Hey, everybody, welcome into the Purple Insider Postgame show presented by Fandul,

Matthew Collar here, along with Dane Mizatani, the Pioneer Press.

And let me just start by saying, I'm sorry you wasted your time watching that football game.

It was about as ugly as we have ever seen a game

in the Kevin O'Connell era as the Vikings lose to the Chargers 37 to 10. And I want to start here,

Dane, things that you can control and things you can't control. The Minnesota Vikings cannot control

that Carson Wentz is a backup quarterback who's been with

six teams in six years for a reason. Did they have better options for backup quarterbacks?

I would argue probably not really. They cannot control that their superstar left tackle

has not been able to consistently stay on the field for full games. And Christian Derisaw played nine snaps tonight and then was taken out.

And now they're shifting offensive linemen, playing an experience guys.

They can't control that.

They can't control that Ryan Kelly got hurt.

And they're playing their third string center.

They cannot control that the environment here on a Thursday night was really going to be tough for them coming off of a game against the Philadelphia Eagles.

So there's a lot of things that happened in this game that maybe we're bound to happen when you're playing a backup quarterback.

But there's also a lot of things that happened on the defensive side that are

really shocking to me. Starting with that they have played three competent quarterbacks,

if not good quarterbacks, and those quarterbacks have throttled them, not just beat them,

but beat them down into the ground. And them no chance to win even with a backup quarterback

even if you could have scored 28 points tonight you would have lost the game because the defense

was so inept they spent so much money they made so many bets on this defense and we have talked

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