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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Vikings reportedly down to 5 finalists for GM job (Part 2)

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

⏱️ 72 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

This episode of Purple Insider is presented by Fandul.

0:10.0

Rachel, I'd prefer someone with some sort of background in scouting and personnel, which Rob isn't.

0:15.3

Yeah, I mean, I get that, but I would also say the guy who is the number one GM in the NFL hands down

0:23.1

wasn't a scout. It's whether you have the people around you to present the right information

0:30.9

and go in the right direction with the scouting. Because just the GM, now the GM is going to, if you're talking about these players to draft,

0:41.5

100 players to draft, like the GM's going to watch those guys and he's going to be involved

0:45.5

in all that.

0:45.9

But a lot of it is people bringing you the information as a GM, even when you're a scout.

0:52.1

There are GMs who are on the record, having said, I don't really watch a ton of tape.

0:57.7

I think Eric DeCosta said he comes into the office on Saturdays because his Monday through

1:03.2

Friday is there's just not enough time to watch tape.

1:06.3

So he goes into the office on Saturday to watch some tape on the side.

1:11.4

Like that's how he's doing it.

1:13.9

So I think it just tells you how much is going on.

1:16.5

I wish there was like any of the 30 for 30 stuff or NFL films that really kind of show that day to day.

1:23.9

There just have to be a lot of conversations that the public can't hear about different

1:28.2

players and things like that. But the day to day is managing an entire building, just like if

1:33.8

you worked at Target or something, where you're the GM of that target, but you have all sorts of

1:41.2

different managers that you're communicating with and fires you're putting out and problems you're solving.

1:46.0

It's not sitting at a computer and just typing in, I draft this guy because I like his tape.

1:52.3

So there's a lot to it.

1:56.6

Pro does a pro does Ray beats?

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