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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

What was it like to play under Mike Zimmer? Former Viking Jeremiah Sirles explains

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

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

4.7958 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Former Viking Jeremiah Sirles joins Matthew Coller to talk about the firing of Mike Zimmer. Jeremiah talks about Eric Kendricks' comments about a fear-based organization and explains what it was like to play under Zimmer and how the environment made it difficult on players at times. Jeremiah said his hard-nosed mentality may have hurt relationships with players. Plus he talks about what he'd want in the next coach and the most exciting NFL playoff games this weekend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What else can give you a wave of goosebumps like this?

0:04.0

This is history, two men with legacies on the line.

0:07.0

And then send you into a state of complete euphoria.

0:10.0

An adulteration, Titanovarity, that's starting from breach, two goals in the... The of his all in the dark. Will it be his last? Thank you so much.

0:27.0

TMT sports, only sport can do this. Oh, welcome to another episode of Purple Insider Matthew Collar here and folks I want to talk about commitment.

0:57.0

Our friend Jeremiah Searles for Tuesday morning left guard could have, hey, can't do it this week.

1:05.0

Got a lot of things going on.

1:07.0

I'm traveling from this bull to that bull.

1:09.0

I'm doing these agent things that I'm trying to be big time,

1:12.0

trying to be the next Mike McCartney to negotiate the huge quarterback contracts and such instead he's doing long snappers

1:19.2

But finding time from a hotel somewhere in Florida,

1:24.0

Jeremiah Searles, I really appreciate it, man.

1:26.8

What's going on?

1:27.8

Oh, I couldn't miss this week, dude.

1:29.4

We talked about last week, how this week could be like content central and I'm running

1:33.2

around dallas I'm running around Orlando just watching my phone going yes

1:36.5

content content so yeah I'm good I'm here at the hula bowl down in Orlando is at the

1:42.3

CGS bowl in Dallas earlier this week. So it's good to get down here. Down to UCF campus, we were just talking before the show. This place is amazing. I guess there's like 53,000 kids or something on campus, which is wild, but I totally get it now that I'm down here.

1:56.2

Yeah, I went there once. I went to an Orlando Magic game when Dwight Howard was playing there,

2:01.2

and it was unbelievable to watch him play basketball.

2:04.2

Before the game, I don't know how much you ever got to interact with NBA guys at all.

2:08.1

But before the game, I was watching Dwight Howard warm up and he was standing out of bounds like beyond the three

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