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What's next for the Vikings after Kwesi Adofo-Mensah's firing? (Part 1)

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

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

4.7958 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2026

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Matthew Coller talks with Vikings fans about what comes next after Kwesi Adofo-Mensah's firing. Who does KOC really want at quarterback? 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.

0:10.6

Matthew Collar here.

0:12.2

And, oh, man, let's all take a deep breath.

0:16.1

The last couple days have been pretty wild.

0:18.6

On Friday, Quasi Adafo Mensa gets fired and then the slew of reporting, including

0:26.0

from myself and Kevin Seaford and Alec Lewis and Diana Rossini and everybody and

0:31.8

anybody else who had any inkling of what happened between the Minnesota Vikings and

0:36.7

Quasi Adafel

0:37.5

Mensa, it is kind of hit like a Mack truck to the face of Minnesota Vikings fans over the last

0:44.6

couple of days. And then we got, you know, into this whole other world that I was kind of hoping

0:51.5

it would not go into when it came to the parental leave issue.

0:57.4

And then it was, is it this person's fault?

1:00.2

Was it because of Sam Darnel making the Super Bowl and on and on and on and on?

1:04.9

And I'm sure as we reach here on Monday night that all of you folks are a little bit exhausted by the news cycle

1:13.8

of the firing of Kwayzi Adafel-Mensa.

1:16.2

Now, I promise you that the NFL will move on very quickly as we have the Super Bowl this week.

1:21.8

But I also wanted to start that process of looking forward instead of looking back. Now, if you have questions and

1:29.1

thoughts about what happened, I am here to answer them. And over the first hour, it's going to be

1:34.4

a lot of you guys and your thoughts. And then Mani Hill comes in the second hour. Of course,

1:38.8

you'll still be open to questions and comments when Mani joins as well. But I wanted to start thinking about what this means for Kevin O'Connell, what this means

1:48.5

for the Vikings organization going forward, and how this reshapes the Minnesota Vikings

1:55.6

offseason if it does at all.

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