and Hey everybody welcome to another episode of Purple Inside or Matthew Collar here and we are

about 24 hours away from the Minnesota Vikings franchise trajectory being significantly impacted by this draft.

And I just saw my friend Judd Zulgad on Twitter say that in all the years that he's been watching and covering

the Minnesota Vikings, he cannot remember a draft that had the magnitude of this on the Vikings organization and this much anticipation,

this much hype, and I certainly, since I've been covering the team in 2016 to present.

I cannot remember another Minnesota Vikings draft

that they were the center of the entire draft universe

leading into this where every mock draft every single

insider is trying to figure out what are the Minnesota Vikings going to do and

if you go through the previous years when was the closest

that we got to having this much discussion about the Vikings going into a

draft I think probably 2020 would have been that because I think

A it was kind of realistic that they could look at a quarterback I remember having a lot of

discussions about the Jaylin Hert, the Jordan loves of the world,

but we also knew that the Vikings were going to replace Stephen Diggs in that draft.

I'm going back, I just can't think of too many other times where there was this much hype around the Vikings draft. And also, we were talking about, let's see, 2017, we would have been discussing a second round running back going into it and they did

take Delvin Cook trying to think through the different drafts there were quarterback rumors

when Kevin O'Connell and Quaisee Adaflamensa took over, but we never totally took seriously the idea that they would take Malik Willis or Kenny Pickett. And here we are knowing that the Vikings

are going to take a quarterback

and just not being sure exactly how it's going to happen

and who it's going to be.

So I spent my day today working hard for you guys.

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