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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Why has Kirk Cousins' play dipped recently and does making the playoffs save jobs?

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

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

4.7958 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Matthew Coller and Brian Murphy get together to talk about why Kirk Cousins' performance has been spotty in recent weeks. Is there something that Mike Zimmer is supposed to do in order to get Cousins back on track? Is it fundamental to him as a quarterback and will it turn around as they go into a key game against the Los Angeles Rams? Plus, Murph tells us what he thinks will happen if the Vikings finish 7-10, 8-9 or 9-8. Can he convince Matthew to keep Zimmer on as head coach? Get tickets to this week's game at TickPick.com/insider 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.

0:30.0

I want to remind you before we get started, the tick pick is the exclusive ticketing partner. This tickets because they save fans money by never charging service fees ever. Oh, I'm a Tuesday morning, it is Monday morning, Merck.

1:11.1

Matthew Collar, Purple Insider here with you as always.

1:14.5

Happy to be with you.

1:15.4

And Murf, I woke up at 5.30 in the morning to fly back from Chicago today.

1:20.3

And after watching that brand of football between the Vikings and the Bears and drinking far too much

1:25.1

RC Cola in the soldier field press box, everything hurts.

1:29.1

So how are you doing?

1:31.1

Well, hey, I had to endure the broadcast, which was as bad as the product

1:34.6

product on the field. I don't know about that. I mean, that was, I guess it was a

1:41.8

win. They say it was a win. The numbers say it was a victory, right?

1:46.0

But as far as entertainment value, as far as urgency, as far as team identity, I don't think we know anything different about the Vikings this

1:56.3

morning than we did 24 hours ago, six weeks ago, July, anything, what did you learn?

2:04.0

Well, we don't get this too often because people on this show are generally very reasonable and people who listen to the show are reasonable about critiques of the team and performances, but I also would understand

2:16.4

if there were people either listeners, fans, media who said, look, they won, it's a December football game. But in this case, I would kind of redirect you to the head coach and the quarterback, who both acted like they lost after the game. Both Zimmer and cousins were basically just upset. Zimmer was talking about how we have to be better, we have to be better and how we got after everybody this week heading into the game in their meetings and they have to be better at a bunch of different things and he said you wouldn't have wanted to be in that meeting.

2:50.0

And here's cousins who has no answers to anything.

2:53.4

I listened to Justin Field's post-game press conference

2:56.3

and I thought that he won if you just heard the press conferences.

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