USA Today's Doug Farrar talks about his book "The Genius of Desperation" and how it relates to the Vikings

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Matthew Coller

Sports, Fantasy Sports, Football

4.8 • 907 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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In the debut episode of the Purple Insider Book Club, Matthew Coller talks with Doug Farrar of USA Today, whose book The Genius of Desperation brilliantly lays out the history of innovation in the NFL. Doug discusses how the AFL set the stage for today's game and how teams beat the Vikings with innovative strategies in the early Super Bowls. Plus he discusses the origins of different defenses and how that connects to what the Vikings are set to play this year under Ed Donatell. Buy his book here: https://www.amazon.com/Genius-Desperation-Schematic-Innovations-Modern-ebook/dp/B07BB4C94S Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	and Hello welcome to another episode of Purple Insider Matthew Collar here and joining on the show for the
0:24.3	first ever Purple Insider Book Club, which is a thing I just invented today.
0:29.3	Doug Ferar, he's NFL editor at USA Today,
0:33.1	and wrote one of my favorite books
0:35.4	that I have read in years, The Genius of Desperation,
0:38.8	which takes us through an incredible journey
0:42.2	of advancement in the NFL. Doug, how are you? Welcome to the show.
0:45.8	Good, thank you for having me. I'm sorry people won't hear the guitar podcast we just did, but you know.
0:52.1	Well, Randy Rhodes and Paul Gilbert and back when people actually you know learn to play the guitar as opposed to, yeah.
0:59.0	I still see people in music videos holding guitars. I just don't hear anything that they're really doing with them and so there's like 11
1:09.1	YouTubers who can still shred and those are the people that we watch.
1:12.8	That's just how it is.
1:14.0	Pretty much it.
1:14.9	Yeah.
1:15.2	But we're, you know, we're too old far too.
1:17.6	Well, guitar has regressed.
1:22.3	Football, football's certainly not.
1:26.0	And, you know, I feel like I should get a PR fee
1:29.2	maybe a little bit for the number of times
1:30.9	that I mentioned in your book, and I thought, we really need to have a discussion here,
1:35.2	especially since it's May,
1:36.9	and I can't ask you about people
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