Hey, everybody, welcome into the Purple Insider Minnesota Vikings postgame show, presented by

Fandul, Matthew Collar here, along with Dane Mizatani inside U.S. Bank Stadium after the Vikings

fall to the Baltimore Ravens 27 to 19 in a game that will forever be remembered

as the false start game. I don't think anybody showed up to the stadium, parked their car,

got up and came up to the press box, or got into the locker room, or onto the sideline,

and ever dreamed that a football team in the

National Football League, a professional squad, could commit eight false start penalties.

And we heard a lot of different things after the game.

J.J. McCarthy took responsibility for it.

Aaron Jones said that the Ravens were making a lot of calls that maybe confused them,

and there's not a lot of stadium noise, so I guess they could hear it, and maybe some people jump because of that.

There was an explanation to do with hard counts. Whatever it is, I've never seen it before.

I don't know what the record is. You guys can chat GPT it or whatever, but it's

insane. And it played a major role in the Vikings losing this game. I also think that a thing that

played a major role was the inaccuracy of J.J. McCarthy, who completed under 50% of his

passes today, very, very hard to win in that way. But there's a lot of

other reasons, too, which we will dive into. But I think the most frustrating thing for me, Dane,

about this Vikings loss to the Ravens, is that Baltimore was just not Baltimore. The team that we've

known over the last X number of years since Lamar Jackson emerged as a

megastar quarterback, the team that would have pounded the Vikings into oblivion, the team that

never would have given them second, third, fourth chances, that never would have kicked a field

goal on fourth and short in the red zone, that never would have failed on third and short at

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