and Hey everybody welcome to another episode of purple insider math andar here and this is mostly a fans only episode if you

haven't seen or heard them before these are all questions that have either been

emailed to me or direct message to me and I run through them and I apologize if it's been a little while since we've done one of these episodes but now that there is no football for quite some time I'm to need some more questions folks so the best

way to send them is either hit me up on Twitter at Matthew collar my direct

messages are open or you could go to purple insider.com, send me an email there under the contact us.

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version of the mailbag as well. So I can't get enough of answering questions.

Feel free to send them there. We're going to start in a slightly different place and then I have a ton of

awesome questions from Vikings fans to get to.

Let us begin though with a pro football talk headline,

which says, do the Vikings truly want to keep Kirk cousins?

If so, they're handling the situation poorly.

And in the article, I will read from it now, Mike Florio writes, give me a second,

hold on, got to load the article up on my phone.

Mike Florio writes about the Viking situation with Kirk Cousins.

If they actually want him, the strategy seems to be that they want to see if others will pay before making their move.

If that's the case, it is a very bad strategy.

Everyone wants to feel wanted and valued.

Cousins by all appearances would like to stay, but if the Vikings aren't doing the things that would make him feel wanted,

giving cousins a chance to feel more wanted elsewhere could prompt cousins to choose a new team

over the Vikings. Now I'm not going to criticize speculation at all this very speculative in Mike Florio's estimation to assume what

Kirk Cousins would want or how he would view the way the Vikings have handled it, and yet I did

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