And welcome to another episode of Purple Insider.

This is another fans only podcast where I answer questions from Twitter.

And I have to say big thank you to everybody who has

tweeted me or emailed me and said keep doing the fans only podcasts and also a huge

thank you to the people who sent the questions because they're really good and we have a lot of fun with topics on the show and yet you guys always find ways of new things to talk about and great questions about this team.

So I have had a really fun time doing this.

So I've got my Diet Dr Pepper with me and it's a bottle this time so I'm not going to make the

incredibly loud opening sound but I've got it and I'm ready to go and I've got a

bunch of questions and I appreciate again everybody who has sent them out if you're looking for where you can ask a question to get on the show

You can tweet it to me or if you send me an email

Go to purple insider.com. There's a way to email me there. You can just say, hey, this is for the podcast, and I'll see what I can do as far as getting it on the fans-only show.

So let's get right into it because I've got still a ton of questions

remaining from the original thread that I put out a week ago. There were 75

responses so I'm trying to get through all the questions that I can here.

All right, let's start out with Warly Owl at Warly Owl, longtime follower and

listener, appreciate him.

When the GM's search was on, the Vikings were listed in articles as having good owners as a

positive that would appeal to strong candidates does that assessment still

ring true. This is a very tough one to answer because it's clear from the evidence that the

wilfs have laid out a direction that they want this team to go.

And that direction is to do a competitive rebuild,

to keep the players that they have,

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