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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

How much can the Vikings help Kyler Murray in the draft? (Part 1)

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

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

4.7958 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2026

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Matthew Coller talks two notable visits to the Minnesota Vikings. Running back Emmett Johnson from Nebraska and wide receiver Jeff Caldwell from Cincinnati. Let's do a draft simulation where the Vikings try to help Kyler Murray. Plus there is a report that the Vikings could go after a cornerback who requested a trade. Also Matthew re-watched the 1998 NFL Draft. Some takeaways there. And a Rueben Bain report that might have some relevance on draft night. The Purple Insider podcast is brought to you by FanDuel. Also, check out our sponsor HIMS at https://hims.com/purpleinsider 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.

0:10.7

Matthew Collar here.

0:12.4

And we got a little bit of things to talk about tonight, but the show is certainly open for your questions, comments, and thoughts.

0:21.6

So I definitely want to get into a good conversation with you guys.

0:26.5

But I was inspired by a question that somebody asked on the show yesterday.

0:31.9

When I get emails, DMs, I'll usually do a show that's kind of like a dump of those,

0:36.5

answering those questions.

0:37.9

So you can always shoot me something off the air if you can't catch the live show.

0:42.7

And one of the questions that I got was, hey, what would it look like if the Vikings

0:47.9

went all in on one side of the football?

0:51.1

And so they were thinking along the defensive lines.

0:54.3

And I was kind of talking through it.

0:55.7

Like, does it make sense to go just all defense with the first couple of days of picks?

1:00.5

And, you know, the final conclusion was, yeah, it actually does make a lot of sense to go completely defense with the first few picks.

1:09.8

Say you get a corner.

1:13.5

Maybe you get a DT, a linebacker, and you look down the road a little bit into this year, your depth and then into next year

1:19.2

about the players who are going to leave. But it made me think about what about the other side

1:24.8

of the football? Because as we know, Brian Flores is able to scrape together

1:31.3

a pretty good defense, even when there are limitations. We saw him especially do this in

1:36.2

2003, but I would even say last year that there were times where the Vikings defense was

1:41.8

very banged up, was not at 100%, and Flores still found a lot

1:47.1

of ways to cause problems for the opposing team and give his offense a chance to win.

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