and Hey everybody welcome to another episode of purple Insider Matthew Collar here and joining me on the show Ben Gessling

liking Speaker Porter for the Star Tribune what an off season it's been Ben have you been busy having a good time this is this is we're not used to this

signing players on day one of free agency talking about quarterbacks legitimately in the draft

this is different, man.

Yeah, it's moving at a speed that we are not terribly accustomed to around here, at least in terms of the changes at the most important position in the game and that is going to drive I mean we're not even close to done. I mean this is going to go for the things to talk about the things that you on are going to go for a long time.

So yeah, lots to discuss today

and I'm sure we'll have plenty to chew on

for weeks, months at a time here,

maybe even years, depending on how we evaluate the quarterback thing that may be coming.

Well, it usually doesn't happen as quickly as it did for someone like CJ Stroud,

where they know right away, which gives us lots of content to cover a quarterback but let's not jump the line here because I want to go back before we get to the spot where we are right now and of course it can always change very quickly on us

when I record a podcast but I want to go back to the decision because the way I

feel about this off-season Ben is that it's gone perfectly to plan how we would have

drawn it up from the day Koesi Adafomensa and Kevin O'Connell got here to compete to

slowly tear down last year move on from some of the older parts,

and then now to draft a quarterback.

But the decision was muddied up by Kirk Cousins' love

and appreciation for the way that he played in 2022

and then the way he was playing

right before he got hurt.

And I think the biggest question that a lot of people had

going into the decision 2024, the biggest in the country, in my opinion, for decisions.

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