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PrizePix.com, Code Purple. Everybody welcome to another episode of Purple Insider and we have breaking news.

Technically, you could say this is an emergency podcast even though we scheduled it for

this exact time.

But thanks to Tom Palisaro's timing, he must have known that the show was going live, right, at 8 o'clock, and decided to feed us this news right before we went on, Matthew Collar, Manne Hill as always, and, uh, Manny Hill as always. And Manny, Mike Zimmer is back in the National Football League. He is being hired as the defensive coordinator for the Dallas Cowboys.

Your thoughts, sir.

Congratulations to him.

I mean, I mean, you know,

you covered Mike Zimmer for a long time as head coach of the Vikings and you know I kind of as an observer as a radio producer and and you know following the Vikings as kind of a fan and working at radio stations and things like that,

you know, got to really experience the full time of him as the head coach of the Vikings and

listen, it, things didn't end great for Mike Zimmer's time in Minnesota but he

won a lot of games he had some success got to an NFC championship game and

during the the, you know, the best of Mike Zimmer's time

with the Vikings, you know,

they had one of the best defenses in the NFL in 2017,

specifically, they had the best defense in the NFL in 2017 specifically they had the best defense in the NFL and so Mike

Zimmer has a lot of credibility I think I think he can still coach I know he's

a little up there in age I think he's what mid mid to late 60s now at this point in his life but

I think it's a good situation for him a good opportunity it's a team that is a good football team with good

players on defense, so it's not a situation where he has to come in and really build. He can just

kind of insert what he does in some of his you know

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