and Oh, you Thank you,

everybody, welcome to another episode of Purple Insider Matthew Collar here, and as we are just hours away from the Minnesota Vikings playing against the

San Francisco 49ers on Monday night football figured that I would run down

some of my observations from Sunday and how they impact the Vikings to give you guys

something to listen to as you nervously waits for this football game and we have to

start with the Vikings and the 49ers injury reports which I think is a little

bit favorable for the Vikings but maybe not quite as much as they were hoping for. So Debo Samuel is out and he's going to miss a couple of weeks so he is certainly not going to play which is a big deal.

Debo Samuel is an all pro wide receiver.

He is a huge part of their underneath passing game

and a yards after catch monster.

They could put him in the back field.

They motion him like crazy that one is a big win for the Vikings to not have Debo Samuel there now Trent Williams is doubtful another, although if Trent Williams was not going to play in any game,

he would probably choose the one where he's going up against DJ Wannam and Patrick Jones

because Marcus Davenport is out.

So the advantage there is still big

because Trent Williams is one of the all-time

greatest players ever at his position and even if he's limited and cannot be the same exact version of Trent Williams, the domination is not going to be as big as it normally would be over DJ Wannam, Patrick Jones, whoever else they line up out there, and especially in the run game where Trent Williams is even better.

I mean, it's not that the Vikings get a whole lot of pressure from their backups for Davenport anyway, but at least sometimes they stuff themselves in there in the run game and you know if it's Trent Williams he's going to move bodies out of there and if it's not then they have a chance to do much better off that left side or the offense is left side right side of the defense that one's going to be worth watching during warm-ups. Is Trent Williams out there? Is he going to play and find a way maybe the extra day was able to help him get out there? We will see. Doubtful usually means they don't play though.

And then Christian McCaffrey, a report from Adam Schefter, appears that Christian McCaffrey is going to play.

He's a guy that's pretty used to playing banged up.

He's done that for a large portion of his career.

Him not being at 100%, potentially not having Trent Williams,

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