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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Emergency podcast: Vikings sign pass rusher Marcus Davenport

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Matthew Coller

Sports, Fantasy Sports, Football

4.8907 Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Late on the first day of free agency the Vikings made their first big signing by bringing in pass rusher Marcus Davenport from the New Orleans Saints. Matthew Coller talks about why it makes sense even if his production was underwhelming last year and what this means for Za'Darius Smith and Dalvin Cook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

And the Hey everybody welcome back to another episode of purple insider Matthew

0:26.2

collar here and this is a emergency podcast where we react to the Vikings making a fairly significant signing.

0:35.0

They have brought in defensive and Marcus Davenport on a one-year

0:40.0

$13 million deal and I want to put little finger quotes on the 13 million because

0:45.8

until we've got all the details on that it's hard to say for sure if it's

0:50.2

actually 13 million or if it's something else with incentives and so forth.

0:55.6

But I will jump right into the analysis on this move, talk about what is coming next,

1:01.5

which seems kind of obvious that this has to be a replacement for Zadarius

1:06.8

Smith but there could be other things what's next for tomorrow any meat that we

1:11.0

left on the bone from earlier today or things that changed this afternoon.

1:15.6

And if you miss the analysis of some of the earlier moves like the Viking signing a blocking

1:20.8

tight end Josh Oliver or Patrick Peterson signing elsewhere.

1:24.7

If you're watching on YouTube and go find that on our page or if you're listening

1:28.6

on the podcast feed that was earlier so just go back like one podcast. So Marcus Davenport he is fairly

1:37.4

young not that expensive not locked in very long and a by low candidate who's had some injury issues in New Orleans, but also he's a guy that has intriguing underlying numbers.

1:52.0

This right here, folks folks is what we call a

1:54.7

Koesi Adafo Menza move. I think that last year I probably said on a

2:00.5

number of occasions, hey, where's the analytics? Where's the moves for the by low with high

2:06.7

ceiling where you could potentially get somebody that might end up turning into a home run pick that looks like a fairly good deal at the moment.

2:15.5

This one I think is actually that kind of move. Now, I will give you the evidence of that

2:21.9

because I'm sure a lot of people are looking at his

2:24.0

sack total and going, huh? What do you mean high ceiling? So if I go to his pro football

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