and Hello, welcome to another episode of Purple Insider Matthew Coller here and this is something

new that we're going to do on a regular basis we're going to call it the Raggots roundtable

Will Raggots from Sports Illustrated Paul Hodduwanick from WCCO radio is here and we've got a topic that we're going to discuss.

Will is going to lead the discussion, but I also may or may not have demanded that we do the subject that I thought of.

So I was reading an article by my friend Rivers McCown who covers the Houston Texans and he wrote about the athletic podcast that went through the

commandments of rebuilding. Since we don't have rebuilding here I want to go through the

commandments of escaping mediocrity in the short and long term.

So, Will, why don't you just start out the discussion with your first idea of how the Minnesota Vikings can escape the trench of

mediocrity that they have stuck themselves in over the past several years and

then we'll go in the short term and then we'll talk about the long term as well.

So the floor is yours, Mr. Raggots.

Thank you.

And before I give my first commandment,

I will say that it's kind of funny,

you mention the commandments of rebuilding because maybe the command for the Vikings escaping mediocrity should be that they should just rebuild and go to the bottom before they can go to the top.

But we'll start with this year

and what the Vikings can do to not be an 8 and 9 team again.

And my commandment is to lean all the way in

on Kevin O'Connell.

And there are a few things that that could mean.

A big piece of it is going to be doing everything

and giving Kevin O'Connell everything he can

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