and Welcome to another episode of Purple Insider Matthew Poller here along with Sports Illustrated Vikings reporter Will

Regots for our hardcore Vikings, Lions, preview. I'm trying, Will. You know, the vibe around here, it changed from a week ago when we were in here talking about

whether vibes would matter going into Philadelphia. Let me ask you a broad question

before we get into some of the nitty gritty of offense versus defense and so forth.

What do you think of the feeling around here now a week later?

Yeah, it's definitely different.

As we talked about last week last week could not have been more

positive coming off that week one win and then they go to Philly and just kind of get

punched in the mouth early in that game and then the defense adjusted in the second half but then

Kirk cousins threw three interceptions and kind of got ridiculed on social media

and there was a feeling I would say among the fan base of hey or the national

NFL viewers of our maybe the Vikings aren't that different I think internally from

the sense I get is that they're not that concerned about this.

I mean, there are definitely things that they have to, everybody starting with Kevin O'Connell,

kind of look in the mirror and fix.

But that was always going to happen in an NFL season.

Like it wasn't always just going to be easy and simple

and they were just going to roll to 12 wins or whatever.

Like, there's always going to be adversity I think the team with this

culture in theory is equipped to handle it and that's what they've talked about

like O'Connell said yesterday this is when the culture stuff gets tested so yeah

it was easy for us to do these first two previews packers game week one opener and

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