Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of Purple Insider, Matthew Collar here.

And we have a general manager candidate, everyone.

Uh, I did say that I wasn't really going to talk about specific people until we knew who the specific

people are. Of course, you know, we could take some pretty good guesses based on the search

firm that the Vikings are working with or what names have been out there for interviews for other

teams. But I thought, you know, there's a halfway decent chance that some of these

names start to trickle in when the Vikings make their requests.

And that was correct.

So we have our first general manager candidate request.

Tom Pelliserra of NFL Network is reporting that the Vikings have requested an

interview with Buffalo Bills Assistant General Manager Terrence Gray for their GM job per source.

Gray spent 11 seasons with Minnesota as a college scout before joining Buffalo in 2017.

So let's dig into the idea of Terrence Gray as the Minnesota Vikings

general manager. Well, first off, the scouting background is expected in this, not just because

most of the people who are in front offices have a scouting background,

but as per usual, if you hire an old school head coach, when you fire him,

you hire a new school head coach.

And when you have a general manager with a different background,

you go and interview general managers that have backgrounds that are very typical of ladder climbing in the national

football league. Now, I don't mean that to be, I only am being a bit snarky. I don't mean that to be,

you know, degrading of Terrence Gray's background. Actually, I think under the circumstances and

with the current setup, at least the way that it is right now,

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