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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

The Defector's Kalyn Kahler talks about the Vikings' nepotism and chaos

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Football, Sports, Nfl Draft, Nfl, Vikings, Nfl Team, Minnesota

4.7958 Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Matthew Coller and The Defector's Kalyn Kahler talk about her in-depth piece about nepotism in the NFL, which centers around the Vikings. Why former Vikings players told her that Adam Zimmer's promotion to co-defensive coordinator was confusing. Is Gary Kubiak still involved in the Vikings offense with Klint Kubiak at OC? Why did the Vikings hire Klint when he hadn't had previous experience at OC before? What does this tell us about the way the organization is being run over the last few years? Get your NFL tickets at TickPick.com/Insider Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I want to remind you before we get started, the TicPIC is the exclusive ticketing partner of Purple

0:04.8

Insider and the Blue Wire Network. TicPIC should be your first choice to buy football tickets

0:09.4

because they save fans money by never charging service fees ever. Oh, I will welcome to another episode of Purple Insider Matthew Collar here and returning

0:40.9

to the show is Kaylin Koeer and this time Kalin we're not just

0:45.1

messing around and talking about quarterbacks or mid-season awards or the goofy

0:49.8

things that we do when I bring you on the show this time we have got some Vikings related reporting that you have done and

0:56.4

actually tremendous reporting. Kalin writes for Defector, formerly MMQB

1:01.5

bleacher Report,

1:02.6

everything that's famous.

1:04.0

And you have done an article called

1:06.8

Just How Big of a Problem is Nepotism in NFL coaching.

1:10.0

And I'm sure as I read that, everyone goes,

1:12.0

oh, because of the Vikings situation and I'm going to tell you the truth as we start here is I had not really thought about this all that much in the NFL in general.

1:23.8

It's just kind of a facts of life sort of thing.

1:26.8

Everyone's kid gets to coach a team,

1:29.6

and that's just how it is.

1:30.7

But your reporting really adds such great depth to it. So I want to ask you where you'd like to start with this

1:37.1

issue as it relates to the Minnesota Vikings because you wrote such a great piece in depth. Do you want to start with the second paragraph possibly as it relates to the Vikings?

1:48.0

And I'll start with, I can't remember like when in the reporting process I decided I was going to go hard on the Vikings and like get you know do some real reporting on the Vikings I don't I can't remember when it was I think at some point because I started

2:04.9

off by just going through every NFL coaching staff because like these stats don't exist anywhere.

2:10.7

Really like the NFL has a diversity report and they had a, they kind of had a stat in

2:17.3

20 about this, but it seemed really low to me. Like I think their number was like, 63 coaches related and I was like no no no no no

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