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

And we have something very special for you tonight.

I've just landed back from Phoenix, Arizona, where things that were very regrettable for the Minnesota Vikings

happened.

So we are going to break it all down plus talk about what comes next for the Vikings here

on a special roundtable, including Manning Hill, who is always here to break down every

game and Brian Murphy, who is normally Monday morning, Murph, but instead it's Tuesday

evening, Murph. Welcome, gentlemen. I am pleased to have you guys in the same room. You did a lot

of radio, including with me, uh, in years past. So I'm very excited for the next hour of discussion.

But I think, uh, the place we got to start is,

how's everybody feeling today?

Murph, how about you give your thoughts after a whoopin in the desert?

How did you wake up thinking about the Minnesota Vikings this morning?

I woke up thinking, am I really going to have to apologize for calling the fans a bunch of thumb suckers last week because they curled up after losing to Detroit?

And, you know, all hope was not lost, right?

There was still a path, perhaps, if not to the Super Bowl, maybe to the NFC championship game, maybe do a rematch in Detroit.

You know, I wanted to buck everybody up a little bit and say, hey, you know,

this is still going. It's not awake yet. And all the Vikings did was validate everybody's

worst fears and worst, you know, reflexive fatalism. So here we are. I'm giving in. I'm acknowledging,

you know, fans you're allowed to be let down and

feel let down and choke down the bitterness. I don't know how long you want to hold on to it,

because I hate to break up the pity party, but this is still a pretty good team in pretty good

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