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co-dot UK slash Prime. Oh, Hey everybody welcome to another episode of purple insider Matthew Collar here and I guess we need a new whiteboard that says days without somebody saying something crazy or controversial about the Vikings,

Zero.

We went through it with Tua talking about Brian Flores the other day,

and well, Mike Zimmer sat down for a one-on-one at Cowboys

Camp Mark Craig of the Star Tribune went out there talked with Mike Zimmer and

boy did Mike Zimmer talk a lot in this interview so that's where I want to begin the show but of course that's not the entire show I want all of you who are tuning in live here to jump in the comment section. We got football next week and I can't

wait and I'm sure you guys are very excited as well after many many many months of off season. We are finally here so I wonder what's on your

minds. Put it in the comment section and I'm happy to have any discussions you'd

like to have but I pulled from Mark Craig's article

Six comments from Mike Zimmer

that I wanted to talk about

before I get into your questions and reactions to the Mike Zimmer interview with the Star Tribune.

The first one is that Mike Zimmer did not address the team after he was getting, or after he got fired and said he has not watched one Minnesota game since and when he commented on that he also added that why should he address the team when they're the ones that got him fired.

And I actually thought that both of these comments were pretty telling about just Mike Zimmer in general.

And before we get deep into this I've said this many times before that my experience covering Mike Zimmer was much more good than it was bad. I learned a ton of football from him and as far as defensive football minds and guys who know how to coach their scheme and know how to call plays and all that stuff, Mike Zimmer is one of the best and he has long been one of the best at his craft

But the end of Zimmer's tenure and really from 2014 through 2019 he had one of the better runs in Vikings history outside of of course Bud Grant

but one of the better runs in Vikings history as a head coach,

probably behind Denny Green,

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