Hey, everybody, welcome into another episode of Purple Insider, Matthew Collar here and Jeremiah

Surrells, joining for another episode of Tuesday morning left guard. And, you know, I just

want to thank you, Jeremiah, for last week where you said, hey, this is finally fun. We've been

through a lot of tough times with the old quarterback position. This is great. That was really a thing

to say when you're around the Minnesota Vikings, isn't it? As a guy who watched the 2016 season

play out, a guy who was at a practice where Teddy Bridgewater suddenly had his career

altered by an injury. You were the one that was stepping out on the limb and saying, this is so

much fun. This is great. Why don't you just go to a baseball game and say, hey, this game's moving on

fast. There won't be any rain in the forecast, right? Jinksie, jinkserson is now what you will be referred to. What do we do now, Jeremiah? What do we do now? I don't know. I mean, it's one of those things where as you're watching it, you're like, this can't, like, this is okay, this is bad, right? This is bad, but it'll be fine. And then all of a sudden you get the news like and j j's hurt and you're like okay like are we

really doing this are we really what it is is we use all of our health karma up in 24 every ounce

of health karma that the minnesota vikings have accumulated over years of bad injuries all got used up in

2024 and now it's just like hey got to start over you got to start from the bottom your left

tackle not not playing your center brain oh your backup left tackle brain oh your franchise quarterback

ankle it's just one of those things where it seems like injuries are contagious like and i don't

know why but sometimes it just feels like injuries are contagious.

And that somewhat feels like where we're going with this. And I just really hope it's not the case for the entire year.

And I know there's the discussion of, well, you know, they signed older players and stuff,

but Blake Cashman's not old.

Andrew Van Ginkle was healthy all of last year.

Ryan Kelly, I mean, a concussion. That's just a really bad break for a guy who was playing awesome football too. I thought he was really playing well in these first two games. And now he's had several of them in his career and you're concerned about where that's going in the future. And it's also anybody who has ever wondered, I don't know how many fans have ever said,

why would they pay a left tackle?

But if you've ever had that thought, like, it's just another fat guy.

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