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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Arif Hasan breaks down Vikings troubling draft history

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

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

4.7958 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Arif Hasan of the Wide Left newsletter joins the show to discuss the Vikings' firing of Kwesi Adofo-Mensah and look back at the the team's troubling draft history in recent years. The Purple Insider podcast is brought to you by FanDuel. Also, check out our sponsor HIMS at https://hims.com/purpleinsider 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 Fandul.

0:09.9

Matthew Collar here, along with Aereef Hassan of the wide left newsletter.

0:15.5

And, wow, there's been a lot to write about at the old newsletter.

0:19.7

Here's A reef going to the senior bowler, the shrine bowl or whatever you do on this time of year,

0:25.3

just typing away about little analytics things at the shrine bowl and thinking, I'll just have nice little quiet.

0:32.0

Oh, there's Quacy at the senior bowl.

0:33.7

Nice.

0:34.1

And he's fired.

0:35.6

And so, you know, you wrote about this i wrote about this

0:39.4

and i want to dive into some really specific areas of it and what comes next and and what it means

0:45.9

but only in in a way that i feel like only you can which i think really begins to me i know that

0:52.5

there's like jokes that i would make off the air to you about that,

0:55.5

but I'm going to stick with the football part, which is, which is really a reef, the draft.

1:01.9

So I went into everything that happened with the draft and the draft picks for an article

1:08.8

that I wrote today.

1:09.9

And one thing that I kept coming away with was that when Quasi Adolfo Menso was hired,

1:15.6

we expected a certain approach, people like you and I that had followed the analytics world

1:19.8

for a long time.

1:20.9

And that approach just didn't ever really come to fruition.

1:25.9

And I find that to be fascinating outside of the 2022 draft, which was a analytical

1:32.2

approach in some ways and then even questionable in other ways, the amount of trading that

1:37.5

happened there.

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