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

And welcome back to the show, Cody Alexander of Matchquarters.com, who in the recent past, we have always called upon to explain to us why the Vikings defense was so good.

But this is going to be a new assignment.

Actually, it's been a while since we have had a breakdown of what is going wrong with the

Minnesota Vikings defense.

And I highly suggest if you are into X's and O's film breakdowns, matchquarters.com is the best resource.

And I have heard from NFL sources that they read it every single week.

That is a true story.

Cody, where do we even begin with the Vikings defense?

I think let's go back to the offseason and kind of big picture with this thing.

Last year, one of the best defenses in the NFL, kind of built a certain way,

some veteran corners, run stuffers in the middle, outside linebackers doing a lot of different

stuff.

It's a very different look on defense.

And I'm going to tell you the truth. I thought that a lot of this would

work because they had struggled to get interior pressure in the past. So sign the DTs, go forward

there. Safety has been a replaceable position in this defense. All right. You let Cambinem go. That's okay.

But the overhaul on the defense after it was so good, rather than

kind of running it back, has not worked out for them at all. Do you look back at the offseason

and say, hey, maybe we could have seen some of this coming? Or is it more of just a surprise that

this didn't work out?

Yeah.

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