I'm Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of Purple Insider, Matthew Collar here.

And returning to the show, Aaron Schatz of DVOA fame, which has been coming up a lot lately on the show.

FDN Fantasy is where you could find DVOA these days.

Of course, everyone knows you from the football outsiders days as well.

Aaron, welcome to the show.

I've probably cited DVOA this year as much as any, maybe 2022,

but in an opposite way to try to convince Vikings fans

not to jump off the ship when they only beat the Jaguars 12 to 7. So how are you?

Good, good. Yeah. I mean, we've been high on the Vikings all year. Our numbers have been very

high on the Vikings. And the big reason is the defense. We have the

defense, I think, higher than what, like, EPA has, because I've had the Vikings defense number one

pretty much all year. And early on, they were, early on, they were, like, historically good. Now,

they're just, like, run-of-the-mill best defense in the league.

But, you know, the top defenses always regress when you get into the second half of the season.

I think I looked at one point and the top 40 defenses through whatever week all got worse in the second half of the season.

Like, it's just defense is just less consistent than offense.

Right.

Kind of always in forever, which I think is one of the reasons that people are more skeptical about this is when it's funny because when you used to win with defense like in the early 2000s we'd be like

all right bears ravens win with defense Pittsburgh but now if you win with defense nobody

likes that they want the quarterback the offense how valuable is it to win with a great defense

I mean it's listen you can win with either offense or defense.

The thing is just that the defense is less predictable. I think there's, I think there's a

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