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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Defector's Drew Magary loves talking himself into the Vikings (and why the Vikings don't have a better backup QB)

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Football, Sports, Nfl Draft, Nfl, Vikings, Nfl Team, Minnesota

4.7958 Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Matthew Coller gets together with Drew Magary of Defector to talk about how he enjoys the process of talking himself into the Vikings and how he's doing it this year -- hint, it starts with the offensive line. Drew also reflects on the brief period of Jim Harbaugh possibilities and why he wonders if the new leaders are going to be able to do everything they need to do in order to win in the future. Plus a couple fan questions on the backup QB, Mattison trade potential and first-year head coaches. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

and Hello welcome to another episode of Purple Insider Matthew Collar here and welcome on to the show a guest who is a

0:29.0

Vikings fan and has just released his why your team sucks about the Minnesota Vikings on the defector,

0:36.5

Drew McGarry making his first ever appearance on the show, though we have chatted many, many times

0:42.1

about the Minnesota Vikings. How are you Drew? Thanks

0:44.3

for coming on buddy. This is 100% honest. There's nobody I like chatting about

0:49.4

the Vikings with than you like every time I text you like a mother

0:54.7

fuck Garrett Bradbury still here it's like you're the best person to check to

0:58.7

text that to again probably against your best interest but I do enjoy it

1:02.3

quite a bit.

1:03.0

Well, I appreciate that.

1:04.0

Here's what I want to talk about real quick is,

1:07.0

before I ask you what you're interested in with this team

1:10.0

because it has been the quietest camp that I've covered which is I keep trying to tempt the gods to change that but they haven't so far

1:17.6

Is can we reflect a little bit on your roller coaster of emotions during the Jim Harbaw era as Minnesota Vikings coach.

1:26.6

Because when we talk about the conversations we were having as that was going on, I feel like you sort of got all in on that idea and then

1:35.7

we're quickly off that train and all in on the Kevin O'Connell train that was that

1:41.0

was quite a time in our lives that we haven't really reflected on a whole lot.

1:45.0

Well, I, the reason I, so after Zimmer got fired, I got like a tip from someone else, not you, but they were looking at Haribaw.

1:55.2

This was back when like there were rumors that they were looking like sniffing around like

1:58.2

Lane Kiffinin and everyone was like, uh, holy shit.

2:01.4

And then, but then I got the Haribaw tip, which I could not corroborate, but you know,

2:05.6

obviously ended up becoming a public enemy. Anyway, and I had always thought, I don't actually

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