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REPORT: O'Connell sees Murray as possible long-term QB (Part 1)

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

🗓️ 17 March 2026

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Matthew Coller talks about a Sports Illustrated article by Albert Breer in which he writes that Minnesota Vikings head coach Kevin O'Connell told Kyler Murray that he could see Murray becoming the long term quarterback of the Vikings. What do we think of this? Also, NFL free agency has slowed to a halt, what's next for the Vikings? Is it time for us to turn our eyes to the draft? The Purple Insider podcast is brought to you by FanDuel. Also, check out our sponsor HIMS at https://hims.com/purpleinsider 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

Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of Purple Insider, presented by Fanduil,

0:11.1

Matthew Collar here.

0:12.7

And, you know, it's another day today of looking at the social media, waiting to see if

0:19.2

there would be any news breaking on the things that

0:22.0

were waiting around for waiting around for an answer on Harrison Smith waiting around

0:28.3

for what else are they going to do with this roster are there any other moves are there

0:34.0

contract extensions to creating cap space did the Jonathan Grenard trade idea just go poof into the ether and we pretend like that never happened?

0:45.6

Or are those things still pending?

0:47.8

But there wasn't any movement on those items today.

0:51.0

But there was some incredibly interesting reporting that came from Albert Breer of

0:57.6

Sports Illustrated regarding Kyler Murray's visit. So what Breer had in his piece was a behind the

1:04.8

scenes of Kyler Murray's visit. If you were wondering, Kyler likes Parlor Burger just like you. Uh, he is really, I think,

1:13.7

doing a good job of endearing himself pretty early to Vikings fans talking in his press

1:18.1

conference about crying tears when Brett Farve through the interception in 2009. And,

1:23.3

uh, Murray has apparently been a longtime Vikings fan, so now he gets to come here.

1:28.8

That's two years in a row.

1:29.8

The Vikings have acquired somebody else's top draft pick quarterback who was a Vikings fan.

1:34.3

Who knew?

1:35.1

But there are more things in this article than just where Kyler Murray decided to eat when he was in Minnesota,

1:43.0

but also some very interesting details of the discussions

1:46.8

between Murray and Kevin O'Connell and the team. So let's get into that. I'm going to read

1:53.2

you a couple of paragraphs and then we'll talk about what it means that O'Connell would say these

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