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Learn more at Liquiddeath.com. Insider. Hello welcome to another episode of Purple Insider Matthew Coller here along with

Sports Illustrated's Will Raggots as we always do leading up to the game but you know for what has it been now 16 weeks we have done a

hardcore preview where we dove deep into the matchups that would define this football game.

And then we predicted outcomes at the end of games.

And you know what, we did pretty good at that this year,

except for me imploding with this Green Bay game

in terms of my predictions.

But aside from that, though, you know,

that's kind of been a formula for how we do the show.

Well, they're playing Nathan Peterman in the Chicago Bears

in a mostly meaningless game where they're going to play their starters and they're going to play to win and they probably will and I don't know what else I'm supposed to say about it the bears are absolutely horrendous and

there's no reason the Vikings shouldn't get that point differential to the

positive by the end of this game will I mean what what is it that you would like

to say about Vikings bears?

Well for starters do we actually believe that they're going to play their starters?

Because Kevin O'Connell said that earlier this week, he was asked if it would be more, you know, minor changes.

Like Harrison Smith gets a few series off for Josh Matellis and various things like that.

We see Brian Asamoa and things they've already kind of been doing for a few weeks

since wrapping up the NFC North or could we see like Kirk Cousins on the bench,

Justin Jefferson players like that and O'Connell said it would probably be more subtle because you know the two seat is still in play

Technically that is true. I have a very hard time believing that David Blow

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