and Hello, welcome to another episode of Mid-afternoon on Wednesday left guard with former Minnesota Viking

Jeremiah Searles Matthew Collar here as always purple insider and

Jeremiah you know what I'm actually gonna say I've made fun of you a lot about the timing of the podcast not being every Tuesday morning.

But I want to start out by just saying how much I appreciate you working your schedules around to be able to continue to do this because you have

been incredibly busy this year. You were doing all the Cornhuskers, you know, broadcast stuff and everything else you're traveling around so there's a lot

been going on and I appreciate you finding different ways to make sure that you are

here to break down a seven and nine football team.

Well, I thank you and thank you for being flexible.

The listeners thank you for not pounding the table for yelling at me as well that because you all very much could but I appreciate it again I mean we're going to be

in either I think I'm in Dallas or Orlando next week it's one of the two so we'll make it work

we'll be here but you know what I wouldn't want to do with anyone else there, Matthew. I mean, who else love, misery loves company? I mean, also, I can't say you inform me of this with a nice beautiful stat. We have not had a winning season since you and I started podcasting together. So I feel like we kind of got it. We just got to see this thing through man. We're in a downtime, but we'll climb back out. We'll find our way out of the hole. We haven't had a winning minute since we've been. That is actually true. That is actually true.

Since starting Purple Inside, there has not been one second of winning football above 500 for the Minnesota Vikings, which is really something to think about how crazy that is.

And that's why I've been, I don't want to say melting down but maybe just struggling at times and maybe you've seen my

Twitter from last night of like the idea that anything should stay the same because think about that like COVID did not exist the last time the Vikings were above 500 this quarterback this coach this GM these guys have had a long time to be better than this.

And then when you hear, well, you know, if they only didn't play Oli Udo at Right Guard,

or if they only made this field goal, or they only whatever it's like you know the average playoff team was a hundred and fourteen points better and point differential than the Vikings pretty hard to buy that it was just you know this that or the other thing and so I guess that's where my frustration has come with well you know it's not the quarterback's fault or it's not the coaches fault I don't know seems like it's

kind of everybody's fault at this point yeah I think at this point you can't just piggy bat or

just piggy be like that guy that guy that and it's everyone it's a collective thing right football's a collective game now are there games that one or two plays one or two players come down and make the difference yeah but when you look at the course of an entire season, you have to take in every single factor.

And I mean, the factor is we can't really move the ball

and offense.

And I think that one thing that you were talking about

on your tweets and I wanted to get to it too is the fact that the run game was just bad this year.

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