and Oh, welcome to another episode of Purple Insider Matthew Collar here and now what you have all been waiting for, Courtney Cronin,

to join post Mike Zimmer Rick Spielberg-Spelman era.

Courtney, I'm just gonna leave the floor to you.

I just want you to give your thoughts on Mike Zimmer and Rick Spielberg being let go and where

the Vikings stand now. Go ahead. Yeah, I mean the last couple of days where there's fallout coming out of the game and we all expect Mike Zimmer's going to be gone, right?

And then there's the surprise on Monday morning that Rick Spielberg is going to be gone and, you know know everybody I've talked to was caught off guard by it and people and those same people within the franchise like we're saying that Rick was caught off guard by it so it's kind of like who whoa, okay, full on rebuild. They're serious. The wilts are serious about getting this

thing right. And that to me signaled a far different culture shift within this organization than we've seen in years past where it felt like

okay there are a couple pieces away let's run it back this way or no no let's tweak this

and let's you know push forward ahead this way it was time

this team had hit its ceiling they could no longer continue going the direction that they

had with Mike Zimmer with Rick Spielberg those two for better for worse are linked together and I honestly as I look back at it from like you know a high up approach of did they do the right thing? The answer to me is yes because I really don't believe that you could go forward with one and not the other when they have been linked together by so many things.

That's my general summary of the firings

and the Wilfs getting it right.

I mean, there was no sort of like internal like schism

or dysfunction or scandal or anything like that. it was just time. The message grew stale. They

needed to move in a different direction and that's ultimately what they're doing.

The Rick Spielman thing is curious because it seemed that all of the buzz was pointing to some

role in the organization and all of a sudden it wasn't.

Now I think that this is vastly better.

Give somebody else who is at least better

in understanding value.

I think that Rick Spielberg is a scout

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