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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

BREAKING: Vikings trade Mekhi Blackmon (Part 2)

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

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

4.7958 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Matthew Coller reacts to the Mekhi Blackmon and what it signals for the Vikings roster build. He also breaks down the latest in Vikings receiver search 2025 and looks at a few notable players who they released early. The Purple Insider podcast is brought to you by FanDuel. 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

Yeah, I mean, the Kurt Russell says they can't keep all of them,

0:10.5

Coker, Thielen, Renfro.

0:12.7

Yeah, I mean, they can, but, you know,

0:14.4

Thielen being kind of expensive to be behind some of their other guys,

0:19.2

who they like a lot, would not make a lot of sense for them.

0:25.6

Uh, Todd, thank you for the super chat. Are you going to have Courtney Cronin on the podcast in the

0:29.2

near future? Yes, definitely, definitely. I will have Courtney on the week that they are going to

0:35.0

play the Chicago Bears. That, that is a certainty for that week that Courtney will be on the show.

0:41.6

Yep.

0:43.0

So they're in a spot here with a lot of movement still to go.

0:48.2

And this has been something that I don't think the Vikings from 2015 to 2018, 19, did a whole lot,

1:01.4

but they've certainly done a ton in recent years.

1:04.7

Thanks TLS for the super chat.

1:06.3

Appreciate that.

1:07.6

Which is these, these moves that are either in the season or that are like, you know,

1:15.9

two weeks before the season.

1:17.9

They did it with the Chris Hernd and trade.

1:20.2

That was out of sheer desperation.

1:21.4

But this leadership has done it a lot.

1:24.6

I mean, whether it was going out and getting Hawkinson, the Cam Acres thing,

1:29.1

twice with Cam Acres, the Cam Robinson and acquiring Carson Wentz, they seem to not really

1:37.7

believe in just sticking with what you got and going there. They're always looking for improvement,

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