and Oh. Welcome to another episode of Purple Insider Matthew Collar here and it is a Monday

morning Murph with Brian Murphy.

What is going on Brian?

Are you celebrating victory Monday

after a magical performance at the end

by the Minnesota Vikings?

No, I'm just, I'm trying to decipher the the dripping cynicism coming through from all my peeps back in Detroit who sadly have been guzzling a little bit of Honolulu blue and silver

Kool-Aid over the last couple weeks and it you know it's not it's not the

bitter same old lions screw up at the end. I think it's more it's more anger because it's not it wasn't so much

keystone cops follies as much as it was a cerebral decision by their coach or an

uncerebral decision by their coach to not go for it on fourth down there

when they when he had been pretty aggressive and successful doing that throughout the day.

That's what I've been kind of swiping through this morning or even last night after the game was

there's more there's an anger more than there is sort of a resignation just because of that which may be a good thing you know maybe that that means that your team is growing up a little bit more when you can question an NFL coach's decision on its merits like a lot of

fan bases do every Sunday evening, Monday morning rather than just knowing, you know,

you stumbled into a loss because you're cursed forever

as an awful franchise.

Yeah, I saw a headline in the athletic

that said,

young lions still learning how to win,

and I was like, no, that's not what happened.

That's not what happened.

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