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
4.7 • 958 Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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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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