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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

ESPN's Courtney Cronin talks Vikings and Bears' drafts and who will own the NFC North in the future

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Matthew Coller

Sports, Fantasy Sports, Football

4.8907 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

ESPN's Courtney Cronin talks about a strange incident with a Chicago Bears scout right after the draft and then breaks down which of the NFC North teams made the best case in the draft. What did she think of the Vikings' path? Did Detroit come out better than both the Bears and Vikings? What was the most surprising thing about the draft? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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

0:31.2

E.S. P. K Cronin who now hangs up the

0:34.8

Courtney R draft Scout Jersey and heads back to just being Bears reporter and

0:40.8

ESPN radio host what is up Courtney not much eventful weekend covering the

0:46.8

draft it usually takes one or two days to recover so we're kind of in the coming up for air phase right now as I know that you are as well

0:54.8

with a lot of draft picks which neither of our teams can you know did it made it easy

1:00.3

this year with all the trades and quaysy trying to become Rick Spielberg part two with all the draft day trades.

1:07.0

I believe that I read that that was actually a record, the amount that he'd made on throughout the draft, like tied a record, which is crazy.

1:17.5

Yeah, I lost track of all of them, honestly. I mean, we know all the draft draft picks but in terms of did you win this trade did you win that trade and we've been trying to parse through the analytics and everything else of what everyone thinks that they got in exchange, but eventually they end up with a very

1:35.2

speelman-esque ten players.

1:38.5

But you know, you decided to be at the center of controversy as you so often are in Chicago because it wasn't a

1:46.4

Bears draft pick that drew the most attention to Chicago's draft. Instead it was what a

1:52.2

Dope Scout decided to say to your media.

1:55.0

Yeah, it was an unfortunate comment.

1:58.0

Like, I feel like this is kind of like one of those eye-opening moments for everybody in the NFL, media members that write about draft prospects of just like the language we use.

2:09.0

These are not commodities, these are human beings, and I think that at the end of the day people can make people make mistakes I make mistakes you make mistakes clearly the scout who said this made a mistake, but it's just like, I think the thing that we realize now is,

2:27.0

okay, if this stuff is being uttered in public and I'm sure that this Scout wants to have those comments back or that moment back saying it to a room of 20-something reporters not off the record

2:38.7

You've got to wonder like how what's being talked about behind the scenes when it comes to these players and

2:44.3

you know the NFL has had to in scouting departments have had to change their

2:48.4

language things to determine what would be classified for players tendencies.

2:55.9

I'm trying not to use the word soft

2:57.2

without using the word soft,

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