and Hello welcome to another episode of Purple Insider, Madin Collar here, along with Brian Murphy, who has written at the old website,

Wilfs Must Deliver for Vikings fans who deserve better your reaction to the firing of Mike Zimmer and Rick

Spielberg I want to get into your thoughts about where they should go Brian after this of moving on from Zimmer and Spielberg

and Spillen but we have to start out with Eric Kendrick's press

conference today and he kind of said the quiet part out loud

about Mike Zimmer now on this show we have long

discussed Zimmer's relationship with players and how it has been very rocky at times

and Stephen Diggs was a big part of that but even going back to 2016,

Shari Floyd Anthony Barr, the kind of alienation of the locker room that year,

the Case Keenum comments that upset a lot of the players and then most recently with

Kellyn Monde and then for some reason being offended at the idea of getting Justin

Jefferson the ball for you know his record and Eric Hendrix today, I don't think a fear-based

organization is the way to go when he was asked about what they should do next

that head coach, Kendrick's also said I feel there were some things that were left out there as far as our

relationship you'd have to ask him about how he got along with Mike Zimmer. Now if this is any old

player Brian I think you'd say well you know sour grapes players win and coaches get blamed and all that sort of thing this is Eric Hendricks. This is a guy who has been through all the wars with Mike Zimmer is one of the most high character

players in the National Football League all pro Walter Payton man of the year

nominee one of the guys I think of all my career of covering football players or

athletes in general I have most respect for and he just he couldn't he couldn't hold it in anymore he had to say it and I think that that tells you pretty much what you need to know about the Mike Zimmer era in Minnesota and how he treated people, not just players, but just entirely around the building.

Well, I think a couple things, you know, both with Kendrick's comments and even Mark Wolf's comments earlier, you know, Wolf didn't reveal a ton, but I kept, I was struck by how many times the word collaboration was uttered and we're looking for for leaders and who can you know build something that players and fans can relate to.

That's a pretty thinly veiled way of saying the old man

was just too crusty and old to have anybody listen to him anymore.

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