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VIKINGS SCHEDULE IS HERE (let's pick every game) (Part 1)

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

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

4.7958 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

The Minnesota Vikings released their schedule on Thursday night. Matthew Coller analyzes every game, the schedule's best and worst parts, the potential road trips and key factors to each game. 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.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of Purple Insider presented by Fandul.

0:11.3

Matthew Collar here and the NFL schedule has arrived.

0:16.4

So we are going to go through every single game, talk about key factors, talk about what we think of this schedule overall, and whether the Vikings will win each game.

0:27.8

I have made some rules for myself and I'll reveal them as we go along.

0:32.6

But one of the things is that I should always have a let down game because every Viking schedule,

0:39.2

especially now that there's 17, but this has always been the case, there is a loss that we just

0:44.6

can't believe. So I challenge myself every year as I'm going through the schedule. You got to pick

0:50.5

a loss that nobody would expect. So save the pitchforks in the comment section.

0:56.5

Understand that's, that's my strategy for picking the Viking schedule.

1:01.6

And we'll get to a number that we think that they should end up with for wins.

1:06.1

And I want to get your responses.

1:07.9

I want you guys in the comment section to pick along with me, heckle my

1:11.4

picks all you want, and then at the end, we'll talk about whether it would be a successful

1:16.1

season for the Minnesota Vikings with what I come up with and the highlights overall of this

1:22.4

schedule. So let's get into it. The Minnesota Vikings open up their 2026 national football league season with the Green Bay Packers.

1:35.1

And I remember when they did this in 2022, we had some really good conversations about whether you like that or not.

1:42.0

Do you like opening up against your biggest rival at home?

1:46.2

For me personally, the answer is a thousand percent yes.

1:50.1

It's right off the bat, game with a bunch of juice,

1:53.7

and everybody inside U.S. Bank Stadium is going to be crazy jacked up.

1:59.7

Biggest rival.

2:01.1

Can't wait for this game.

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