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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Star Tribune's Ben Goessling predicts who the Vikings will draft and how long Kirk Cousins will be the Vikings' QB

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

🗓️ 20 April 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Matthew Coller and Star Tribune Vikings beat reporter Ben Goessling look into the future and talk about what type of draft pick would be a surprise for the Vikings, whether there's any case to take a quarterback, how long Kirk Cousins will be the quarterback and how Kevin O'Connell is in a win-win position after the way this offseason played out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

and Hello, welcome to another episode of Purple Insider. We continue Games Week here on the show

0:27.8

with Ben Gessling from the Star Tribune to return to play a classic purple insider podcast game.

0:34.5

We look into Mike Zimmer's crystal ball,

0:36.8

although it is no longer Mike Zimmer's,

0:38.4

now it is ours.

0:40.0

It belongs to us, the crystal ball now, Ben.

0:42.0

What is up?

0:42.6

He didn't, uh, he didn't pass that thing on to Kevin O'Connell?

0:45.4

Uh, no, I don't think so.

0:46.6

He left it behind, like a momento for us to be able to use any time.

0:50.7

Now that we're in possession of it it we know that it did not get to

0:54.0

Kevin O'Connell I'm just a little surprised that it didn't given how much good it did for him over the years.

0:59.2

We also don't need it now because I think the new coach will just tell us what's going

1:03.4

out with someone's injury yeah yeah I mean I think everything will be on the

1:07.8

up and up from here on out I see no reason to need it but we'll keep it around

1:11.7

just in case there's a point at which we have to

1:15.2

look into it to divine something that's happening. Okay the way that it works with the

1:19.7

crystal ball game is basically I ask you to look into your crystal ball and we talk about

1:25.1

things that are going to happen in the future and usually I go right beforehand

1:30.8

so let's let's talk about the immediate future and then we'll push

1:35.2

our way out as it becomes fogier and fogier in the crystal ball so

1:39.6

let's talk about next week in the draft.

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