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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Jeremiah Sirles says coach firings put Vikings under even more pressure in 2026

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Nfl Team, Football, Nfl, Nfl Draft, Minnesota, Vikings, Sports

4.7958 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Former Vikings lineman Jeremiah Sirles joins the show to discuss who the plethora of coaching firings across the league puts even more pressure on Kevin O'Connell and the Vikings in 2026. The Purple Insider podcast is brought to you by FanDuel. Also, check out our sponsor HIMS at https://hims.com/purpleinsider Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0

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

0:11.5

And it is time once again for Tuesday morning left guard on Wednesday with Jeremiah

0:17.0

Searle's former Minnesota Viking and Buffalo Bill, if you want to claim that one today

0:22.4

after some very bizarre comments by the owner and the general manager. And you know what? I'll say

0:29.8

this, Jeremiah, that I get a lot of questions about the Wilf ownership and, you know, does their

0:34.5

attempt to always want to win and never reset? Does that cost the Vikings a chance at a Super Bowl?

0:39.7

And, you know, maybe sometimes, but it ain't that.

0:43.3

It's not run by a crazy person.

0:45.8

And you'd be surprised how many of the league's owners are overbearing

0:51.3

or maybe don't really understand how these things work and want to involve

0:55.7

themselves more than they should or allow people who aren't that great at their jobs

1:00.0

to have their ear and influence their decisions.

1:04.2

So why don't we start with just that and then we'll move into some Viking stuff and then

1:09.7

championship weekend.

1:11.0

But that, what a bizarre press conference.

1:14.1

What a bizarre decision to fire Sean McDermott after making the playoffs for seven

1:19.4

straight years, losing on a controversial call in overtime against the number one seed

1:25.4

when your roster, I think was pretty average.

1:30.2

Yeah, I mean, I'm way against the firing. I'll start there. I think it was an emotional rash

1:36.0

decision that if Josh doesn't miss Dawson Knox walking in the end zone, if you don't have

1:42.0

the controversial catch, like he has a job right now coaching the

1:45.9

AFC championship.

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