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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Vikings make no trades at the deadline (Part 1)

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Football, Sports, Nfl Draft, Nfl, Vikings, Nfl Team, Minnesota

4.7958 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Matthew Coller reviews the NFL trade deadline's biggest deals and talks about the outlook for every position now that the Vikings did not make any moves. The Purple Insider podcast is brought to you by FanDuel. Also, check out our sponsor HIMS at https://hims.com/purpleinsider Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0

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

0:10.6

Normally on Tuesdays, we just have Tuesday morning left guard in the evening.

0:15.1

We did do that show with Jeremiah Searle's earlier, but it's the trade deadline.

0:21.7

And while the Minnesota Vikings did not make a trade, we need to talk about that,

0:27.0

what it means for each position, some questions going forward that will have to be answered

0:32.0

internally if they come up and then around the league some serious franchise shifting movement in New York,

0:40.2

couple other smaller trades, and some that will impact the Vikings because they're playing

0:45.9

those teams. Reminder is always the show presented to you by Fandul. We'll get to the Fandul

0:51.3

question of the day in just a moment, but the number one question here of the day is, are you okay with the fact that the Minnesota Vikings did not make a move at the trade deadline?

1:04.4

So I have come up with five takeaways from this trade deadline, both the Vikings and around the league.

1:11.7

One that I will just get off the top is, hey, as a fan of tanking, good job, New York Jets.

1:18.0

You certainly did it.

1:19.2

You certainly went all in on your tank.

1:22.3

And that will have some trickle down to the rest of the league, but especially in Indianapolis and in the

1:28.5

AFC.

1:29.1

So we'll get to that.

1:29.8

But as far as the Vikings not making a move, my first takeaway was, well, they do trust

1:37.4

Max Brosmer because they did not go out and try to acquire a different backup quarterback.

1:43.9

They also from what Kevin O'Connell said seemed very happy with John Wolford,

1:49.1

who was a part of the Los Angeles Rams in 2021 when Kevin O'Connell was there.

1:54.3

And O'Connell had commented a couple of times that, you know, he just really likes John

1:59.4

Wolford.

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