Eric Eager breaks down the short and long-term ramifications of the Vikings' 5-1 start

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4.7 • 958 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Former PFF and current Sumer Sports data scientist/podcaster Eric Eager joins Matthew Coller to talk about what the numbers say about the current Minnesota Vikings team and whether they were smart in hindsight to go all-in on last offseason. Does a hot start change anything about what we expect from their future direction? -- For more of Matthew's Vikings coverage, head to purpleinsider.substack.com For bonus discussions, interview clips, and more videos, check out our YouTube channel! Interact with us on Twitter! @Purple_Insider Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Purple Insider presented by Liquid Death.
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0:12.0	at Liquid Death.com slash insider. Hello welcome to another episode of Purple Insider Matthew Coller here and joining me is Eric Eager who has now left
0:39.4	Pro Football Focus to join Sumer Sports to take over the National Football League and its analytics.
0:47.0	Errik, I'm very happy for you with this move from PFF to Sumer Sports and I am listening to your new show that you are doing
0:56.0	with Thomas Dimitrov, former NFL general manager.
0:59.4	But I have to say, and this is with respect to Ben Brown and Brad Spielberg
1:03.8	guys that have come on the show and I love them. The forecast will never be the
1:08.6	same without you and George together so I'm happy for you but I'm also a little sad because that's my that's my jogging show. So now I'm having to like split. It's like when your parents break up or something.
1:20.0	Well, and honestly, that's like how you know, and I don't know if George will listen to this, but like, it sort of is how it felt. It was sort of like a breakup, you know, you're both, you're both, you're both, you know, graduating going to college or something like that in different towns and it just wasn't going to work and I know we did a few shows after I announced and you know we did our final show and I got to say like I cried enough at the end of that show where I was
1:45.3	I was dead-ass supposed to go on the show that I do with Surin Petro the Red
1:49.6	Golden Bold show with him me and Jeff Chadea and I'm like guys I got to be like 10 minutes late here I'm
1:56.0	I'm trying I'm trying I'm trying to to get around this but yeah I mean I you know
2:01.5	it's certainly it was four and a half years and one Vikings play off appearance.
2:06.0	But I really enjoyed that
2:13.0	I'm really enjoying getting to learn from Thomas
2:16.0	and learn from some really sharp people who have both worked in the league,
2:20.0	who have worked outside the league as consultants, with Sumer, that was one of the reasons I really like. the was a genius in my estimation. Ben Brown's fantastic, Brad Spielberg
2:34.3	as amazing as your listeners know.
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