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judge a judge hi judge Hold

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on hold on yes there. I

2:13

am but the good news is you

2:15

don't have to retire that Because

2:18

oh no we're gonna get the way too early 2025

2:21

well that too, but you

2:24

know what next week starts Mocking

2:27

the schedule I Wanna

2:29

mock don't ever forget

2:32

this league using this league with

2:34

you hanging like that And

2:37

I think didn't we hear or is it been

2:39

announced or one of us heard

2:41

a little birdie that like it's usually May 15th ish,

2:43

but it's like May 9th. I mean it's gonna be

2:45

like in a week and a half I

2:48

found it a projected date. They're not saying

2:50

it. Okay. Oh, we're not also it's a

2:53

mock a mock schedule for the schedule release

2:55

I Would even

2:57

say also not just for us my fiance wants that

2:59

to come out cuz I told her I can't plan

3:01

any honeymoon stuff Until that is out which goes over

3:04

really well in this house, but I it's

3:06

this is we're out here Then we're at

3:08

the mercy of the NFL schedule So I need to

3:10

figure out what uh what that looks like to in

3:12

this house and the preseason You know as you guys

3:14

are getting married in the summer time and you guys

3:16

are getting married like within a month the preseason schedule

3:18

coming Yeah,

3:23

so while the Vikings just finished up

3:25

their 2024 entire draft class

3:30

If if you are coming here for JJ

3:32

McCarthy discussion I think we would point you

3:34

to the countless hours over the past couple

3:36

days on the purple daily podcast

3:38

feed and YouTube channel Apple

3:40

Spotify where we Judd and I

3:42

jumped on last night They didn't have a pick last night

3:45

and we jumped on for the first hour. We talked to

3:47

a jay McCarthy Dallas

3:49

Turner obviously with the 17th pick but let me

3:51

I'm gonna fly through these and we can

3:54

kind of come back and talk about Anyone

3:56

individually I've got some notes on these guys,

3:59

but they round By the way,

4:01

they didn't make a trade today, right? No. They

4:04

stuck at all. Congratulations, Quasi,

4:07

for sticking and picking here, I guess. But

4:10

with the 108th pick, a

4:12

fourth-round pick, the Vikings selected

4:14

cornerback Kyrie Jackson from Oregon.

4:17

And again, we'll fill in details as we go back here. With

4:21

a sixth-round pick, 177 overall,

4:24

offensive tackle Walter Ruz from

4:26

Oklahoma. Sixth-round

4:28

pick, 203. Kicker Will Riker

4:31

from Alabama. In fact,

4:33

he was one of the two kickers that Thor threw

4:35

out as draftable on the final seven-round

4:37

mock simulation we did with him last week. The

4:39

Stanford kid was the other one. And

4:42

then seventh round, the 230

4:44

overall, interior offensive lineman Michael

4:46

Juergens from Wake Forest. And

4:49

then a seventh-rounder, 232 overall,

4:51

defensive tackle Levi Drake Rodriguez

4:54

from Texas A&M Commerce. And

4:57

that's an FCS school. So

4:59

where do you guys want to start here with

5:01

just the day three picks that just

5:03

came across the board here in the last couple hours?

5:05

Anything stand out to you guys? Well, the

5:07

kicker did because, of

5:10

course, the last time the Vikings tried to go this route,

5:13

Daniel Carlson was a fifth-rounder if I'm not mistaken. And

5:15

Will Riker is a sixth-round pick.

5:17

But the difference here to

5:20

me is substantial because I actually

5:22

have no problem this time with

5:24

drafting a kicker because

5:26

of the coaching staff, which I think will put

5:29

up with the kicker. My

5:31

whole thing with when Spielman took Carlson was you

5:33

are sending him into a hornet's nest. Zimmer

5:35

doesn't like kickers to start with. This guy's

5:38

a kid. The first sign of trouble, and

5:40

it happened. Mike's going to meltdown. And

5:43

it started in training camp, and it didn't end until after

5:45

what was that third game of the season at Lambeau when

5:47

they had to cut or they didn't have to. They

5:50

cut him because he had a terrible game. Riker,

5:53

in this case to me, I like

5:55

this if you're going to

5:57

spend a pick on a kicker because, first

5:59

of all, of all the head coach, far more patient,

6:02

not even close. Um,

6:05

Matt Daniels to me has done some

6:07

really good things as a, as a

6:10

special teams coordinator. So

6:12

this is not one where I roll my eyes

6:15

and think you wasted a pick. This

6:17

is one where I will

6:19

say, I think for the sixth round, this

6:22

was a smart move. This was a smart move

6:24

because it gives you a kicker. I mean, how

6:26

long have we complained about kickers? And

6:29

part of my thing was always previously during the

6:31

Zimmer regime was you're going to have to bring

6:33

in a veteran because the person is going to

6:35

have to have some type of thick skin. Yeah.

6:37

Um, and, and now Thor, this was not

6:39

the, this was not the one that Thor

6:42

endorsed. Thor endorsed the Stanford kid and he

6:44

brought up this, this, uh, Reichert's

6:46

name, but Thor's thing was

6:48

the Stanford kid, kid kicked countless 50 yard field

6:51

goals because Stanford was like, I just go out

6:53

there and try another one. Nick

6:55

Saban loves this kid, but he

6:57

didn't do that. But last year,

7:00

well, record was, or Reichert was five

7:02

for five from 50 plus. Here's

7:04

the, so I got some other stats on Reichert

7:07

because it's Alabama. And to your point, you're not

7:09

really taking a lot of 50 yard field goals.

7:11

When you're Alabama, he only attempted

7:13

13 50 plus

7:15

yard field goals in his career. And

7:17

297 career extra points. Cause

7:21

you're constantly getting deep in the deep

7:23

red. Uh, but he,

7:25

yeah, PFF had him as a 95 grade

7:28

on field goals and extra points, which was

7:30

fourth among all college football

7:32

kickers and the

7:34

consensus board. So the Vikings

7:36

took him two or three, the consensus board had him two

7:38

18. So the consensus board is

7:40

just all the big boards piled into one consensus.

7:43

So they, they may be reached a little bit

7:46

per the consensus boards, but I will

7:48

say this about an Alabama kicker. You're

7:50

kicking in a lot of raucous

7:53

environments. Those are NFL stadiums, basically

7:55

in terms of environment and pressure.

7:58

There's no more pressure packed conference. in

8:00

college football than the SEC. So tough

8:03

to rattle an SEC kicker I think

8:05

that that has some polish. So I'm

8:08

interested to see him in training camp. And

8:10

it's Saban too. And Saban loved this kid.

8:13

But I actually think if you were

8:15

to ask me after

8:17

the first round of the Vikings picks for

8:20

2024 who stands to actually

8:22

have an impact, well

8:25

Riker's the guy. He

8:27

also has been kicking his entire life. His

8:31

entire, in Pee-wee football, this

8:33

guy was kicking. He

8:35

was going to youth camps

8:37

strictly for kicking. This was

8:40

not some random soccer player that said,

8:42

hey can you can you come and

8:44

kick PATs for us on

8:46

the side of the high school games. What do you want to do

8:48

when you grow up, Willie? He wanted

8:51

to be a kicker. I want to be a firefighter. I want

8:53

to be a police officer. I want to

8:56

be a National Football League kicker. Yeah.

8:59

He literally attended in sixth grade,

9:01

in fifth and sixth grade, kicking

9:03

camps for football. Not the soccer

9:05

camps. This guy's been like groomed

9:07

to be a football kicker. Or

9:10

his parents are psychos. Or his parents

9:12

are psychos. And genius. Because they know

9:14

that there's like, you know, your son's probably

9:16

not going to be a starting defensive tackle

9:18

in the NFL. Quarterback is tough, right? But

9:20

if we if he could be a punter

9:23

or a kicker and we can groom

9:25

him from the age of six. It's

9:27

like when your kid is

9:29

born and he starts to pick up things

9:31

with his right hand and you're like, no

9:33

no no no no junior. Here's your hands

9:35

tied behind your back. You got to use

9:37

the left hand. And it becomes a reliever.

9:40

And you're gonna be out of the bullpen

9:42

too, son. On alabamarivals.com,

9:44

this article that was written

9:46

in four years ago, in 2020,

9:50

nicknamed the

9:53

baby-faced assassin for his

9:55

boyish facial features, Rikard

9:57

has long been revered as a prodigy in

9:59

the the kicking world. So

10:01

like I legitimately think we're talking about

10:04

like a kicking prodigy that has been

10:06

doing this his entire life. Maybe this

10:08

is exactly what this franchise means. Or

10:10

is this bad? Is this like a

10:12

Macaulay Culkin, Jonathan Taylor Thomas? Like you're

10:14

a child star and you

10:16

peak when you're 12 years old or

10:19

16 years old and now he's going to be a, you know,

10:21

he's going to be on drugs. Like what is he going to

10:23

flame out? This is my question. He's in

10:26

for competition here though, because I'm going to tell

10:28

you right now it's going to be hard for

10:31

team babyface to

10:33

beat JJ McCarthy. Or

10:36

in terms of like the babyface ranking

10:39

on the team. JJ McCarthy looks like

10:41

he might be 12. Joshua Kaunstel has

10:43

kind of a babyface. But he has

10:45

a jaw that you could stake with.

10:48

But the key is your face does like

10:50

thin out. Yeah, thin out. JJ 21, he's

10:52

still got the babyface. So it's going to

10:58

be hard for Will Riker to beat out.

11:00

So they snagged the kicker. I want to

11:02

talk about Kyrie Jackson here for a second.

11:04

The cornerback, their first pick on day three

11:06

here, the fourth round pick number 108. The

11:10

consensus boards had him as a top 100

11:12

prospect number 96. So they

11:14

wind up getting 12 slots worth of

11:17

value here. Some

11:19

amazing quotes from this guy, by the way, I'm going to go

11:21

through a couple things here. First of all, he'll

11:23

be 25 years old when

11:25

the season starts. So

11:28

you're like, this is one of those deals where you're not

11:30

really signing him to a second contract. He'll be 20, like

11:32

29 when he hits free agency in four

11:36

years. He's but he's six

11:38

foot three 195 pounds. So

11:40

he's one of the tallest cornerbacks in the draft. Brian

11:43

Flores gets a tall lanky cornerback,

11:45

somebody with some maybe

11:47

ability to jam at

11:49

the last scrimmage. He played a

11:51

couple years at Alabama and then wound up at

11:53

Oregon, but he barely played at Alabama. The thing

11:56

about him is he's 25 years old when the

11:58

season starts. He's only been like a one-year

12:00

starter in college. So

12:02

that's in

12:22

a passing conference by the way where you got

12:25

Michael Pennicks, you got Bo Nicks, all these guys lining

12:27

up. So well he was

12:29

teammates with Bo Nicks, he didn't face Bo Nicks. But

12:32

then some of the beat writers had

12:34

some great quotes here. Kevin Seifert just

12:36

had a lively video conference with Vikings

12:38

cornerback Kyrie Jackson. He said he

12:40

told the Vikings at the Senior Bowl, quote, I'm

12:43

the best cornerback in the draft. I told

12:45

them they were gonna get me for cheaper because of

12:47

some of the politics that go into it. He's

12:49

gonna fall because of the politics

12:51

being you're 25 and you've only

12:54

started one year and it was a great

12:56

year but... Yeah there's a lot yes. And

12:59

then Alec Lewis our friend from the Athletic

13:01

said, Kyrie Jackson was at the mall today

13:03

when the Vikings picked him. He likes

13:05

clothing, quote, I was in the store,

13:07

I missed the first call, then my phone rang again. I

13:09

picked it up, it was the Vikings. I told the lady

13:11

in the store, well I gotta go and I ran out.

13:15

Yeah he also had the one

13:18

did you see the one where he left

13:20

football, went to work at

13:23

a grocery store and... In the

13:25

deli. And he

13:28

was like a professional gamer for a while too.

13:30

Yeah, this is an interesting one.

13:32

There's a lot of questions here. Like there's a

13:34

lot of I mean it could work. Well that's

13:36

why he's a fourth round pick and not a

13:38

second round pick. This is the type of guy

13:40

that like Spielman might take in second or third

13:42

round and it would be like what are you

13:44

doing because this could easily bust. But in the

13:46

fourth round, but yeah he's mysteriously out of

13:48

football in 2017 and 18. Spends two years at

13:54

Bama where Forno

13:56

told me like they were raving about his athletic

13:58

ability but they didn't really really play him. And

14:00

then he gets suspended in 2022, goes in the portal, services

14:05

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14:37

at Harris Teeter too, by the

14:39

way, a really good grocery store.

14:41

So that is a very prominent

14:44

Southern grocery store. North Carolina have some

14:46

of those? North Carolina, Maryland. When I visit

14:48

my brother, usually like the

14:50

first stop we go because they have the weird

14:52

liquor laws there in North Carolina where you can

14:55

only get beer in the grocery

14:57

store and then ABC stores sell like hard

14:59

liquor and booze. It's a very strange system

15:01

out down there. But Harris Teeter is like,

15:04

it's kind of like a hybrid between, it's

15:06

a higher end like Cub Foods, but

15:08

it's not quite Whole Foods. It's got the

15:10

deli, it's got bars inside of them. You

15:12

can drink beer there. I'm a big Harris

15:14

Teeter guy. You can just like belly up

15:16

at the grocery store? Yeah, there's like a

15:19

bar inside Harris Teeter so that you can

15:21

belly up and have a tap, have a

15:23

beer before you go or finish your shopping.

15:25

It's phenomenal. Sometimes I get kind of, you

15:27

know, the anxiety starts to set in after

15:29

like 30 minutes of grocery shopping. I just

15:32

need a shot of something to finish out

15:34

the produce section. So I

15:36

mean he's gonna be automatically just one of

15:39

the most fun players to follow in the

15:41

offseason camps and training camp.

15:43

Kyrie Jackson. We should also

15:46

mention too, before we get to some of these other players, that

15:48

we're gonna transition to Vikings Vent

15:50

Line here. Kind of a draft recap

15:52

edition hosted by Declan, Vikings Vent

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Line. So if you want to jump in the room here, if you're

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hanging out with us, and by the way there are 2,000 of you

16:00

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And I also locally, I know this is mostly just here

16:33

in the Twin Cities, yesterday at about six o'clock, 6.15 on

16:35

494.35W, I saw also the JJ to JJ billboard. Oh,

16:41

that was awesome. That was well, so you guys will also see

16:43

in the metro area here in the Twin Cities, you might keep

16:45

your eyes peeled for the digital billboard of JJ to JJ. Yeah,

16:48

now, Justin Jefferson has made it clear

16:50

that there's only one JJ on the team, that

16:53

his nickname is Jets or

16:56

Jettas, right? And JJ

16:58

McCarthy is JJ, but the

17:00

fans still call Justin Jefferson JJ. So,

17:03

okay, the next pick was, so

17:06

they went Kyrie Jackson round four

17:08

with the 108, and

17:11

then they stuck at 177, a six round pick, and

17:16

they drafted offensive tackle Walter Ruse

17:18

from Oklahoma, six foot six, 322

17:20

pounds. He

17:23

was 162 on the consensus board, so

17:25

they got 15 slots of value

17:27

for him. He was, I

17:29

believe he was a four year starter at

17:32

Stanford, and then a starter at Oklahoma, so

17:34

he has either been a starter or played

17:36

pretty much the whole season for five

17:38

years in college, Stanford and

17:41

Oklahoma, exclusively left

17:43

tackle. Almost

17:45

like 98% of his snaps came

17:47

at left tackle. I did

17:49

catch a little bit of his press

17:52

conference, really impressive, sharp

17:54

dude on the press conference.

17:57

The media, it looks like Alec Lewis tweeted this out here. He

18:00

also talked to Vikings director of

18:02

college scouting Mike is it pronounced?

18:04

shalatin shalatin and He

18:07

said quote one of the things that Walter

18:09

ruse talked about was he doesn't want pancake

18:11

blocks He wants

18:13

waffle blocks. I Don't

18:15

know what that was he said he goes I don't know what

18:17

is that and he said waffles

18:20

or when you pancake someone and then

18:22

step on them Oh You

18:27

know what hey Waffles are so

18:29

people always people just assume pancakes are

18:31

just the go-to waffles are far superior

18:34

than pancakes. I Love

18:36

me the waffles. I think they're both got

18:38

their place Can I pull a judd and put

18:40

a third option in more red toast guy French?

18:42

Well French toast is superior that is that is

18:44

that's the Tom Brady. That's that's the goat. Okay.

18:47

That's the goat for me Yeah French

18:50

toast a little bit more work, too Yeah,

18:53

well, I mean you order it and someone else can do the work That's

18:56

true. So here's here's my question about

18:58

Walter ruse is is Okay,

19:01

he's a tackle. I did

19:03

send For no notice it

19:05

can he place him guard? He's like not

19:07

really he's a tackle. So here's

19:10

the question though He

19:12

comes in as a swing guy. I mean,

19:14

I'm guessing now he is up what he's

19:16

a six round pick But I'm guessing he

19:19

makes the roster Yeah, and

19:21

I wonder if there is an eye towards because

19:24

I mean he's started a lot He sounds like

19:26

he's a pretty impressive a smart guy,

19:28

which you know, the offensive line the

19:30

smarts are huge Okay, you got to

19:32

be intelligent. That's probably one of along

19:34

a quarterback the most important He seems

19:37

if he seems very intelligent. I think

19:39

he's got yeah I think he's got

19:41

a medical background as well that he

19:43

wants to get into that. But any

19:45

anyway, here's my question Is

19:48

this insurance if they a can't reach

19:51

an agreement with? Dara

19:53

saw which I'm not expecting. I don't

19:55

expect that won't take place. But more

19:57

importantly, you know Brian

20:00

I don't needle at this point in time as far as his career goes

20:02

as not a kid. You know, he's torn

20:04

as Achilles or at least

20:06

partially. I wonder if

20:08

this is a longer-term play as

20:11

some type of just flat-out insurance policy

20:14

as well. Yeah, I mean – Throwing it out

20:16

there. I don't think you – Six-round or so.

20:18

Yeah, I think it – well, I think it's

20:20

– I think you're like two steps ahead here. Like,

20:22

you draft him in the sixth round as a guy

20:24

that you hope can make the team first. Mm-hmm. And

20:27

you project some upside. And

20:30

if you were to lose Brian O'Neill and

20:32

or Christian Darrissov because of contract or injury

20:34

or age or whatever, I don't know

20:37

that – like, Walter Ruz is at the

20:39

top of their list right now because there's

20:42

a reason why he was a six-round pick. But

20:44

it is interesting. Again, the Vikings – they

20:46

went to some big-time colleges, and then they took

20:49

an FCS kid, which we'll get to. But

20:52

it's like it's a lot of Alabama,

20:54

Oregon, Stanford, just big-time Michigan.

20:56

Yep. He

20:59

allowed zero sacks at Oklahoma in

21:01

2023 and 481 pass block snaps. Yeah.

21:07

And that ain't FCS, man. That's

21:10

not matching on Tuesdays. That's

21:12

Oklahoma. So

21:15

that's pretty impressive right there. But there's also a reason

21:17

why he wasn't a second-round pick. There

21:20

was nine offensive linemen taken in the first

21:22

round. So we'll see. I

21:24

think step one, make the team. But,

21:27

yeah, he's a really interesting prospect. Yeah.

21:30

Any time you lose, like – and whether it's for a game

21:32

or two, which we have seen injuries to Darrissov that are –

21:34

that are – you know, could linger for a game. Like,

21:36

you just – you just need options because the moment

21:38

you lose one of your starting tackles, and especially in

21:40

the Vikings' case where they're lucky enough where they have

21:42

probably obviously two of the top, you know, 15 to

21:44

20 tackles in the NFL, I think having

21:47

one of those guys on the bench that can come in and be

21:49

your swing guy that isn't, you know, Rashad Hill could have –

21:51

has actually made a pretty decent career here. But

21:54

you feel probably a lot better about a guy who went

21:56

to Oklahoma, was a four-year starter, was really dang good, smart

21:58

as hell. I think just having

22:00

the luxury of having that as a security blanket does feel

22:02

pretty good. I think you got five

22:05

guys, five of the seven guys that they

22:07

drafted who are going to vie

22:09

for 53 man spots. And

22:12

I think it ends at the sixth round. So

22:15

you think the next two guys we're going to talk

22:17

about are probably just practice squad type of guys? Yeah.

22:21

Well, let's throw these guys out here. And I'll throw another shout

22:23

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22:29

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22:44

With the 230th pick, a seventh

22:46

round pick, the Vikings

22:48

took interior offensive lineman Michael Juergens

22:51

from Wake Forest. So

22:53

Thor did not have him ranked

22:56

in his 500 and

22:58

the consensus board had him 446. So

23:02

this was like an, this was a UDFA. This

23:06

is how you use your seventh round. To me,

23:08

this was a UDFA that they had as a priority UDFA

23:10

that they didn't want to compete with the rest of

23:12

the league. And they just, and they took him. Six

23:16

years in college, mostly

23:18

at center. And then he switched to left

23:20

guard last season at Wake

23:23

Forest and PFF loved him as a

23:25

left guard at Wake Forest. He only

23:27

allowed seven pressures in 450 plus

23:30

pass blocking snaps. So

23:32

and he's a big guy. He's six foot

23:34

four and a half 307 pounds,

23:38

which is pretty tall for a center, but you could like

23:40

as Alex Boom was a guard at six foot eight. So

23:42

you can be a tall guard. But

23:44

I wonder like, is he a guy that

23:47

they're looking at? I mean, like you said, he's fighting

23:49

for a roster spot as a seventh round pick, but

23:51

is he a guy that they, he

23:53

played mostly center until last year, but

23:56

maybe playing guard is what got him drafted. Is he a

23:58

guard? Is he an, is he just a. swing guy across

24:00

the middle, we don't really know yet. The scouting

24:02

report that the league produces basically said he's

24:04

a center, which because I thought the same

24:06

thing. And there's no question they had to

24:09

at least draft him with the thought that

24:11

he could be a swing guy. But

24:14

somewhat concerningly, the scouting report also

24:16

said he struggles

24:18

to hold up against like defensive tackles.

24:20

Like for his size, I would

24:23

think that he's a mauler, that he

24:25

just absolutely ends the careers

24:27

of defensive linemen. And he doesn't

24:30

even come close. Yeah, this

24:32

one was curious. The

24:36

only thing I can guess is that the

24:38

offensive line coach and coaches

24:41

liked his film and said,

24:44

we'll cut him, we'll re-sign him to the practice squad

24:46

and give us a year to work with him. That's

24:48

the only thing I could figure. Yeah, yeah,

24:50

the other interesting thing is, I'm

24:53

looking at his Razz breakdown, his

24:55

relative athletic score. So on

24:57

a zero to 10, he was a 7.62 Razz score, which is fine. It's

25:02

not a train wreck, it's not off the

25:04

charts. But he graded

25:06

really high in the vertical

25:08

and the broad jump. So

25:10

like his explosion grade, which

25:12

is a sector of the Razz score, was

25:14

very high. His

25:17

weight was a little like 307 when compared to some of

25:19

the other interior offensive linemen

25:22

was a little low and then his bench reps

25:24

were low only. I'm

25:27

throwing stones in the glass house here, only 22

25:29

bench reps. There's

25:31

some other guys that get into the 30s, there's

25:33

some guys that got to upper 30s on the

25:35

bench reps. So, I don't

25:38

know, a seventh

25:40

round pick with some potential to maybe

25:42

make the practice squad there. His size

25:44

would make you think that he dominated

25:46

the bench though. That's what I found

25:48

didn't make sense to me, was

25:51

this guy sounds like he should

25:53

be a bleep kicker. And it doesn't

25:55

sound like he is, but perhaps they've said, you know

25:58

what? We'll get him stronger. Yeah. And

26:00

then the last pick that the Vikings made

26:03

is one of the more interesting ones. It

26:06

was the seventh-rounder, number

26:08

232, defensive tackle Levi

26:10

Drake Rodriguez from Texas

26:12

A&M Commerce, which

26:14

is an FCS school. I

26:17

think a recent FCS school too. I was

26:19

looking up on Wikipedia. I believe they were Division

26:21

II as recently as a few years ago.

26:25

On the consensus big board, he was

26:27

376, so another guy that was

26:30

probably going to be a UDFA that had

26:32

some competition. The Vikings decided, now we're just

26:34

going to draft you 6'4", 290 pounds. I

26:39

happened to have the volume up on the

26:41

ESPN panel when they made this pick. And

26:45

they're just flying through a bunch of different things. And

26:48

they don't break down every single player in succession,

26:50

but they literally made a point to talk about

26:52

him for like two or three minutes. And

26:55

Field Yates and Mel Kuyper love this

26:57

pick for the Vikings. They

27:00

called him a major potential

27:02

sleeper, one of the best defensive linemen

27:04

in FCS. So again,

27:07

I don't know, a development guy for sure. Now

27:09

I read the Forno write-up I think that

27:12

he just posted like 20 minutes ago. And

27:15

he said, yeah, whatever. It's number

27:17

232. Doesn't love his explosiveness. But

27:20

the fact that Field Yates and Mel Kuyper Jr.

27:22

kind of stopped what they

27:25

were doing to say, oh, yes. Somebody

27:27

took our guy, Levi Drake Rodriguez. And Field

27:29

was even saying they were on a call

27:32

together at one point just kind

27:34

of testing each other on their draft knowledge. And

27:36

Field Yates was like throwing out a bunch of

27:38

facts about Levi Drake Rodriguez. And Mel Kuyper was

27:40

like matching him fact for fact or something. Interesting

27:44

pick with their last pick. A draft off? It

27:46

was a draft info off. Yeah, yeah. Oh,

27:48

man. Field Yates challenging Mel. Oh, God.

27:50

I bet that was good. I bet

27:52

that got competitive. So,

27:55

yeah. So that's the class. Levi Drake

27:57

Rodriguez, the defensive tackle from Texas A&M

27:59

Commerce. rounding it out. So

28:02

how do we feel? Of that class,

28:04

how many guys do you expect to

28:06

set foot on the field for the

28:09

regular season opener next season?

28:12

Like on the just having made the 53?

28:16

Yeah, and actually contribute. But contribute. Week

28:18

one, a week one impact. Week one

28:20

impact. They're playing. Week one, they play.

28:23

Well, week one impact, Dallas Turner.

28:26

I don't know that JJ McCarthy is a

28:28

week one impact. I agree

28:30

with that. So he's

28:32

on an individual performance plan, essentially,

28:34

where there's some certain boxes he

28:36

needs to check to develop to

28:38

be put into the fire. Does

28:41

it even feel like, and I love that

28:44

we're just having overreactions here on April 27,

28:46

still four and a half months from the season

28:48

opener. But as of now, would you expect JJ

28:50

McCarthy to be inactive for week one

28:53

behind Sam Darnold? It

28:55

would be maybe potentially Darnold and

28:57

like Mullins. Jaron

29:00

Hall or Mullins, and then they would deactivate.

29:02

If he's the, he'd probably be

29:04

the QB2. I think if he's inactive,

29:07

that actually means that they are disappointed.

29:09

I think he'd be QB2. OK.

29:12

I think he'd be QB2. But

29:14

this gets back to, I just

29:18

don't think Sam Darnold

29:21

should expect to see O'Connell much. Because

29:23

that individual plan is going to

29:25

include one tutor, and his name

29:27

is Kevin O'Connell. But

29:30

Josh McCown, don't you think Josh McCown

29:32

is going to be? I do, but

29:34

I'm just saying, it's very clear now

29:36

that Josh McCown and

29:38

Kevin O'Connell are going to go into

29:40

the lab with JJ. And

29:42

it's going to be, that's going

29:45

to be the key here. But I

29:47

think Dallas Turner, now Turner

29:49

might be a situational guy early. I

29:52

could see him being a third down guy and

29:54

not being a first and second down guy.

29:57

And Will Riker. to

30:00

me, makes the team. And

30:02

he'll be important. Like you can't put that down. I

30:05

just, I think he has far better chance to succeed

30:07

because he's going to get the support and it's not

30:09

going to be a gong show. How much fun is

30:11

it that we get a three month kicking battle now?

30:14

OTAs, mini camp, training camp.

30:17

We get a full on off season kicking battle.

30:19

Don't you think, are they going to cut the

30:22

XFL guy? I think they'll, no, I think they'll

30:24

start off with a battle, but I don't think

30:26

it's going to last that long. Do you think

30:28

the XFL guy makes it to training camp? Yes,

30:31

but I think he gets cut early.

30:34

Okay. Hey, by the way, I think we're getting

30:36

some of, um, some of the

30:38

UDFAs race trickling in for the Vikings.

30:40

These deals have been done for like

30:42

two days in some cases. Right. So,

30:45

uh, Bo Richter to the

30:47

Vikings with a P five guarantee and air

30:49

force linebacker per Aaron Wilson of NFL. That

30:51

is such a football name. Thor bring him

30:53

up. I thought it sounds

30:55

familiar. Yeah, but that is probably. Wait,

30:57

Richter, Bo Richter. No,

31:00

that was, um, that was, uh, what

31:02

was the offensive? Well, Bo Limmer, Bo Limmer

31:04

from Arkansas. Who

31:06

was kind of falling by the way. He was kind of falling today. That's

31:10

the ball. I remember. Bo

31:12

Richter is a great football name though. I just

31:14

wanted to confirm the, confirm the Vikings already have

31:16

at least one agreement on the UDFA. Yeah.

31:23

That'll be that. So that's going to be the next

31:25

24 hours where they're going to fill out. And by the

31:27

way, like they got Ivan Pace, who was one of

31:29

their best offensive players after the

31:31

draft was over. They gave him a big, in

31:34

some cases you can actually get a bigger

31:36

signing bonus as a UDFA, cause there's actually

31:38

a market for you than

31:40

you would if you were drafted. So

31:42

I think, by the way, back to Judd's question.

31:45

I agree. I do think the Alabama kicker, Riker,

31:47

I think he probably has the

31:49

edge cause you spent a draft pick on him. I

31:52

think Kyrie Jackson, the fact that he's 25 years old.

31:55

Six foot three at the very least

31:57

a special teamer that makes.

32:00

the team so I don't think

32:02

he like starts as an outside corner but

32:04

I think he's on the team and then we're gonna

32:06

have to see on like Walter Ruz he's not starting

32:08

for you unless there's an injury or something crazy happens

32:11

but right so yeah

32:14

I'm kind of shocked they didn't make a trade Quasi

32:17

loves training he just sat there and

32:19

made his picks you know what some

32:22

folks will complain about this draft they

32:24

traded too much they lost too many traffic they didn't

32:26

have enough traffic I'm not complaining about this draft I

32:29

would far rather I I'm

32:31

not a Spelman guy I don't need 17 names

32:35

you know I've with what

32:37

they accomplished in

32:40

the first round now ideally perfect world

32:42

you probably do have a second and

32:45

or at least third round pick right mm-hmm I'll

32:47

acknowledge that but with what

32:49

they accomplished in the first round which

32:52

I think is potentially absolutely enormous

32:55

it's huge I have

32:57

no problem with this draft I'm not gonna

32:59

complain about about this draft Dex just sent

33:01

us some more udfa information will raggots from

33:03

is he still si cover

33:06

the Vikings yep si icon and

33:09

this is interesting so UCLA Ed

33:11

Truscher Gabriel Murphy reportedly

33:15

now he was 111 on the

33:17

consensus board that's

33:19

weird and there's 200

33:21

what 50 some draft picks mm-hmm

33:24

and they get him as a

33:26

udfa Arkansas cornerback Dwight McLothern 189

33:29

on the consensus board they get

33:32

him as the udfa and

33:34

then the Air Force linebacker Bo

33:36

Richter Arizona defensive lineman Tyler Manoa

33:40

so it's always interesting when you see guys that are

33:42

like 111 150 on the consensus board and so they're

33:44

like 130 slots displaced as udfa's

33:52

but that's what people said about Ivan Pace

33:54

correctly they're like really this is

33:56

literally the best linebacker in college football I know

33:58

the positions kind of devalued into 2023

34:00

but there's not a spot in

34:02

in three days of drafting for this dude

34:05

and Yeah,

34:07

he's a starter. He's one of the one of the better

34:09

players they have on defense and Gabriel Murphy, by

34:11

the way What is that was the top? UDFA

34:14

per the consensus boards After

34:17

this all completed so he so the draft ended

34:19

mr. relevant was made the

34:21

top UDFA in terms of the consensus

34:23

board for Marifah son was Gabriel Murphy

34:25

so that Quasi so that's

34:28

an interesting one because what that

34:30

is and this goes back to Rick I think

34:32

is as well the Wilfs so

34:35

this shows what teams will spend and and what

34:37

teams don't like to spend Because

34:39

these guys when they're signed aren't subject to the

34:42

cap right because the cap is what the estimate

34:44

of the top 55 or

34:46

something like that so Because

34:49

of that you could actually just

34:51

spend on these guys and the

34:53

Vikings have always been open to

34:55

this but but I mean you

34:57

get a guy like pace or In

34:59

this case a guy like this kid

35:02

because of the fact that you can go

35:04

to him and say hey Here's here's what

35:06

the offer is where teams like the Bengals

35:08

will try and nickel and dime them Yep,

35:11

and I've heard to like just behind

35:13

the scenes some of

35:16

these UDFA conversations Literally

35:18

start before the draft That

35:21

if there's a kid that is maybe outside the

35:23

top 100 You

35:25

think he's probably gonna get drafted But just

35:27

in case like these conversations are being planted

35:29

the week leading up to Thursday and Friday

35:32

And that's why this stuff happens so fast where the

35:34

draft gets over and then boom There's like the draft

35:37

just ended a second ago

35:39

and the Vikings already have like six UDFA's

35:42

under contract you mean it's like free

35:44

agency used to be when we'd

35:46

be Emitted in to the signing period and

35:48

guys would sign and we'd be like how

35:50

did that happen? They just made the phone

35:52

call Yes. Yeah. Yep So

35:55

there it is And yeah, we'll

35:57

throw one more we got some people jumping in the room here

35:59

for Ventline with Declan,

36:02

[email protected]. If you

36:04

want to jump on Purple Daily here

36:07

and sling some post-draft takes, [email protected] and

36:09

Dex can get some

36:11

of you guys in. Any final thoughts,

36:13

Judd, from you here? Schedule

36:16

time. Schedule

36:18

time, we just move on. Turn the

36:20

page. Purple Daily does not take a

36:22

break. That does not take a breath.

36:25

What it does is. Prime time. And

36:27

Thursday, May whatever. I need to tell

36:29

you right now, look for

36:31

a Judd mock next week. Yes.

36:35

How about Tuesday? Tuesday would be great.

36:37

Okay, sure, yeah, whenever. You want to

36:39

mock the schedule Tuesday? I'll start tomorrow.

36:43

Because I got to formulate and then look at some of the days.

36:45

I was going to say, it's 48 hours, is that

36:47

like too much time where you're going to look at it, you're

36:49

going to make it, and there's too many additions and too many

36:52

situations where you have to change the schedule because you're going to

36:54

be sitting on it for 48 hours? No,

36:56

because I'll mock it again right

37:00

before it comes out. Oh, so we're going

37:02

to get two mocks. May

37:04

9th appears to be the projected date.

37:07

Is that Thursday? Yes. Because

37:09

I believe. That's typically what they've done. It is, I

37:11

believe if you look 2023, a

37:14

Thursday was May 13th, same thing. Because if you

37:16

go back a couple of years, it used to

37:18

come out in April before the draft. No,

37:21

not anymore. But I

37:23

mean, we got to pick an opener. We got

37:25

to pick prime time games. Because

37:29

now that you know, and now that McCarthy's

37:31

there, and who knows who's going to start

37:33

a, you know, there's a lot of unknowns

37:35

here. That Falcons game still looms large. The

37:37

question now is who starts, Pennix

37:40

or Cousins? Dude,

37:42

I'm telling you, man. It's

37:44

going to be, somebody else pointed out too. Who

37:48

the hell was it? Somebody, was

37:50

it Chris Sims? Somebody pointed out on Twitter

37:53

that, think about this, Cousins is going to be, he's

37:55

not going to be full steam for OTAs, because he's

37:57

coming back from the Achilles. Michael

38:00

panics is gonna be just he's gonna be taking the the

38:03

reps with the ones throwing piss missiles all

38:05

over the field building chemistry But

38:10

it's true and think about if cousins like

38:12

does scuffle Yeah, it's

38:14

gonna be hilarious. We want

38:16

panics. I mean it rolls

38:19

off