and Hey everybody welcome to another episode of Purple Insider Matthew Collar here

along with CBS Sports Draft analyst Chris Rapasso for the show, the one where we do our final draft sim and we give our final picks at what we think the Minnesota Vikings will do in the NFL draft on Thursday night.

So this is always one that I look forward to

the entire draft season.

When we're in Indianapolis at the combine,

Chris, I'm thinking about this podcast here today.

How you feeling, man, just a few hours now

before the NFL draft?

I'm super pumped, and you just mentioning the NFL combine,

doesn't that feel like two decades ago

with all the quarterbacks we've talked about?

And I'm not gonna say we were the ones that did it,

but we were some of the first to report

on the J.J McCarthy hype train that left Indianapolis and has been nowhere to be found

or I guess everywhere to be found since then. It just feels so long ago I'm excited to finally be here

this close to the draft.

That's right.

I remember you spending some time in a restaurant, bar, hotel, whatever, with some NFL people and coming back and doing a podcast and saying you know what I think that there's more

J.J McCarthy hype than is out there and then he goes through his workout he had his meetings with

teams and then suddenly it exploded. goes through his workout, he had his meetings with teams,

and then suddenly it exploded

to where people think J.J. McCarthy is going to end up,

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