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

Matthew Collar here.

And on the show today, Ben Gessling, the Star Tribune.

We got a GM search and we are in full GM search mode.

We have finalists.

We also have a quarterback.

I'm going to call it a situation rather than a competition that we need to break down.

So I want to go through these candidates, what we think their chances are, what we think

it would look like if the Vikings hired them to be the GM and maybe the advice that we

would give the GM. You know, I begged on

the show, Ben, for them to put me on the committee. I mean, I've been around a long time. We've

seen a lot of stuff happen. We've seen mistakes and successes from previous general managers.

Felt like I would have been great to help with the search. But strangely, no one called me.

So what do you think of just in general how this has played out?

Well, it's interesting to me that we are going to the second phase of this.

And there's still a fairly large pool of candidates.

I mean, the last time they did this,

they went through a search of a similar size

in terms of first round interviews,

eight or nine candidates.

And I think that's about where we ended up here.

But then they came down to two finalists,

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