybe he’s really mad about someone with their hands. Yeah. Like if we’re talking about onedimensional guys. Ah, it’s not disable. Yeah, dude. Yeah, look at the tackle makes game about gambling on on whether and he was kind of good for about four years at gambling on whether or not he was going to get the passion interception, but he allowed a ton of big plays, notably one, right? And and and just gets run over all the time. We talk about onedimensional guys. Come on. Are we not just doing exactly all he does is catch touchdowns again? This was for Chris Carter’s like in the entire area. It’s like yeah, you don’t get yards after somebody in the chat said it like it’s hard to get yards after the catch when you catch the ball in the end zone. Yep. That’s 100 130 times. I think what what are you worried about as a corner? Him catching a touchdown on you. He was incredibly prolific at it. Also, maybe not a lot of yak, but on the money downs that KC always talks about the money down. Third down. Third and seven. Third and 11. Okay, maybe I can’t run past him, but you know what? Even if you got sticky coverage, you’re one of the best man-to-man corners in the league. My hands and routes are so good. My catch radius tiptoeing on the sideline is so good. Even if you have perfect coverage, I can still get that first down and move the change. Like, that’s just how good he was. So, yeah, Yak. Okay, that’s only one phase of the game, though. Um, as a receiver, and he was still so well-rounded in my opinion. Um, kind of a mute kind of dumb conversation to be honest. And the durability doesn’t get discussed enough. From 88 to 2001, missed four games. That’s insane. Broke broke his collar bone to N92. Missed four games in 14 years. That’s insane. Like, oo, unbelievable six-year stretch. And then we talked about this kind of with the the the conversation a couple weeks ago about there’s a lot of elite receivers that are considered to be top three in the league. They tail off at age 30. exactly what happened with Chad Johnson. He’s like you’re comparing him to the likes of Deshawn Jackson and Rody White and like other 10,000 yard 11,000 yard guys. You’re not comparing him to the likes of Chris Carter. Like there’s a reason for that because durability is so important. But also who like not every receiver is Tyreek Hill, right? I mean there’s different skill sets. Um, Adam Thielen, great receiver, not a Yak receiver. Did do we care about that? No, he produced, right? Like we always talked about how like if we’re comparing like Diggs and Thelen to Moss and Carter, Theelen was always the Carter. He was the hands guy. Um, look, if Asante Samuel cared so much about Yak, why do he allow more Yak than any other quarterback in the NFL in 2009? I come on. Oh, that’s what that’s cuz that’s the only thing he ever worries about. Yeah, cuz that’s the thing that gets him. That makes total sense now. Of course, he would care too much about Yak. That’s the only way someone would make him feel bad. Oh, he can’t do that. I’m not scared of him. He missed a fifth of all of his tackle attempts. Come on. Uh, left on Landon. Did Randy Moss help or hurt Carter’s production? Uh, just from like a pure like yardage, uh, I think it hurt, right? Cuz he was like a 1,200 to,400 yard receiver. Then Moss arrives and he’s a 10,00 yard receiver. The So the numbers on 98 through 01 Carter thousand yards um in 98 1241 the next year 1274 year after that. I mean he had more yards in 99 and 2000 than he did a lot of previous years. So I I don’t know if you can say that that it really hurt him that much to be honest. It’s probably not that there’s a clear difference between the fantasy football and the real football answer. Like if you want to talk about like Murka chair and all that, you could you could have a debatable point it sounds like, but in terms of like did it was it like better for the offense and for Chris Carter to have like easier opportunities and stuff? Yeah, Chris Carter got more open during the regular CB2 all the time. Like that’s obviously going to help. You’re just not going to have as much volume. So depends on are you asking about his overunder or like the actual efficacy of Chris Carter as a football player? Ma Machu Mech Moss hurt Carter the way that he hurt Treadwell. All right. So his yards per game uh with without Moss in Minnesota uh about one yard higher uh without Moss uh if we’re talking like season long totals. That’s a big yard. So yeah. So yeah, real real tough stuff for him to produce. That’s insane. Yeah, actually. Yes, that is an that is a wild stat. And oh yeah, Jake Reed, wide receiver. Part of it obviously is that the Vikings just threw the ball way more. Yeah, like they got that much more production that Randy Moss Randy Moss didn’t need to take anybody’s yard target share away. Like what? He just he just produced yards that ex that were in the ether, right? He just ran out of I guess they were in the ether by virtue of being behind the defense. They usually are covering that part. Carter averaged 138 targets in the four Moss overlap seasons. What’ I say? 138. Moss averaged Hold it. Oh yeah. Uh Carter Carter’s yards per uh reception did go up by like a yard and a half. That is one significant difference between the two, which like makes sense, right? Everything’s stretching out more. Yeah. 136 for Moss. So Carter still out targeted him. Great. Wide receiver one, Chris Carter. There you go. That’s how you define it. Yeah. So what is is the debate whether Chris Carter or Chad Johnson had a better career? No, it’s just I I think what I think what Samuel So because like Johnson uh bagged on uh Travis Hunter, I think like Travis Hun um and Chris Carter was like, “You’re like 38 or whatever.” Like, no, that that’s wrong. Travis Hunter’s coming off. He said he’s got a better chance of getting into to the Hall of Fame than winning one out of 10 reps. And the guy goes, “What’s his chance of getting in the Hall of Fame?” He goes zero. Oh, is he’s 47 by the way. Chad Johnson, if you want to feel old. Uh oh god. Star of the fan controlled football league, I think. If you want that long ago, if you want to feel old, check out Notre Dame’s 2026 commit class. Oh god. It has it has like four Oh, yeah. four of the wide receivers are sons of NFL players like Larry Fitzgerald. Like it’s Yeah. What? Okay, I’ll look it up. There’s like there’s like seven uh Nepo babies on Notre Dame’s uh 2026 commit list. It’s crazy. They just went after all of the NFL sons. So, is Chris Carter right about Chad? Is he not going to make Yeah, I think he’s I think he’s he’s a 20% shot. I think I I think I think the odds are greater than zero. um six-time Pro Bowler, two-time AllPro, over 10,000 receiving yards. The argument is there, but it’s been so difficult to get receivers into the Hall of Fame, right? Like, so that’s like I think a big part of the problem here. Like I think if it was just resumes, yes, no, I think Carter, I think Johnson might come might get in, but because we’ve had so many um jams, right, log jams at the positions, um it’s been tough to get guys in and so he might just age out uh because I mean, have you seen like the next couple of Hall of Fame classes coming up? like it’s going to be crazy to try and get in through through this morass of guys and Chad Johnson is not better than any of these guys coming up. So yeah, it’d be tough. Vikings doomsday scenario right after this. All right, let’s make this a 4-minute drill. Start the clock. It’s time to execute. The four-minute drill. Sometimes we got to talk about the doomsday scenarios, the negative scenarios. Uh let’s say that we have a 2016 McCarthy goes down in the preseason. Four-minute drill, minute each. Who you trading for? Who you trading for? Who’s your Sam Bradford? Luke Brun, go ahead. Sam, you might like this. Uh, I say there are two teams that seem to have these sort of three-headed monsters at quarterback. Might want to dump one. I I think the first answer that comes to mind is the Browns. And if they are, you know, happy enough with one of the rookies or something, maybe you could get Kenny Picket in the building. But what about this? What if Jackson Dart has a great camp? What if what you want to talk about a Sam Bradford situation? What if they’re going to start Jackson Dart week one and you could get Russell Wilson in the building? You’re right. You’re right. Me, leader of the Russell Wilson tongue-in-cheek fan club, would love this. Yeah, tongue and love this. Can we get Jamus instead? Yeah, I guess. I mean, Jameus is the more realistic like, you know, whether or not Jackson is good. It kind of feels like Jamus is this like extraneous piece that that would probably be open for for business. Um, but I don’t want to. So, what’s So, realistically, you guys know more about the cap situation. What What is What does it cost to bring Kirk Cousins back in for a year? A rental? Uh, it doesn’t matter because Kirk’s not coming in on that contract. So, it’s not a cut if there was Kirk Cousins’s preseason waiver. Th this would be a negotiation, right? Like Atlanta’s still eating probably eating most of it. So, you probably would make the trade under the scenario where Atlanta takes enough salary that you could make it work. Let’s let’s say that I I believe last this was reported about from Atlanta’s side, they were willing to take on 10 million of the contract but not more, which I thought was like they’re going to have to move that number again. Uh but it might not they they might fight more than you think on that. Yeah. Um his cap hit this year is 40 million. So, yeah, I don’t know why Atlanta signed that contract. And then and then drafted. And I think it’s extraordinarily weird that so many people, you know, not not here, I don’t think. Not not on not not on this here panel, but lots of people in the Vikings and national spaces were like, whoa, they let Kurt Cousins go for like, did you see what Atlanta did? Yeah, they didn’t do that. Which I feel like I’m saying a lot lately. Did you see what Atlanta did? Of course, nobody said yes to that. Also, I mean, it sounded like based on the reporting, and maybe I’m misremembering things, so, you know, check me because I haven’t like looked this up, but it sounded like the that that Cousins was willing to take less to stay with the Vikings if they hadn’t had told him that he was that they were going to draft a quarterback. It was about the year-to-year of it all. He didn’t he wanted a longer term deal and and it was going to be either like a a series of one-year deals or a contract that was functionally that, right? Uh, and so I guess I don’t want to veer too far off here. Our four-minute drill here. Um, I got a couple names I want to give you, but you can’t tell me Atlanta’s going to pay Kirk Cousins 40 million to sit on the bench. Well, they’re paying him 27.5 million. A lot of that is from the signing bonus that they’re on the hook for no matter what. Jesus Christ. Okay. They’ll bleep load. Okay. So, I Yeah, I just don’t get it. There’s no way. They got their guy, their their new development guy. Used a top 10 pick on him. Already played him last year. Yeah, they’re all in on Michael Penn. There’s no way. There’s no way you can beat his cousin million. It’s got to happen. It’s got to happen. The thing is if they trade him, they There’s no way for them to avoid 37. No, they’re going to have to eat a lot of it. Yeah, they they have to at the very minimum take $ 37.5 million in dead cap from trading him because that’s the proration of the signing bonus. You can’t offload that on another team. You’ve already paid that out. So, that will split up June 1st style, which helps. Okay, that’s true. Yeah. Yeah, cuz we’re we’re past June. So, but they will have to take that on plus whatever another team is going to negotiate. Anyway, my my pick was Daniel Jones. I think that’s bring him back. Bring him back. Bring him back. You know, uh whoever uh Anthony Richardson or whatever wins the Colts or I don’t know that job. And then Daniel Jones is free, right? And he knows the system allegedly. Mhm. Been in the building. Yeah, he’s been in the building. And apparently being in the building for telling the UDFAs, you know, you go down this hall, you take a right and then a left. Like he knows he’s got it. Um he he knows the name of the security guys. It’s great, right? Um and three weeks in the building is enough for you to earn a $12 million or whatever crazy contract he got from just hanging out in Minnesota. You could just have him hang out even more. it. I mean, the hangout vibes are immaculate. I talked to uh I talked to a Colts source last week and they they were very strongly under the impression that Daniel Jones is the the front runner for this job. And I remember last year that um after the Colts game, Kevin O’Connell was whispering sweet nothings in Anthony Richardson’s ear. What if Jones that actually feels more likely than Daniel Jones to me? Such the guy that Anthony Richardson comes to Minnesota. Keep trading those draft picks. It’s not good in indie. It’s It’s like broken in indie with like that relationship is not is broken and the relationship with Daniel Jones is good. Like it feels like if you call and you’re like I need a quarterback that I don’t think they’re putting Daniel Jones up. I think he checked himself out. He said I’m tired and I’m like dude warrant. I mean in fairness I want to do that a lot on this show but I don’t I to my credit I don’t. Right. I don’t do it. Well that you’re worth a second round pick a mid to late second round pick. Um, I like Daniel Jones. Probably not going to happen. How about Jake Browning? I mean, I I I know obviously Joe names you mentioned are just like, “Hey, what about the guy who’s beating the Vikings?” Yeah. You need the Bengals to believe very hard in Logan Woodside as their backup. Well, they did it once with Jake Browning. Why can’t they do it again? Or start paying good draft picks for Mitch Trabiscy again. On the Bills. Well, I mean, how many years does Browning have left on his contract? because are they going to be able to retain him? I mean, he was like one of, if not the best backup quarterback in the league last year. I think he threw like 70% completion, almost 2,000 yards. It does weigh heavily on the Cincinnati mind. That’s So, if you’re going to lose him anyways after this year, uh, feels like he’s got to be coming up to that fourth or fifth year, um, maybe try to get a little, uh, draft pick compensation for I I will say we we should consider Andy Dalton here, right? Like if Jesus if the end of the what if the end of the Panthers it’s that you’re not wrong man. God the end of the of the Bryce Young season was as positive as people are saying which I think so actually. Um then hey you know they they’ve got all the optimism in the world for this young child out in North Carolina. Uh Drew Lock waiver claim. He gets cut by Seattle. They’re happy with Milro, Darnold. How about that? We got some good candidates. Uh, Inman just had an epiphany. Whoa. Our guy. Who’s our guy? Hen Hooker. Who’s our guy? Hendon. Oh my god. Go get him. Go get him. Imagine giving up draft capital for Hen Hooker. Go get him. I thought you were going to say I thought you were going to say Kyle Slater. And I was like, yeah, well, he is available. That’s true. He’s a I would like the Detroit Lions rather pull Teddy Bridgewwater out of retirement. He’s available. Much like the playoff contending Detroit Lions made that choice, too. Honestly. Okay, jokes aside. After that, moving on to the next bit. How how where’s your confidence level with Sam Howell? Because I bet you if there was like a ranking the 32 quarterback, Sam Howell would be in the top 10. If Sam Howell were on another team, we’d be bringing him up right now. probably. That’s actually a pretty decent Yeah, that’s a good point. Right. Hey, by the way, like I just mentioned Daniel Jones. What is Sam Howell if not a shorter Daniel Jones with less starting experience and and more is more turnoverrone. I think I mean if you include fumbles. No, he’s not. That’s a pretty good point actually. Yeah, those are sure are Yeah. Not tapping out. No. Oh, James Kunow. That’s a great That’s a great one. Get Joe traded again. If we can’t get Hendon, Luke, if we can’t get Henden, another Tennessee guy. Yeah, Joe Milton. Oh, I was thinking if you can’t get Anthony Richardson, another insan athlete that does not play quarterback. Somebody in the chat mentioned uh Taylor Hineki. The Chargers have Justin Herbert, Trey Lance, and Taylor Hineki in the building. You You might give him a call. Like that’s a Have Ethan Stick also? No, Ethan Stick is long gone. Oh, he’s gone. Ph. I’m not in hell right now as a VOS hater. Talking about all these failed Vos projects is bringing me a lot of joy actually. The fact that they once again all enter the league and then do nothing. Yeah, exactly. We haven’t seen him yet. We only talk about him in July when we talk about hypothetical trades that nobody wants to do. Yeah. Who was the last? Oh, he’s not in hell, though. He’s fine. He’s He’s totally fine. No, I am thriving and he’s relaxed. Have the Vikes had a good former volunteer on the roster recently that I could Patter. Cordderero. Okay. No, there was Thank you. There was a DTackle that I can’t remember who it was. You remember when Cordell came out of of Tennessee and Tennessee had Justin Long who was like a second round pick and Dick Rogers who everybody Hunter? Yes. Justin Hunter. Thank you. Yeah, that was a that was a crazy receiving and Dick Rogers, I think, went on draft and he had the most hype of all of them. Yeah. Yeah, that was wild. And then they had that tight Tennessee drafted him. Hunter or uh Yeah. And then they had the the tight end that transferred out of Tennessee to like Middle Tennessee State that the Vikings signed and cut partway through camp because he kept missing camp. He says because of headaches. Later the rumors were because he kept missing curfew. The right canoodle. Oh, dude. What was his name? Mike Zimmer was mad. I remember. He had a He had a crazy mock draftable web, though. I remember that. While you look that up, I’ll start the roll in the credits. We are back on Thursday. Minnesota football party. Uh Luke Brown, you got to love being in central time, huh? No more early alarm. Not bad, you know. No. West Coast is God’s time zone. I’m glad you’re feeling bad. Thanks. No problem. See you tomorrow. Enjoy the sunshine state. Um, did we get a name? Did we get an answer to that? That list can’t find it. Ah, can’t find it. 2014. I don’t care. Go read Arifasan’s wide left. Watch the postcasts with Luke Inman. Twins baseball every day. Luke Brun locked on Vikings. I’m Sam Extro. Thanks for watching. We rank more dudes on Thursday on the Minnesota Football Party.
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