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St. Xavier University, Undercenter podcast today.

We're fortunate enough to be joined by Matthew Collar covering the Minnesota Vikings for the Purple Insider.

Make sure you follow him at Matthew Collar.

Matthew, how are you doing today?

I am doing great, guys.

I feel like after last week when the Vikings were in London

and had an 8.30 game local time, I didn't travel over to London.

I kind of want that all the time.

I was just like watching football the rest of the day after doing my work. But we're back to noon starts and it's Vikings bears. And, you know, it's,

it's never normal when that happens. So I'm good. I'm ready for this. So listen, let's dive straight

into that on and I want your perspective from the bear side and what you see with this new team in a transition from our new front office and our new coach hit Matt Iber Fluse, the successes and the failures,

if there are successes that you've seen so far this season when it comes to the Bears

from an outside perspective.

Yeah, I think it's really interesting to look at through a Vikings and Bears comparison

of the timelines that the two teams chose.

So the Vikings had the opportunity to trade

away kirk cousins trade harrison smith trade deniel hunter like tear it all down to the screws and then

rebuilt uh and they chose not to do that they chose to keep everybody in place and i think probably

justin jefferson influences, that it's hard to

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