BID: Did Minnesota Vikings miss shot at WINNING Super Bowl THIS YEAR by letting Sam Darnold walk?
Purple Daily - A Minnesota Vikings Podcast
SKOR North | Hubbard Radio
4.5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
The Minnesota Vikings season has come to an end at 9-8 after beating the Green Bay Packers 16-3. Welcome to the offseason Minnesota Vikings fans. It appears all options are on the table for the Minnesota Vikings at QB heading into 2026. BUT, did the Minnesota Vikings miss their shot at winning a Super Bowl this year when they let Sam Darnold sign with Seattle? Leighton believes so, and he makes his point to the Before I Die crew. Who is Quarterbacking the Vikings in 2026? J.J. McCarthy, Mac Jones, Joe Burrow? All that and more!
0:00 - The Minnesota Vikings 2025 season is over.
3:15 – happy for Harrison Smith and C.J. Ham
5:00 – More J.J. McCarthy injury talk
12:30 – A quick look ahead to the NFL draft.
22:17 – Did Vikings miss shot at this years Super Bowl by not keeping Sam Darnold?
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| 0:00.0 | Purple Daily is Daily Vikings Entertainment. |
| 0:05.4 | You just want the Vikings to win a Super Bowl before we die. |
| 0:08.3 | I will ride with this group. |
| 0:09.8 | Seriously, man. |
| 0:11.8 | Please. |
| 0:12.7 | And away we go. |
| 0:15.6 | Well, good morning. Hello. Happy Monday. |
| 0:18.5 | Welcome back to reality, everybody. |
| 0:22.5 | This is Purple Daily's before I die. |
| 0:27.4 | Jesse Layton, Jason, here with you to break down your Minnesota Vikings, as always. |
| 0:32.8 | A 16-3 win over Green Bay, which normally we'd all be elated for, right? You beat the Packers, |
| 0:37.6 | end the season on a good note, but that's just it. The season ends right there. |
| 0:41.6 | Half a game back from a playoff spot because, of course, the Vikings are going to rattle off a bunch of wins to end a season where they're already out of playoff contention. |
| 0:46.5 | Finish 9 and 8, locked in at 18 for the draft. |
| 0:52.2 | Ooh, all right. |
| 0:53.7 | Jason, Layton, how are we feeling? Jason, let's get your feelings first. Open it up. I'm like kind of in denial, mainly because like we've known for, what was it, like three, four weeks the Vikings had been out of the playoffs. But it kind of hit me yesterday, pulling into the government center parking garage. |
| 1:11.4 | By the way, best parking garage for the Vikings games hit the Skyway cheat code. |
| 1:15.6 | That, oh man, this is really the last game of the season. |
| 1:18.9 | And then I get in and then there's CJ Ham crying on the Jumbotron in the tunnel. |
| 1:24.0 | And I'm like, great, you know what? |
| 1:25.3 | It's just going to be that type of day. |
| 1:27.5 | It is crazy to think that if that kick return isn't botched, |
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