JJ McCarthy’s most important week of development with Minnesota Vikings

JJ McCarthy’s most important week of development with Minnesota Vikings

Purple Daily is daily Vikings entertainment. I just want the Vikings to win a Super Bowl before we die. I will ride with this group. Seriously, man. Please. And away we go. As we got the sports dad in the old studio today, his little Minnesota United Zad jersey hanging in the background. It’s covering up my fa. Thrilled to be here. you are thrilled to be in studio coming from the empire. Your mic sounds great in that 40-year-old side studio. Uh so we’re going to dive into you were at practice yesterday, so we do have some Judge camp notes, but it’s mostly like forwardlooking because yeah, the next two days, Wednesday and Thursday this week, the New England Patriots come to town early for a joint practice. And I would say if you were to rank like the three preseason games and then the joint practice as like the fourth entity in terms of entertainment value to what’s actually happening with the roster, what the coaches get out of it, is it fair to say that what we’re going to see on Wednesday and Thursday ranks number one and then maybe like the first preseason game because you get to look at the ones or something and then the second two preseason games. Is that fair? Yeah, probably. Yes, I I would say yeah, the joint practices are um if there is a highlight of the training camp/preseason, it’s this. And I wouldn’t be surprised if going forward we see the Vikings do two joint practices against or or two sessions because there was talk about it. If you guys remember in the spring, I think it was or just after the season, Okonnell mentioned the fact that they were trying to set up two sessions. Uh but we are I still think that we are getting closer and closer to closer to joint practices replacing a preseason game at some point entirely. Yeah. And it I mean it kind of has because there used to be four preseason games, but you’re right like it it’s definitely moving closer to that direction. So we’re going to take a forward-looking approach to Jud’s camp notes here today at random Viking of the week. But uh let’s talk about MSP plumbing, heating, and air conditioning and how they can help our audience. Jud. Yeah. So it’s been an odd summer back and forth, right? some cool days, some nice days, but then some hot and humid days where you just can’t beat the heat. And I have a question for you. Is your AC working to its maximum efficiency at that point? Cuz if it’s not, MSP plumbing, heating, and air can take care of you. $49 for a tuneup that is going to make your home absolutely more comfortable. 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It’s nice. It’s got the full thing. Like this thing could be used for anything. It’s a great notebook. Jud’s camp notes. I’m very, very excited about this. Can you actually grab if there’s an extra one? Can you grab one? I’d love to also take notes at the joint practices in an official Jud’s camp. You have two? I do have two. Yeah. I mean, you might need both. So, I don’t want to I don’t want to take away from your stash if you if you need one for each day of joint practice. Oh, no. No. It’s a full notebook. That That’s the nice thing. Like, like look at the pages here. Like, it’s not cheap. It’s not like 10 pages. It’s a full notebook. I love this. It’s It’s great. And though So yeah, it’s a busy month for us because that is happening at the state fair next week where those are going to be available. And so uh that that section of our site is open right now, too. Scorn.com/fair f a iir where uh you can find the 7-day full schedule of it’ll be noon to 3 every day. Large chunks of purple daily, usually starting at 1:00 live. So we’re super pumped to be back at the state fair. O line committee with its first ever live show on Monday, August 25th. And then you can shake the hand of Jud’s Campotes in person. Jud’s Camp Notes. Very, very excited about that. All right, so let’s get to it. Jud’s Campotes. Um, taking a look, spinning it to Wednesday and Thursday. If you are fortunate enough to go, and by the way, this is worth being at. It’s going to be very intriguing. It’ll be very active to watch. Uh, we’re going to go from one to five. So, I’m going to start at one. And number one is JJ McCarthy, no surprise, against the Patriots defense. So, let’s just set the scene here. The reason why coaches like this is they get an interaction in a controlled environment against a real opponent. So, JJ McCarthy is not going to be hit here. He’s not going to be squashed. It’s not going to be. I mean, literally, when you play a quarterback in a preeason game, the trade-off is, okay, good experience, but you could get hurt. And I’m not saying he can’t get hurt. Guys get hurt in joint practices. Quarterbacks, though, usually don’t. It’s pretty safe. But what this does provide is it provides another team, another defense. In some cases, probably it’s a good thing. It’s a non Brian Flores defense, but you will get a read and I think most importantly Kevin Oonnell will get a read on where McCarthy is and he’s going to get a ton of reps here. So, he won’t play on Saturday, but this isn’t like, okay, we have to be careful here. Here’s 20 plays. That’s it. He will run the first team offense against an opponent for two days. Um, I I would say that these are going to be the two most important days, including Saturday, of the preseason and training camp for McCarthy because one, it’s a teaching tool in the moment for Okonnell, and two, it puts things on, it puts a lot of work on film, and you’re sort of going to get a read of how much has he learned and progressed since training camp started. So, I cannot articulate the importance enough of what I think Wednesday and Thursday are going to mean in the potential development of JJ McCarthy. Yeah. I mean, you’d like to see you’d like to see moving the ball and at least getting a few big plays over on the Patriots defense. I will ask you the other side of that coin question. What if he looks and not just he, what if the first team offense just looks kind of discombobulated for a couple days? Then what going forward? Are you more likely then to play him in another preseason game? Are you then looking to go acquire a backup quarterback that has act like like how much is really at stake in these two games? I’m not saying he’s in danger of not being QB1 going into the season, but like you’d like to see them move the ball more than they have against their own defense in the first two weeks of training camp, right? Yes. I think the important thing is is it’s it doesn’t have to be dominant. I think what it has to do and McCarthy sort of passing these tests. So like there are tests there are things that you would like to see improved for sure and there always will be but I mean I think we talked about this a week ago and it’s it’s entirely true and it looked good on Saturday. How do you control the huddle the line of scrimmage right? So I think that this is what this is it’s it’s going to be an extended look against an opponent of seeing where things stand for. So, I don’t think it’s like, “Oh my god, they’re not a high. They’re they’re not the 98 Vikings. What’s gone wrong?” I think it’s more nuanced than that. Um, but I think it’s actually the functionality of how things run. And yes, you you would like to see completions for sure. It’s going to be competitive without becoming hopefully violent, but I think it’s more nuanced than okay, they look either really great or oh my god, they look terrible. I think it falls in between, but this just allows for so much more coaching. And and that again, the preseason, it let you put things on film for a very small time if you’re the starting quarterback, but you can’t, you know, you can’t get involved in the drill there, right? So I think that what this is is this is an opportunity for Okonnell, for McCarthy, and for fans to probably watch for the nuance of how things function and how things look. I don’t think it has to be super impressive. I do think it needs to look good, though, if that makes sense. Yeah, I agree. It needs to it needs to look better than it did the first two two and a half weeks of your own practice, Dex. Is it more important for actually the defense to come out with its hair on fire to start the season? And by hair on fire, I I like quantify that as like one of the top five units in the NFL than it is for the offense to come out and be a top five unit because it feels like this is going to be a slow burn getting the offense maybe up to speed or maybe um just may being a juggernaut. Like they’re going to have a good running game. McCarthy is struggling a not struggling but adapting and learning how to play quarterback in the NFL. Is it maybe more important for them to have the defense honed in, ready to rock, than it is the offense coming out ready, guns ablazing, and being a top five unit to start the year? Well, I mean, you kind of put top five like in your you said top five for both offense and def. I don’t see a world in which the Vikings offense is a is anywhere near a top five scoring offense this season, period. Like early season, late season. And if it is, they might win the Super Bowl. like if if this offense at some point becomes a top five offense with a firstear starting quarterback, they will be one of the two or three main Super Bowl contenders. But I I you know, Kevin Oonnell in his three years here with much more veteran and established Kurt Cousins, Sam Darnold, who at least had been in the league for six years and had seen and processed defenses, and then you get them in the right system and it clicks. um they’ve come really nowhere near being a top five scoring offense with those iterations. Yeah, they were eighth in scoring in 2022. They were 22nd in scoring in 23 because half the season was played with backup quarterbacks and then they jumped into ninth in scoring and they’ve been seventh, 10th, and 12th in yardage. So they’ve been like a fringe top 10 offense with Kurt Cousins before the injury and with Sam Darnold. So, I think to me the expectation for the full season is defense needs to be top five. I could see the defense being the best defense in the league if guys stay healthy. And can the offense be a top half of the league unit that can cash in in high leverage situations? Can you score at a higher rate in the red zone? Can you run the ball control when you have a lead? Can you control it? Grind out the opposing team’s defense in the second half and win games in a little bit of a different way. I think the most important thing is that I think the most important thing in the first half of the season offensively is going to be the the ability of the offense to functionally run the ball and eat clock because the marriage of the offense and and defense, if you will, in this case is enormous because what you can’t do is you can’t put this defense is not young. You cannot put them on the field continually and say, “Get another stop. Get another stop.” What you can do is eat clock, score enough points, and then allow the defense to cook when they’re on the field. But like this is this is definitely probably in the Okonnell era in my opinion, this is the most joined or married these two have been before. And yeah, I think the defense can 100% be easily top five, if not lead the league in scoring defense. But if you look at this team, and this is the interesting thing, and this is why the McCarthy thing can’t just be an experiment. Look at the age, the age of this team. But like look at some of the key guys. They’re not young guys. So if you ask, if you all of a sudden start to ask Hargrave, Allen, Harrison, Smith, I mean, heck, Blake Cashman’s not a kid anymore, you know? Like, so if you say get out there and just play, you’re going to lose them at some point, especially in December and January. So, this becomes a very interesting efficiency issue, I think, is the best word to use offensively. It doesn’t have to be totally dynamic. It would be nice, but what it needs to be is efficient. And three and outs will kill you. Yeah, it some of this is like a a math equation, right? The defense last year gave up uh under 20 points again. I think it was like 18 or 19 points a game or somewhere in that range. call it 19 points a game. The best defenses in the league are usually at like 16 17 points a game. If you can be in that range, you don’t need to score 30 points a game. At some point, it would be nice in like year two, year three of your 10th overall drafted quarterback once he really gets a feel for NFL speed, everything. um if if this was a high octane offense, but that is just an unrealistic expectation for the first year of JJ McCarthy. It is do enough to win and like I said, be great on third and must pass, be great in the red zone so that you convert a higher percentage of those high leverage points into first downs and touchdowns. If this team is going to win in January, that’s the formula though. But like if they come out and they are a house of fire and the defense plays okay, you’ll lose in the playoffs. But if you come out and the defense is stout and really good and the offense does its job, that’s what you that’s how you win in January. So like to me, you’re going to come out like and and yes, the offense you would like to see it gradually improve, but I think if you establish the run, JJ McCarthy can use his arm and his feet. We I saw it again yesterday. He took off like he’s going to run. And you might say, “Oh my god, what what are they thinking?” He has no choice. The run has to be part of his game. He knows it. Okonnell knows it. And yeah, his knee, his his meniscus cost him a season, but if you go into conservative mode there, guess what? You’re going to lose games. He has to run. And if you have that tool and to varying degree, I’m not putting him in the category of all these other guys necessarily as an athlete, but like Dante Co Pepper first couple years, Josh Allen first couple years. Uh like Jaden Daniels was the rookie of the year last year. Not cuz he threw for 5,000 yard. He threw for 3500 yards, right? And uh you know, and like seven seven and a half yards per attempt, but he used his legs. Now JJ’s not the athlete that Jane Daniels is, but the first couple years as a quarterback, if you’ve got that tool, it’s probably the most you’re going to use that tool is your first, second, third year as a starter before you’re able to really sit back there and process at warp speed. I also think that JJ McCarthy is a better athlete than we probably give him credit for. And yeah, he’s not Jaden. He certainly is not Josh or Dante because they could literally bowl guys over and he would be Oh, this is Finn. We got two dogs in the house today. Finn. This is Vinnie’s brother. Vinnie’s brother Finn. He’s uh he’s he’s much more of a marsh. Actually, he’s probably Vinnie’s a bigger marshmallow, but this guy sometimes requires some some being held. He likes to be held like a baby. So, yeah, he just loves joint practice top. I got no problem with that. And he’s a dual threat guy. That’s right. Oh, he Oh, man. He’s dual threat. Oops. And peas. That’s why it’s great. Welcome to the show, Finn. Uh, okay. Let’s go to the second thing to watch for in joint practices against the Patriots. It’s pretty simple, but it’s the wide receiver spot. So, Justin Jefferson, I think I can confidently say, will not take part. He is not He’s still not practiced, by the way. I have no problem with this, but they’re not going to I would be shocked if they thrust him in for two uh semi-p pretty competitive practices. There’s there’s absolutely no reason to take a chance. So, your top two guys without question going into these joint practices. Jordan Addison who’s had a really good camp. He suspended the first three games obviously. Jaylen Naylor has been fine. Like he’s a three. He’s been asked to play two. Has it been fantastic all the time? No. Is he a train wreck? That’s not fair to say. He is not. Um, as we talked about in the 53 projection that I did yesterday for you guys, Ty Felton, in my opinion, is a lock. Is he a polished receiver? Not even close. But he’s speedy. He can play uh special teams. I think he’s going to return kicks. I think Lucky Jackson, unless he completely uh falls apart, has a job wrapped up. But that leaves Jashawn Jones, Theer Thomas, Silus Balden, Tim Jones, Miles Price, who I’ll get to in a second, and Dante Fleming in competition. And the reason why I bring up Miles Price is yesterday returning punts. So, I would take it that Rond Del Moore, who we still don’t have an update on, if he is going to play again, it will not be anytime soon. returning punts yesterday in practice though were Balden not surprising Jackson not surprising Naylor and Miles Price but anyway this to me is going to be a huge separator in you know and I don’t know if they’re going to keep five like I projected coming out of camp or six but these joint practices I think have the ability to be huge separator in those depth roster positions as far as the wide receiver goes. Yeah. Yeah. How does uh how I I’m Lucky Jackson is such a curious one, man. 28 years old, been in the system now for a few years, been around the world, Canada, United States, different leagues in the United States, like um if he continues to flash in the joint practice and in the preseason games, and if if you’re not going to go out and bring in somebody from the outside, I I think it’s pretty solidly he will be your number three wide receiver when the season starts. Yeah. and Jaylen Naylor is still just like not fully sold on him. He showed some flashes last year, but you’d like to see one or two of those guys really step up and just make it obvious in joint practices or preseason. Hey, I I got this for at least the first few weeks and then once Jordan Addison comes back, everything’s going to kind of settle into place. I think by the end of this week that uh they will have decided if they absolutely have to go out and sign a receiver off the street. Like to me that’s the thing is it’s not like well one of these guys has to step up. It is can one of them step up and if they don’t do we start to make phone calls. This is all the more reason to just it is it fair to say that the Vikings probably trust Josh Oliver on the field as both a pass catcher and just the things he brings as one of the best run blocking tight ends. Mhm. Just running more what they call 12 personnel with two tight ends on the field and two wide receivers versus running the 11 personnel that I think is the predominant personnel package in the three years of Kevin Oonnell that if it comes down to like especially the first three weeks you could either put more Jaylen Naylor and or Lucky Jackson and or Ty Felton on the field or just run heavier packages, run play action, have Josh Oliver out there for the majority of snaps along with TJ Hawinson. Don’t you think that’s a fairly viable solution? I think that is. And I also think that we are going to see the amount of screen passes to the running backs uptick. Yes, I think there’s ways to work around this, but I also think that there probably will come a point where if they say, and it’s not just for the wide receiver position guys, it’s for the punt returner as well, right? Like you have to have somebody back there and I know Brandon Powell was underwhelming as hell, but you could trust him to catch the ball for the most part. Like if if you and I don’t think that he makes the roster, but if Silus Balden makes the team and he has one really nice punt return and he muffs the next one, then you shouldn’t have capped him. So I do think that this comes down to who can return punts as well. Um, and worst case, I mean, I think my inclination, just a total guess here, is that they would probably call if if he’s available to play Brandon Powell back for three weeks and just have him catch punts and then go from there. Yeah, it’s uh he’s available. He’s available. All right, Jud Camp notes. What to watch for number three? I’ve headlined this one. What’s going on with Nudie? Sounds sort of ominous, huh? Dwight McGloth. So Dwight Mcloth, I talked about this like a week and a half ago, was having a great camp. He was a ball hawk. He was picking off passes left and right. Well, at practice yesterday, and I sort of saw this in the game, too, but anyway, at practice yesterday, he appeared to be behind, and the first bit of this list won’t surprise you. Isaiah Rogers, Byron Murphy Jr., Jeff Okuda, Mai Blackman, Zamaya Vaughn, and Ambry Thomas. So, I don’t know if they’re seeing things they don’t like as much. I will say this, uh, guys like me get caught up in splash plays, right? Interception. Oh, man. He must be having a great camp. I don’t know. Brian Flores does. I mean, I think he likes it, but I also think that he says, “Are you doing the job I want you to do?” Now, McGloth, to his credit, made the team as a UDFA a year ago. So, like, he worked his ass off to make the 53. But, uh, just something to keep an eye on as the cornerback battle sort of takes shape here, especially with the depth, guys, because I would say the two places where I am interested about the depth is wide receiver and cornerback. Well, yeah. I think it’s easy to get caught up in some of the splashy like an interception at practice or in a game, but I think Brian Flores and other defensive coaches would say that a lot of those splash plays are the product of some other core thing that happened leading to like the the quarterback was pressured and moved off of his spot and so he threw inaccurately and boom, somebody picks off the pass because it was just thrown off target. And if you were to do a pie chart of praise for the reasons why that interception took place, it’s less about the guy who caught the football and more about some other things. And and you got to wonder with Dwight Mcloth, um is the substance there behind the splash plays? I don’t know. But if he’s that far down now, Ambry Thomas is a veteran. So are they looking at this and saying, “Okay, you know, Ambry Thomas spent four years in San Francisco. This is year five in the NFL. He’s a former third round draft pick out of Michigan. So, he’s super high level football San Francisco. He’s been part of winning teams, been part of a Super Bowl team. Um, do they just want another veteran presence because of the uncertainty of Jeff Akuda, the uncertainty of Isaiah Rogers playing a thousand snaps? Ma, if they had to lean toward the undrafted free agent guy who’s been kind of splashy once in a while at training camp or Ambry Thomas who’s been around the block for five years, I wonder if that’s what their mindset is. But Zamaya Vaughn being in that mix too as an undrafted free agent kind of profile similarly as Dwight Mcloth. And it depends too on how many of those quarterbacks they’re going to keep numbers wise. But interesting as a football guy, I will say this. I am infatuated with Zamaya Van’s length. Oh, he’s Yes. Very lanky. What is he 6’3? I’d have to look it up. But the arms, the length, the ability to probably press. There is an interesting player there. Yeah, he’s uh he is listed at 6’3. So, he is definitely one of the one of the tallest quarterbacks in the league. If if you were to rank all of them across the board, you don’t see many 6’4 65 quarterbacks. It’s not. And if and if you can hold up and play, I mean, that makes you super in intriguing. So that is my third thing. Just a quick question. What’s up with Nudie? All right, number four. And this one, we saw it again. We saw it on Saturday. We saw it yesterday. So I know it’s propaganda and I don’t care. But Max Bromer in practice against the Patriots. Now the obvious question is how much work does Max get? because McCarthy is going to get the first team reps. Sam Howell is going to get the second team reps. Um, it felt like Bromer and Brett Ripen probably had about an equal number of reps on Monday. But hands down, boys, and you probably saw it. I I know that the Vikings don’t want us and we aren’t allowed to uh to have uh posts on social with plays during team drills, but that doesn’t mean you the fans don’t. And the pass that Max Bromer made, it was from the defense’s 40yd line. He drops back. So it’s probably about a 47 yd pass. Drops it in the bucket to Tim Jones in stride at like the two or the one. And now here’s the most impressive thing. So it’s a touchdown. Most impressive thing is it’s against the first team defense. Isaiah Rogers is in coverage and he is flat out beat. Now Tim Jones gets credit as well because he’s a guy I’ve predicted. He’s a veteran guy from Jacksonville. I think they keep him based on special teams, based on blocking. It was a nice catch, but it was a hell of a dime. I mean, Max Bromer, I don’t know what more to say. Like, like it might sound like they do. That’s what you say. QB. Well, yeah, but I mean, you know, the go for Kool-Aid and we could talk about all that, but this just continues to be impressive. What was the other be really impressive? I saw the one that you’re referencing and then there was another one where he was kind of flushed out to the left. Change the arm angle and he Yeah, he was So, he’s moving. He’s right-handed and he’s moving to his left. Yep. And uh and he throws kind of like weight falling away. Drops down like two/ird arm or 3/4 arm and hits it. Doesn’t throw it all the way across his the field cuz that would be dangerous. But he finds uh I think it was a running I don’t even know who it was or running back or whoever just a little outlet. And it was because you don’t you don’t really think of Brosmer outside of some designed playaction rollouts. You don’t think of him as an improvising type quarterback. Even with the Gophers, he’s more of a standin, deliver on schedule guy. And so to see that too at practice yesterday, I think we need to go there a little bit right right now, too. Okay. Cuz like this to me, like go where where Declan went yesterday on his hottest cake. No, no, no. I think we need to go on Brosmer’s profile. So, and here’s how. So, this has gotten and and I mean, I’m pretty damn jaded. I’ve seen a lot of these slappy QBs. So I I don’t really do this much, but I think there’s a conversation now about I mean Max Bromer for the golfers was really good and deserves complete credit. But let’s call a spade a spade here, gentlemen. He has gone from PJ Fleck and an offense that yeah, it’s a Big 10 offense. It’s a college team to the Masters room, Kevin Oonnell’s room. And it feels like what we’re seeing is Max Brosmer being unleashed a bit more like like let’s not you know PJ Fleck is does a lot of things well not in-game coaching but he he does get credit and he deserves to keep that gopher job for as long as he wants in my opinion. That being said, it feels like Max Bromer is being unleashed a little bit here as far as skill set goes. And you know, Fleck has his Fleckonian ways of what he wants offensively. And now I feel like we’re seeing things of like, oh, you can do that. Oh yeah, that’s pretty impressive. So yeah, I know it sounds like hype. I know that right now you think I’m drinking Kool-Aid completely, but I’m telling you, I didn’t expect this. I didn’t expect it. He I’m just going to flat out say he does look damn good. He Dude, that throw yesterday. Which one? What? The the the deep one or the one I mean they’re both the one that you talked about was really really nice and that’s a great adjustment but the deep one I mean that’s not that’s a throw that looked simple and we all know we’ve seen that overshot underthrown and everything else. That’s a difficult throw and he is not going against the threes. Yeah, he had um on what would be called medium or intermediate depth throws last year with the Gophers, he had a 93.1 PFF grade on those passes, which was among the best in the country. And uh he averaged he had a 74% adjusted completion percentage on those throws. There were eight drops mixed in. So, one in every 10 of his intermediate throws was dropped by those Gophers receivers. Interesting. So, that’s something like obviously if you’re throwing it to Addison and Jefferson at some point, which I’m guessing he probably hasn’t really at all in practice, certainly Jefferson, because he’s not working with those guys. No, he is not at all. It’s uh I I think we’re there’s a little bit of this is quarterback beer goggles because of the low bar set among the backups where if if you had if Nick Mullins was still around I mean Nick Mullins is a just a solidified solid backup quarterback. I don’t think we’d be having the excited Brosmer discussions as much. He would just be like a cool guy to stash on the practice squad and we’re kind of we’re like dipping our toes into oh could he be like on the 53? I don’t know. I think I’m drinking as much Kool-Aid as everyone else. He looks great against the Patriots and I don’t know how many reps he’s going to get because, you know, the threes and the fours aren’t going to get a ton of reps the next couple days. But I’m just telling you that we have seen quarterbacks slip through the crevices before. I am not in any way saying that the dude should play in a game this season. I am saying there’s a lot more there than I thought. And ordinarily when these guys come in, it’s like, oh yeah, you were good in in college. I mean, all due respect to Declan’s guy, the poster child, JD Booty, right? I don’t remember. He looked Did he look good in camp? Not really. Yeah, he he didn’t really look great. Now, now he also wasn’t developed by a guy. I mean, that’s the thing is we are watching it. It sounds silly, but we are watching a quarterback coach who knows what he’s doing, too. Like, that’s a huge We haven’t seen that here until Kevin O. What did JD did? JD Booty had Chile, right? Yeah. Yeah. Still the Chili. Yeah. who was supposed to be an offensive guy, but I mean JD Booty skill set also is like, “Yeah, it’s okay. It’s fine. Whatever. See you later.” And um Brosmer’s impressed enough that I I definitely think he’s worth I think he’s worth being on an actual watch list now. Yeah. It’s also tough when one more thing on Bromer and then we can get to your fifth thing. The fact that he spent like was it three or four years at New Hampshire? So he was playing this was that is that FCS or division two New Hampshire. Uh it’s FC. Can you look that up? No, I remember this. Hold on. I think it is division two. But so he played four Well, he he had a red shirt year because he tore his ACL. He he was there for five years. Wow. Um at New Hampshire. No, it was division one FCS. Okay. Yep. and and he and he led division one FCS with 3,400 passing yards and 29 touchdowns the year before he came to the U. And and obviously there’s, you know, Carson Owens, there’s been FCS examples. Well, Trey Lance is kind of the ultimate where he didn’t even get that many snaps in FCS and then he was overdrafted and now now that he’s kind of he’s with Jim Harbaugh now, right? And with the Chargers and you’re seeing some flashes in preseason, but it’s harder to evaluate those guys that kind of carve up FCS competition. And then Brosmer has the benefit of one year kind of carving up Big 10 competition, too. He didn’t put up like crazy numbers, but he was very very good in in a tough schedule environment. So, I am definitely excited to watch him against the Patriots on Wednesday and Thursday. All right. What’s your fifth item here, Jud? Okay. The fifth and final uh thing to watch for in the joint practices is this. So, a bunch of guys didn’t practice yesterday. There were obviously some vet days. I don’t know who’s banged up at this point and who’s not. It was interesting that I don’t think we saw Levi Drake Rodriguez take a snap, but that also opened up a door for a ton of first team work for, and I actually went and got the pronunciation Tyrion. Tyrion Ingram Dawkins. Okay. Isn’t that what we’ve been saying? I don’t know. But I I said yesterday I didn’t know how to pronounce it. I looked it up. So I looked it up for my own It’s not what I’ve been saying. I’ve just been calling him Ingram Dawkins because it’s simpler, but now I’ve looked it up. Um, anyway, so he got a ton of first team work on Monday. And the thing that you keep seeing one, one, he’s doing a lot of work off to the side with coaches, but he’s also when you see him in the middle of that line, here’s what makes him intriguing. And, and here’s where I think that they might have found something with this fifth round pick. He is 6’5. Okay. uh among the defensive linemen for the Vikings. Now, the only other guy who is as tall as him is a guy by the the name of and I kid you not, our former producer as well, Jonathan Harrison. Um it’s John Bob. Yeah. Yep. So, and so he’s he’s 6’5 as well. He’s not going to make the team, but Ingram Dawkins profiles with he’s got the long arms. He’s got a lot of the athletic ability. Like we don’t we think of guys interior defensive line as being bigger guys and I love that but this guy actually presents sort of a defensive end’s body or or a rush ends body inside. So he is definitely a guy to watch for. He wears the number 90 and I would just advise that I would not be surprised if that guy actually has a pretty important rotational role in the regular season as a rookie. kind of a classic example of a measurable freak who didn’t live up to his physical potential in college. Yep. And an NFL coaching staff looking and saying, “Oh, we got this. We we can turn this dude into an absolute monster.” and and we’ve brought the RAZ score up before with Tyrron and Gim Dawkins, but since you brought him up here, I will reiterate that they’ve been they’ve been doing the uh like the combine testing and putting together. So, there’s it’s mathbomb on Twitter. Raz.foot is the um I think there’s even Yeah, it’s a website too. It’s ra.foot and you can find the relative athletic score. all of the combine numbers from your height, your weight to your 40, your 20 yard split, your 10 yard split, your vertical jump, your broad jump. Uh they even have often times like your bench press reps and all the things that make up your athletic profile leading up to the draft. And they take every player from 1987 through present day and rank them based on their RAZ score, which is a 0 through 10 score. And Tyrie Ingram Dawkins scored 9.85 out of 10. He had a near perfect relative athletic score of the 1,812 defensive tackles measured since 1987. He ranked 29th. So he is in the like 99th percentile of all defensive tackles measured pre-draft combines workouts athletic ability. So, so the Vikings coaching staff in front office is looking at him saying, “Uh, uh, okay. So, he’s ridiculous, but he didn’t tally as many sacks or just didn’t get the productivity in college. If we can just work with him and mold him for a year or two and unleash him, what could that look like fully formed?” And they’ve kind of done this, you could argue a little bit of a different position profile. Denil Hunter was kind of one of those guys. Yep. where you see now in the NFL, now that coaches have like molded his technique and all the different things, now you’re seeing a guy that might flirt with Hall of Fame if he keeps putting up 12, 15 sacks a year. So, I don’t want to go that far with Ingram Dawkins quite yet. That’s what I heard. the vision the vision for him by this coaching staff is uh is very apparent and he’s getting a ton of run like he’s getting he’s right up there with that second team defense and um and was one of the starters in that preseason game because they were sitting there veterans. So love my five things five things. I just got a text from uh my buddy Nick Cattles who hosts Lockdown Patriots for uh for Patriots fans and he was just asking about like, “Hey, I’m doing some prepping for the joint practices.” And so he asked me a couple things about injuries and he said, “I think your defense is going to make life miserable for the Patriots young offensive line and Drake May. The hope is that Drake May just doesn’t implode on Wednesday and Thursday against the Brian Flores defense.” Well, hold on a second. Garrett Bradberry has gone against this defense in practice. I mean, Bradberry, unbelievable. They got everything everything figured out with Garrett Bradberry there. So, uh, all right, we have a random Viking of the week coming up here in just a moment, but, uh, a shout out to Game Day Men’s Health. 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Uh now that I’m not cheating anymore, it’s it’s tough to pull off these victories. Cheater. Cheater. cheater. All right, I’ll give you this first clue here. This random Viking was a fourth round draft pick. Fourth round draft pick. Fourth round. I feel like fourth is kind of a weird round, you know. I am I am looking on my phone at the previous list. So I of fourth round draft picks. A fourth. No. A previous list of our random Vikings. Fourth. Yes. I’m looking at all the fourth round picks. I’m going to take three guesses immediately. Oh. Are you good? Are you good? You want me to keep going? Yeah. Keep going. Keep going. Okay. Uh, this random Viking was a all-American in college. All American American. Jack Swagger. I am a real Paul Kogan. This random Viking a multipletime pro bowler. Okay, I’m going to take a guess. Yeah. Oh my god. Cuz we haven’t done him yet. At least. Let me make sure. Nope. Everson Griffin. Everson Griffin. Big F. No. Incorrect strike. I got I got one. one against me. Okay, strike one for Everson Griffin. So, on Pro Football Reference, there is a tab that says fantasy and you can look up this player’s fantasy results. They use Statthead. I didn’t know Stathead like accumulates fantasy points, but they do. And I think it’s like a pretty universal thing. So, I will say this random Viking was a top 10 fantasy player at his position in seven different seasons. H seven different seasons. Well, that that’s interesting. Okay. Mhm. Mhm. Was he a fourth round pick of the Vikings? Not going to answer that yet. Campus. Is it Kirk Cousins? Kirk Cousins. Incorrect. Fun fact, Kirk Cousins not really ever a top 10. Just like his quarterback ranking. Was never really much of a fantasy quarterback. Didn’t think he was, but man. Kirk Kirk does it. Okay. across his NFL career. I know Phil is not good with this, but across his NFL career, this random Viking wore just two numbers. Two numbers. Finn, will you stop going into the laundry room? Sorry. He’s trying to help. He’s trying to He’s trying to look for the randoms. Trying to help. There a door in that room? No, there’s not. That’s the problem. But Dad, I got out. We’re out of fabric on Earth. It’s Uncle Deck. We need more fabric. Vinn Vinnie is here laying like an angel on his blanket and his big bed and Finnegan’s on another world adventure. Um, let’s see here. I want to give the tide pods with tide pods. Yeah, I like to eat them. Me and Grank. Me and Grank. Two numbers. Okay. This random Viking played in a healthy amount of playoff games, but never a Super Bowl. Can you give us the number of playoff games? Sure. Uh, he played in 14 playoff games. Oh jeez. Across two different franchises. Fourth round pick. Oh my gosh, dude. This is top 10 in this position. Seven time multi-time Pro Bowler. I do have another guess, but I don’t if I want to unleash this right now or not. This random Viking has his number retired by the purple. Is this Chris Carter? Chris Carter is correct. Ding ding ding. Chris Carter. Chris Carter. I was trying to tiptoe as much as I could around obvious clues. So, Chris Carter. Well, that that’s No, that’s that’s really good. That’s really good. I I do want I I was getting to the ones I was like, “Okay, now I’m gonna have to start giving some obvious.” I was going to say Hall of Famer. Um I was going between that one. First team all Big 10. Was he taking in the fourth round of the supplemental draft by Philadelphia? Is that what it was? Oh, yeah. Supplemental draft. Yeah. Yeah. The old supplemental draft. I might have to play this under protest. Oh, man. Oh, wow. We’ve never seen this before. Well, it was but it was the supple like in my mind it was like his path through the Eagles to the Vikings was Yeah. technically he was undrafted but if you’re the old supplemental draft um Okay. I mean it is what it is. We both fourth round pick. He was a fourth round pick in the supplemental draft. So still a I guess I didn’t say NFL draft. I just said fourth round pick. No that’s true. I suppose in the court of in the court of protest random Viking law. Ernie Gozar I believe also taken in the supplemental draft by well the Vikings tried to get him. Wow. Jud’s on a little heater here. So Jud is up to six wins in the revamped iteration of random Viking of the week. I still leave with eight, but the walls are closing in. Declan with one victory. He’ll try to get that second victory against Jud next week. So, uh, by the way, uh, Federated Insurance also powering today’s episode of Purple Daily. Uh, thanks to Federated Insurance for, uh, helping small and medium-siz businesses all across the country, the backbone of America, if you will. 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And thanks to the folks at Courage Kenny, he was able to get back to a semblance of his new normal and he discovered wheelchair rugby. So, uh here’s that conversation with our guy Joe Delgrave. Uh, all right. We’re spending uh all week long here across the Skorn network of podcasts raising money for the Courage Kenny Rehabilitation Institute through uh the annual Powerofports auction. And you’ve heard us talk about all the items up for bid. Uh buy it now items. Scorp.com/bid is where you can go. Uh, I think my favorite item is uh is probably the uh the dinner with Purple Daily where you can come and tell us exactly what you think of us and you get a Justin Jefferson autographed jersey and a Harrison Smith autograph, too. But uh our guest here today is the current head coach of the United States wheelchair rugby team where he tells our friend Chuck Aoki what to do. Uh a two-time parolympic medalist and also a keynote speaker with an incredible background and story. Uh Joe Delgrave, thanks for taking some time out of your schedule, Joe. Absolutely. Absolutely. Appreciate appreciate being here. Thanks for having me on. Yeah. So, well, I mean, I’d love for you to just tell our audience your story and your background. I mean, you were a three sport athlete in high school. You you’re actually in the Twin Cities this week, and you said you’re actually on the way to Winona State where you played college football. Uh eventually you became one of the best wheelchair rugby players in the world and now you’re the head coach of the United States team. Between those things 20 years ago, your life took an unexpected turn and I’d love for you to just tell our audience your story. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Um how I got to telling Chuck Aoki what to do is kind of the story. That’s Yeah, exactly. No. Um, yeah, I you know, playing sports my my whole life, whether that’s basketball, football, baseball, uh, you name it. I I love being a part of teams and, um, in between my freshman, sophomore year, uh, at at um, Winona State where I played football there as a tight end. Had just a a freak boating accident, hit the bottom of the river accidentally. Uh, my buddy was driving. I’m sitting in a boat. Um, fall backwards, hit my head on the front of the boat, inside the boat, and break my neck at the C6 and seven level. So, I went from 66 260 lbs to what’s life look like sitting in a wheelchair. Um, which is is pretty traumatic for a 19-year-old kid that’s pretty ignorant, has no idea what adaptive sports are, anything like that. And took me a little while to figure out um what that looked like for me. And so about a year, year and a half after my accident, started to just talk to people that were in the community, called some people at uh at Courage Kenny uh with the rugby team and I was like, what’s this crazy sport where they go around smashing into each other in wheelchairs like I’ve never seen anything like it. Looks really fun. Um, and for me with wheelchair rugby, it was one of those that was like everything that the doctors said I couldn’t do or I I perceived in my own head that I couldn’t do anymore, uh, they were doing on the field and off. And so, uh, went to practice, uh, 2006 at Courage Kenny and it it truly changed my life. like it was, you know, I don’t want to be dramatic about it, but at the same time, like I went there and there’s a community of guys um that were going through the same things or had gone through the same things as me and got in a chair and smashed into some people and I’m like, “This is really cool. I need to come back.” And that’s what evolved into uh almost a 20-year career in the sport as a both as a player and now as a coach. when you it’s kind of the community I suppose that you you know you’re you’re going through this mental transition of like you say you were six foot six college football player 240lb tight end and now you’re trying to figure out can I play sports again what like what am I going back to school you should probably thinking all these a million different thoughts um what what was like the the first I don’t know six months two years that early part what was that experience like yeah that I That’s the that’s the 6 months to to really day one to two years later really dark times. I mean, it’s not it’s something that I don’t even think about anymore, but when I when I think back on it, those were dark moments of like what exactly what you said. What are the what what is life going to look like in a wheelchair? I have my identity ripped away as an athlete. Am I going to be an athlete still? Um what kind of job can I get in a wheelchair? what like what all these different questions circulate around your head and you’re trying to figure out um how to live life in a wheelchair, what that looks like, do I go back to school, do I change my major, like any like all those questions. Um but the biggest thing for me truly was community and that’s like community in my adaptive sports group. Um community uh family and friends that spoke into me when I needed it and some really close buddies for me. my two two best friends in high school um both were on the boat and both you know friends to this day and we’re super close and having those that that brotherhood the friendships that are like man you need like the human guard rail is what I call them guys that are going to lift you up when you need it and kind of pull you back when you need it as well and that’s truly what got me into adaptive sports my buddy uh goes hey uh you know you know how boys are they’re just like hey dude you’re getting fat u and that was his way of loving me which was honey. Um, and I was like, “No, man. I’m not getting fat.” And he’s like, “No, we should weigh you.” And I’m like, “I don’t think so.” And so we ended up we ended up weighing me in in a local hospital on a on a bed scale and get on there and it said 285 lbs. And I told the nurse, I’m like, “I think your bed’s broke. I like there’s no way I weigh that much.” And she’s like, “Uh, well, we can do it again.” And sure enough, said the same thing. And that’s that’s truly what like led to me going, I I need to be active somehow. Um, but so it’s it’s never just a Joe thing that I’ve like, you know, it’s always community and and people that are speaking into my life and building me up. And that’s the beauty of team sports and and and community. Yeah. So, you mentioned like sports as an identity and and kind of going through that of man, I’m just I am I is is sports going to be part of my identity going forward as you’re going through this process. So, how has your identity or however you want to define that shifted? I mean, sports have been a huge part of your life and um and wheelchair rugby has been a huge part of your professional identity, but how has your identity changed or not over the past 20 years? Yeah. Yeah. I probably there’s a couple significant things in there. Um I was cut from the Rio team in 2016 and kind of really having that like accident thinking over again of like the identity is ripped away. I’m not going to Rio to the Parolympics. But it ended up being probably the most important part of my career. Um, all the accolades are great, all the medals are great, and and and coaching is great, but having that moment to go like what like who am I without this sport? What does this look like? Um, and really did did some work on the mental aspect of that of going like who am I? At the time of 2016, I had three kids that were under four years old. Um, and so my wife and I, you know, were figure it out. Don’t go. And then really it was kind of like this switch in my um thinking of I’m not doing any of this for an identity. I’m doing it from an identity. And that’s being a really good husband. That’s being a really good father. Uh it’s been super fun to to go through all the youth sports stuff with uh my kids who are now 13, 11, and nine. So they’re getting into uh two of them getting into middle school sports and and whatnot, club sports and all that. But like doing it from a father’s side is definitely helped me switch to where it’s like sports are a great vehicle for your true purpose in life and whether that hopefully that interacts with a passion as well because I think that’s a beautiful spot when we can intersect our passion and purpose. Um and for me that’s that’s what happened. I see coaching as a servant uh leadership type. Uh on coaching specifically what do you like the best about coaching? What sort of fulfills you the most about coaching? Yeah, yelling at people. That’s great. No, I’m just kidding. Great. Uh just holding your power over people. It’s It’s incredible. Oh, man. Just Yeah. Um abuse of power. No, just kidding. I I think for me it’s, you know, and obviously with I retired after Tokyo uh in 2021 after um the pande uh pandemic, pushed those back a year in Tokyo and then retired and then went right into coaching as a head coach. And so obviously for me like my this I’m in my fourth season now so it’s a little different in this last couple seasons but first couple seasons really like building those relationships in a new way obviously like guys like Chuck uh Aoki and I are are close friends off the court and and have been teammates for a long long time came up together at Courage Kenny in our club club club ball days and um but building those relationships from a coach players perspective and making sure that there’s lines of communication open on both sides. Um I think that’s the biggest thing as an athlete going into a coach. I love being able to um understand that they’re going to see things differently on the court than I am on the sideline. And I think taking taking a little bit of like um you know Andy Reid’s approach on I I love I love hearing about coaches that are like they have days where the players draw up different plays, trick plays that they want to do and and things like that that I think is it helps with buyin if they if players know that they have a voice in this. And so we at at at uh USWR we have three V’s that I go by. Um, athletes need to make sure that they understand they have a voice. They need to understand that they’re valued and then they also um need to understand what our vision is and and we need to be transparent about that. So, I think that helps them set that up for success and helps me get set up for success as well. What’s funny about like Andy Reid, they they do that like you said for kind of team building and just keep it light and you’re just giving players a say and then about two or three times a year he’ll actually say that’s actually a really good idea. Let’s use that in a playoff game or let let’s use that in a big division game. It’s kind of wild. Exactly. Yeah. It’s it’s super wild. Yeah. Um hey, what if you could go back just maybe this is kind of a heavy question, but like if you could go back 20 years, current day Joe and everything that you’ve learned and experienced and tell 19-year-old head is spinning Joe after a life-changing incident, what would you go back and say to to younger Joe? Yeah, absolutely. Uh, heavy question, but it’s a great question and I love this question, too, because I’m all about perspective. Um, I think it helps pausing in a perspective. I think it helps with with change and momentum. Anyway, um, won’t go down a rabbit hole there, but anyway, uh, what I tell him is like just simply get in the wheelchair. Um, I remember being in the hospital bed and I looked at the wheelchair as like the biggest obstacle ever. Um, but really like getting in the wheelchair led me to getting back to school and getting in the wheelchair led me to um finding out about wheelchair rugby and getting in the wheelchair led me to uh an undergraduate master’s degree and like all that stuff. Like wearing USA across your chest and uh my proudest is getting in a wheelchair and uh marrying the love of your life and and having three kids that I get to be a dad to. Um there’s a lot of purpose in that, but it starts with just baby steps. And I think that’s the biggest thing when whether someone’s going through something traumatic like an accident like mine or it’s just, you know, the day in day out down in the dumps type of things is just one foot in front of the other. For me was getting in a wheelchair and that was my um my mode of being able to get around. But like that was the biggest thing is like it’s going to suck here for a second. There’s going to be some dark moments. There’s probably going to be some dark months figuring it all out, but the first step is just getting in that bad boy. Um, and and really life changed once I made that choice and started making that choice daily. I love that. Uh, what’s something for for our listening and viewing audiences here on on the Score North podcast? What is something or a thing or two about the Courage Kenny Rehab Institute if they’re not that familiar with what happens inside with some of the equipment and the people? Uh what’s a thing or two that you’d love to pull the curtain back on and say this is why it’s really important? Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely love um what you guys are doing and have been doing for a decade and a half with the auction. And I think when inside those four walls, what’s happening there is there’s a lot of life-changing stuff going around. I’ve always said for me and where I’ve been and and um gotten places uh I’ve gotten to go um the most groundbreaking for me or transformational thing happened at Courage Kenny. um with the that there’s communities of people playing adaptive sports and it’s bigger than getting to play wheelchair rugby or wheelchair basketball or wheelchair tennis or swimming or and there’s like an abundance of sports. It doesn’t have to be rugby. It can be art. It can be music. It can be, you know, whatever it is. And there’s a community of people that are that are pouring into these these people. We can’t go through some of these things that we’ve acquire whether it’s acquired or born with uh disabilities by ourselves in a so in a silo. It’s not going to work with community. There’s um there’s room for a lot of growth and change and courage Kenny being all over across the country and and getting to come back and and see that place and see the people there. Um they’re changing lives like no uh full stop. Like that’s what they’re doing through the power of adaptive sports. Um, and so it’s not necessarily the up and down of the playing, it’s the getting drinks of water and talking about how life’s going after, before, during type of deal. Yeah. Hey man, thanks. It’s great to meet you. Um, been friends with Chuck for probably 10 or 12 years and just um everything. Got to get you guys a gold medal at some point. I I do need a lot of hardware. We got to get you guys a gold medal. We’re we’re ramping up and I mean the biggest thing is like if we get silver in LA like you might as well call us USA Buffalo Bills. We can’t do that. There’s we’ve got to make sure that we’re we’re getting the right color this time. So we’re well on our way but yeah absolutely. you’re the he’s the he’s the Josh Allen and you’re the Sean McDermott if that but still but the fact that you guys are uh are so decorated if uh for the audience if you haven’t checked out the US uh men’s wheelchair rugby team you can find clips all over the internet um and it’s a it’s a great program so Joe awesome to meet you and hopefully we can we can hang out uh in person at some point and for the audience scorn.com/bid is where you can get your hands on some buy it now items, auction items, or you could just straight up donate if you want to uh to this power of sports auction benefiting the Courage Kenny Rehabilitation Institute. Thank you again, Joe. Take care, man. But all right, take care.

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