and Hello. Hello welcome to another episode of Purple Insider Matthew Collar here and joining us on the show

literally needed a PhD in math to break down whether the Vikings did a good job in the

NFL draft.

Eric Eager, Data Scientist, Pro Football Focus, and the PFF forecast.

And there's two questions that have to be asked

right off the beginning and I'll give you the choice

of which one you want to answer first.

A is what happened with all the quarterbacks and B is what does the math say about all of the Vikings trades? Which one you want to talk about first?

Well, I think the quarterback one is a good one.

I know you and I have discussed, you know, the, the, you know, sort of position and how

teams view it.

You and I are both, you know, historians of the league. We look back at a time when we look back at a time when, you know, uh, Jake

alone was making Super Bowls when you know Kurt Warner was a developmental prospect

Matt Hasselbeck basically everybody that was the Packers backup quarterback so on and

so forth and so forth.

And nowadays, like, I think teams are looking at the incentives

and thinking, like, why would I want to develop a quarterback

when I can have access to a Matt Ryan if I really want one? Or I can have access to a Matt Ryan if I really want one or I can have access to a Baker Mayfield if I really want one or you know so on and so forth and so I think when when playing this thing, it was sort of one of those things where we also said,

oh yeah, Seattle will want a quarterback.

Oh, you know, the Pittsburgh Steelers were in a quarterback and they got one, right?

It wasn't the one we all thought they would take.

Or, you know, trying to think Tennessee will want a quarterback, etc, etc.

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