and Hey everybody welcome to another episode of Purple Insider Matthew Collar here and Brian Murphy joins the show for the first time since the end of the season and we agreed at the end of the year, Murf,

that when there was a quarterback decision,

you would be back.

You would be running kids to hockey practice,

living that dead life.

But now we need your context, commentary you wrote a brilliant article at purple insider.com people should go and check that out about

Kirk cousins exiting stage left to the Atlanta Falcons where he will be able to buy the largest

house in the entire state of Georgia five times. So good for him. He got his money, that's, you know, what he was looking for is what the dollars represented and the dollars represented that the Atlanta Falcons were really into Kirk Cousins more than the Minnesota Vikings. So give me your

reaction first to cousins leaving the Vikings signing Sam

Donald and then I want to dive into a little bit of reflection with you about

Cousin's time in Minnesota and how we're going to think of it long term because things

have been coming fast and furious so much over the last two days that we haven't pulled back and said wait a minute what just happened here what just transpired with Kirk cousins leaving so your reaction to his decision and where the Vikings stand now?

I mean it really was the Atlanta Falcons and owner Arthur Blank really made it an easy decision for cousins and an even easier decision for Koizio

Dofomensa and the entire Vikings regime because not only was it, you know, 180 million,

a hundred million guaranteed, which was about 10 over some of the numbers that we had seen bandied about but it was the four years

the Vikings were in no position to be handing a 30 soon to be 36 year old coming off an Achilles

Already had a very underwhelming productive but underwhelming ultimately six year rain here to give him four years.

I mean, they're not going to pay a quarterback until he's 40.

Now, the Falcons may not either, but that is a possibility.

And it seemed like that, you know, the chatter at the combine, just even with their coaching change,

there seemed to be a sense that the Falcons are one quarterback away from really making a run in the sort of decidedly weak NFC south.

And that's the beauty of free agency.

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