You're going to be. Hey everybody welcome to

welcome to another episode of Purple Insider Matthew Collar here and if you're

watching on video no I am not in a hostage situation I am just

visiting family and am kind of recording this late at night in my father-in-law's office,

which doesn't have a working overhead light.

So I look a little bit interrogationy,

but we're gonna still talk lots of football.

So hopefully this works for you totally fine for me

it'll be a couple days where I'll be out of the studio then maybe the lighting won't

be quite as beautiful and so forth but we'll be just fine talking football I think.

I've got lots of fan questions. We're going to talk about some of the reaction coming out of the Vikings

Bengals game, what it looks like in the light of day, and of course a long day of football on Sunday

when a lot of games had an impact on the Vikings playoff odds. Now here's the funny thing about the playoff race

because the Packers lost today and Tampa Bay

won against the Packers.

Somehow Baker Mayfield had a perfect quarterback rating and wherever is supposed to predict football and Baker Mayfield goes into Green Bay and has a perfect quarterback rating. Are you serious?

But you know, I'm playing around with the quarterback rating, are you serious?

But, you know, I'm playing around with the New York Times

playoff machine after today's results.

And I just plugged in, what if the Vikings win

and what if they lose against the lions after what happened with the bucks and the New Orleans Saints got a win against the New York Giants?

So they're up to seven and seven as well the Rams up to seven and seven so we have a lot of teams that are jockeying for

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