Purple FTW! Podcast

Now that Super Bowl LI is over, we can focus on what's REALLY important: How the Minnesota Vikings can make Super Bowl LII right here in the great city of Minneapolis.

Today's Talkers Include

Tom Brady Has the Same Skillset as Teddy Bridgewater

Jerick McKinnon is Better Than James White

The 2015 Falcons and 2016 Vikings Numerology is BS

Cordarrelle Has Thoughts on the Kickoff Rules

The MSFA Was Shady McShaderson

Minneapolis Super Bowl Coming Up

2017 Super Bowl Odds are Out

ESPN Predicts the Vikings to Lose in Super Bowl 52

Combine & Free Agency Coming Up

All that and more "Teddy/Bradford are basically Tom Brady" chatter on this edition of the Purple FTW! Podcast!

An Andy Carlson Joint

The Minnesota Fightin' Vikings obviously aren't playing for the Lombardi on Sunday, but there is no offseason in the NFL. We talk about this year's version of the Big Game and the Purple as they gear up trying to be a participant in the 2018 version right here in the great state of Minnesota.

Today's Talkers Include

Tackles That Could Be On the Trade Block

At Least the Vikings Took the Pro Bowl Seriously

Coach Stew is Gone

Senior Bowl Standouts

Vikings Rookies Did Not Play Many Snaps This Season

Former Vikings in the Super Bowl

Super Bowl Prop Bets I Like

Who I Got in the Big Game

Setting Up the Perfect Super Bowl Party

Am I Looking Forward to a Minneapolis Super Bowl?

All that and more "Everson Was Robbed of the Pro Bowl MVP" chatter on this edition of the Purple FTW! Podcast!

An Andy Carlson Joint

The great Chris Long (@ChrisLongKSTP) swung by to join us for a spirited chat about the Vikings, the upcoming Super Bowl, and Sid Hartman apparently was part owner of the Minneapolis Lakers... We talked about if this was Teddy Bridgewater or Sam Bradford's team going forward (from the player's perspective), where and how much Adrian Peterson makes next year, how the evolution of college offenses have come at the expense of NFL offensive line play, why Laquon Treadwell may have struggled this season, and a whole lot more.

All that and more "Chad Greenway 2017?" chatter on this edition of the Purple FTW! Podcast!

An Andy Carlson Joint

It's pure schadenfreude of Vikings fans to take pleasure in the Green Bay Packers being boatraced by the Atlanta Falcons 44-21 in the NFC Championship Game. AH WELL. To me, it was easily the 2nd best game of the season (Week 2's win over the Packers being the number one) and even though the '98 Falcons DID best the 15-1 Vikes and ruin my childhood, I hold no malice against the Dirty Birds. Mostly because the Purple beat themselves and Denny was too conservative in regulation. We GAVE the game away.

Plus the Falcons have been through a lot. The drama with Michael Vick, gutless Bobby Petrino saying deuces in the middle of a season (they had a helluva defensive coordinator though I hear), and also competing for fans in a hockey town. Because when you think Atlanta, you automatically think of the Thrashers. And Pepsi.

But I digress. It was simply wonderful to see Rodgers and company fold. Plus knowing they won't make any concerted moves in the offseason to improve the roster also makes me happy. It was disheartening the way the 2016 season collapsed, but the bright side is I think the Lions played over their skis this season, the Packers have Rodgers but not much else (plus general manager Ted Thompson won't lift a finger to improve the roster in the offseason), and the Bears are still a few years away from relevance. If the Vikings can make some splash moves this offseason (cutting Adrian Peterson and throwing all of that cap space at high-end offensive line free agents would count as a splash) and actually draft players that can come in and contribute without being babysat, the prospects of Minnesota returning to the top of the NFC North are promising.

Today's Talkers Include:

How the North can be won in 2017

Why shifting Kevin Stefanski to quarterbacks coach concerns me

My current ranking of offensive line free agent priority

Thoughts on the Senior Bowl

Paul Krause doesn't get enough love

George Edward's squad won the Shrine Bowl

I'm actually excited to watch the Pro Bowl this year

I go over a few Super Bowl bets that I like (NFL Betting Odds)

Super Bowl story lines that intrigue me

PLUS, since this is basically a numerology podcast masquerading as a football show, the Atlanta Falcons started 5-0 and ended 8-8 in 2015. The 2016 Vikings started 6-0 and ended 8-8. Coincidence? Probably. But let's try and keep the trend rolling.

All that and more "That was a Top-10 Vikings game of all-time" chatter on this edition of the Purple FTW! Podcast!

An Andy Carlson Joint

The Minnesota Fightin' Vikings might be out of the playoffs, but that just gives the team/fans a jump start on off-season news right? RIGHT? *Sobs Uncontrollably* Purple FTW! is back in action with some Purple talkers and praying to the football gods that the Atlanta Falcons (Dirty Bird and all) can somehow end this insufferable Green Bay Packers run.

Today's Talkers Include:

We're Gonna Know About Adrian Soon

Teddy Bridgewater & Anthony Barr's 5th Year Options

Linval Joseph Named to the Pro Bowl

Xavier Rhodes Long-Term Contract

Clancy Barone is the New Tight Ends Coach

Kennedy Polamalu is the New Running Backs Coach

We Could Still Lose George Paton to San Francisco

Players to Watch in the Shrine Game

All that and more "2017 Memes Are Weird" chatter on this edition of the Purple FTW! Podcast!

An Andy Carlson Joint

'Nuff Said. The Minnesota Fightin' Vikings are already looking towards the offseason, and while there are many decisions to be made before the draft (Adrian Peterson, Brandon Fusco, Andrew Whitworth, etc), they are not as fun as mocking where former unpaid interns will go in April's NFL Draft. Our man Luke Inman (Cold Omaha/eDraft) joins us at Blue Door University to go over his first Vikings Mock Draft of draft season and also critique my own hack attempt at a mock. Plus some SUPER sleepers.

All that and more "Slick Rick" chatter on this edition of the Purple FTW! Podcast!

An Andy Carlson Joint

The Minnesota Fightin' Vikings are at home watching the playoffs like the rest of us, but we're still here (freezing our butts off) pontificating about how the Purple can reload for 2017. We open the show with a few loose thoughts: Why the Sam Bradford trade was the right move, the REAL reason the Vikings running game was so anemic this year, and why you should keep a close eye on what happens with assistant general manager George Paton.

Later in the show, Andrea Hangst (Sports on Earth, The Comeback) swings by to expand on Adrian Peterson's future, the upcoming quarterback issue the Vikings may face, her thoughts on free agent targets Andrew Whitworth & Kevin Zeitler, and what Mike Zimmer needs to work on to become an upper echelon NFL head coach.

All that and more "We Shouldn't Have Fired Jeff Davidson I Guess" chatter on this edition of the Purple FTW! Podcast!

An Andy Carlson Joint

The Minnesota Fightin' Vikings finished out the lost 2016 season with an impressive showing Sunday at Historic US Bank Stadium defeating the Chicago Bears 38-10. The exhibition game mercifully puts an end to a roller coaster season that is right up there with 2010 in terms of drama and randomness. We recap the game and take a quick look as some offseason business.

Today's "Smile Because It Happened" Talkers Include:

Adam Thielen Does Not Get 1000

Sam Bradford Gets It

#FreeRashodHill

Pay Xavier Rhodes His Money

Some Mad Kyle Rudolph Props

I Still Believe in Jerick McKinnon

Trae Waynes Has More Ups and Downs Than

The Curious Case of Laquon Treadwell

Vikings Assistants to Keep/Not Keep

Chad Greenway and Adrian Peterson Done in Purple

All that and more "I Told Y'all About Rashod Hill" chatter on this edition of the Purple FTW! Podcast!

An Andy Carlson Joint

The Minnesota Fightin' Vikings have nothing to play for Sunday versus the Chicago Bears, a few statistical milestones aside, but that doesn't halt our non-sense here at Purple FTW! (nothing every does) as we roll through Episode Tree Fiddy. We talk about why it would be smart to sit Sam Bradford, why the TJ Clemmings experiment needs to end, and take an early look at how the Vikings can rebuild the much maligned offensive line through free agency at the draft before revealing our DREAM 2017 O-Line.

All that and more "Whitworth or Bust" chatter on this edition of the Purple FTW! Podcast!

An Andy Carlson Joint

The Minnesota Fightin' Vikings are out of the playoff race, the siding is falling off the stadium, planes are skidding off of runways, and the head coach has one eye. Pretty standard with how the 2016 season has gone. We welcomed Eric Eager of Pro Football Focus into the Blue Door Pub Studios to help us limp to the finish line of this Vikings campaign. Eric and I chatted Pro Bowl, the Packers massacre, how the offensive line can be improved (fixed?), the rise of Adam Jerome Thielen, and a whole lot more.

All that and more I was told there would be no math" chatter on this edition of the Purple FTW! Podcast!

An Andy Carlson Joint