and Hey everybody welcome to another episode of Purple Insider Matthew Collar here and we are continuing random questions

week. I put it out there, was hoping for maybe one podcast on Twitter and just said,

hey, send me some random questions. It's a

downtime here in the NFL season or off season so fire away and I got so many great

questions from you guys that it's turned out to be a really fun weeks worth of

discussion so I'm gonna get to a lot more of your questions here and if you want to send me

questions because I'm doing fan question podcasts all off season.

Go to purple insider.com send me an email there or shoot me a note on Twitter at

Matthew Collar. So let's dive right into more awesome random questions from Minnesota Vikings fans.

We start off with K5 Kelly who asks, is Jared Allen getting into the Hall of Fame this year?

And I think the answer is yes or should be yes,

because he was in the 15 finalists, and if you get to the 15 finalists you have a very good chance of being the next man in line and for whatever reason they only put in a very limited amount of players into the Hall of Fame this every year.

So it's just been backlogged and backlogged for great players.

And I think that Jared Allen is one of those that it's going to be his turn very soon.

However, I was doing a little bit of research

using the Hall of Fame Monitor on Pro Football Reference.

If you haven't played around with it, it's pretty fun, where it takes a bunch of different factors that have often indicated whether a player gets into the Hall of Fame, and it gives them a score and then compares them to all the other Hall of Famer's ever and what their scores were.

So it's statistical numbers like Sacks and milestones with Sacks, and then all pros, Pro Bowls, Super Bowls, things like that, which should not matter, the Pro Bowls and the

Super Bowls, but they do matter a lot when it comes to historically which players have gone into the Hall of Fame and doing a little research on Jared Allen.

It does not seem like his Hall of Fame monitor score is as high as many of the defensive ends who have made it despite his extremely good sack totals, but he only has five Pro Bowls which sounds like a lot and it definitely is and there are

other players who have only had and I say only as if that's not amazing but but he doesn't have eight or nine or something like that.

But five Pro Bowls, no rings, has not always gotten someone into the Hall of Fame.

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