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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Jeremiah Sirles talks Kevin O'Connell working around Vikings O-line problems

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

🗓️ 1 October 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Former Viking Jeremiah Sirles joins the show to discuss how Kevin O'Conell can work around the Vikings' current offensive line issues. The Purple Insider podcast is brought to you by FanDuel. 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.

0:10.2

And it is time, though it is a Wednesday for Tuesday morning left guard as Jeremiah

0:15.5

Searle returned from his hunting trip to look at the all 22 and go, who's playing offensive line right now

0:23.2

and why?

0:24.8

Jeremiah, that must have been quite startling because you go off on your trip, you try to

0:29.4

unplug from everything, and then you come back.

0:32.0

And it's always a unique surprise that you get when you see that tape again.

0:37.3

But the Vikings don't have any offensive linemen.

0:40.4

And the update today is that Michael Juergens was not practicing, which could potentially

0:45.6

leave, depending on where that goes the rest of the week, Blake Brandel, which would move

0:51.4

then, I think, Joe Huber into starting guard, and undrafted free agent who's on the practice squad.

0:59.0

You've compared this, I think, to 2016 before where all the offensive linemen got hurt and they had to play number 71.

1:06.0

But, I mean, this might even be worse than what I, this might be the worst I have ever seen of

1:13.1

offensive line injuries. I think, I think if I leave town, crazy crap happens, right? Because when I,

1:19.6

my first weekend gone, I'm watching the Bengals just, I'm watching the Bengals just get throttled on

1:24.3

national TV, right? Just get abused up and down. Like, okay, well, we can work with this, right? There's some things moving on here. And then I come back and I'm watching this game on Sunday when I fire up Starlink at camp on Monday. And I'm like, wait, where's O'Neill? Hold on. Why is Kelly not in? Wait, where's Donovan Jackson? And then I come back and I watched the All 22 this morning again.

1:46.7

Because I like, I have to rewatch the TV copy.

1:48.6

Just didn't do it justice.

1:50.2

I never want to watch that again.

1:51.8

I wanted to turn it off after the second quarter because Carson Wentz has no time to throw.

1:58.3

You've got receivers starting to do the arm throw down the field. We are heading into dangerous waters right now as a Vikings offense. And I really don't know. I don't see, and maybe Matt, maybe you do. I don't see a clear path out of this right now. Like, I don't see like, where's the light at the end of the tunnel where like we can just get there like I don't

2:18.1

see a clear path out of where we're at right now. Okay. So I wrote about this and you're right.

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