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

And for this, I have something very special for you guys.

I was recently a guest on a podcast with two writers from the Detroit News, Nolan Bianchi and Richard Silva.

And they brought me on their podcast in order to create a 2025 preseason all NFC North

team.

So we went through every single position, including kickers and punters.

That's all the way at the end.

Don't worry.

And decided who the best player at each position is along the entire NFC North. So we had a great conversation, really fun.

Those two guys are awesome. And so they sent me the audio over. So I could also bring it to my

audience as well. So very interested in your response

to these. And I hope you guys enjoy the conversation. So here is myself along with Nolan and

Richard. Thanks guys. We'll go position by position. We are going to use the number of slots that

the Associated Press has available when they do their

first team all pro voting. So for quarterback, we'll have one, running back two, wide receiver,

we'll have three and so forth. Let's start with quarterback because I think this is a really

interesting group. And I think when we did our position by position rankings a few weeks ago,

this was something that we're like, are we just drinking the Kool-Aid because we watched

Jared Gough finished fifth and MVP voting last year. But, um, you start with Jared Gough. You go

on to Caleb Williams and this is for 2025. And so you're looking at and saying, okay,

well, if I think Caleb Williams is going to be that guy under Ben Johnson, maybe he's your selection here.

In addition to we've got J.J. McCarthy from the Minnesota Vikings and Jordan Love of the Green Bay Packers, who I think people kind of underrate because he makes some really wacky plays sometimes.

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