and Hey everybody welcome to another episode of Purple Insider Matthew Coller here and it is time

once again for Monday morning Murph the first Monday morning Murph show breaking down a loss this season as the Minnesota Vikings dropped to five and one after losing late to the Detroit Lions.

So Murph you were in the house yesterday at US Bank Stadium.

Quite the atmosphere there. The fans were jacked up. I was tracking the decibel levels,

which reached ever so slightly higher than the Texans game but did not matter so much to Mr.

Jared Gough who stood in their time after time and completed big passes against the Vikings.

I want you to give me your big picture takeaway

and then we will break it down item by item.

So how did you walk out of that building yesterday?

I walked out superbly entertained.

I walked out reminding myself why it's sometimes good to be inside

stadiums to kind of get a feel for the energy and the vibe and as we talked about leading up to the week and I've been kind of contemplating since I can't remember a Vikings Lions game with stakes that high, emotions that high,

match-ups that close, and when you come away looking at the statistics were so almost identical from a total yardage standpoint

running game quarterback play turnovers penalties it was as an evenly

matched game as you could have hoped for in mid-October.

There were things to nitpick for the Vikings, things to nitpick for the Lions.

I think what ultimately made the difference was this is a battle-tested

lion's team that has already arrived, whereas the Vikings are ascending and you had a veteran quarterback Jared Gough who's who's playing at the highest

level probably that he has his entire career at least statistically and he walked into that cauldron of chaos and he wasn't going to be rattled

maybe as CJ Stroud was a month ago and and that's I think the difference I think it was

golf made more plays the lions high octane offense made just a little bit more

key plays than the Vikings vaunted defense and what you got was a again a

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