and Hey everybody welcome to another episode of Purple Insider a very special

episode where we pick the schedule this is one of my favorite episodes every single year because the

picks always turn out to be 100% accurate. I've never ever missed the pick that I made right after the schedule comes out.

So there's a lot of pressure on me and I just implore you not to go back and research or look back at any articles or listen to any podcasts where I picked the

schedule in previous years. Just believe me that I got them all exactly right. So if you are here now, then you are very lucky because you're

going to get to find out exactly what's going to happen in this Minnesota Viking season.

So I've got the entire schedule load in this Minnesota Vikings season.

I've got the entire schedule loaded up for the Vikings.

I've got game by game.

I'm going to pick them.

Just one by one going to talk about the biggest

story lines that there are for each game.

I just finished up writing an article about the biggest storylines, the most difficult challenges

that the Vikings will face along the way and then a final record prediction as we must have on

schedule release day and I saw a handful of people today be like oh it's just a

schedule what's the big deal what do you mean was the big deal it's just a schedule, what's the big deal?

What do you mean was the big deal?

It's the middle of May, and our next big thing

that's gonna happen is probably the Justin Jefferson contract,

but after that, it'll be summertime and there will be less news and we can kick things around.

So this is our last opportunity until, like I said, Jefferson Signs, to really have like a big party. So let's have a party. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to go through all the games just one by one. I'm going to give you my pick, and give you what I think,

and go through some different thoughts,

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