and Hey everybody welcome to another episode of Purple Insider Matthew

Collar here back home in Minnesota kind of just got off the flight here so the head is swimming a little bit

from the last few days of talking about the Minnesota Vikings and the travel and

two games in four days and everything that happened yesterday

which was just a wild and crazy day in the NFL and so now we're here we can take a deep breath we're back to normal back to

practice this week and then a game on Sunday it feels like the last few weeks have just been, you know, off to London and then

the Thursday night game, the by week that we just have not really had much in terms of normal scheduling. So here we are and I've got a few questions for you guys and throw your questions in the chat as always for myself.

Manne Hill is going to join very soon. His schedule bumped him back just a couple of minutes here to pick the schedule. But don't worry. We would not let you go a Monday without Manny Hill going through the Minnesota Vikings schedule and picking it game by game and it's been so fun to track this year

Manne's reactions to the games along with you guys and where we are setting the bar for this team because at the beginning of the year it took a little bit of effort when we would pick the schedule to find nine wins. I remember the first time that I

picked it when the schedule came out and I said oh gosh I think they have to maybe beat Green Bay

twice to get to nine and then Manny has gotten as high as 13 wins this year for his expectation, but I have a feeling that might come down just a little bit after the last two weeks.

So I want to know from you guys how much have your expectations for the Vikings changed here in just, I mean eight days how much have it has it changed and also I would love to know how much your thought process about what the Vikings should do at the deadline has changed because

mine has adjusted a little bit. I have not massively changed my opinion on what they should do at the trade deadline. I think a couple of weeks ago when they got to 5 and 0, I was saying, look, you just don't get too many of these seasons. The NFC is not all that strong.

Push the chips to the middle of the table.

And if you have to, if you have to use the first round pick,

then do it, get the best player you can and go for it

but over the last two weeks now when you look forward at the schedule it does

maybe hamper that a little bit the go for it attitude. But I always thought if they were going to go for it that they would be looking for the type of player that they could try to either give a contract extension to or that was already under contract for multiple years.

And I saw Alec Lewis put out a bunch of names.

Nate Hobbs was one that he threw out on his list.

He was looking more closely at guys who were upcoming free agents

that the Vikings could try to extend after they got in the building.

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