Caleb Williams' magic runs out, Flores gets a second interview

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

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🗓️ 19 January 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Matthew Coller is joined by Manny Hill to react to another wild day of playoff action. Caleb Williams and the Bears almost pulled off a late comeback but the Rams outlast Chicago to advance to the NFC Championship game. The Patriots advance in a turnover-filled game on the AFC side. Also, Brian Flores is getting a second interview with the Steelers, what does that signal for his chances of returning to Minnesota? The Purple Insider podcast is brought to you by FanDuel. Also, check out our sponsor HIMS at https://hims.com/purpleinsider Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of Purple Insider, Matthew Collar here, still on the road,
0:11.2	but Manny Hill is nice enough to join me for a recap of an absolutely insane day that saw the Los Angeles Rams advance, just as it was supposed to happen,
0:25.4	Mr. Hill, for them to advance to the NFC championship and a meltdown from C.J. Stroud,
0:31.8	the Texans against the New England Patriots. Of course, the show always presented by our friends at Fandool, who have their work cut out,
0:41.0	figuring out odds for next weekend's football games as Jared Stidham is going to take on
0:46.8	Drake May and then it's Sam Darnold v. Matthew Stafford again.
0:51.8	Let's start Manny with, let's go in reverse of the day and just start
0:57.7	with overtime, where it seemed like DJ Moore may have run either the wrong route or stopped
1:04.9	running on his route to cause an interception by Caleb Williams. And that comes on the heels of one of the most insane
1:13.5	throws. I'm going to say in NFL history by Caleb Williams to find Cole Komet in the back
1:19.7	of the end zone for a touchdown where the ball went 45 yards in the air off his back foot.
1:25.5	Take me through what you were thinking, feeling, et cetera, at the end of that
1:31.4	game and into overtime as it looked like the Chicago Bears were going to do it again.
1:35.8	It was incredible. The throw to tie it kind of reminded me of the Iron Bowl Jalen Milrow a couple of years ago hitting Isaiah Bond
1:46.9	in Auburn to and that was like a fourth and 25 or something or fourth in goal from the 25
1:53.0	because Alabama had gotten backed up or something like that but it was the same kind of thing it was
1:58.4	just just heave it to the back quarter in the end zone and and see what
2:03.3	happens you know it's just it's only your season on the line you know what the hell um it it it was
2:10.1	incredible it's just an incredible moment um and to it gave us more football which was which was
2:16.1	awesome because uh it was such a compelling game.
2:20.2	And the way that the Los Angeles Rams were able to kind of persevere, they did not play well.
2:28.6	They didn't always run the ball with effectiveness.
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