Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of Purple Insider.

Matthew Collar here.

And yes, I am on the road, but that doesn't keep me from talking a little football with all of you good folks.

So I got a lot of great questions from Vikings fans to get to here.

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written camp reports will come from there. So let's dive right in to our questions.

First one comes from Nick, says back before we hired Quasi at Afo Menza, Ryan Poles was seen as the

best option. And when he chose to go to Chicago, it seemed like Quasi was the runner up that we

settled for. Did the Vikings luck out with the better GM

or is Poles simply a victim of the Bears environment?

I think that both of the GMs did not really start

in the exact same place.

So they were two very different plans.

And I actually remember when Ryan Poles chose Chicago

and the Vikings hired Quasi

writing an article basically saying, like, this is a battle of the rebuilds, that both teams

are in a position where they need to find a way to a lot of different things in the roster, but

most notably the quarterback situation. And then the Vikings are in a spot where they don't want to go all the way to the bottom.

Their ownership doesn't want to go all the way to the bottom.

But Chicago was in much more of a position.

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