and Hello welcome to another episode of Purple Insider, Matthew Collar here, along with E-SPN's Courtney

Cronin, who now is a Bears reporter and it is super weird because every time you tweet, has to do with the bears and I am just not used to this yet.

I know a lot of people have said that to me and my mentions and I do appreciate the Vikings fans who have stuck around and decided to continue to follow me.

I just think they will be very educated on what's happening in other places in the NFC North.

And I'm just trying to make you a more educated fan.

You know, that's just what I'm here for, but my gosh, there are a lot of people who want

nothing to do with me anymore from the Minnesota side of things because I'm not

tweeting about

Danile Hunter and the Vikings picking up his $18 million roster bonus or you

know Harrison Phillips being all excited to come back to Minnesota because his

grandparents were from there like I keep up with it but I'm not like daily like in a process now where I'm when I'm talking about it so it does feel a little weird to me but it's been just about a month since I've been on the Bears beat and it's been great so far. I mean,

free agency last week was a weird experience having a team that didn't really do a whole ton of anything and then the one move that they did do fell through because of a failed physical which is not a good look whatsoever but you know I'm just I'm just kind of rolling with that. I

understand people who don't want to read my stuff anymore and they want

on follow me and that's great, but for those of you who have stuck around who

still want to listen to me on this

podcast I appreciate you. Yeah and you will be doing plenty of

commenting still on what the Vikings are doing which we'll get to just a

second. A lot of thoughts. The funny one was when you like the bears signed Byron Pringle and I was like the Vikings are signing Byron. Oh, no, that's no.

I was just like, oh that's a good one and then like, oh no, that's a good one for someone.

Yeah, I actually, since I pulled my crystal ball out and I wrote a piece last week about some receivers that they could still target in free agency because they were so quiet those first couple days and you know you see the Amari Cooper trade go down and honestly like what a good deal that now looks like for

Cleveland and getting him and then you see Christian Kirk explode explode the wide receiver market for whatever

God forsaken reason Jacksonville decided to pay him that much.

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