and Hey everybody welcome to another episode of Purple Insider Matthew

Collar here and joining me from Defector Drew McGarry demanded to return to the show to give his takes about

J.J McCarthy. I said no I've got way too many guests I'm really busy he said no we're

going to do this so he forced his way back no seriously I I needed to get you back Drew because we did a podcast right before the draft where you talked about ranking your quarterbacks all the things that you wanted, all of your hopes and dreams, and well, not all of them came true.

So I need to know your reaction, how you're feeling, and then we could talk about the future of the Minnesota Vikings, but take me through it. How do you feel?

Right, so I, that podcast I was like, dead certain that we were getting May right I was like we're

trading the farm we're going up that's who Kevin O'Connell wants he made it

plain you know with the the church thing I think that's still. I think May was his favorite by far.

And then they they didn't trade up and so I'm sitting there on draft night and you know the

clock sticking down on on the commanders and I'm like well that's probably not going to happen and then I was like well maybe they'll be stupid and take McCarthy at two and then like Shefter later on reported he was like he's like well they only considered Daniels or McCarthy at two and not Drake May and I know

I don't know if I believe that whatever who cares anyway so then the clock's ticking on New England and as the clock's going down, like I'm checking, because you know, the telecast is always behind Twitter, right? Like if you like Albert Brewer was breaking those picks like

Abergere Brere is useless like in general, but like for this he like he would have

the picks before the guy. So I could see that or I can see Shefter saying, oh no, the Patriots are sticking and picking.

By the time there was like six or five minutes left on the clock,

so it was like, oh, all right, all right.

So then four and five happen, and those teams teams stick and that's when so at the beginning I was like

uh all right well it's just good we're gonna we're gonna have to trade up like a shitload to get McCarthy and I guess I'll be like some of the things where I like

I would be I would force myself to be okay with it and be like okay and then it was like oh wow

we're gonna get them for nothing actually.

And, you know, and I actually, I do value fourth and fifth round picks because they turn into,

sometimes they turn into serviceable guys, you know, so like, you know,

Stephen Diggs was a fifth round pick, right?

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