Brian Marshall & The ROCK 108 Morning Show - "Justin Ekstrom of the 'Purple Positivity Podcast"

Let's talk about the NFC North.

And I've had him on the show before, host of the Purple Positivity podcast of the Beer Belly Sports Network.

Justin Ekstrom returns to the show to talk about the Vikings turnaround.

Welcome to the show.

Thank you, Mr. Marshall.

Good morning, everybody.

I am surprised.

I reached out to you a few weeks ago, and I know you couldn't do the show, but that's when the Vikings seem to be at their worst.

Yeah, it was everything was spiraling out.

Everyone that wasn't hurt got hurt.

How'd you feel when cousins went out?

It was a punch to the gut.

I'm not like the hugest cousins hater.

I'm not the hugest cousins lover You know me well enough where I'm in the gray, but I did not think For one hot second we were gonna be a better team without him right now He rattled off those two wins without him got five straight now a lot of that due to him due to his selflessness, too I guarantee you he is helping in some

way

five and four with the Vikings standing right now mid-season, three points of positivity.

What do you think?

What are some things that are good going right now for the team?

Josh Dobbs, the past or not, man.

Mike, unbelievable how awesome he did.

I bet you we could still talk about his contract, Inc.

still being wet and he's got two wins.

He might be playing himself into a contract with the purple.

You could never guess.

in a million years, he was going to be this efficient in this offense.

Second point of positivity, stick with the offense again.

I'm going to go with that offensive line.

I cannot believe they got rid of Ezra Cleveland at the trade deadline.

Slotman, he's playing himself into a contract because he can play at every position.

That offensive line, guys, I have not seen it play.

They just have some sort of semblance where all five of them are playing all 70 some snaps on offense.

When's the last time we could say that?

And then number three, this is another really easy one, but that Brian Flores defense.

I don't know if I said this on your radio show or not, but I went on air and said, if the Neil Hunter could come back for a one year contract,

He would have 17 plus sacks.

Right now he's at 12.

I mean, he might not get the 17, but he's well on his way.

This is his type of system kicks.

He went down.

Anthony Barr comes in.

I think if we get anything like he was four years ago for a couple of games, I

think we're going to be okay.

I'm a little concerned.

And maybe it's just because you're based in Minnesota.

But I don't hear in your three points of positivity, former Iowa Hawkeye, TJ Hawkinson.

I apologize for that because these others are so new to me, except for I got one weird thing about him.

I can't remember him grabbing with two hands the ball in the middle of the air and then just pulling it into his body.

Like even his touchdown on that seam route last week, it was right into his body.

He's not high pointing the football that you think most tight ends do.

Are we spoiled?

This is the, the Gronkh era and the Kelsey era and even Kittle and those guys, but T.J.

Hawkinson was heard in that second half.

Like he looked like he could barely get off the turf and that could be a little something.

These, this buy is going to be coming up here in a little bit.

Hopefully he can link to that buy and get healthy, those hyperbaric chambers or whatever they use these days.

The purple positivity podcast on the beer belly sports network, Justin Ekstrom joining us.

Where can they find the purple positivity podcast?

Where can they find you today?

Just type in beer belly sports on Spotify or anywhere that you guys on your new fangled devices.

And I'm not tech savvy enough to know any other names of those high quality things.

So I just say, yeah, but just push play push play on whatever.

Twitter slash X account.

What is it?

It's at the sports crib 21 or purple positive.

And if you just go to beer belly sports, though, Matt Gaffrey and those guys, funny as hell, man, they are hilarious.

Even if you don't listen to football or sports, they barely talk about sports.

They're just goofy.

Justin, looking forward to it.

Maybe we can have you on one more time before the close of the season and we can look at from five and four where we're at at that point.

Absolutely.

I know the last three weeks are going to be really tough because you got the Detroit sandwich in there.

But I hope we're sitting well enough for that last game at Detroit.

It does not matter.

Let's go get them.

Justin, thanks again for the time.

Thanks, Mr. Marshall.

Brian Marshall and the Rock 108 Morning

Show.