and Hey everybody welcome to another episode of purple, Matthew Collar here.

And I'll tell you the truth, I had planned

to run an interview that I did with Brandon Thorne

about the Vikings offensive and defensive lines, but we got a little bit of morsel of news,

so guess what? We're going live here on YouTube to talk about it and we'll have that interview

with Brandon Thorne up on YouTube at the podcast feed very soon where we go through the Vikings options on the O line and D line to rebuild those things

But anytime we get any hints of what's going to happen at the quarterback position, we got to jump in and immediately talk about it.

And we got that today from Albert Breyer of Sports Illustrated, NFL Insider. He had several paragraphs about the Vikings

approach to the Kirk Cousins situation and where they stand in negotiations which will presumably happen at the NFL combine where the Vikings are

very likely to meet with his agent. Usually they meet with all the players agents and go through their situations with free agency,

contracts and so forth at the combine and talk it over and every year

this has happened between the Vikings and Kirk Cousins since Koesi Adolph Omenza and Kevin O'Connell

have gotten here. It's actually year three in a row of us going to the combine, not 100% sure whether Kirk Cousins is going to be the quarterback.

If you guys remember, last year, Trey Lance thing was going on and will the Vikings trade up for a quarterback? We weren't even

actually sure how high somebody like Anthony Richardson was going to go. That was in the

discussion revolving the Vikings as well and they ultimately did not

come to an agreement with Kirk cousins which has put us here so let me bring you whatbert Breyer had to say about where the Vikings stand in their

negotiations upcoming with Kirk Cousins. I will read from his article at SI.com.

He says because of some creative timing in his contract,

his current deal voids after the deadline to tag a player has passed,

cousins cannot be franchise tagged by the Vikings. So all he has to do... is well do nothing contractually until mid-March.

So all he has to do to become available to the other 31 teams

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