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Learn more at liquiddeath.com slash Insider. Oh, Hello welcome to another episode of Purple Insider, Matthew Collard here and since it is

officially Vikings off season we are in off season mode and who better to lay out the future plan than Brad Spielberg of pro football focus returning to the show. He is research and development

salary cap analyst also contributor to over the cap.com you know who he is by now.

What is going on Brad? Here we are in the off season. Here we are the off season on present company included but hey it was a fun game it was a fun year and now the the better

teams advance in the in the division round.

Well I guess the topic to Jour here I'd like your opinion on it as well, is was this season a success?

Because last year, you and I, of course, had a long conversation going into the off season

about all the things they could do.

And then once they did all the things I think both you and I were

projecting a first round out type of season but not a 13 win season with all the crazy things they had in the fun games.

So I think that if you set out as a fan to just have a good time because you never saw

them as a Super Bowl contender to begin with, then you walk away from the season

and be like, okay, entertainment value, a plus.

But if you are a person, like many listeners to the show

who pay a lot of attention to front office theory and stuff like that and team building and timelines and all those things.

Then you look at this as a big punch in the gut and I think that having been in the locker room the other day a lot of players viewed it that way is like this was our chance with the 13 win season and now things get very difficult which will lay out so a success for Kevin O'Connell and

Koesi Adafel Minza and the will-fonorship or not. Yeah, so I'm glad that we have

all this on record so we're not just kind of retrofitting our takes or anything.

We said on the show I said no I actually said they're going to be a playoff team I tweeted

that out I thought they were going to be a wild card which you know they were

better than that they won the division not a very good division but they want it pretty

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