Hey, everybody.

Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of Purple Insider, presented by Fandul.

And it is time once again for another episode of Tuesday morning Left Guard with former Minnesota Viking Jeremiah Surles.

And I got to tell you, Jeremiah, in all the time that we were together there in the locker room when you played for the Vikings,

I don't think it's ever been like this since I've covered the team.

And there's never been a time where it has felt so uninteresting to watch the Minnesota Vikings that there

have been so many games that are just over and nothing happens.

And there's really never been a time where the quarterback play was so poor that we're just

watching with fan fingers like J.J. McCarthy don't get hurt out there.

And then he did. What was your reaction to watching the second half of Vikings and Packers?

It almost felt, I don't even know how to, like, I was watching with my wife. And she was watching.

She's like, is, is he just that bad or is like a bad game?

Or?

And I kind of looked at him for the first time, I looked and I go, I think that's just who he is. You know, the question marks have been, can he grow? Can he develop? Can he work to it? But the more I watch that and the more I thought to myself,

I don't care if you're a first round rookie,

an undrafted free agent, an eight-year vet. There's a certain standard that you

have to at least hit in the NFL to be considered a starting quarterback. And it doesn't matter

if you're young or old. If you can't meet that minimum threshold to be one of the 32,

you got to get off the field. You just can't, you cannot, it is impossible to win with that.

And when you look at his stat line and you look at the things he's done over his last seven

starts, I believe it is, he doesn't meet that threat. Six, excuse me, six starts. He doesn't meet that threshold. You can't turn the ball over like that. You can't have that many incompletions. You can't have that many turnover worthy plays. It just isn't reaching the standard bar of, okay, you can start in this league. It is well below that bar, if not at the bottom of that bar. And if that's the case, and as I'm watching going, this might just be who he is right now.

It's a detriment to keep him out there for the other 52 guys on your roster.

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