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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Vikings make no trades at the deadline (Part 2)

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

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

4.7958 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Matthew Coller reviews the NFL trade deadline's biggest deals and talks about the outlook for every position now that the Vikings did not make any moves. The Purple Insider podcast is brought to you by FanDuel. Also, check out our sponsor HIMS at https://hims.com/purpleinsider Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0

This episode of Purple Insider is presented by Fandul.

0:09.9

Let's see.

0:10.8

Surly Viking says you consistently blamed the D and excuse the offense for injuries.

0:16.7

Those injuries existed on both sides.

0:19.9

So, well, you know, I think that injuries impacted both sides.

0:25.6

That doesn't mean that they should have lost the games that they lost or that they're

0:30.1

beyond criticism for losing those games.

0:32.3

Like, they're four and four.

0:33.8

And if you are what your record says you are,

0:40.8

then I think when you lose 37 to 10, we're not going to come off that and be like,

0:43.1

oh, everything was fine.

0:45.5

You know, the defense against Jalen Hertz allowed a perfect quarterback rating.

0:50.8

And it was almost that against Justin Herber.

0:53.7

He stood in there and made play after play.

0:56.3

Receivers were wide open. So the offense's injuries were different because it was a quarterback.

1:01.8

I mean, you have a backup quarterback. Again, go around the league and look and tell me how many on

1:05.7

any given year backup quarterbacks are winning more than half of their games. The answer is not

1:09.8

that many. And then you're playing with a wounded backup quarterback, but that doesn't mean you should be giving

1:14.6

up 70-yard touchdowns to Devante Smith or 50-yard touchdowns to AJ Brown or like that's,

1:21.5

or even what they did against Detroit. They had a great defensive game plan. They still gave up

1:27.1

24 points because they gave

1:28.7

up huge plays in the secondary. It didn't tackle that well in the secondary. I've said before,

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