This episode of Purple Insider is presented by Fandul.

How can you have us at one and two to, uh, to start the season?

Well, that's, I mean, just based on the fact that they have two road games and going to

Soldier Field is always tough for the Vikings.

I think COC's done a good job at Soldier Field in recent years.

They've won there, but it's never easy with a team especially that, you know,

has an entire offseason to prepare for those first couple weeks.

And then the Tampa Bay one just feels to me like maybe that's a letdown game,

but they have the same over under as the Vikings.

I feel like it's a very similar football team overall in Tampa and Minnesota.

And it's at Tampa after two NFC North games.

This is something that I have come to buy into over the years, which is if you have these

really emotional or really physical games and then you have to go on the years, which is if you have these really emotional or really physical games and then

you have to go on the road, even against a lesser opponent, it's super hard to come away with

wins.

So that's kind of why I decided to go that way.

But I know that a lot of you wanted 18 wins here in a 17 game season and you wanted to have every single one be,

you know, a victory.

But I can't do it that way just yet.

We got to see them start playing some actual football.

And then we can start to decide what we're, you know, going to see from the Vikings.

And that's why we do the bit.

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