and Hello welcome to another episode of Purple Inside, Matthew Collar here along with Sam

Ekstrom and Sam you know it was Will Regots on the show a few months ago that had never heard the song by Boys to Men

It's so hard to say goodbye but here we are having to sing it again for our friend Courtney

Cronin from ESPN as she leaves the

Minnesota Vikings beat and she is headed to Chicago to cover the Chicago Bears.

She announced that on Twitter today and it will be so hard to say goodbye.

She's not leaving the show and we're going to do a show later this week with her and I

talking about her time in Minnesota covering the Vikings and what's going to be next on this show but she

is going to cover the Chicago Bears so that's still very relevant to us and she's going to be doing

her regular appearances so don't worry, our draft scout is not gone. But Sam, we've actually had this crew of beat reporters for quite a while now and I was just thinking about how like we've sort of covered this team and the whole Zimmer and Spelman era and everything else together and now one of our key players has gotten signed by another team. It's a little bit strange today.

Yeah, it is, bittersweet for sure.

Happy for her, Chicago's her home.

So she gets to go home, be close to her folks

and familiar places and the city that she loves and that is fantastic.

Really happy for her. She gets to pursue radio even harder now and it's all it's all great you know we knew this a few days ago

we got to spend some time with with some of the beat and Courtney and had a great time

downtown but the when you look at sort of the construction of the beat

you know I was in place 2014 you were 2016 Courtney was 2017 a reef and Chad were 2018 Andrew you know was was

just before you at at 1500 he was around the same timeline as well.

So kind of this influx of fresh blood on the beat,

like about half a dozen writers

over the past five, six, seven years

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