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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Star Tribune's Andrew Krammer thinks Vikings can beat banged-up Packers

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

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

4.7958 Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Andrew Krammer of the Minnesota Star Tribune joins the show for our weekly hardcore preview of the upcoming Vikings game. Krammer and Coller dive into the reasons, and keys, to Minnesota upsetting Green Bay at Lambeau this weekend. The Purple Insider podcast is brought to you by FanDuel. Also, check out our sponsor HIMS at https://hims.com/purpleinsider 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 to another episode of Purple Insider, presented by Fanduel.

0:10.1

Matthew Collar here, along with Andrew Kramer, the Star Tribune, for our weekly hardcore preview.

0:17.2

And with this one, we'll have to see who's playing for the Green Bay Packers.

0:21.5

They have quite an extensive list of players who are banged up, but we'll go position by position and look at how these two teams match up, which I think outside of the quarterback position is either close or in a lot of ways in an advantage for the Vikings.

0:36.4

But we have to begin with that, Mr. Kramer.

0:39.8

It has been an entire week on this show, on every other show.

0:44.1

I'm watching NFL live, and Dan Arlofsky's breaking it down.

0:47.8

A lot of people, the QB school is looking at it.

0:50.8

Everybody trying to figure out, is J.J. McCarthy fixable? What can he do to improve? And this is a

0:57.2

very tough defense to try to do it against. It's also a very tough place to do it against. We saw

1:03.2

some adjustments last week from Kevin O'Connell, some very serious adjustments, I think,

1:07.1

schematically. How do you think the Vikings approach this game against a defense that has

1:13.5

Micah Parsons and throws a lot of different looks at the quarterback?

1:18.3

Yeah, when Kevin O'Connell talks about looking through the offense in J.J. McCarthy's film

1:22.5

and trying to find things that are routine, things that they are good at,

1:26.3

things that they can fall back on and

1:27.6

build a game plan around.

1:29.6

I think you look at the other 10 guys against the Chicago Bears and say they ran the ball

1:33.2

pretty good against them.

1:35.6

Aaron Jones obviously got some things going, but it was also Jordan Mason, those two

1:39.3

runs in the fourth quarter to set up the touchdown.

1:41.4

Justin Jefferson blocking Kevin Bayard to the point where he's

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