and Hey everybody welcome to another episode of purple insider Matthew Collar here inside the Indiana Convention Center and look what is if you're listening you can't see it but if you're watching on YouTube you can't it's Eric Eager of sumer sports five straight years in a row we have gotten

together well there's been combines to have a podcast at the NFL combine so it is

great to see you I hope you're having a good time. I had to wait for you to do another interview. So you're doing media tours at the Super Bowl media tours here. And I guess Thomas Dimitroof was combing his hair in the mirror and couldn't join you on this one or what what happened?

Well, you know, I have been somewhat of a disappointment for people here, but you are one of my best friends and so I made time for you as I want to do but I was I was

was a disappointment I was late and then I went on a different show but I'm here now and then that's all that matters.

Yeah, yeah, none of that other stuff will be held against you later or come along with any bitterness at all.

So why don't we just talk about the Vikings? or come along with any bitterness at all.

So why don't we just talk about the Vikings situation?

I mean, one thing as we look back a little bit

at the different combined conversations

that we've had over the years.

The ones, sorry, the ones where we've always been right and predictive and have gotten

and nailed this team to a tee?

Well, if we said each year that they're stuck in the middle and they had no way of really breaking out as long as they had a certain expensive older quarterback then yes we have been repeatedly right that that is where they have ended up landing but you actually have to go back even farther than that I would say even to when they first signed Kirk Cousins where we didn't know what the results were going to be when they signed cousins.

And I was just talking to somebody last night as we do around Indianapolis about the

2019 Vikings, the last time they won a playoff game which is crazy to think about that you and I

were probably doing our first or second combine podcast the time they won one playoff game and you look around at how that

roster was built and how long it took to put that thing together and how good it was

and how many pro-ball talents there were and how far they got not far enough

still didn't have the roster to get there and I just think that if you are approaching

this as the Vikings as hey we can get back there we can win playoff games

based on what we have right now I just have so much trouble figuring out how that

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