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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

The latest on Everson Griffen's situation and how the Vikings will handle the 49ers shorthanded

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

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

4.7958 Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Matthew Coller and ESPN's Courtney Cronin talk about Everson Griffen's Instagram post and what's happened since then. They outline the day at TCO Performance Center and how "Next Man Up" doesn't really work in this situation. Plus, now the Vikings are completely decimated on the defensive line, so how will they take on the 49ers? What does this also say about how the Vikings have to be an offensive team now? Will this be Mike Zimmer's best coaching job if they make the playoffs? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What else can give you a wave of goosebumps like this?

0:04.0

This is history, two men with legacies on the line.

0:07.0

And then send you into a state of complete euphoria.

0:10.0

An adulteration, a tender party that's

0:12.8

stumped and breached two goals in the blink of an eye.

0:16.0

And then leave you with a tear in your eye like this.

0:19.0

Gave off his all in the dark.

0:22.0

Will it be his last? Thank you so much.

0:27.0

TMT sports, only sport can do this. Welcome to another episode of Purple Insider, Matthew Collard here alongside Espans Courtney

1:00.3

Inside the CCO Performance Center.

1:02.8

And as we are recording this,

1:04.8

the Everson-Griffin situation is still in flux.

1:07.6

But I felt like we wanted to get together

1:10.9

and have a conversation about what is going on with Everson Griffin and as things change and Rick Spielberg is supposed to talk later,

1:18.0

then we'll have more for you here on the show. But this has been a really difficult day I think for

1:27.2

everybody in the building when we all woke up we saw Everson Griffin's Instagram post and I think every one of us thought back to

1:36.6

2018 and him missing some time due to mental health issues and then when we arrived

1:42.4

we got a statement from the Vikings that people were at his house and

1:47.4

you know mental health professionals and so forth and so I think our first impression was okay, they're dealing with this and we'll see what happens.

1:55.0

And now as we speak, Everson Griffin is still inside of his house and the police are there.

2:01.0

Rick Spielberg is there. the Vikings personnel are there, and it is a very scary

2:06.7

situation for someone who has seemingly gotten things back together in his life and is who has played extremely well this year and has talked on multiple occasions about how he was in a good place.

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