and Hey everybody welcome to another episode of Purple Insider Matthew Collar here and joining me on the show Kevin Cole

the unexpected points newsletter one of the top analytics analysts in the world and now that our friend

Eric Eager is joining the Carolina Panthers I mean that slides you up a notch right Kevin how are you man

I'm doing well yeah I was gonna say you have a lot of slots to

fill now. When Eric would come on and pretend not to be a Vikings fan even though he

knows more about the history of the Vikings

than pretty much any living individual,

I think, in the world.

Oh, yeah, well, actually, that's how I ended up meeting

Eric is in 2016 when I moved here to cover the team he reached out to me and

started just chatting Vikings and I learned a lot of Vikings history a lot of it that I didn't

need at all

just through having conversations with him.

But if the folks did not hear,

yes, Eric Eager, who is a consistent guest on the show,

formerly of PFF, was working for for sumer sports was hired by the Carolina

Panthers to work in their front office so very very proud to see guests of the

show moving on up which means that we got a spot here for a consistent analytics guest and that is now you

Kevin Cole so I didn't tell you at all what we were going to talk about for going on the show I kind of like

it that way sometimes like I don't want you to prep for this here's the idea

the Minnesota Vikings have a lot of pieces in place but in some ways they have a clean slate now

they can design their offense the way that they want to around

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