and Hello welcome to another episode of Purple Insider, Matthew Collar, here,

and our next guest is making a return to the show.

But this time, he will not be tortured

by talking about the team that he writes about.

Rivers Macau, normally you come on here to talk about the Texans and you leave a trail of

woe after we talk however however this time for Football Outsiders, the Football Outsiders Almanac, you have written the chapter on the

NFC East, which has had a lot of woe, but you don't care as much about it it so we're going to talk about these Vikings

match-ups with the NFC East. How are you sir? I'm glad to be talking about

real football for once yes I will say I only wrote two of the NSCE chapters this year,

but I have been covering them for divisional stuff.

So yeah, we're all good talking about all the teams.

I also had right by the Browns for some reason.

I don't know what they did this off season. So I read that chapter too.

Well, they made you continue to talk about the Deshaun Watson. So, a situation, which just gets like weirder and worse for the Houston Texans as they

settle some lawsuits and so forth, but you will not be forced to discuss that because we're going to

go through these NFC East. Yes, these NFC East

matchups that the Vikings have on their plates this year. And if I make fun of the Texans

on the way.

I do not apologize for anything.

So let's start off with the Philadelphia Eagles,

though, that the Vikings face in week two.

It feels like the Philadelphia Eagles are sort of a sexy pick, if you will, Rivers, for people talking about who's going to win the NFC East and a team that I think has really well handled their own timeline like they sort of understood when it was over with Doug Peterson and they stacked up draft picks and then decided like we're kind of on the cusp of being a legitimate

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