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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

A not emergency podcast breaking down the Vikings trade for Nick Mullens

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Football, Sports, Nfl Draft, Nfl, Vikings, Nfl Team, Minnesota

4.7958 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Matthew Coller analyzes the Vikings' decision to send a conditional seventh-round pick for former 49er, Brown and Raider Nick Mullens. Is he the guy who could give the Vikings a chance if Kirk Cousins gets hurt? What do the numbers say about Mullens? Why didn't they make this move earlier? Plus fan questions regarding the Cousins-Zimmer relationship, the rookie class and who you'd protect in an expansion draft. -- For more of Matthew's Vikings coverage, head to purpleinsider.substack.com For bonus discussions, interview clips, and more videos, check out our YouTube channel! Interact with us on Twitter! @Purple_Insider Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

and No, welcome to a in no way shape or form emergency podcast in which we will briefly

0:27.2

react to the Vikings trading a conditional seventh round pick for Nick Mullins because I am not dedicating my life to a seventh round

0:37.4

conditional pick traded for Nick Mullins.

0:40.1

I can't do it.

0:41.4

I can't take it. I don't have the energy folks to discuss this at any

0:46.7

sort of serious length. Hi everybody look the Minnesota Vikings if you didn't hear when I was just yelling, have a backup quarterback now.

0:57.0

And what I originally planned to do is to bring you what Kevin O'Connell said about the backup quarterback they just traded for

1:06.5

and what he said about Sean Mannion and Kellenmonde. But after being there today and listening to O'Connell's press conference

1:15.4

There's a thing on this show where I try to bring you guys

1:19.4

Facts truth information and insights and that press conference from Kevin O'Connell had

1:26.6

none of those things. He said it's still a competition it most certainly is not.

1:31.7

He said that you know he was happy with both

1:35.0

Sean Manion and Kellyn Monde that cannot remotely be the case or you wouldn't trade

1:40.9

for a proven quarterback

1:43.3

or a proven backup quarterback.

1:45.6

And, uh, you know, did not talk about which one

1:50.6

of the two quarterbacks he was more unhappy with even though I think it was clear from the practice reps

1:55.8

where Mannion was still getting more reps than Kell and Monde if you believed that there was something

2:00.8

there with Monde then you would have given him more practice reps today,

2:05.9

and that's not what happened.

2:07.4

So there's your total insight from the press conference,

2:11.6

is that there was none.

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