and Hello, welcome to another episode of Purple Insider. We continue Games Week here on the show

with Ben Gessling from the Star Tribune to return to play a classic purple insider podcast game.

We look into Mike Zimmer's crystal ball,

although it is no longer Mike Zimmer's,

now it is ours.

It belongs to us, the crystal ball now, Ben.

What is up?

He didn't, uh, he didn't pass that thing on to Kevin O'Connell?

Uh, no, I don't think so.

He left it behind, like a momento for us to be able to use any time.

Now that we're in possession of it it we know that it did not get to

Kevin O'Connell I'm just a little surprised that it didn't given how much good it did for him over the years.

We also don't need it now because I think the new coach will just tell us what's going

out with someone's injury yeah yeah I mean I think everything will be on the

up and up from here on out I see no reason to need it but we'll keep it around

just in case there's a point at which we have to

look into it to divine something that's happening. Okay the way that it works with the

crystal ball game is basically I ask you to look into your crystal ball and we talk about

things that are going to happen in the future and usually I go right beforehand

so let's let's talk about the immediate future and then we'll push

our way out as it becomes fogier and fogier in the crystal ball so

let's talk about next week in the draft.

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