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

Collar along with Jonathan Harrison here and we had to pull it out.

A special night's edition of Hot Routes.

We've got some questions to throw out there,

but of course we want your comments

as well in the comments section and we'll throw those on the screen and read those throughout the show but so much happened today even after my live stream earlier where we broke down the release of Adam Thielen, we've got

camp dancer being let go, the bears making a trade. How about the

president of the Packers just saying it? Just saying that you're saying it.

Just reporting it, you might as well just say it.

And then we still are allowed at this moment

to speculate about what comes next

because the Vikings have not yet created quite enough cap space to get cap

compliance and there are rumors of other things going on potentially in the next coming days.

So why don't we jump right into this thing, Jonathan,

and we will try to cover all of today's news

and how it impacts the Minnesota Vikings. I'm working on an article right now about how this could be kind of the day that we go back to where the

NFC North entirely changed. This date, March 10th, 2023,

because of that trade, we could go back,

but not only that, because Adam Thielen moves on

and that marks an end of an era of the Vikings having basically the best

wide receiver duo in the NFL for many years.

So let's start though with that Bears trade and we'll get into Cam Dancer in just a minute but

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