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
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🗓️ 4 May 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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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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