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Vikings reportedly down to 5 finalists for GM job (Part 1)

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

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

4.7958 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2026

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Matthew Coller talks about reports of the five finalists for the Minnesota Vikings general manager job, including interim GM Rob Brzezinski. Who else on the list stands out? Plus Matthew ranks the best coaches that Kevin O'Connell will have to face on this year's schedule. 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 presented by Fandul.

0:11.3

Matthew Collar here.

0:12.7

And tonight, we are going to take a look at the five finalists for the Minnesota Vikings

0:20.2

general manager position.

0:22.0

We made it to the finalist level or whatever when they will name a GM.

0:27.7

Not quite sure because we've got Memorial Day coming up and I don't know exactly the timing,

0:33.5

but the Wilf's will be flying folks in and in some cases not having them travel very far

0:41.0

to do the in-person interviews before they decide to make a decision on who will be the next

0:47.4

GM of the Minnesota Vikings.

0:49.3

So we're going to run down the list, talk about where is the edge?

0:52.9

That's been the thing I've kept going back to

0:54.9

for the candidates for the ideas where is the advantage to hiring each one of these

1:01.8

final fives we're going to go through them and then questions comments thoughts feelings on

1:06.9

anything if you have one of these candidates that you like as your best idea, but really there's

1:13.1

one question to be asked.

1:14.5

So let's get into it.

1:16.1

And that question is, after seeing the way that Rob Brzezinski managed the offseason, would

1:21.9

you like him to be the general manager of the Minnesota Vikings?

1:24.7

Because in this list reported by Jonathan Jones of CBS includes the Vikings interim general

1:31.6

manager Rob Brzezinski.

1:32.8

And the other four are Broncos assistant general manager Reed Burkhart, Bill's assistant general

1:38.9

manager Terrence Gray, Rams AGM, John McKay, and Seahawks, AGM, Nolan Teasley.

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