and Hello,

welcome to another episode of Purple Insider, Matthew Collar here and back for another season of

breaking down football is Brian Murphy a Monday morning Murf episode Brian the people were asking when

will Murf return and the answer is now and the answer is to break down a

gigantic victory for the Minnesota Vikings 23 to 7.

Sir, what is up?

Good to be back a little ghastly early though now,

now that I've got a real corporate job and have to do this at the crack of dawn so I apologize if we if we sound a little like we just rolled out of bed it's probably because we did

I'm like you know I was I kept trying to think of stuff to write during the off season and there was just nothing compelling.

It was like it's basically the same team. Okay, we'll see what the coach can do and when the bullets start flying as they say.

And that's what I wanted to see. I was impressed yesterday. You can't be come away from that and not be

impressed with how the team responded to the challenge of

opening up at home against the, you know, three-time division champs and your arch nemesis

Aaron Rogers, you know, O'Connell afforded himself well, the optics look good, he was aggressive,

he looked like he was having fun, everybody looked like they loved him. You know, the grumpy old boomer's gone,

you know, we've heard that ding dong song all off season.

But there definitely seemed to be a different vibe.

I wasn't there, but it felt like there was a different

vibe on the sideline and you know building up a pretty comfortable lead and coasting to

victory will help but you know the optics look good so far. Well it would have been uh... noticeable if I think they had come out and been a little flat or kind of looked like they were confused and we would have said well you know we got to give them time it's only week one and and things like that don't overreact and so forth that's what we would have said but instead they just came out and scored a touchdown on the first drive.

And it was like, well, that is certainly a way to set the tone.

And I think that that helped absolutely everybody, including the players.

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