and Hey everybody. to another episode of purple insider Matthew Collar here and it's

been a little while since we've done a live discussion here on the YouTube channel.

Hopefully you guys have enjoyed all the interviews that we've had recently,

including Eric Eager and Tege Seth with an analytics roundtable and Mike Renner as well. We just premiered that one on the channel.

Really good conversation with a game of Am I Wrong in that

and Mike Renner finished with a prediction.

If you were just watching that and you're jumping over here,

his prediction is that the Minnesota Vikings will make a trade to the New England Patriots to get Drake May.

That is his Vikings draft prediction.

And just today,

after we were recording that, so I didn't ask him about it.

But just today, the New England Patriots,

their head man of their draft, Elliot Wolf.

He's not their general manager.

He's something else. Doesn't matter. He did a very long press conference with the Boston slash New England media and within that press conference, he called them, quote,

open for business.

So here we are to talk about what that business might be,

answer your questions, have a conversation, get some of your takes, and just I would love to know from everybody in the chat a good place to begin would be how are you guys feeling? We are one week away and I haven't really done a show talking about the

magnitude of this thing. I hope that to do that next week with somebody

whoever I get on the show, to really discuss truly the

magnitude of what is about to happen on draft night for the Minnesota Vikings.

But give me a sense here, give me your feeling, describe it in three words, where you're at with this, are you quietly confident, are you? I got a message from somebody earlier that they're having dreams about the draft every single day. That's how much they're thinking about it. I like this from Scotty. I'm tired boss. That's a good place to start. Give me your three words on how you're feeling one week out

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