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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Assessing the Vikings playoff race after an Eagles win over Washington

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Nfl Draft, Football, Nfl Team, Vikings, Nfl, Sports, Minnesota

4.7958 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Matthew Coller and former Viking Jeremiah Sirles talk about how game wreckers like Aaron Donald and Akiem Hicks offer particularly difficult challenges for the Vikings offense and what they can do to slow down Donald, if possible. Does Kirk Cousins have control of the protection assignments? Jeremiah talk about where the Vikings stand in the playoff race and whether they should consider yet another offensive line adjustment. Plus if there is a coaching change, what type of coach would he be looking for? Get your tickets at Tickpick.com/insider Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I want to remind you before we get started, the TicPIC is the exclusive ticketing partner of Purple

0:04.8

Insider and the Blue Wire Network. TicPIC should be your first choice to buy football tickets

0:09.4

because they save fans money by never charging service fees ever. Oh, Welcome to another episode of Purple Insider. Yes, it is Tuesday morning left guard. It might be Thursday by the time you're hearing this,

0:45.8

Wednesday late afternoon, I don't know, but you can actually blame schedule this time.

0:51.1

Maybe not so much other times but Monday night football throws everything off.

0:55.3

So you go from a Thursday to a Monday and my brain is just scrambled at the moment. But

1:00.7

Jeremiah Searles is here to unscramble it as, you know, I watched the game back and try to figure out how a guard could get abused as much as Mason Cole did and actually win that football game.

1:14.0

I mean, we won that football game because the Bears wanted to lose it more than the Vikings

1:20.0

wanted to actually win it.

1:22.0

I mean, when you watch that game and I watched it back again today too and wanted to just rip my eyeballs out because it is the worst. It was the worst NFL game to date of this season. You cannot point to a worse game than that as far as the

1:34.9

turnovers, the penalties, the refs, just making things up at all times whenever they wanted to.

1:41.6

I mean, all around just a atrocious football game but Mason Cole buddy his

1:46.3

arms just a little too short he's just a little too squatty and a Kim Hicks is

1:50.3

just a little bit too much of a grizzly bear to you put those two next to each other

1:54.2

and a team Hicks is going to win and he only played like 40% of the snaps too which was

1:58.4

what was terrifying if that was a healthy akem Hicks coming off like playing 90% of the snaps I think that game would have been

2:05.2

completely different you mean like maybe a week 18 when he's up to full health as opposed

2:11.0

to just coming off an injury well Well, we won't get ahead of ourselves.

2:14.4

But there was a play in particular

2:16.7

where Hicks didn't even do anything.

2:19.2

He just reached his arms out and they were way too far.

2:22.1

And it was like a child where you put your hand on their head and they just waved their arms and then he just stood there with his arms out holding Mason Cole like okay you stay right there and then Delvin Cook came like okay now I'm gonna move you over here and tackle Delvin Cook.

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