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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

EMERGENCY PODCAST: KWESI ADOFO-MENSAH FIRED

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

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

4.7958 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2026

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Matthew Coller and former Vikings lineman Jeremiah Sirles breakdown the news that the Vikings have fired general manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah. 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 into an emergency podcast here.

0:10.3

Purple Insider presented by Fandul Matthew Collar with you.

0:13.6

And this is news of the magnitude that we have pulled out Jeremiah Searle's here,

0:18.6

former Minnesota Viking for the Vikings announcement, or I should say

0:23.9

Tom Pelliserra reporting now, I'm sure it will be announced soon, that general manager

0:29.1

Quasi Adolph-Menzha has been fired by the Minnesota Vikings. And I will say that this is something, Jeremiah, that you and I had

0:39.5

discussed off the air about this possibility. And in the league, we've seen general managers

0:45.5

be fired after the draft. A lot of times because you go through that whole draft process,

0:51.1

you need somebody leading it. And usually when people are fired, executives, coaches, et cetera, it comes in the days

1:00.3

right after your season ends.

1:02.3

Normally, a general manager would not end the season, hold a press conference talking

1:08.6

about the decisions that they made that caused them to miss the

1:11.9

playoffs and then several weeks later and my understanding is that quesi adaflmenza has been at

1:17.6

the shrine bowl and has been at the senior bowl and then is all of the sudden fired as we

1:24.3

approach February here so the timing i, I think, is pretty surprising.

1:30.5

After the draft wouldn't have been a shock.

1:32.6

After the season would not have been a shock.

1:34.8

But right now.

1:35.8

And there's only one way to really look at that, Jeremiah,

1:40.0

which is that the quarterback in the Super Bowl is Sam Darnold.

1:46.5

And you have said the phrase many times someone gets thrown into the volcano. Well, when your biggest decision of the entire

1:54.1

regime goes the way that it did with Darnold making the Super Bowl and the Minnesota Vikings

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