Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of Purple Inside or Matthew Collar here.

And I wasn't sure whether to pop on the live machine or not tonight.

And I decided, you know what?

Here's what I'm going to do.

I'm very excited to break down every single element of

vikings bears and dive deep into everything got a ton of guests coming up this week uh but i thought

let me let me allow the the news football gods to tell me whether i should be here tonight or not

i thought if there's any Vikings news,

then we'll stay on top of it and we'll jump on.

And if there's not, then we'll just enjoy the rest of the weekend.

And well, lo and behold, there was some news today.

From ESPN's Jeremy Fowler, he reported earlier today that the Vikings are, quote, optimistic about

wide receiver Jalen Naylor with a hand injury, playing week one versus the Chicago Bears,

barring a setback per sources have told Fowler that, and he says Minnesota envisions a key

role for Nailer, especially with

Jordan Addison out via suspension. So there is our news update from ESPN's Jeremy Fowler that

the Vikings are optimistic about Jalen Nailer. And this far out, I'm sure that it would be

difficult for Fowler to say for sure that Nailer is going

to be in against Chicago, but that sounds like probably will practice and at least be out there

this week with Adam Thiel and Justin Jefferson.

And there's a few different things that came to my mind right away when I saw this news.

Number one is that the receiver starting on Monday night with J.J. McCarthy,

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