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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Wait, Micah Parsons' injury was real? (Part 1)

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

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

4.7958 Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Matthew Coller talks about the news from ESPN's Adam Schefter that Micah Parsons' back injury needed treatment and his status for Week 1 isn't clear. Plus Arif Hasan joins the show to talk Parsons and answers pressing Vikings 2025 questions. The Purple Insider podcast is brought to you by FanDuel. 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

Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of Purple Insider, Matthew Collar here.

0:10.7

And I want to start out by just saying that LOL Green Bay Packers, that'll teach you, you Packers,

0:20.5

that'll teach you to trade for a player who's got a big

0:25.0

name, right?

0:25.8

No, that's not really what I'm actually saying.

0:30.2

The Green Bay Packers trade for Micah Parsons, though, earlier this week.

0:34.8

And it's, of course, been the biggest news story in the NFL and parsons gets

0:40.7

to green bay and he starts practicing and everybody in the entire universe assumed that

0:48.6

micha parsons back injury that was keeping him out of practice for the Dallas Cowboys was just a

0:56.3

actually, I would like to be traded, actually I need a new contract, that that was the real

1:03.4

reason he had a back injury.

1:05.0

And yes, we have had recent examples of that with the Minnesota Vikings, including

1:10.2

T.J. Hawkinson's back slash

1:12.8

inner ear slash maybe it was vertigo that all the sudden got resolved in the minute that

1:19.7

T.J. Hawkinson got his contract extension and we all laughed and moved on and played football.

1:26.4

So Parsons arrives with the Packers, and even Adam Schaefter himself from ESPN, he made a little

1:34.5

crack about it on Twitter.

1:36.1

He's got a little bit of a sense of humor.

1:38.0

So he said, ho, ho, guess the back's okay.

1:41.4

And I think we all said the same thing.

1:44.1

I made the joke as well. And any time any of you asked in the live stream,

1:49.4

hey, do you think that that Micah Parsons back injury?

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