and Hey everybody welcome to a very special episode of purple insider Matthew Collar here.

It is our schedule release show.

So the Vikings just dropped their schedule

along with the rest of the NFL,

although the leaks throughout the day on Twitter, I guess if you wanted to have it be like Christmas Day, then you needed to stay off social media where everybody sort of showed you the presents before you got to open them. But if you did stay off

social media and you're just finding out now, well then this is going to be a lot of

fun. So we're going to go through every single game, give some comments on each game, give picks on each game, and of course everybody watching live on YouTube. Your heckling is welcome, but I want to warn you, every single pick is absolutely correct. It is a lock guarantee so there's no reason to critique any of my decisions. No, I'm just kidding. We'll have a lot of fun analyzing each one of these games on the whole just kind of to start us off. I think it's a very balanced schedule. There isn't one section where I went, oh, no, that's going to be really tough.

The middle of the schedule, I think, has an opportunity for them to win a lot of games.

And toward the end, there's no going to Soldier Field at the very end of the season or going to

Lambo at the very end of the season so that's nice but it is a little weird that

they play Detroit then Green Bay, then Detroit again.

I mean, I guess since the NFL decided

to go with the playing within the division,

it was inevitable that they would have situations like this

where you would play a division opponent two times in three weeks.

But that is a little bit strange and I guess we're going to have to wait a long time to see whether the lions are for real or not because that could ultimately determine what happens with the Vikings playoff status not to ruin how I have picked these games or anything, but if they are fighting for the division,

those two games could be super, super important. So I think that the hard games, the big games are pretty well spread out. The buy is late this year but I think that the Vikings would prefer it that way.

If you're a team that thinks you're going to make the playoffs, then you would rather have the buy later as opposed to earlier so you can get back to 100% health

but they are going to play a lot of weeks in a row before they get to that week 13 by week.

Also shout out to the schedule makers,

get my respect for putting the Vegas game in December.

Thank you so much for doing that.

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