and Hello,

welcome to another episode of Purple Insider Matthew collar here sports illustrated Vikings reporter will

reggots for the hardcore breakdown we are just hours away from the Vikings taking the field against New England Patriots.

How you feeling, Will? I'm feeling good. I'm very, very curious to see how this Vikings team

bounces back in prime time from getting embarrassed against the Cowboys and kind of giving

fatter to all of the people who doubted them. Not that that matters to them at all, of course,

but yeah, it's the narratives are going to be kind of one way or another.

We're gonna learn a lot about how they respond.

Is this just a one-time aberration where they didn't show up and they respond. Is this just a one-time aberration

where they didn't show up and they got smacked around

by a really good football team?

Or are we gonna see kind of some similar issues pop up

and then you start to think,

hey, what's this team ceiling in January?

So big game Thursday night.

And Thanksgiving football is just always fun.

It is, it is.

And I love covering games on Thanksgiving.

I'm sure that people with families and stuff who, you know, I mean my family lives on one coast and my wife's family lives on another coast, so we really never have had Thanksgiving since we moved to

Minnesota with our families anyway so I'm like I let's go let's have some

football in the 725 game just thank thank you Raj thank you Raj it doesn't get any better than that

because we get to watch all the other games and then go to US Bank Stadium the night

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