Ben Leber's OFFICIAL Vikings/Packers Week 1 Preview

And Ben, we've spent the whole offseason talking about the Kyler Murray thing from this macro level.

Like, is it going to work? Is this big Kyler Murray experience going to work? But now we're on the micro level of a singular game.

And something we haven't talked a lot about is the first singular game.

He's going to be going against somebody who's going to know him better than anyone he will see all year long in Jonathan Gannon.

Do you you've watched a bunch of stuff now.

Do you have any idea how they're going to come at Kyler? And are you worried about that?

I mean, you can't think of a worse possible defensive coordinator to go against in your first start when you're learning a new offense with a new team.

Are you kidding me on primetime TV? Yeah, just as you pointed out, Jonathan Gannon, his former head coach with the Arizona Cardinals.

knows all of his strengths and all of his weaknesses.

He knows where all the bones are buried.

He knows how to get after him.

He knows where his flaws are in the passing game, how he diagnoses plays.

Obviously, there's going to be a KOC influence, but...

You know, when you're around a guy that long, you're going to know what makes him tick.

So there's a couple of ways to think about this.

First and foremost, I do think that a Jonathan Gannon run defense pre-snap is going to look very similar to Brian Flores.

A lot of similarities in just the structure of their defense.

So you are going to see a lot of, you're going to see three safeties, which is what B flow does.

Yeah.

You're going to see three safeties.

He's predominantly more of a four, three front on base downs, but then he'll go into a three, four look, which is five down lineman on third downs and sort of got to have a place.

And that'll look very similar to Brian Flores as well.

A lot of pre-snap disguise.

He really wants to mess with you on trying to understand coverages and stuff like that, much like B-Flow.

The difference is...