And the Hey everybody welcome to another episode of Purple Insider.

Going live here on YouTube a little earlier in the day

than usual.

One, it's the Buy Week, and the other thing is Brian Murphy

is able to do the show and in this hour so he is going to join in about 15 minutes and look anytime you could get live MRF after a loss you got to take advantage of that so let's begin the

show with I guess it's a news item today that a Kevin O'Connell was non-committal again even after going back and watching the game

when he talked to us today about Josh Jobs and his status when the Vikings come out of

the byweek to play the Las Vegas Raiders.

And I want to get to a tweet that was sent to me, not just about the

quarterback situation, but kind of about what last night and the loss to the Chicago Bears meant in the bigger picture.

So this was from Angela on Twitter who listens to the show and is one of the most reasonable human beings on Twitter.

She said regarding whether it's good that the Vikings lost. So last night I asked

Dane Mizetani, the Pioneer Press,

was it good that the Vikings lost because they

got slapped in the face with reality

that they're not really a playoff team,

not really a contender with a backup quarterback and the season probably wasn't going anywhere anyway.

A very cynical question, but she said, I now have realistic expectations for the rest of the

season after getting my hopes up.

I'm back to viewing this as one big preseason with an eye on 2024.

And I really didn't think of this morning and

until later after the game I got home did some more work and then woke up this morning and

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