Hey, everybody, welcome to an emergency episode of Purple Insider presented by Fandul.

Matthew Collar here as always.

And the emergency is that Kyler Murray is now a Minnesota Viking.

The Vikings have just announced that they have signed Kyla Murray

to a one-year contract to become their quarterback for next season.

Now, this is something that we have spent quite a bit of time

talking about, breaking down, arguing about and debating about.

So let's get into the reasons why the Vikings would make Kyler Murray their quarterback,

the outlook for him for 2026 and beyond,

what it means for J.J. McCarthy and his future and what you guys think as Vikings fans

of now having Kyler Murray as the

quarterback of the Minnesota Vikings.

I want to start out first.

I know that Tom Pell Serro tweeted that they're hoping competition will get the best out

of McCarthy, but I think that we can say right off the bat that Kyler Murray is by far

the most likely option for the Minnesota Vikings as their starting quarterback really from day

one. And we saw last night as things were getting sorted out of what Kyler was going to do,

what his plans were.

And it was kind of interesting because Tom reported along with a radio host from Arizona that Kyler Murray was going to have some Zoom meetings with teams that might potentially

need a starting quarterback for 2027, reintroducing himself to some of those teams.

So I think it's in Kyler Murray's plans to have a very good season with the Vikings

and then see what happens after that, maybe similar to Sam Darnold or potentially stay with the Vikings.

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