This episode of Purple Insider is presented by Fandul.

Hey, everybody.

Welcome back to Radio Row.

Matthew Collar here, along with Bobby Peters, a staple of the show now these days in

Indianapolis, football coach, author of many leather bound books about NFL offenses.

Now, last year, the Vikings offense was so impressive that you wrote the Vikings 2024 offensive manual.

Let me ask you a question.

Bobby Peters, why didn't you write one this year about the Vikings offense?

Does something change?

Was it personal? No, it's just not. It's just not in the plans this year. Yeah. I just can't quite put my finger on it. No, obviously the Vikings offense last year. I mean, they did so many great things like especially in the dropback game like you and I've had many conversations about all the different five and seven step concepts that really allowed Darnold to push the ball down the field.

And, you know, unfortunately, I just haven't had time to dive into a ton of 2025 Vikings tape because I've been busy writing 500 pages on Ben Johnson and the Bears.

Well, also, there was the problem of the Vikings offense being bad.

And the Chicago offense is fascinating.

So I want to get into that momentarily and just how sustainable it is.

I also notice a very large book.

So I'm intrigued by what Ben Johnson has done there with Caleb Williams and how it relates

to the future of the Bears and Vikings, so forth.

But we got a little bit of a quarterback situation here, Bobby.

I know you're not new to the show

or new to quarterback discussions with me. But here's what I want you to compare and contrast.

Suppose the Vikings are looking for a starting quarterback that is not JJ McCarthy. I don't think

that's a stretch based on our conversations with them. Let's say that it came down to Kyler Murray and Derek Carr, where there are two options.

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