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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

ESPN's Kevin Seifert breaks down Vikings draft, GM search

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

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

4.7958 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

ESPN's Kevin Seifert joins Matthew Coller to talk about the Minnesota Vikings' draft and whether it was a "coach-driven" as ESPN's Jeremy Fowler reported. Plus the Vikings started their general manager search after the draft. Is Rob Brzezinski the best candidate? Could they blow it all up? 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 to another episode of Purple Insider presented by Fandul, Matthew Collar here.

0:21.2

And on the show today, ESPN's Kevin Seafurt.

0:24.1

Let's go.

0:25.2

All right, Kevin Seafurt.

0:26.7

We have a draft in the books.

0:29.0

We have free agent wide receivers visiting.

0:31.7

And oh yeah, the Minnesota Vikings are also doing this little GM search in May, which

0:37.2

I can't remember another time that we've seen that.

0:39.6

So a lot going on with Minnesota Viking land.

0:43.6

I want to start with this, Kevin, saw that your colleague Jeremy Fowler reported from chatting with people around the league that they viewed this as a coach-driven draft.

0:54.4

What do you think of that framing of what the Vikings did in the draft?

0:58.9

I mean, I think it's completely fair externally for people to look at what they did.

1:03.6

You know, filling needs is generally considered a priority of the coaching staff

1:09.1

and maybe sometimes the personnel staff but not always so when a team

1:13.9

aggressively works to fill its needs in the draft then clearly I think it's fair to assume coaches

1:20.0

are responsible for it and I don't think that was that's wrong I had sort of the same

1:26.3

impression internally you know I think that's wrong. I had sort of the same impression internally.

1:29.5

I think that we can talk more about it, I'm sure,

1:32.7

but the overall horizon of the offseason,

1:39.1

I wouldn't necessarily say was all coach-centric.

1:42.1

But when it came to the draft,

1:43.8

when it came to who were,

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