Hey, everybody, welcome into another episode of Purple Insider, presented by Fandul,

Matthew Collar here, and fresh off of two weeks overseas with the Minnesota Vikings,

Dane Mizatani of the Pioneer Press.

And we're going to have a little bit of kick our heels up here on the bye week and have a bigger picture conversation.

It will also include the quarterback situation, but we've just spent a lot of time on that.

So I want to look at a little more bigger picture of the decisions that this team made in the off

season and how they have reflected onto the season and where a lot of those things are going.

But first, Dane, I'd love to hear about the trip.

Did you have a good time?

Did you see Big Ben and things of that nature?

Or like, what, uh, what'd you do over there? Yeah, well, my paper

decided at the last minute that originally we're supposed to go to just London. And three or four

days before the team was leaving for Dublin, upper management at the paper said, hey, we should go to

Dublin too. And I was like, okay, we talked about this in June and, and we hey, we should go to Dublin too.

And I was like, okay, we talked about this in June and we decided not to. But long story short, go to Dublin on Saturday.

And I didn't really feel settled until I got to London.

It was just felt like kind of rapid fire, hamster wheel throughout Dublin.

I did manage to get to a pub with Alec Lewis from the Athletic, have a couple of Guinness,

enjoyed that, but really enjoyed the experience in London.

I thought it was unique to kind of see it firsthand, to kind of understand, like, in my head,

I understood that they didn't stay in London.

But until you're on a bus, an hour and a half up north on the countryside, an hour and a half

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