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Matthew Coller and Paul Hodowanic talk about the Minnesota Vikings finally beginning their season. What will Week 1 tell us about the Vikings? If something is going to hold the Packers back this year, what will it be? What advice would you give Kevin O'Connell heading into Week 1? What does the Vikings' wide-open offense tell us about the future of Kirk Cousins?

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Matthew Coller is joined by Tyler Dunne of GoLongTD.com to talk about his article about the Minnesota Vikings' new culture. He discusses Terence Newman's surprising comments about Mike Zimmer and the tangible impacts of Kevin O'Connell on the veteran players, in particular Kirk Cousins.

Read his article here

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New Vikings special teams coordinator Matt Daniels sits down with Matthew Coller to talk about how he ended up coaching special teams, what he thought his career path was going to be while he was at Duke, why he loves CJ Ham and why there was no punt-off before the team picked Ryan Wright.

Plus CBS Sports' Bryant McFadden gives insight into his podcast co-host Patrick Peterson and discusses how the old Steelers 3-4 defenses thrived and what the Vikings will gain from improvements in culture.

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Chad Graff covered the Vikings for several years and moved on to cover the New England Patriots. What is Bill Belichick like to cover? Will Mac Jones be better in the long run than Kirk Cousins? What will the biggest narratives of the Thanksgiving Day game between the Vikings and Patriots be?

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Matthew Coller talks about the Vikings trading for receiver Jalen Reagor. What are the realistic expectations of where he fits in? Kwesi Adofo-Mensah and Kevin O'Connell are making the roster their own with the last few days, including cutting Armon Watts and acquiring Ross Blacklock.

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Sports Illustrated's Will Ragatz joins Matthew Coller to break down an interesting cutdown day for the Minnesota Vikings in which they surprisingly released Armon Watts and traded for Ross Blacklock. They also cut most of the 2021 draft class, including Kellen Mond and Wyatt Davis and then left the door open with cap space for the possibility of adding someone else. Suh? Beckham? Who knows.

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PFF's Eric Eager joins Matthew Coller to make official final statements of the offseason. Matthew believes the Vikings' defense will be largely improved but Eric is skeptical. Eric thinks Kevin O'Connell can be coach of the year. Plus how Kirk Cousins' stats could go down but the team could be better and why Patrick Mahomes could be MVP.

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Matthew Coller talks about receiver Bisi Johnson tearing his ACL and what that means to the Vikings' depth at receiver and what they could do to replace him. Plus fan questions, including whether the Vikings should be looking to target Odell Beckham and spend the last few dollars that they have with the salary cap, also why the center position is an obsession of Vikings fans and how teams use numbers.

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Matthew Coller and Paul Hodowanic talk about the Minnesota Vikings' preseason contest with the Denver Broncos, a mildly key injury in Bisi Johnson, whether Kirk Cousins should have played after a bad practice this week and the incredible punting stylings of Ryan Wright.

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Matthew Coller and Sports Illustrated's Will Ragatz talk about Kirk Cousins having his roughest practice of training camp in which he threw multiple interceptions and was upset after practice. Also Kevin O'Connell responded to JC Tretter's accusation that the Vikings didn't call him back about their center position and the Vikings cut Jordan Berry. Plus Matthew and Will give their takes on the Manti Te'o Netflix documentary.

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