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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Let's talk about hot seats of Vikings past and present

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

🗓️ 12 November 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Matthew Coller and his former teammate Judd Zulgad talk about some of the hot seat stories from Vikings past. They talk about the time the Metrodome called for Brad Childress to be fired, how the Vikings poorly handled the firing of Mike Tice and what the potential final days with Mike Zimmer will be like. If Zimmer's tenure ends, where will he rank among all-time Vikings coaches? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What else can give you a wave of goosebumps like this?

0:04.0

This is history, two men with legacies on the line.

0:07.0

And then send you into a state of complete euphoria.

0:10.0

An adulteration, Titanovarity, that's starting from breach, two goals in the... The of his all in the dark. Will it be his last? Thank you so much.

0:27.0

TMT sports, only sport can do this. Hello welcome to another episode of Purple Insider. Let's call it a very special episode, Matthew Pollard here, joining me is

0:55.2

Judd Zulgad, and when I need historical context for things, I go to the bullpen and I bring in the lefty Mr Zulgad and for this episode we're going to be talking about

1:08.0

tales from the hot seat because Mike Zimmer is clearly on the hot seat

1:14.0

as we stand at this moment.

1:16.1

And we may be coming to the final days

1:18.6

of his tenure in Minnesota,

1:20.0

if things go very much sideways in these next few games or at least down the stretch it's

1:24.3

hard to say what ownership will do and so things usually get totally crazy

1:30.0

right before a coach ends up getting fired and at this moment that's kind of the case.

1:35.6

So I wanted to bring you on Judd to talk about tales from when previous coaches have been fired,

1:41.1

but can I just start with commenting about how there's like a generation of Vikings fans

1:46.3

who has not seen things get crazy and a coach get fired like young Vikings fans are growing up

1:51.9

where Mike Zimmer has pretty much just been their coach for a very, very long time.

1:56.2

That's a frightening thought, but yeah, 2014, so if you are, if you are a Vikings fan full of hope,

2:04.6

full of, hey, Zims, our guy,

2:07.1

you were about to get a lesson in the truth about this team.

2:10.7

And this was, you know, bound to probably take place at some point now the difference is

2:16.3

this seems to be coming apart it reminds me I would say 2016 like it's not near 2010 yeah and it's not like a complete

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