Should the Vikings play starters in Week 18? And take the New Vikings Coach Survey

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🗓️ 5 January 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Matthew Coller and Sam Ekstrom talk about whether the Vikings should play starters in the Week 18 matchup with the Chicago Bears. Is there any benefit to seeing Kellen Mond? Is the risk of getting a key player hurt too much? Then Matthew gives Sam the New Coach Survey, in which Sam answers whether he wants the next coach to be offensive or defensive minded, experienced or not and several other important questions pertaining to a potential change at HC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	and Hey everybody welcome into another purple insider and bringing me the news live stream
0:24.2	Matthew Collar along with Sam Ekstrom here and Sam we're gonna do a hardcore
0:29.6	preview of Vikings Bears we're gonna break down position by position who's going to out scheme who yeah let's go no that's the ball
0:38.8	We're going to do it all we're going to talk about the Minnesota Vikings future here and maybe we'll mention the game that they're playing and because I don't even know who's playing on the field.
0:50.0	Well let me ask you this question actually to start, because there is a question, a single question about Vikings Bears, which is, should they play the backups and the young players in this game.
1:02.7	I think the argument for doing so, Sam,
1:05.3	is that there are a lot of guys that need development
1:09.6	and need reps to play in real football games
1:12.2	that haven't gotten an opportunity yet. There are players that
1:14.8	fans actually might want to see like just for example, Cam Bynum or oh I don't know
1:20.1	Kellyn Moore that caused quite the issue asking about Kellyn Moore. That caused quite the issue asking about Kellyn Moore the other night, but there's a case to play
1:28.0	Kellyn Moore, especially since... Look, if you're... Wait, well, Kellyn Mooreoor is that a scoop on the next coach.
1:36.2	All right. Oh my goodness. I was thinking about breaking news. Yes, I was thinking about
1:40.6	coaching candidates to Kellyn more. We'll get to that later. That pertains to my game. I am sorry.
1:44.9	Kellyn Monde. No disrespect, Kellyn Monde. I'm not Mike Zimmer. I'm not disrespecting you.
1:51.0	But so, Kellyn Monde I apologize playing him playing younger players.
1:56.4	Amir Smith Marcette, Ken A Wong Wu, guys who might matter for the future in some way could
2:01.9	get a look and they did this 2019 they played
2:06.4	Alexander Hollins and Armon Watts who's had a pretty decent year got his first
2:10.4	look in that game Oli Udo who ended up being a starter not a good start his first
2:15.0	look in that game, Oli Udo, who ended up being a starter, not a good starter, but he got his first experience in that game as well.
2:19.0	I think there is a pretty good case to play the backups, but the best argument, Sam, might be the fact that if you're
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