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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

The Star Tribune's Ben Goessling looks into the 2022 season, whether the Vikings will be better than expected and the O'Connell-Cousins relationship

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 August 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Matthew Coller gets together with Ben Goessling of the Star Tribune to peer into his crystal ball and see the future. Will the Vikings win their first two games? Are they different from when we started training camp? Will Kevin O'Connell and Kirk Cousins be best friends by mid season? Do we believe the Lions are a scary opponent? -- For more of Matthew's Vikings coverage, head to purpleinsider.substack.com For bonus discussions, interview clips, and more videos, check out our YouTube channel! Interact with us on Twitter! @Purple_Insider Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

and Welcome to another episode of Purple Insider Inside TCO Performance Center, Matthew Coller here,

0:26.4

as always with Ben Gessling, Vikings Beat reporter for the Star Tribune, and you guys know what this is like if Ben's here you know what's

0:34.6

about to happen there are I have acquired a new crystal ball for a new coaching staff

0:40.0

I don't know if you're still working with the Zimmer version or if you have updated your

0:43.6

Crystal ball that we're about to look into Ben.

0:46.4

You know, I don't know that I got the memo, so we'll see if this one still works, if it

0:50.9

adapts from the Zimmer regime to the Kevin O'Connell regime but we'll give it a shot

0:55.8

and see what happens. Yeah well coincidentally they didn't do a lot that was different from the

0:59.3

Zimmer regime anyway rim shot so well anyway if you're rim shot, so we'll, well, anyway, well, if you haven't heard any of these episodes before, where have you been?

1:08.0

That we look into our crystal ball because Mike Zimmer once, when asked about an injury, and this is what I'm really adjusting to with

1:14.7

Kevin O'Connell just saying like oh he's day-to-day you're like oh well that's not fun

1:19.4

yeah it's more fun when Zimmer says I don't, I don't have a crystal ball to look into and that's and then I think it was like a local

1:28.9

What do they call future teller or something sent him an actual crystal ball.

1:33.2

Well, I think there was that.

1:35.2

I'm trying to remember because there was also in 2017

1:38.6

when he was talking about how there's no curse.

1:41.0

And I think he was like, I got a wood spirit or something like that.

1:45.0

He was kind of riffing on this thing of the team's not cursed.

1:48.0

We're gonna we're not afraid of it.

1:50.0

We're gonna be the team to break the curse and then Nick Foles had something to say about that.

1:54.8

But yeah, there was that whole thing too.

1:57.6

The crystal ball I think was probably, yeah, probably an injury riff and then we kind of went from there with it.

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