and Hey everybody welcome to another episode of purple insider Matthew Collar here live. Everybody welcome

everybody.

It's officially summertime where we do fun, sometimes goofy stuff, but a lot of times it's looking back in history and taking some time to breathe from the news cycle.

So as of right now, no news.

Maybe by the time I finish a podcast, but I don't think that actually applies in the middle of the summer.

So we can all turn off the notifications from Adam Schefter on our phones and hope that the police blotter doesn't show up with anything regarding the

Minnesota Vikings. But I enjoy this time of year because I'm not breaking down match-ups,

I'm not breaking down matchups. I'm not breaking down draft prospects and usually everybody's pretty chill.

So we're going to have a chill conversation about Sam Darnold. Here's what I've done. I have spent the last 20 minutes in deep preparation for this show going through every quarterback I could find that started off their career as a quarterback pretty tough and then found it somewhere else.

That's what I'm doing and trying to look for any comparisons I can to Sam

Darnold and here's what inspired me to do this. One, why not? Two is that I've done

several podcasts recently with, you know, fantasy football people

want to bring me on a New York Giants podcast that wanted to bring me on, doing the same thing

I'm doing. Like let's just talk about random stuff so they have me on their show and every single time the person who is talking to me about the Vikings their question is so is Sam Darnold really gonna do this?

Is he gonna pull like a classic Vikings thing here

and step in and play really well

with Justin Jefferson and so forth,

is he really going to turn around?

And almost every one of these people,

maybe they're being polite, I don't know,

says, you know, I think I could see it.

And so I've been asking people myself, you know I think I could see it and so I've been asking people myself you know that I know around the

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