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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

What kind of power will the next Vikings GM have?

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

🗓️ 4 May 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Matthew Coller answers Vikings fan questions about the draft and the general manager search. Will the next Vikings GM be able to evaluate the head coach? What should their long-term philosophy be? 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.

0:10.8

Matthew Collar here, and I have a full mailbag of great questions and takes from Vikings fans

0:17.7

regarding the general manager situation and the NFL draft.

0:21.1

So I want to dive into those.

0:22.8

Those are messages that have been emailed to me or sent to me through DM by people that

0:27.0

couldn't necessarily join the live show.

0:28.9

So I want to break these down in just a second.

0:31.6

But let me say real quick before we dive into it, there's something out there about

0:35.3

the wills potentially selling the team.

0:38.2

And no, that's not going to happen. They're not selling the team. And just because they had a lighter

0:43.7

off season to get right with the salary cap in the future after they've been spending like crazy

0:49.4

and they needed an adjustment in their spending in order to get right with the salary cap does not

0:55.4

mean that they want to get rid of the entire franchise.

0:58.4

So it's been confirmed by Ben Gessling and Alec Lewis with sources that that's not even

1:03.5

beginning to be any sort of conversation.

1:05.9

So just to clear that up in case you saw it somewhere on the inner webs that's not a thing so okay we begin from

1:13.8

the mailbag here with dan says i hope the next general manager has a high level of discipline

1:20.4

to keep the future in mind and i think that it would be a great fit with the owner's desire to be

1:25.7

relevant every year the goal should be to keep o O'Connell in place for a long time.

1:29.9

Steelers style, and he's got four things that he wants from the new GM.

1:33.3

Number one is don't do void years.

1:35.6

Number two is get deals on future draft capital instead of trading away the year's

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