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Podcast RSS#Vikings Head Coach Mike Zimmer invited the local beat writers to Winter Park today for lunch and film. pic.twitter.com/HRgcsjzdB3
— Vikings PR (@VikingsPR) March 6, 2014
New Vikings Head Coach invited local team beat writers to a lunch/film session Thursday at Winter Park.
The fact that the event was reported by the new Vikings Public Relations Twitter account (@VikingsPR) should be lost on no one.
The act was deliberate, strategic, and genius.
Three things that are as old as time collide: human debate, human competition, and the Vikings looking for a new starting QB.
The debate will ensue on the Purple FTW! Podcast on Saturday. I’ll have a few in studio guests and we’ll go through the Bracket round by round until there’s only one man left standing who will lead the Minnesota Vikings to the promised land in 2014. #GoalGlendale #AllInWithZim
Seedings were based on likelihood of the player getting the nod. Hence, the embattled Christian Ponder is a #1 Seed (cause he’ll unfortunately be around) while the uber talented Teddy Bridgewater is only a #7 Seed (as TB will likely be gone by the time the Vikings draft). The Field is comprised of current Vikings QBs under contract (only Ponder), free agents, draftees, and a few randoms for LOLs. Although one could make a case Cordarrelle is the most talented QB on the team currently.
Should be fun! If it’s not an unmitigated disaster, the results will be on iTunes, our Youtube Channel, and the Blawg on next week.
[Editor’s Note: Heck, even if it is a disaster it will be posted anyways.]
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Eff it. Why not. Continue reading
It’s almost March Madness, so you know what that means… Continue reading
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Jennifer Lawrence already has an Oscar on her mantle and is up for another tonight (Best Supporting Actress – American Hustle), but what makes her great is everything beyond the acting chops.
She’s definitely a 1st Round Pick. Continue reading
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The Wife and I attended a friend’s birthday party last night.
It was good to catch up with old friends. Free beer is also a great thing. And as most conversation topics with groups men sitting around for more than 30 seconds tend to do (especially with beer), we talked football. Specifically what the Vikings need to do to make 2014 suck less than 2013’s 5-10-1. Continue reading
A lot of change this week around our humble podcast.
This new website will go from beta test to the purpleftw.com flagship domain. Excited about that. The old format was a solid, clean interface, but lacked the back-end items I liked to tinker with. The new WordPress platform will do until my cheap butt decides to farm out the website to more qualified people — which would be a large segment of the population. #TechNoob
The podcast stream will also be getting a makeover. Podomatic was good for us at the beginning, but Libsyn is a more viable option for us as we continue to crank out nonsense and start building a sizable catalog (hopefully).
A lot of neat stuff going on football wise. The combine is in the books, Free Agency kicks off March 11th, and the May 8th Draft will be here sooner than we think. It’s 13-month a year league and that’s one of the many, many reasons we love the NFL.
So there will be no shortage of things to talk about both on the new website/blog and podcast. Looking forward to it!
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Jadeveon Clowney is polarizing.
Everyone agrees he’s a physical specimen, but some experts say they wouldn’t touch him because of his motor (or lack thereof) while others would snag him in a heartbeat. The former thinks Clowney took the entire 2013 season off and half-hearted effort – borderline laziness – is part of his character. The latter thinks he has the God-given ability to end up the NFL’s all-time sack leader.
The truth is somewhere in the middle, but no one knows which end of the spectrum is closest.
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The Seahawks flipped the script on how to build defenses. Well… That might be a little far, but they definitely found a different way to build a mousetrap. A damn effective mousetrap.
Traditionally, NFL teams have looked to build their defense from the front backwards – have an elite front seven that can get to the QB and stop the run. The thinking was that any Tom, Dick, or Harry can play defensive back behind that.
Seattle ran that thinking backwards: Have two long, physical corners, throw in a MORE physical strong safety (long too), and put a future HOF at centerfield behind all of em.
Any Tom, Dick, and Harry can play in front of THAT.
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I started this blog section to contain my daily Vikings/random thoughts. Some might make it on the podcast, others… Others not so much.
Khalil Mack.
I heard about this really talented LB from an obscure MAC school (Buffalo) last year. A guy who could get home against double and triple teams consistently. A guy who could still muddy a pocket even though the QB, O-Line, Coordinator, heck the entire stadium knew where he was on every play. Mack was good, but I figured he’d be another small school/small conference guy who’d fall by the wayside. Maybe be a solid special teams guy for an NFL team down the line.
Then Ohio State. Continue reading
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