Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of Purple Insider, presented by Fandual, Matthew Collar here, as always.

And we got a lot to get to tonight, but also a lot of open space for questions, comments, thoughts, feelings on the Minnesota Vikings as they

get ready to play against the Baltimore Ravens. And just being out at TCO Performance Center today,

Kevin O'Connell talk, J.J. McCarthy, several players about an interesting subject, actually,

to do with Andrew Van Ginkle. But a general feeling around the team is, I think that a weight was really lifted by this

win against the Detroit Lions.

I mean, just, you know, talking with Blake Cashman today, listening to him.

And, you know, I don't think any players are ever going to come out and say,

we made it.

We're the best.

But what Blake Cashman said today really stood out to me.

He said, when we have all of our players out there, there's just a calm about us,

knowing that we can communicate with each other.

And I thought, yeah, that's really an

Andrew Van Ginkle comment because he's such a great high IQ guy, such a great communicator.

But I think that that goes across the roster when you have the offensive line that you

practiced together with. You have the defensive line, the linebackers, the Harrison

Smith, everybody on the field that you

practice day after day after day with through OTA's mini camp and so forth. And then you get

everybody almost back out on the field. It's like, oh yeah, we were good at this. And we thought

we were going to be good at this. It was a very confident team in training camp and you got a sense for that talking with Cashman today. So doing that little,

if we're doing a little vibe check as we often have that come up sometimes on the show. But

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