Steve Palazzolo analyzes Vikings chances vs. the NFC North

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

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4.7 • 958 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Steve Palazzolo of the Check The Mic show joins to break down Minnesota's chances vs. the rest of the NFC North after the Vikings upset the Lions on Sunday. 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, Matthew Collar here.
0:11.4	And from my number one podcast on iTunes, the 33rd team, the Check the Mike show,
0:18.2	formerly of Steve Palazolo, has an entire chapter in my book.
0:22.9	What's going on?
0:23.9	Mr. Palazolo, how are we?
0:26.1	Doing great.
0:26.9	Thanks for having me again, Matt.
0:28.3	Yeah.
0:28.9	Listen, the Vikings have been a very smooth, easy ride this year to cover.
0:33.3	It's just been totally normal, start to finish exactly what we expect.
0:38.4	You know, I mean, look, every NFL season is a journey.
0:41.2	And how many beat reporters out of 100 at the end of the year go, man, didn't see some of that coming?
0:47.8	Like, the answer is probably a very high percentage of us, right?
0:51.3	Except for maybe Buffalo, where they just always end up winning with
0:55.0	Josh Allen. But everybody else has got to ride the roller coaster. What do you make broadly of
1:00.8	that coaster that the Vikings have been on? Because I listen to your guys' reactions to every
1:05.9	Vikings game. And I feel like you're just like us, where one week it's, hey, McCarthy beats Chicago.
1:11.7	That looked great.
1:12.9	And then the next week it's, oh, baby Carson Wentz will play.
1:16.4	And then the next, like, and now they beat Detroit and get a big win that could propel them into the second half.
1:22.2	How have you guys, you and Sam Monson, managed this, the ups and downs of the Viking season.
1:28.5	Yeah, there's a lot of confusion.
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