and Hey everybody welcome to another episode of Purple Insider Matthew Collar here along

with Eric Eager probably the most requested guest from my listeners to come on and break down the Minnesota Vikings draft.

Yes, you, you and also Jeremiah Searles who railed the guest.

Another Nebraska. Right, yeah, all Nebraska, but he railed against the Nebraska. All Nebraska, but he railed against J.J. McCarthy Pick,

so I'll have to connect with him very soon and get his reaction.

But why don't we just start out the show by getting your broad strokes here.

Then we could dive into your research on sitting or playing first year quarterbacks.

But how did you think that the Vikings handled a

draft where a lot of people thought they were going to have to trade up to get

J.J McCarthy? They stood at number 11, waited as long as they felt like they could, and then jumped up at the last minute to get McCarthy.

We'll start there and then we'll get into the Dallas-Turner thing and the discussion about the draft capital with him as well.

But how about we just focus on them landing McCarthy without having to trade up?

Yeah, I thought that that was really well done.

I mean, uh, Quayce, you know, held this water. Now, it's unclear whether or not they wanted Michael

Pennix or not or whether they wanted how much they wanted Drake May and whether that difference there like it was really funny I was talking to somebody who works for one of the teams in the league and And he was saying, how much does it make sense

that the giants wanted to give up this much stuff

and move up to three to get Drake May, but then they wouldn't take McCarthy at six.

Do they really think that there's that much difference between

Drake May and J.J McCarthy. I mean, Quaysee unveiled the fact that like there's probably that

much distance. Like, I'll take him at 10, but I won't take him, I won't, you know, know trade up for him which is exactly kind of what he telegraphed in in the press conference where you said there are guys you trade up for because they're everything everywhere all at once type players and then there are guys you sit back and build around with those with the picks and that's McCarthy so I think it was a pretty good move there for him to hold his water and you know Atlanta took

penics I don't think any of us expected that to happen even though you know in

hindsight it makes some sense he's older he's productive he's kind of ready to play

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