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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

ESPN's Kalyn Kahler talks Darnold, McCarthy, and Williams

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Nfl Team, Football, Nfl, Nfl Draft, Minnesota, Vikings, Sports

4.7958 Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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ESPN's Kalyn Kahler joins the show to react to Sam Darnold's incredible comeback win on Thursday night and discuss the Vikings' QB situation. The Purple Insider podcast is brought to you by FanDuel. Also, check out our sponsor HIMS at https://hims.com/purpleinsider Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of Purple Insider, presented by Fandul,

0:10.5

Matthew Collar here.

0:11.6

And joining me on the show to talk some quarterbacks is ESPN's Kalin Kaler, who we have

0:17.6

to really appreciate the footballing nature of you grinding through a cold to

0:22.3

still do this football podcast. So I really appreciate you coming back on the show. And Kaelan,

0:29.3

I think the best place to start is what we just saw last night. Rams, Sam Darnold finds a way to

0:36.2

come back and win in overtime.

0:40.3

And, you know, the QB wins people.

0:42.6

I mean, he gets a punt return. He gets some defensive stops.

0:45.0

Matthew Stafford goes for 400 plus.

0:47.7

I mean, what, what a, what a way for Sam Darnold to slay a dragon by bouncing the ball of somebody's head for a two-point conversion.

0:55.2

The only way it was going to happen.

0:57.5

That was crazy. I still, like, I haven't had time yet this morning. I was looking last night

1:02.7

and I didn't see anything on Twitter or anybody tweeting any quotes. I need to know if Zach

1:06.6

Charbonnet knew what he was doing or if he was just like absent mindingly oh yeah i'm going to go like

1:13.5

you know pick up this ball because who knows right like i just i just want to know how much

1:19.6

actual strategy and thought was going on in his mind because i'm sure players are being coached to do

1:27.2

that in those scenarios

1:28.1

of like you know if it's an incomplete pass but you're not really sure like just you know just go

1:34.1

go get to the ball whatever like I would just love to know and I haven't had time yet today I'm

1:38.4

sure somebody asked him in Seattle like what was going on because when they pan to him on the sideline

1:43.3

he did look like like really self-satisfied like yeah yeah I knew what I was doing that on purpose you know like because to me I was like it did look backward to me it looked genuinely like they got this right I think the part that was so confusing was, and now we're not talking about

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