and Hey everybody welcome to another episode of Purple Insider Matthew Collar here and I am

back inside my Minneapolis studio just got home from

Indianapolis and guess what the Minnesota Vikings decided to break news

well I was flying back from the NFL combine in Indy by releasing Alexander Madison.

So we're going to break that down and then I've got a bunch of questions from Vikings fans

that I want to get to that I received while I was in Indy.

So let's start off with the Madison news.

Alexander Madison being released comes as really no surprise and creates, I know you guys are wondering about this, $3.3 million of cap space, which for a team that is still going to be squeezed to some extent, especially if there's dead cap hits from Kirk Cousins and

Daniel Hunter, they need every dollar that they can get their hands on.

So Madison creates a little bit of wiggle room.

According to over the cap.com right now they're sitting at

about 35 million dollars in cap space for all of those who are playing front office at

home just like me let's go back though to how this happened, how we got to Alexander Madison

being released. Last year when the Vikings decided to move on from Delvin Cook

they wanted to give Alexander Madison a chance at RB1.

And now that we know the results, we can look back and go, well that was a mistake to put him

into that position, somebody who had never been the Belkow running back in their career.

But when you look at Madison's history leading up to last year, there was a lot of reason

to believe that he could be a starting running back.

Now I don't think anybody was thinking this is the next Derek Henry, this is the next Adrian Peterson,

but paired with another running back,

kind of he's RB1,

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