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NEW: Bombshell article dives deep into Caleb Williams dysfunction (Part 2)

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Sports, Nfl Team, Nfl, Nfl Draft, Football, Minnesota, Vikings

4.7958 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Matthew Coller talks about the Vikings injury report on Friday showing Christian Darrisaw as a full participant. Also he goes over his notes from Thursday and ESPN's Kalyn Kahler uses Sean Payton's bizarre formula to break down the 2024 class (hint: It's big on McCarthy). The Purple Insider podcast is brought to you by FanDuel. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0

So, let's see.

0:07.9

T.

0:08.1

L says Caleb Williams was my top pick to fall short of hopes.

0:12.5

Yeah, yeah, I thought going into the draft in 24 that he was the scariest one, probably,

0:25.8

because of all of this stuff that at USC and he's sort of a little bit of the first like what would you what would you call it like the the first

0:31.9

generation of anointed college players remember when jordan addison took a million dollars to go to USC and got destroyed by

0:41.1

everybody in the media?

0:42.0

Like, how dare he?

0:43.3

All this stuff.

0:43.9

And now that happens every other day with guys taking this money.

0:48.0

But Williams was the first one to be a rich NFL player.

0:53.2

And then it was also pretty clear that his disposition when he got to Chicago was these guys don't know what they're doing.

0:59.7

And they're going to screw me up.

1:01.1

Because when you read the Seth Wickersham thing, him wanting to come to Minnesota.

1:05.5

And hey, if you're going to the game, it just may be a suggestion of some sort of signage to indicate that Caleb Williams

1:12.9

actually wanted to be a Viking. That would be, that'd be funny for you. Anyway, so it was pretty clear

1:20.4

that he was going into that situation already feeling like this organization doesn't know what it's doing,

1:25.9

it's going to screw me up. I have to tell them what to do.

1:30.0

And it just seemed like a marriage made in hell between a coach that didn't have any sort

1:36.3

of iron fist and Matt Eberfluse and an offensive coordinator that wanted to do everything

1:42.0

that Caleb Williams was going to be completely comfortable with.

1:45.1

At the same time, though, if he can't get the play calls in, this is why Kevin O'Connell

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