and Hello welcome to another episode of Purple Insider Matthew Pollard here and joining me on the show, a man that I needed to make it all make sense.

Judge Zulgad, you know, Jed, I said to you today, this is where only us can do this. Like there are many, many great guests that I have on the show,

many insightful and thoughtful people, many smart people who are gifted in specific ways.

Some played in the NFL, some cover the team, but there is only one collar

zolgad combination when things go completely off the rails from what we ever could have expected and as we're sitting here the Vikings first two moves in the Adolfo Menso era are to extend Kurt Cousins and do the least

analytical thing possible in giving a huge contract to a middling quarterback.

And then tonight, just before we hit record, they sign Harrison Phillips, a defensive tackle of which last time I looked at the roster they already had two expensive defensive tackles

So that's the goal of this show Judd is to make it make sense Where do you want to start with making it make sense?

Oh, let's start with the quarterback.

Let's rip the bandit off right away,

and let's start with Kirk Cousins.

Okay, tell me the Zulgadian theory then.

Tell me how you come to the conclusion,

especially with reported offers from teams,

including the Indianapolis Colts,

to the Vikings.

So people have sent me a lot of different theories,

but one of the theory theories was that nobody was offering anything for Kirk.

But that's not the case because there are reports out there including from

Tom Pelocero, ESPN, like everybody has said, no, people were reaching out to the Vikings.

So what is the theory that you have of why the Vikings not only returned to

cousins, which I understand on some level, but returned to him and gave him everything he ever could have wanted.

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