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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Reacting to Kwesi Adofo-Mensah and Kevin O'Connell's end-of-year press conference

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Sports, Fantasy Sports, Football

4.8907 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Matthew Coller and Sports Illustrated's Will Ragatz break down the Vikings' end-of-year press conference and discuss the lack of clear direction laid out by the team's brass, what Adofo-Mensah said about the lack of draft picks and cap space and how we'd grade their first years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Purple Insider is presented by Liquid Death, delicious water that's bringing death to plastic.

0:05.7

Learn more at Liquiddeath.com. Insider. Oh, Hello Welcome to another episode of Purple Insider, Matthew Collar here inside

0:30.8

TCO Performance Center with Sports Illustrated's Will Reg.

0:35.0

It's not to break down a divisional matchup.

0:38.0

But it will be just as intense, I hope, our conversation here because we are fresh off of

0:43.9

Kewa Dauphomensa and Kevin O'Connell's end-of-year press conferences and I

0:50.2

think I want to start with the very first question, Will, where

0:54.4

Kuesi Adafelmento was asked to compare his football team to a stock

1:00.0

and or the stock market or some sort of metaphor.

1:04.3

But you know the answer was kind of interesting because Quaisey I can read this to you.

1:09.6

He says, I would say that you have startups and you have long tenured core stocks that have earned

1:17.0

money for a long time and they have less growth stocks and I think we're somewhere in between.

1:22.8

So he says in between a complete startup,

1:25.8

which I guess would be a rebuilding team

1:27.5

and a long-time growth stock,

1:30.9

which I think is what they wanted to be this year if I'm following the metaphor correctly,

1:36.0

but this sounds very competitive rebuildy again, and he was even asked about directly competitive rebuild and he sort of qualified this year as being in that category

1:48.2

which I don't really understand like the timeline in reality that we look at as versus the way it's being

1:56.6

presented by them I just don't know that those things really matched up in this

2:01.6

conversation that we had with

2:03.0

Kwesi and Kevin versus what it looks like on paper.

2:07.0

Yeah, I think any franchise in the NFL will maybe, like they could theoretically use the term competitive rebuild to describe

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