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Learn more at Liquiddeath.com. Insider. Hello, welcome to another episode of Purple Insider, Matthew Collar here and returning to the show, the most brilliant

defensive mind I know who's allowed to actually talk in public about defense.

Cody Alexander runs match quarters.

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a former football coach,

and just somebody that I try to consistently learn from all the time.

And when the Vikings defense finally hit rock bottom,

I thought there's only one man who can

explain to me what in the world is going on and that is Cody Alexander. What is

going on man? How are you? I'm doing great man. Thanks for having me on.

Yeah for sure.

Well, why don't we just start there?

What's happening here?

What is that?

The Vikings defense ranks 32nd in yardage.

And you look at the roster,

and I know that some of these guys aren't in their prime still but there's a lot of names on this roster there's a lot of good players here and there's even a lot of guys who are having good individual seasons and it just seems unfathomable that they could be 32nd, especially in the

NFC and when you look at, I'm sorry to rant here to start, but when you look at the

opposing quarterback schedule, it's not like you had John Elway, Montana, like you had Andy Dalton and you know, Mike White and Mac Jones like for this defense to be bleeding yardage the way that it is and of course the points are catching up with that.

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