and Hello, welcome to another episode of Purple Insider Matthew Collar here and

join the show I mean we go for all the big dogs of the Purple Insider

industries here to bring in before the NFL draft.

We have Courtney Cronin, we had game Henderson from Vikings.com,

and now Eric Eager, Sumer Sports Show, he and Thomas Dimetroft doing incredible pre-draft coverage, breaking down every position.

A lot of fascinating stuff there from Thomas's perspective on the scouting side, from yours, Eric, on the analytics side and as many name drops

from random old NFL players that I've ever heard in any podcast in the history of podcasts. So well done on your guys first NFL draft coverage and

welcome to the show. What is up? Thank you for that. I know a lot the linebacker

core was so kind of desolate

that we decided just to like pick our favorite linebackers,

which was good.

Thomas, by the way, I think in his career,

it drafted three linebackers that ended up getting

ten million dollars a year in their second contract which was or second or third

contract so he had good insight there but yeah it's been it's been such a fun

time it's been it's been interesting watching fun time. It's been it's been interesting watching the markets do. I know it doesn't matter necessarily as much to Vikings fans picking at 23, but the top five picks in the draft have been as uncertain as they have been in a long time.

Yeah, well first I mean when you drop names such as Mark Anderson and Patrick Kearney on the

show is like okay well you have really done your draft prep here but so those are must

listens for every position so go check those out if you're interested in one

particular position for the Vikings like say

quarterback maybe that's a position that's been talked about a little so you

mentioned the markets and this is always funny to watch so I try to tell the audience, look, you're going to see a lot of things, you're going to hear a lot of things. And I want you to understand that it's for entertainment purposes only because nobody really knows.

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