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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

NFL.com's Eric Edholm talks Roquan Smith trade demand and the outlook for Vikings rookies

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

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

4.7958 Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Matthew Coller is joined by NFL.com writer Eric Edholm, who discusses the Bears going into tank mode and having to trade linebacker Roquan Smith. He talks about whether it will work out better for Chicago to fall to the bottom of Minnesota to remain competitive and a comparable for Justin Fields. How does Edholm expect Lewis Cine and Andrew Booth Jr. to perform in Year 1? What training camp narratives is he buying around the NFL? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

and Hello, welcome to another episode of Purple Insider.

0:22.6

Matthew Collar here as always, along with,

0:25.9

this is gonna take some adjustment period.

0:28.0

NFL.com's Eric Edholm, formerly of Yahoo Sports, formerly of Pro Football Weekly,

0:35.0

when, since we're both old now, Eric,

0:37.7

I can say way back when I was young

0:40.2

in reading you at Pro Football Weekly,

0:41.9

but congratulations on joining NFL.com.

0:45.2

Happy to see it.

0:46.2

Yeah, thank you very much.

0:47.4

And I appreciate I'm still getting used to the sound of it,

0:49.5

which is a good thing, obviously.

0:51.0

And I left a great place for another good

0:53.4

and went to another good place I mean I'm very blessed and lucky to be here and

0:57.4

you know it's just it's been fun kind of getting my feet wet the real work is

1:01.6

is just starting so let's get on in. Let's get

1:05.1

dirty man. Well I think you're in the best shape of your life here and during this

1:08.7

camp as you know you know I think that players figured out that we made fun of them with that and they don't say, yeah, they don't really say it anymore.

1:17.5

It's also not, it's also not a question where you're like, are you in shape?

1:21.5

Like, yeah, I think they are they play football scale of one to ten I mean you know how you doing this season like shape wise I mean yeah we've we've been forced to recalibrate our questions and they've been they've come up with

1:35.8

Ways to parry our questions and it leads to some other bad questions that you know the game man

1:40.8

It's a hamster wheel we go through these cycles that happens

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