and Hey everybody welcome to another episode of purple insider Matthew Collar here and hang on I just tweeted out the wrong link to the show tonight so I have to fix that and give me one second because for some reason this started up a different link

than I thought it was going to so that was kind of weird but let me get this

right and then we will go from there.

So that was a little surprising but we'll get this tweeted out in a second.

Okay so welcome anyway everybody and going to be talking a lot of course

about the NFC North and the Minnesota Vikings so jump right to the mix here and questions, comments, thoughts at 7.30 this evening.

We will have Manny Hill picking the Vikings schedule as he does each week.

And yes, even though the Vikings did not play,

we are still going to have Manny pick the schedule

because so much changed in the NFL this week that we have to continue with doing that.

And what is on my mind tonight is really who is going to win the NFC North? How we see this ending up playing out for every team in the

NFC north, not just the Minnesota Vikings, but what the order is going to be, how it's going to end up working out this year, and also at the end of the season, and also Aaron Jones and his health is a big deal for this week.

And we saw today out of practice that Aaron Jones was practicing today a little bit, and it was a very light practice for the Vikings.

So it was hard to say whether Aaron Jones was taking kind of a real practice or he was just starting to do a little ramp up on

Wednesday will really be the day where we get a good sense for whether Aaron

Jones is actually going to have a chance at playing

this week with his hip injury, which I think is maybe the biggest factor in this entire game is whether Aaron Jones ends up playing because everything has played off of Jones so far this year with the offense and they were clearly very different when he was not in the

game against the New York Jets that Ty Chandler is just not as versatile, does not bring the same sort of presence or even intimidating factor where the defense has to pay

attention to him when he's in the back field and the versatility, the screen game, the blocking,

all those things that he does at an elite level.

And also he allows that if you don't block perfectly,

he can still find a way to four or five yards, which I think Thai Chandler is not quite as good at.

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