Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of Purple Insider, Matthew Collar here.

And joining me on the show today, Josh Smith, who is the sports editor at the Frederick News Post in Maryland, a lifelong Minnesota Vikings fan, and the author of a very good article called Is This

Quarterback Deja Vu Vikings over at Purple Insider. Football. Great contribution to my

newsletter in which Josh, you had a chance to talk to some Vikings legends, Todd Stozy, Robert

Smith, and the main subject of the article was,

hey, this is deja vu, isn't it?

With the Vikings going from a veteran quarterback to an unproven quarterback and win now mode

where they've got a stacked roster for the OG Vikings fans, that sounds a lot like

the year 2000. So first of all,

welcome back to the show. Great to have you back. And I'm excited to talk about this article,

man. Yeah, thanks for having me. I think I pitched this to you a little while ago. And it was

largely after all of that Aaron Rogers talk was occurring.

And that really made me think back to the year 2000, which consequently is where I think the year this hat is from.

And it's sun stained and sweat stained and whatever.

But I do have a hat from back then.

Thought I would put that on.

But the more that occurred in the offseason in terms of the talk about the Vikings

quarterback situation, the more I kept thinking about the year 2000 and all of these different

variables that were so, so similar.

And the feeling that fans had, as I was a fan back then,

and the uncertainty heading into that season, the feeling was just so very similar to what we're all going through right now.

And it was a really interesting time for me to revisit because it was, I was right out

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