and Hey everybody welcome to another episode of Purple Insider and we welcome back to the show

Daniel Popper covers the Los Angeles Chargers for the athletic one of my favorite writers to follow.

And a few weeks ago, I don't know when it was,

middle of summer sometime, we said,

why don't we just get together and talk about teams and football

and everything?

And we were talking Daniel about how similar these franchises are, the Vikings and the Chargers, and lo and behold, the Spider-Man meme as we go into week three here, the Vikings and Chargers, both sitting at O and 2.

Let me begin with this question for you, Daniel.

How desperate is the football team that you cover?

Well, first off, thanks for having me on Matthew.

Like, every time I see a DM from you asking the pot, I love it because it's always a great

chat with you and I think we were just talking for about 10 minutes before we hit record because we just get

going every time I'm on here. But to answer the question I mean very desperate they were very desperate

heading into the season and I think that's kind of colored like you know the

coverage around the team for me definitely like everything was on the line

like that there were no questions about what the expectations were for this organization. Like they had to win, you know, and I think a lot of it stems from what this ownership group did last year, spending more cash on their defense than any team in the league,

giving Brandon Staley everything that he asked for defensively, whether that was trading for

Khalil Mack, whether that was signing Sebastian Joseph Day and awesome Johnson on the interior of the defensive line, whether that was signing.

J.C. Jackson, he has all of the pieces. He has all of his guys, and so it had to come together this year and so you know an

oh and two starters disasters like game one okay right like I think there were a lot of issues

defensively that I wrote about.

But Miami's looking like one of the best teams in the league,

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