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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Cornerback stats and a 1993 edition of Random Old Games

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Sports, Fantasy Sports, Football

4.8907 Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Matthew Coller talks about some of the crazy bad stats that Vikings corners of the past had and whether the current crop of corners can improve on them and then talks about a Vikings-Lions game from 1993 that has reflections of 2023 with SumerSports' Eric Eager. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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So head on over to Oakley.com for more information today. Oh, Hey everybody welcome to another episode of Purple Insider Matthew Collar here and in just a couple of minutes Eric Eager

0:46.2

from Sumer Sports is going to join us. He selected his old game to talk about for our random old games series and it's a pretty fun

0:55.2

conversation we'll get to that momentarily but want to start the show with

0:59.4

our more than meets the eye stats focus presented by Oakley. Let's talk about

1:04.8

cornerbacks because there's a lot of questions in our fans only podcasts and our

1:09.6

YouTube streams about the Viking secondary particularly particularly who's going to win these

1:14.7

cornerback jobs and what it's going to look like. And the thing with

1:18.5

statistical production for corners is it's very hard to project and it also can be really hard to analyze because

1:26.8

there's a lot of context. So trying to guess what Byron Murphy Jr. and the youth movement of

1:32.2

Corners are going to do is really difficult but here's

1:36.0

one thing we can say I looked into some numbers for our more than meets the I

1:40.3

stats focus and I found you're never gonna believe this the last few years

1:45.6

for Vikings corners have been really really rough so outside of Patrick

1:51.4

Peterson when he was great last season and Duke Shelley who had his moments and had some big plays on the ball in limited duty.

1:58.0

The other two corners, Chamin Sullivan and Cam Dancer, they combined to be targeted 141 times

2:06.4

and there was 111 completions according to PFF.

2:10.0

That's almost 80% when targeting either one of those corners.

2:14.2

Opposing quarterbacks also gained 8.7 yards per attempt

2:18.4

when throwing at either one of those guys.

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