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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

FANTASY SHOW: Can the Vikings contain Saquon Barkley???

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

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

4.7958 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Mike Schopp, of WGR 550 in Buffalo and ADP Chasing, joins the show to discuss the Vikings chances of containing Eagle RB Saquon Barkley and if that is their path towards victory on Sunday. 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.

0:09.6

This is the Purple Insider Fantasy Shope with Mike Shope from WGR 550 and ADP chasing.

0:16.7

And as always, the show presented by Fandul.

0:19.9

And Mike, I think our friends at Fandul aren't really sure what to do with Vikings

0:24.8

and Eagles at the moment because of the quarterback situation.

0:28.3

We are feeling quite confident that it will be Carson Wentz at quarterback.

0:33.9

And I think if you are a fantasy player, that that is much better for you, if you are

0:39.8

an owner of Justin Jefferson or Jordan Addison or T.J. Hawkinson, because he has leaned

0:45.8

heavily on the weapons. If you're a fan of the Vikings and you wanted to see J.J. McCarthy,

0:51.1

you're sad. So that's kind of where we're at. Well, I wouldn't necessarily tab you as a fan of the Vikings,

0:58.2

but you wanted to see McCarthy because you thought like this is what we should do at this

1:02.5

point or what they should do, I should say, at this time.

1:06.0

I mean, Wence is a version of Joe Flacko where you're going to get volume and that's even good for defenses.

1:15.7

So I think you're probably right.

1:18.0

We still don't really know what McCarthy can be for any of this.

1:22.8

But, you know, yeah, when they sat McCarthy, the way they did it, immediately after a loss, like,

1:30.4

okay, no, he's injured. And we're going to go to Europe for two weeks. Like, we're going to take a

1:34.5

year off or something and go to Europe and ride our bikes. I mean, it felt like maybe Wentz was

1:40.3

relatively safe to play for the long term. but then Europe went the way it went,

1:45.6

and that wasn't so much of a sure thing.

1:49.6

So, yeah, I guess I still want to have some hope that when McCarthy gets in, which is inevitable,

1:57.0

that it'll work out for the past catchers.

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