and Hello welcome to a very special episode of Purple Insider Matthew Collar here along with Eric Smith the Vikings.com and

a Vikings entertainment host Gabe Henderson I'm sure you know these folks

guys last year we got together and we did our very first ever draft sim the Vikings we call it the Vikings entertainment draft sim and so it's time and I would have waited a little closer to the draft,

but Eric's wife is going to have a baby.

So we needed to really do this now.

So congratulations to you, Eric, and welcome, guys.

Thanks for coming on.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Yeah, I appreciate it, Matt.

I'm on a time crunch right now, so we are three weeks away

from our due date, so it could be any day,

could be tomorrow, could be the night of round one. I just don't know. Yeah, every time I talked to Eric, the first

question I asked is, does he have his back pack yet? I think he said he said he, exactly,

he says he has his back pack, so he's got to go.

That's great. And I guess the baby gets named after whoever is taken first by the Vikings.

That's how you make the decision. It's easy now. You don't have to worry about it.

So before we get into the draft simming, we'll do three rounds. We'll each pick different players and then we'll talk about the ideas behind them.

But I just want to know what you guys think is left to do on

the slate for the Vikings off season. I wrote a piece for our website where I looked at

some of the remaining free agents and I mean there's still people out there and what we know is that they've been willing to move around cap space and money so maybe you can each if you want to start Eric give me an opinion on what you think is left to do to fill out the rest of this

roster and free agency.

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