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
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🗓️ 1 May 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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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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