And the Hey everybody welcome to another episode of Purple Insider Matthew Collar here and

returning to the show very special guest from the wide left

newsletter now. Arif Hassan has gone the independent route. It's been really good for you and I'm really

happy to see that your articles are now getting shared and everything else, and you really are rolling along in the newsletter life as I have been for a couple years now, so I'm happy to see that and glad to have you back.

What's going on, man?

Not much, not much.

We were talking a little bit of Shop before, you know, between two newsletter creators, secret stuff that we can't tell everybody but you know it's

very very business no it's been going great it's I get to write what I want which is

nuts like what a what a crazy life that I get to do that and oh what's crazier is that people want to read it don't know what's wrong with them but I'll take it but yeah no it's it's been going great going independent having my own schedule and stuff like that. So yeah, I'm really happy.

Yeah, it's been such an interesting career journey for you to go from King of the blog boys to then working for the athletic and then pro football network and now go on your own independent route but for people like ourselves I think we have been very very

lucky to be able to do it this way in order to call our own shots so people should

absolutely go check it out. It's really good and

unedited work that is clean you could read the whole copy

I very much respect that about you that sometimes when you don't have an editor working for you it could be a little bit messy.

But I have questions for you. Now what's interesting with your newsletter is you still write a lot about the Vikings because you have a ton of Vikings

fans who follow you and then other stuff that comes up in your mind but you've been following the Vikings just as closely as you normally would have. So I want to begin with this. How do we go about fairly evaluating a front office and a head coach

when they have a backup quarterback playing professional football for them.

Even if that quarterback has had a little bit success,

I came out of the Bears game, a Reef being like,

I don't know, man, that's what happens.

And then I look around the league and I'm like Tim Boyle like oh look the jet you know the

jets are by rule the jets have to have four quarterbacks play per year and they have now

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