Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of Purple Insider, presented by Fandul.

Matthew Collar here, and today on the show, we're going to break down the most interesting

matchups on the Minnesota Viking schedule and answer your questions.

Let's dive right in.

All right, we're going to begin in an absolutely shocking place with week one, Minnesota Vikings

against the Green Bay Packers to open the season.

It's been an interesting debate within Vikings fans of whether you like the idea of opening

up against the Packers because A, it brings a lot of juice.

U.S. Bank Stadium will be crazy.

There's implications right off the bat.

You are out of the frying pan into the NFL fire.

Let's go.

But then there's, I guess, the other side, which is, hey, can we just get into the NFL season a little bit first

before having one of the biggest games of the entire season?

You do remember that in 2022, the Vikings opened up against the Packers, and it went quite

well for the Vikings in that game, but, you know, debuting a new quarterback.

There could be some adjustment period for

the Vikings.

Maybe there's an advantage there.

I don't know if there is when you're talking about the familiarity that exists between

these two teams.

So Vikings Packers, you have crowd at absolute peak level, which I think is a big advantage

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