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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

How do the Vikings move on from Darnold decision? (Part 1)

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

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

4.7958 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2026

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Matthew Coller talks with Vikings fans about what's next for the team after the Sam Darnold decision hit them in the face with his Super Bowl appearance. What can they do to make this right? 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, Matthew Collar here.

0:12.3

And, you know, it's just a regular old Wednesday night.

0:16.5

And there is plenty of room on the show for questions, thoughts, takes, opinions surrounding

0:23.5

the Minnesota Vikings.

0:25.4

You know, I did write a story recently on the Vikings offensive line options, if anybody

0:30.1

wants to talk about that as opposed to Sam Darnold.

0:33.8

And that is really the subject of tonight's show, which is how do the Minnesota

0:41.2

Vikings and how do fans move on from Sam Darnold making the Super Bowl? And I know that you're

0:48.9

about to get a huge week leading up to the Super Bowl because this week is very quiet.

1:00.8

Not much going on in terms of the Super Bowl, but a lot going on for coach searches and Bill Belichick not making the Hall of Fame somehow, which I've got a few thoughts on the

1:06.7

Hall of Fame voting process, which has frustrated me for a couple of years now,

1:12.0

um, since a few years ago when they put in, I think it was like 20 people that they had

1:16.2

backlogged for a long time.

1:18.0

Uh, they have made it even harder for, uh, the greats to get into the Hall of Fame,

1:23.4

which I think loses the thread a little bit of the reason why we have a Hall of Fame,

1:28.9

which is to put in the people that fans would like to celebrate.

1:33.4

So there's some thoughts there.

1:35.6

And anything else is on the table for you.

1:38.2

But I think it's two different stories for the moving on from the Sam Darnolds.

1:43.6

And number one on the team,

1:46.6

the team side is we can talk about all day long.

1:50.7

And I wrote a very large and long story about process versus results and whether the Vikings

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