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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Analytics expert Kevin Cole analyzes Vikings' ceiling with Kyler Murray

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

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

4.7958 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

How good can the Minnesota Vikings be with Kyler Murray as their quarterback? Analytics expert Kevin Cole from Unexpected Points analyzes the Vikings' ceiling with Murray. Can they legitimately compete for a Super Bowl with Murray at quarterback? What factors will play into it? Would Kevin bail on JJ McCarthy after the Vikings signed Carson Wentz? Did the NFC North have a good free agency overall? Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of Purple Insider, presented by

0:26.7

FanDuel, Matthew Collar here.

0:28.3

And on the show today, Kevin Cole.

0:30.6

All right, Kevin Cole from the terrific unexpected points newsletter, a deep dive of data from Kevin, formerly of PFF, and somebody we've

0:41.5

leaned on a lot here on the show to fully understand analytics and also a lot with

0:47.8

quarterbacks too.

0:48.8

You've had this very big project you've done in the past with trying to rank all the

0:53.6

quarterbacks and put it in context and all those things.

0:56.6

And something during free agency that you've done every year, Kevin, is the

1:01.7

improvement index.

1:03.6

How much did every team actually get better during free agency?

1:08.1

And you know what?

1:09.3

Gets people worked up.

1:10.6

Every time you send it out,

1:11.8

it gets people pretty worked up. But here's the thing that people might not expect if I said to

1:16.9

Vikings fans, well, where do you think the Vikings rank in that? I think they'd be like a 28th. No,

1:23.0

on the positive side of the ledger of the improvement index. So why don't we just begin with, how's that work?

1:31.2

Explain that to me, Kevin.

1:33.0

Sure, sure.

1:33.8

Yeah, I'll try to explain it.

1:35.8

I mean, anything you can do where you can rank order teams include some sort of very

1:43.2

rudimentary graphic design in there, boom, you know, engagement,

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