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

And today on the show, Steve Palazolo.

All right.

Welcome in, Mr. Palazolo.

You know, when I need front office analysis, I go to a general manager candidate in your own mind every single year.

No, truly you are Steve Palazolo.

Check the mic podcast.

People already know that.

One of my favorite people to talk with about how front offices think big picture stuff,

free agency, draft, timelines, all that good stuff that we love here in the off season.

So I'm going to need, I'm going to need some help, man, man. Where would you like to start? Do you want to start with the quarterback position? Do you want to start with Jonathan Grenard? Trade rumors? Do you want to start with if you were acting general manager for the Vikings? You let me know and then we'll go wherever you want to go.

Well, appreciate you having me again, Matt. Good connecting in Indy. And when we did, even though we couldn't, you know, work together during that busy week. But I think you have to start with quarterback, which I probably like talking about the least these days. It used to be my favorite. And now it's like, all right, what do you do? It's got to be the quarterback position what they're going to do which veteran is coming in and by which route the kiler murray news that he's been released and is now maybe the biggest bargain in the NFL and uh what you know what

those expectations look like so what what are v Vikings fans hoping for from a quarterback perspective?

I'm asking,

I'm asking the questions now.

Yeah,

you are the host.

I think that what Vikings fans would love the most is if somehow,

some way J.J.

McCarthy still had a chance to win the job and become the great quarterback that they always dreamed

him to be. And I just don't see that in the cards if they're looking at other starting

quarterbacks and thinking about players like Kyla Murray where that guy's going to come in

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