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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Should the Vikings blitz more?

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Sports, Fantasy Sports, Football

4.8907 Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Former Viking Jeremiah Sirles is skeptical that the Vikings' defense is doing it wrong but he wonders why Harrison Smith isn't used as a Blitzer more often. Sirles explains why the Patriots win was meaningful for the Vikings and what made their special teams unit special. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Purple Insider is presented by Liquid Death, delicious water that's bringing death to plastic.

0:05.7

Learn more at Liquiddeath.com. Insider. Hello, welcome to another episode of Purple Insider. It is a Tuesday morning left

0:29.8

guard with Jeremiah Searles. Jeremiah, we wake up with the Packers in front. with Cogos playing Trevor Simeon and the Vikings, well, they're not exactly chasing down the

0:46.0

Philadelphia Eagles because the Eagles got a win and Vikings fans were forced to root for the

0:50.8

Packers for a night. But overall, just flying high here

0:55.8

after a win over the New England Patriots.

0:58.3

Give me your feelings.

0:59.5

How do you feel right now about the Minnesota Vikings? I feel much better that I did last week that's for sure you know we talked

1:05.3

about on the pod last week but how this team was going to react to losing and

1:08.9

how this team is going to react to getting it handed to them essentially and I thought they came out and handled

1:14.0

everything extremely well now New England isn't what I would call a world

1:16.8

beater but they're very competent football team you know and I thought that

1:20.2

everyone came out and was able to shake the rust off of a short week and fix some of the

1:24.4

correctable things and everybody from offense defense special teams I feel like elevated their game and

1:29.4

played at a much higher level than they did the week before. If you want to play, what does that stat mean right away?

1:36.0

Of course you do, what does that mean?

1:38.0

Do you do?

1:40.0

Yeah, okay, so the average depth of target in that game was only 5.7 yards, which the lowest in the NFL for the season is 6.2, and that's Matt Ryan.

1:51.0

And I am impressed because what Kevin O'Connell did was he seemed to dial up the Kyle

1:59.0

Shanahan world of let's limit the damage that my quarterback can do and Kirk Cousins still had several

2:06.3

turnover worthy plays and talked about after the game like kind of regretting some of

2:10.5

those plays that there were two throws that maybe could have turned into

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