and Hey everybody welcome to another episode of purple, Matthew Collar here.

And joining the show, Drew McGarry from Defector.

And I know that Drew, based on text messages,

based on tweets, is through the roof about this year's off season for the

Minnesota Vikings. So Drew I want you to explain to me your feelings, your

emotions, your thoughts.

Over the last couple of weeks,

as we have transitioned in a seminal moment

in Vikings history out of the Kirk Cousins era

and into a new and uncharted universe of National Football League football for the Minnesota Vikings.

How you feeling, buddy?

First of all, I'm just so excited to talk to you about this because you got to understand I got nobody to talk to you about

the Vikings I was like I don't live in Minnesota anymore my family they could

get half a fuck about football like the only Viking they could probably name is Justin Jefferson

and that's only because I have like nine of his jerseys and like all it says is

Jefferson on the back so they may not even remember what his first name is except they do hear me shouting

Justin anytime he makes a catch when I'm watching down in the basement anyway when

when when the news broke on Monday, two Mondays ago, I don't know, the Kirk was not, that Kirk was going to sound with Atlanta, which we all was one of the things where I was like I'm pretty sure it's going to happen

I sense that it's going to happen, but I need it to happen so that I know that I'm I'm done with this

because you know Kirk's good quarterback you know a professional unless you ask him to get vaccinated like he's like and admired in the locker room you know Brian O'Neill loves him, Justin loves him, and it just appears to genuinely like him in a way that Stephen Diggs definitely didn't. So, you know, I, it was nice to have Kirk there, but it was never good enough and more of the point we have spent my entire lifetime trying to want a title with other people's quarterbacks

So Kirk farve Randall Cunningham, the list, Jim McMahon, and Warren, it just, it goes on and on and on and on.

There's never been a homegrown quarterback in my lifetime with the exception of Dante and Dante had issues like

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