And the Hello welcome to another episode of Purple Insider Matthew Collar here along with

intern Haley English. She does not write like an intern if you have read any of

her work so far and we got to dive into the Justin Jefferson piece

that you did that shows his value versus a lot of NFL quarterbacks really

interesting data-driven stuff.

But just before we were set to record, we got a little news from Adam Schefter,

also Ben Gesseling at the Star Tribune, reporting the same thing that people should

prepare themselves for the possibility of Adam Thielen not being a Minnesota Viking

Haley first of all I have to give credit to the way Adam Schefter worded his report is like they've kind of been

working on a restructure the contract but maybe if you have a 19 journey you should

maybe get out the tape where they cover the back of the name and write in the new name.

Like you might not be here.

I would love to hear your thoughts looking at the numbers just about Adam Thielen and whether it is the right move

for the Minnesota Vikings to move on assuming that they can't get some sort of

different contract done. Yeah definitely. I mean Adam Thielen, he was my fantasy rock for like the 20-20 season. He won me my fantasy championship along with Stefan Bigg so like they were my two players who would just like have been my

fantasy stars but obviously clear decline in the past couple of years. His PFF grade has declined by nearly

ten points from 87 to now at 65 in the 2022 season, as well as his EPA, total EPA for the season has declined.

It was 46 in 2020, then it went to 24.7 in 2021.

And now this past season was only 10.4.

And we'll talk about how Justin Jefferson fits in with that,

but yeah, he's clearly not really doing

as part of the Vikings anymore and I think they should

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