This Is Downright LAUGHABLE...

This is downright laughable as the Vikings are eyeing a shocking player to provide further wide receiver depth that the team felt was needed, but has generated a bevy of embarrassment from fans, and Kevin O'Connell addresses the most underutilized player on the offensive side of the ball in trying to get him more involved. We're going to break down all of that in this episode of Vikings Digest, but first, you guys are crushing it lately with the subscriber count and new viewers, as we are just over 50 subscribers away from hitting our goal of 5,000 subs, and as well as getting closer to our other goal of eclipsing the subscriber count of Vikings Digest as they are just over or just under a thousand subscribers ahead of us right now and it'd be really cool to jump ahead of them before the Vikings come out of their bye week so if you're part of the 90% of viewers who are not yet subscribed you want to help us reach that goal make sure to hit that subscribe button and the bell icon so you don't miss any of the episodes when they drop and with that let's hop right into the first topic of the video which is the Vikings workout Juju Smith-Schuster as Tom Pelissero reported this earlier today, and I just absolutely was laughing my butt off because I couldn't believe this was real. I thought it was a joke, honestly, when I first saw the tweets about it, and then I saw, oh wait, this is Tom Pelissero reporting this, so this is actually real, and I can't believe the Vikings are doing this, not because I think it would be a great acquisition, but I think that this is just absolutely hysterical, that you're bringing in a guy for a workout that is known more for dancing on opposing teams' logos than scoring touchdowns. If you guys missed our short that we posted earlier today reacting to the news, you can go check that out on the channel. It was a little more heated, but I think that this is just hysterical that Nolan Teasley somehow thinks that Juju Smith-Schuster is an answer at wide receiver four, battling it out with Odell Beckham Jr. to see who is going to make it. And again, I think that at best, Juju is going to be a practice squad guy because again, when you look at his stats, this is a guy that is clearly past his prime and doesn't really have too much more to contribute. He had some really good seasons early on, and he was able to kind of have some contributions in Kansas City, but again, this isn't a guy that's going to come in here and do anything special. When you look at his playoff stats as well, kind of rode the Kansas City Chiefs coattails to a Super Bowl as well, and didn't necessarily have to do much in the playoffs when, again, in Pittsburgh, it was the only time that he really was able to have any playoff performances. But again, why are you even considering this? Again, even if he has some gas left in the tank or has some talent left, you really want take a chance on a guy that has this much kind of media stuff around him where there's going to be a whole narrative about it and again we don't want Minnesota we don't want people talking about the Minnesota Vikings for the wrong reasons we want people to be talking about the best aspects of it and bringing in a guy who's good for the team bringing a guy like this who is known for not necessarily the best of things on and off the field i don't necessarily think this is a smart move for the Vikings and i really hope this doesn't go any further than a workout again i I don't think that Vikings necessarily need to make this move because you have Juwan Jennings in there who hopefully will get involved more. You have Deshaun Jones who made a really good play who I thought was going to get released by the Vikings because of the whole suspension thing. But he made a really good play on Sunday as well, getting involved. Then, of course, you've got OBJ who's trying to get thrown into the mix there and have a rejuvenation with his career. So again, it doesn't necessarily make sense as to why the Vikings are bringing in a guy like Juju Smith-Schuster. But hey, gives us something to talk about and something to laugh about. it's just me hoping that they don't actually go out and sign this guy and just bring him in here just to give him a little bit of false hope because i absolutely think this would be a terrible move for the Vikings and just a waste of money if we're being honest this guy like this probably bring maybe a league minimum i think he's a veteran so you kind of only have to pay about a million dollars but again that million dollars feels like it could be used towards something else i feel like that would be a little bit better maybe some stuff for the equipment room or some stuff within the facility or stuff for the stadium for that matter just reinvest that million dollars somewhere else you don't need to go and get Juju Smith-Schuster but let us know your guys's thoughts down in the comments below if I'm being a little bit too reactionary about this or if you absolutely agree so that's going to take us into the second topic of the day which is getting Jennings involved as Kevin O'Connell was asked about the wide receiver depth in the wide receiver room as well saying that the one thing that jumps out right now we've got some versatility and depth inside that room and when asked about Juwan Jennings said what I would say about Juwan is that he has done so many things that maybe don't show up in the stat sheet that's impacted us really being able to be a little bit more effective with running the ball even though we dealt with some injuries at that running back position tight end position and o-line position Juwan has played a big role in that and again this is almost similar to something like a Josh Oliver where Josh Oliver is a tight end but he's not necessarily a pass catching tight end he's a run blocking tight end probably the best in football at doing it we don't have him for the rest of the season I know but this is a fair comparison in the sense that what he contributes to this team isn't necessarily going to show up on the stat sheet and I know as a wide receiver your job is to show up on the stat sheet I totally agree with that but sometimes we see some wide receivers that are much better at being run blockers than they are pass catchers again they're just playing a position where genetics didn't give them a big enough body to play offensive line but they can utilize that as well as catching the ball when they need to for being a wide receiver I'm not saying Juwan Jennings has stone hands by any means I think that they just have not found a way to get him involved in the right way and I think it is coming but at least he is contributing in the run game in Minnesota being able to run at a very high clip and now suddenly very effectively and hopefully even more effectively once Jordan Mason comes back from injury after the bye but Kevin O'Connell did continue on Juwan Jennings saying I do believe opportunities will come and I do believe a play style standpoint and a mentality standpoint it's going to be a positive having him in that huddle and still early on in the season i know as a coaching staff we'll use this week to try and find different ways to get him a little bit more activated and we know that he has been busy with Minnesota Vikings because he still has even though his stats are really not very good from a receiving standpoint five targets two receptions nine yards he has run 111 routes which is the second most routes run by a wide receiver on the Vikings this entire season so he's not like he's not getting involved or isn't out there getting reps he's getting a lot of reps out there he's running a lot of routes it's just he's either not there on the reads or just isn't getting open i don't know what it is but i'm really hoping that Kyler Murray can kind of develop a little bit more of a connection with him and again this is going to be a slow building process we just saw on sunday that hey now he's finally getting that connection with Justin Jefferson where he trusts him to throw it in hey if it's triple coverage down there screw it Jet is down there i can just throw it in his vicinity he's going to come down with it even that catch along the sideline that one-handed catch he saw he was covered basically perfectly but you know Justin Jefferson has the best hands in the NFL so all you got to do throw it up near where his hands can reach it boom he's going to come down with it so now you got that connection building a little bit more he already started building it with Addison while Jefferson was out for a bit you already know he's got that connection with Parkinson and now we have the bye week for him to develop that a little bit further with Juwan Jennings as far as a wide receiver depth with coming back off the bye Kevin O'Connell was saying that it's going to be huge for them as he was saying that I think as a whole right now we feel pretty good about the depth and just different skill sets the special teams aspect that we've seen from that group and then also knowing we should be in a good position to have a 100% Justin Jefferson and Jordan Addison back in the lineup as well which will be huge for us and of course again that'll also be the biggest thing for this Vikings offense going forward is having Justin Jefferson having Jordan Addison hitting TJ Hockenson back as well because we found out that okay he's just got a concussion we're going to be good on that got a video coming on that as well to bring to you guys as well as all the stuff that Kevin O'Connell covered in his presser because he was up there for about 25 minutes today and a lot of that was coach speak but he did have a lot of gems in there like talking about the Juwan Jennings side of things I really do hope Juwan Jennings is able to get more involved because I think he's being very severely underutilized in Minnesota this is a guy that last year was asked to step into a wide receiver one role in San Francisco and was really good at it and Minnesota runs a very similar kind of offense then Kyle Shanahan is running in San Francisco because him and Kevin O'Connell come from that Sean McVay coaching tree naturally they are going to adapt a lot of those kind of play schemes and personalities well I mean Sean McVay came from Kyle Shanahan but you guys know what I mean in that sense but I think with you bringing Juwan Jennings in here you know that he can run in this kind of offense and can contribute as well so now it's just a matter of getting him those opportunities building that connection with Kyler Murray and that trust so that Kyler Murray can throw it up near where his area is at and force it and not force it but slip it into those kind of tight coverages and make sure that he's getting involved in getting those passes and opening up this Vikings offense even more because we are seeing the stepping stones in the beginnings of what this offense offense for the Vikings is supposed to look like and if it's getting like this more and more every week we could be seeing the late season form of this Vikings looking the best that it will be all year and that is exactly the right time that you want it to happen as you're gearing up for a postseason run and have the team fully clicking and fully healthy and that is hopefully what the Vikings can do here let us know your guys's thoughts down in the comments below as that's going to do it for this episode of Vikings Digest again thank you guys so much for liking subscribing hitting that bell icon so you don't miss the episodes when they drop now I've been your host Griffin take care