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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Analyst Ollie Connolly: Vikings C Ryan Kelly is a GENIUS

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Sports, Fantasy Sports, Football

4.8907 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Matthew Coller is joined by Ollie Connolly of Read Optional to discuss new Vikings center Ryan Kelly and why he's such a great fit for the Vikings heading into 2025.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:09.6

And returning to the show is Ali Connolly, he writes the readoptional.com also contributes to the Guardian.

0:16.8

And the reason I bring up the Guardian, Ali, is because I was looking back.

0:22.1

I was like, oh, what have you written recently?

0:23.6

Let me go find some stuff.

0:25.2

And when you did a free agency analysis, your winners and losers, the number one

0:30.5

winner was the Minnesota Vikings.

0:32.6

So I want to start there with you.

0:34.3

And then we're going to deep dive into some X's and O's.

0:36.5

This is tape guy week where I'm bringing on a lot of the best tape analysts in the NFL to talk

0:42.6

Vikings and football. But I would love to know your rationale behind naming the Vikings,

0:49.6

your top winner of free agency in that article. Well, part of it was pure narcissism.

0:54.5

I'll confess that up front.

0:55.7

Going into Francy, my number one tidbit for any team in the league was go and get

1:00.1

the Colts interior duo.

1:02.0

Both of them are available.

1:03.5

I think they have the best combination across the league.

1:05.6

This includes all the best center guard combinations of awareness and chemistry together,

1:10.3

picking things up, passing things

1:11.7

off, and then I'll leave, which I'm sure we'll get to where everything now is about moving

1:15.4

fronts and mugged looks and all these different wonky pressures people are throwing

1:19.0

your way. Communication wins out above everything else. So if you have a clear issue, which the Vikings

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