Are Andre Patterson and Eric Kendricks just gassing up their teammate, or is there something to their comments? We'll talk about the strange COVID-19 false positive incident of Sunday, and spend the show breaking down Shamar Stephen. Patterson and Kendricks have spent a lot of breath on defending Stephen's "invisible" contributions, but we can look at the tape to see if they show up. And while there's some merit to defensive tackles opening things up for linebackers, that doesn't comprise the whole of their duties.

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The false COVID positives story: https://www.boston.com/sports/nfl/2020/08/23/nfl-has-77-apparently-false-positive-covid-19-tests-from-lab

Kendricks and Patterson's comments: https://www.vikings.com/news/shamar-stephen-training-camp-impact-felt-far-beyond-stat-sheet

Shamar Stephen vs Detroit: https://twitter.com/LukeBraunNFL/status/1297741862640291841

Shamar Stephen vs San Francisco: https://twitter.com/LukeBraunNFL/status/1297768176906690560

What's Happening To Locked On NFL? https://twitter.com/stefondiggs/status/1100822121884934145

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