and Hello welcome to a very, very extremely ridiculously

outrageously special episode.

Matthew Collar here, along with ESPN's

Courtney Cronin, who now is leaving to go cover the Chicago Bears in the same way that you've covered the Vikings,

but you also have some more opportunities with radio in Chicago and the ESPN radio stuff you do. And so this is your final episode as the Vikings reporter.

It is not Courtney your final episode on Purple Insider, which a lot of people had questions about and I was happy to tell them,

Courtney our draft scout will continue, that you will continue on the show on a very regular basis.

It'll just be that you'll be talking more about the team you're covering,

which will be the Chicago Bears. But welcome to your final episode as the Vikings reporter,

and congratulations for you to step forward.

Thank you. It's been an emotional whirlwind of a week.

Like I told you before we started the podcast, I feel like Rick Spielberg when he gave Harrison Smith that absurd contract last year that a lot of people were like wow

That's quite a deal. So I felt like a dying person giving off my possessions right now or giving them away because that's literally

what I'm doing I'm trying to sell all of my furniture before I leave. So it's been

chaotic but it has been such an incredible week and hearing from people I didn't even think honestly cared whether I'm here

covering the Vikings or not and it really does mean a lot like there have been the

outpouring of support for you know the last five years that I spent here is like brings me to tears like and I won't cry in this show because this show's about fun and I'm not going to be like you know a sappy emotional mess because

remember like football people don't have tear ducts so I'm not going to have a tear duct

but no I mean like in all seriousness it's been absolutely. I will miss it here. I will miss the beat. I will miss the overall

shenanigans that we partake in. And I'm glad to say though that I won't miss Purple Insider

because I'm still going to be on Purple Insider and trust me next week is the

combine draft scouts actually like returning phone calls, she's answering text messages.

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