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Purple Insider's Matthew Coller told WCCO's Chad Hartman that edge Dallas Turner was one of the main reasons the Vikings beat the Green Bay Packers Sunday, turning in a dominant defensive performance. Is he on the verge of stardom for the Purple's defense?

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00:00Dallas Turner kind of reminded me of Vaughn Miller off the edge because it's not just that he's quick.
00:07It's that he's converted that quickness into power now, which is something I pointed out in the article.
00:14I mean, when he gets here, he's 21 years old, just barely 21.
00:17And his body was not really ready to dominate at the NFL level.
00:21But they saw all the tools at Alabama and they developed those over a couple of years.
00:26When it comes to someone like Turner, he just needed to develop his body.
00:30He just needed to get stronger and understand leverages and understand his opponents.
00:34And there's a pass rush where he just gets right into the chest of the offensive tackle and drives him
00:40directly back into Jordan Love and then hits Jordan Love, which he did six different times.
00:46I cannot remember the last time I've seen a pass rusher get six quarterback hits in a game.
00:52I mean, that certainly affected Jordan Love as the game went on.
00:55And then the times that Brian Flores was able to scheme him a good look, which was a few different
01:00times where just because of how pass protection has to work, it's the right play to allow the edge rusher
01:07to be free because you're making sure you're stopping the guys closest to the quarterback.
01:11The problem is when that guy has elite quickness, he's going to get to the quarterback really, really stupid fast.
01:18And that's exactly what Dallas Turner did.
01:20And also, Jordan Love's a great athlete.
01:22When he was trying to run away from Dallas Turner, he was getting caught.
01:25So you were seeing just special things from him.
01:29And of course, you know, we all got to say it.
01:31Look, you got to do it every single week to be a megastar in this league to justify the draft
01:36cap.
01:36But it's weird.
01:36I didn't see anybody talking about how much they gave up in the draft for him as he was completely
01:41dominating that game.
01:43I thought he was one of the main reasons that they won.
01:45I didn't see anybody talking about how much they gave up in the draft for him.
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