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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

NFL.com’s Eric Edholm talks Diggs trade and buys McCarthy-Vikings hype

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Sports, Fantasy Sports, Football

4.8907 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Matthew Coller talks with Eric Edholm of NFL.com about the Bills trading Stefon Diggs and then deep dives into his takes about the QB class, in particular whether the JJ McCarthy hype is real or if he’s being overvalued by the draft community. https://surfshark.deals/PURPLEINSIDER Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're going to. Hey everybody welcome to another episode of Purple Insider Matthew collar

0:20.6

here returning to the show one of the OG draft reporters also the best

0:25.7

amateur chess player I know Eric Edholm of NFL.com I hope you're still getting in

0:31.8

time to do a little bit of prep. We got the candidates coming up for the one of the biggest chess tournaments in the world.

0:37.5

Oh yeah, and also NFL draft that we have a huge trade today, but you know we got to start with a little chess right? I mean first of all

0:44.3

my alma mater just won the chess final four down in Dallas speed be to

0:50.0

the St Louis team so had a little regional win there and then also beat a couple teams from Texas.

0:55.3

So I'm just saying like even though my chess game is lacking a little bit.

0:59.3

I mean I still still play a game or two here and there.

1:01.8

I'm in my draft game feels pretty strong.

1:04.1

I am going to celebrate the the Missou chess

1:06.8

national championship.

1:08.9

Well, you should, you should.

1:10.4

And I think that the amateur chess game is getting stronger and stronger around the world as so many people jumped in after the pandemic.

1:18.0

So now it's harder to be good on chess.com, which you and I both struggle with for sure but let's dive into this big

1:26.3

trade that has happened just before we decided to record usually big stuff happens after I'm done

1:31.7

recording so I'm quite happy about this.

1:33.7

Stephen Diggs is now a Houston Texan and what I'm noticing from my

1:39.3

Twitter feed is a lot of rationalization for bills fans dealing with Stefan Diggs being traded to Houston but what I can't figure out Eric is

1:49.7

Why Houston if you're going to trade Stefanigs, there have to be other suitors, then the rising

1:56.0

team in your conference? I mean, maybe that's just the best draft capital they could get, and

2:02.0

the Vikings helped them out a little bit with that

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