Hey, everybody. Welcome into another episode of Purple Insider, presented by Fandul.

Matthew Collar here, along with Dave Campbell of the Associated Press.

And we figured that since we remained in the United States of America through this week,

that we would do a little porch pod.

We're in the backyard, actually, because there's a little construction on the street,

but it is an absolutely beautiful Minnesota fall morning.

This is as good as it gets for fall, Dave.

I played golf yesterday.

We're out here.

It's like 72 degrees in the morning.

It's wonderful yeah although

i'm gonna uh play my minnesota card right now and i'll say it might just be a little too warm

yeah and then uh what are we we we're really having like a conversation by the porch in the

morning like neighbors well it could be a little too warm. Well, I don't know.

You won't want to say that in January, Dave.

I know, exactly.

You know what's coming soon.

Well, one of my favorite things to do with you, Dave, when we get together, is talk

about this team's history.

You've covered the team since what year?

2000, I guess 2001 being my first full season. I mean, yeah, we're talking about a, if you're doing the math at home, that's a quarter century. Quarter century. And I followed them closely growing up in the 80s and 90s, too. Well, you could do a lot worse for the jobs than spending a quarter century talking

about football and writing about football. Very true. So I want to go through the situation that we're in,

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