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Purple Daily - A Minnesota Vikings Podcast

Painting the playoff picture for the Vikings (ep 421)

Purple Daily - A Minnesota Vikings Podcast

SKOR North | Hubbard Radio

Football, Sports, Nfl, Minnesota Vikings, Vikings

4.51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Matthew Coller and Pro Football Focus's Eric Eager get together to talk about the Vikings' chances to make the playoffs and the best possible situation if/when they get in. Should we value late-season play for top contenders? What does home field advantage mean? And what in the world is going on in the AFC?

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0:00.0

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0:04.0

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0:07.2

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0:10.6

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0:24.4

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0:28.3

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0:40.0

Minnesota Vikings, the NFL, football, yeah, football, welcome to

0:46.7

purple podcast Matthew Collar here, along with Eric Eager from Pro Football Focus, to make some statistical sense of the playoff scenarios because my brain just doesn't work that way.

1:14.4

Eric, how are you?

1:15.4

I'm doing well man.

1:17.1

How are you?

1:18.1

I am, I guess, not confused about what it takes, but confused about how likely it is that the Vikings get in because

1:26.8

when the Vikings beat the Dolphins right after that game, Judd and I did a podcast where we were like,

1:32.4

okay, this is what the Vikings have to do in the playoffs we were talking about because my assumption was at that point that the Los Angeles Rams would defeat the Philadelphia Eagles on

1:44.6

Sunday night football and you know what they say about assuming well that's what

1:48.1

happened to me because then the Eagles nixfills their way to more magic and now things are a lot more difficult.

1:56.3

So to lay it out very simply, it's just if the Eagles and Washington both win, then week 17 becomes possibly hairy for the Vikings if they lose

2:07.5

against Detroit.

2:09.1

If one of those teams lose and the Vikings win, then they're in or no both see this is what happens to me every time

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