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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Examining 4 Vikings NFL Draft approaches with Emily Leiker

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

🗓️ 9 April 2026

⏱️ 57 minutes

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0:00.0

All right, Emily Liker from the Star Tribune back.

0:08.5

And the last time you were on, we invented a little bit.

0:12.3

It was very creative with your name, super proud of it, called You Like That.

0:16.8

And the last time we went through a bunch of offseason ideas and you decided which one you liked. I don't even remember if we had a thought of Kyler Murray at that time. Maybe we did. I think there was a Kyler Murray one. Did we have a Kyler Murray one? Okay. I was on that for quite a while. Maybe just maybe. I mean, maybe it was a little bit of just hoping for entertainment value for

0:38.9

the offseason we've gotten that at the quarterback position but not so much elsewhere so I've

0:43.3

come up with four draft ideas for the Minnesota Vikings and you have to decide which ones

0:50.0

you like but let me get a take from you first So you were down at the owner's meetings in Arizona.

0:56.9

And so, you know, we sat there together, talked to Mark Wilf, talked to Rob Bersenski and Kevin

1:02.0

O'Connell. When it comes to the Vikings' overall direction with Rob Brzeinski and doing

1:10.3

kind of nothing this off season outside of getting

1:12.9

Kyler Murray.

1:13.8

Like what did you think as Rob was talking about that?

1:17.3

Like, what do you think of the approach that they have taken?

1:21.4

Like, is this the right way to go?

1:24.1

Do you feel like it was Rob just sort of holding down the fort to they get a new GM? Or is this

1:28.8

the new way that the Wilf's want to manage things? Like what was your big takeaway there?

1:34.4

Yeah. I think it's a little bit of both, right? I mean, obviously, I've only been here for one

1:39.5

off season prior to this. So I got the 2025 off season and now this one. But it feels like in the past

1:47.1

couple years, off seasons were defined for the Vikings by some brash moves, both during

1:53.4

free agency and during the draft and maybe some impulsive moves or as we've heard some some reaches,

2:00.0

things like that. And the big word that we've

2:02.0

heard from rob in particular i think this offseason is patience and being deliberate about

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