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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Drafting a playoff fantasy team

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

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

4.7958 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

As we look ahead to the upcoming Wild Card weekend, Mike Schopp of ADP Chasing and WGR 550 in Buffalo joins the show to preview the playoffs. Mike and Matthew also draft their playoff fantasy team. 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.

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0:00.0

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

0:10.0

Matthew Collar here.

0:10.8

The show is always presented by Fanduel.

0:13.6

And this is our fantasy show with Mike Schoep of WGR 515 Buffalo and ADP chasing.

0:25.8

And this is one that we have been looking forward to for quite a while where we are going to pick our playoff fantasy team.

0:29.9

And there's, Mike, there's a lot of different options here.

0:32.4

And I think what makes this so interesting is that there isn't really a true clear cut. Oh, it's Tom Brady. Oh,

0:41.8

it's Patrick Mahomes and they're playing at home and we know they're going to at least be in

0:46.2

the championship games. Uh, we kind of don't know right now going into this, which I think

0:51.6

should create some very interesting conversations as we put

0:54.6

together our playoff fantasy team. So I'm excited, man. Yeah, good. Yeah, no doubt. That's the theme of

1:00.5

this year. I'm in Buffalo on the air every day. And from a Bill's perspective, it's, it's not so much

1:08.0

how interesting it is or different that it is or as it is what an opportunity they have.

1:13.7

I'm not saying that necessarily buying into the idea that this is like an easier road for the bills in the playoffs than other years when they've had a home game in the first round five years in a row.

1:26.6

And okay, well, you have to beat Baltimore.

1:28.3

And that hasn't, that's happened.

1:30.2

And then it's just been Kansas City and Cincinnati once.

1:32.8

This year, they're looking at probably three road games if they can hack it.

1:37.6

So, yeah, I mean, from a fantasy standpoint or just a league standpoint,

1:41.7

it's a super interesting year because, as you implied, the one seeds are not sure things at all, I think especially on the AFC side.

1:50.8

And you've got some in the quarterback narrative streets, some fun guys to talk about and play with.

1:57.6

And for our purposes, building this team, there are almost, you know, just

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