What's up, everyone? Welcome back to the Charter podcast, brought to you by St. Xavier University.

My name is Ruthie Polinsky, and I am joined by Alex Shapiro. As always, Alex, great to see you.

Also, so excited to welcome in Matthew Coller, who covers the Vikings for Purple Insider.

We're going to preview this matchup, Matthew.

Thank you so much for being here.

This is going to be an interesting one, and we're so grateful to have you here to kind of

break it all down from the Vikings perspective with us.

Oh, it's always interesting when it's Vikings and bears.

I mean, if you go through the history of this one, this is the week where over here, Minnesota, Vikings fans get very nervous because through

the years, we have seen the craziest things. One time the Bears beat the Vikings, well, I think

it was Rex Grossman through for 34 yards in a game. Chad Hutchinson beat the Vikings once upon a time and one of his only career wins.

There was a game in 2019 that I covered where the Vikings played so badly that Stefan

Diggs didn't show up to practice the next week.

And then the whole trade demand kind of started there and everything.

A lot of things tend to happen to the

Vikings in Chicago. So I'll be interested to find out what we get this time. I have kind of like

an overarching question just about these two teams parallel, looking at them preseason, right? I think

they both went in very opposite directions based off of preseason

expectations, right? I don't think, especially when you heard that J.J. McCarthy was going to be out

for the year. I think you kind of expected the Vikings to kind of maybe hang around, but I think

most people were picking them to finish last in the division. And now here they are, a very quiet

eight and two team.

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