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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Jeremiah Sirles sees Caleb Banks' upside

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

🗓️ 28 April 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Matthew Coller is joined by former Minnesota Viking Jeremiah Sirles to talk about the team's draft and his take on whether they nailed the Caleb Banks "risky" pick. Plus his favorite pick and the one he questioned the most. 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

All right, Mr. Searles, I feel like this was an NFL draft made for a big man.

0:11.7

Was it not?

0:12.5

I mean, that had to be fun loading up the trenches for the Vikings.

0:16.0

None of these soft skill position players that help you win. It was a bit, no, come on, I'm just kidding,

0:23.7

but really it was a meat and potatoesy draft for the Minnesota Vikings. Yeah, it was good to see

0:29.2

them address some needs, some things that have just kind of been in previous regimes,

0:34.3

Band-Aids. Hey, we'll try and just mismatch and maybe

0:37.5

draft one late and look at it. But I'll say this, Matthew, that was maybe the best

0:42.4

draft in the country or maybe the world. Maybe the world. Maybe the world. I'm just

0:48.0

giving you a hard time. I don't know. I loved the, I loved the ability to go and get what

0:53.5

they needed. And I thought it was really interesting because at one point, I thought they may have locked Kevin O'Connell in a closet and been like, hey, we're taking defensive guys. And Brian Flores is like, another detackle. It's somewhere KOC is pounding on the locker. Like, let me out, get the receiver. But they took the big guys up front. I think it's a position of need.

1:12.1

And Brian Flores is my guess when he signed his contract extension said, I will need pieces in

1:16.5

the draft. You will get me those pieces if I come back. And Rob B said, sure, we'll do it. And

1:22.4

then stuck to it. So overall, I mean, besides a little bit, we'll probably touch about the reach piece

1:26.8

of it. But I love that you address positions of need.

1:29.7

Yeah, the part about not getting wide receivers, some of us did prep on about 20 wide receivers going into the draft because I was convinced that the third round wide receiver would happen.

1:41.9

But the way that O'Connell described it was basically the board did not fall to them

1:46.5

where they were confident taking some of those wide receivers.

1:49.9

And so they stuck to the board.

1:52.3

But the thing is, like, this is something I feel like the Vikings haven't really done in recent

1:57.8

years.

1:58.2

It's been much more of reach or trade out or trade it for

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