and Hello welcome to another episode of Purple Insider Matthew Collar here and this is a

fans only podcast where I take your questions from Twitter and answer them.

And the biggest key is that I do not read them beforehand.

So I can just give you my instant reactions and sometimes look stuff up on the fly and give you the best

answers that I can to all of your Minnesota Vikings questions.

So I usually put out a call for these on Twitter, but even if you send me one at random and say, hey, this is for the

podcast or email me if you go to purple insider.com and say, hey, this is for fans only

podcast. Can you answer this question I will I will put it in there

and it usually takes a few episodes to get through everybody's questions but I'm trying to

answer all of them even if some are similar I'll try to look for a different angle that we could talk about so let's get right into it I have as always the Diet Dr pepper

all right we're ready to go.

Let's start with this.

This is from at A. Vikes Fans.

I'm sorry, at A.V. G G so average Vikes fan okay he says fans only question are the

Wilfs modeling their franchise around the New York Giants Eli Baltimore Flacko Plan, just try to get in and get lucky seems

like major outliers.

Well, you know, when they keep bringing up the idea of just getting in and then seeing what happens. That makes you

wonder if that has shaped their view and last year two four seeds got to the Super Bowl and maybe that solidified their view now for many years it was either a one or a two and now I think things can be a little more random because there isn't two automatic home field advantage

teams. So I think that that helps in terms of the randomness of going through the playoffs without being that number one seed.

But you know one thing is it's always hard to answer Wilf's questions because

is that just something that they say knowing that this team is not at a point where they can really compete to win 14 games and saying okay well then we set our bar at the playoffs and

then let's see what happens I think a lot of us who look at it as

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