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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Cap expert Troy Chapman breaks down Vikings cap situation, QB options (Burrow???)

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

🗓️ 21 January 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Troy Chapman of the Cap & Trade substack joins the show to breakdown the Vikings' cap situation and discuss what the team would need to do to land different QB options this offseason. 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.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:10.6

Matthew Collar here.

0:11.7

And returning to the show, whenever we need to figure some stuff out about the Minnesota

0:17.1

Viking salary cap, well, we used to have a cap guy on the show, but then he got hired to be an agent.

0:23.5

So now we got a new cap guy.

0:24.9

And that is Troy Chapman, cap and trade on Substack and YouTube.

0:30.1

Great, great resource to understand the salary cap.

0:34.0

Also works for overthecap.com, which Troy, I don't even know what we would do without it.

0:40.5

We would just be guessing about where all these teams stand with the salary cap.

0:45.2

But now we can play GM because of over the cap.com total game changer.

0:49.8

So welcome back to the show.

0:51.7

And I hope you're ready to deep dive into the Vikings financial situation and what they can do this off season.

0:59.0

What's up, man?

1:00.3

No, thanks for having me, Matt.

1:01.6

I appreciate you.

1:03.1

Appreciate the invite.

1:04.8

Yeah, I mean, Minnesota is always a fun situation to examine that, you know, like I said said in the past I'm a big fan of the general

1:13.9

manager over there and and how the team is run and how they manage their sally cap situation so

1:19.8

I was taking a look at the past few days you know just kind of a little bit of prep before this

1:24.4

a little bit of studying and it's a little bit different than I was expecting, but there's a lot of flexibility

1:32.0

there.

1:32.5

So I don't think it's as bad as it would seem on face value.

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