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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

National NFL writer has Kyler Murray questions, analyzes NFC's winners and losers of free agency

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

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

4.7958 Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Sports Illustrated national NFL writer Matt Verderame joins Matthew Coller to give his take on Kyler Murray joining the Minnesota Vikings and whether it makes them a "winner" of NFL free agency. Then he responds to Matthew Coller's list of the NFC's biggest free agency winners and losers 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

Matt, welcome back to the show.

0:07.4

Great to see you.

0:08.7

As I along with also you got the Matt Verde Ram show now on Patreon.

0:12.8

People want to check that out along with your stuff covering Kansas City.

0:18.0

So here's what I did.

0:19.9

I wanted to get a different perspective, a little bit fresh,

0:22.9

little unique. Talk about the bigger picture as we have run into the slower part now of

0:28.1

free agency and now we're leading into blazing hot draft takes. So let's look back a little bit.

0:34.3

I have made the list of the five winners and losers of free agency. And I want to see if you agree with these teams and then we can talk about where they're at. But first, welcome back to the show, my friend, how are we doing? Good. It's kind of the calm for the storm. Free agency's done for the most part. The draft is a little less than a month away. So we are, we're getting into it,

0:55.3

but I'm looking forward to it. This is, this is always a fun time of year. All right. So

0:59.3

here's my number five. We're count down for five to one for the winners. Then we can talk

1:03.5

about the losers. I have the Minnesota Vikings. I went through, went back before we did the show,

1:08.5

every single team and their moves, who they, who

1:12.1

they lost, who they picked up. And here's why I included the Vikings as a winner. I know they

1:17.4

were one of the least active teams in free agency, but I also was looking back into some history.

1:23.8

And I know Barnwell did an article on this as well. It's not always the best thing, Matt, to be one of the winners of free agency.

1:32.8

So I think the Vikings didn't spend any stupid money.

1:36.4

They also didn't lose a lot because they got a free agent quarterback who costs

1:40.4

$1 million.

1:41.6

And it's probably the biggest jump any team could make going from one of the worst

1:47.7

quarterbacks in the league last year to a top 15 quarterback.

1:52.0

So you can add your linebackers, you can add your corners, your fullbacks, your kickers,

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