Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of Purple Insider, Matthew Collar here.

And joining me on the show for the very first time from the Detroit news is Nolan

Bianchi, who I see everywhere.

I see it the Combine.

Of course, the Vikings play at least two games against the

Detroit Lions. We thought last year might be three, Nolan, but it didn't happen. I am very

happy to have you on the show. And I want to talk about this little cute thing called regression

and whether the Detroit Lions are going to be able to fight it off. But how about just tell me about the vibe right now of the Detroit Lions?

You lose a couple coordinators, but add DJ Reed to the mix, mostly the same team that you

have covered there for the last two years.

Does this team feel like they are still very much the team to chase down in the NFC

north? I think so. I mean, you know, going into the offseason and just what transpired with the

two coordinators leaving and you mentioned some of the personnel coming in and out, really the

only significant loss that wasn't addressed was the loss of Kevin

Zyler. And, you know, they kind of, I don't want to like get too ahead of ourselves with a guy,

a six round rookie who played two starts last year was really, really good. But I think even the

optimism there was kind of, you know, making the, the Zeiler departure a little bit, you know,

not, not sting too bad. And then Frank Ragnow left and it feels like everything kind of hit the

fan because that dude, I mean, behind Jeregoff and Aden Hutchinson, I think is probably the third

most important player, maybe Penae Sewell, but the third or fourth most important player to their success.

And, you know, I think they'll figure it out.

They got a really good online coach and Hank Frailey and, you know, a track record of

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