and Hello welcome to another episode of Purple Insider, Matthew Collard here along with Sam Ekstrom and Sam I want to welcome everyone to what I'm calling

Timeline week. Okay? We are going to spend the week focused on not only the Minnesota Vikings timeline and how they get from point A to point B and where point B might be.

But also we're going to talk to some people around the league who cover other teams that are in very different places in some cases and in the same place as the Vikings in others and here's what inspired me is Vegas over-under's on Draft Kings came out,

and the Vikings are at nine wins for their over-under.

And Pro Football focuses analysis of this

is they have the Vikings at 8.3 wins of where they stand right now and

betting lines dot com or whatever it was called some betting site that I looked

this up on has the Vikings favored to miss the playoffs at this moment, which I think this is all very interesting to talk about what our expectations should be this year, what the timeline should be for the team.

And I want to spend a lot of time focusing on that,

but also on timelines for different players,

timelines for this upcoming draft,

the quarterback situation, all those different things. So welcome,

welcome to timeline week, Sam. I'm really excited.

Consider me pumped for timeline week and I'm excited to hear who else comes on to timeline week as well.

I think it's going to be a lot of fun.

Well, we'll have Nick Underhill who covers the Saints and Rivers McCown who covers the Texans

to talk about those different situations and actually there's a Texans

connection to this as part of the inspiration which is I was thinking about this

where the Vikings stand the the competitive rebuild thing.

And somebody asked me, like, wait,

shouldn't we still be Super Bowl or bust

from our expectations?

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