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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

POSTGAME: Vikings BLAST Bengals behind Wentz, defense

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Sports, Nfl Team, Nfl, Nfl Draft, Football, Minnesota, Vikings

4.7958 Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Matthew Coller talks with Dane Mizutani of the Pioneer Press about the Vikings' win over the Cincinnati Bengals 48-10 at US Bank Stadium and what it means going forward. The Purple Insider podcast is brought to you by FanDuel. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0

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

0:10.0

Matthew Collar here along with Dane Mizatani and just how everyone predicted.

0:15.1

The Vikings won 48 to 10.

0:17.4

So this, I got to say, was the ultimate week of any given Sunday, any given Sunday for

0:25.6

this game, any given Sunday with the Cleveland Browns beating the Green Bay Packers and etc.

0:30.7

For a lot of different games in the NFL, as the Vikings are now two and one and have the same

0:35.1

record as a team that everybody had winning the Super Bowl last week.

0:38.6

And I guess that's why they play 17 of these things.

0:42.0

But, Dane, let's just begin with the most obvious place.

0:46.4

And then we will get to everything else about how this played out.

0:50.1

The most obvious place is what it all means that the Vikings blasted the Cincinnati Bengals.

0:56.5

I think we start there with Carson Wentz playing a very reasonably solid football game for a game managing veteran quarterback.

1:06.7

And I thought Wentz did everything that you could have asked him to do.

1:10.5

It wasn't perfect. It wasn't flawless. We're not going to grade him an A plus for this game. But he didn't throw the ball away. He didn't fumble it. He got it out of his hands. Just the Jefferson caught it. Nobody has to go to jail. Jordan Mason ran extremely effectively and they played off it. They had long drives. They held on to the

1:28.8

ball so the defense didn't get tired except for when they were blocking for Isaiah Rogers touchdowns.

1:34.1

A very good game at the quarterback position. And I think that this was the team that we expected

1:40.5

the Minnesota Vikings to be. This is what we thought they were going to look like in all three weeks.

1:46.7

It didn't exactly look this way, but we thought dominating defense, mulling pressure on the quarterback.

1:52.7

Being able to stop the run was huge for them today. That was always iffy. But the idea of this defense,

1:58.4

just taking over games and then the quarterback only have to do his job.

2:02.2

That's what we saw today from Carson Wentz and the Minnesota Vikings.

2:04.9

Yeah, and I think that's what you'll look at this game and say if they can get quarterback

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