And the Hello welcome to another episode of Purple and Shider, Matthew Collard,

along with Sports Illustrated's Will Raggots.

We've got a few injury updates to talk about with the Vikings

and also a report that Adam Thielen's final days are on the way,

which by the time you're listening to this,

maybe they already are,

or maybe we end up being very surprised

then they work out a contract restructure. But I feel like when reports come out will that someone

might be on their way out, it is either kind of a call for anybody want to trade for him or it also could be just hey fans we know you love this player but prepare yourself for the fact that he's not going to be there and this just is in line with

what we knew coming in that there were going to have to be people that lots of fans like and

who've been here a long time that are no longer here.

But I think that it's probably a plus for the Vikings

if they do move on from Adam Thielen

considering that kind of his name and previous role with this team made it so he really couldn't be a number four wide receiver or a number three wide receiver like he's likely the best fit somewhere now.

He kind of needs to be that 1A or 1B if he's going to be here and that's just not really

his role. So your thoughts on that report and the impending emergency

podcast that will sometime soon come as Adam Thielen is eventually

released. So it seems.

Yeah, it just makes sense. I mean, I think you looked at after the season ended, you looked at the guys on the roster, you started to look at 2023 cap hits and who made sense as possible cap casualties because you knew it was going to have to happen with the cap

situation and with just some of the veterans who got big maybe questionable contracts in the

last few Rick Spielberg-Spelman years and what they were going to do there, Adam Thielen

kind of jumped out because the Capit is almost 20 million.

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