and Hey everybody welcome to another episode of Purple Inside or Matthew Collar here with a

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So feel free to do that.

Happy to answer them.

Got a ton of stuff that I am excited to get into here as we all kind of think about this state of the Minnesota Vikings following the NFL draft. So why don't we dive right into it and let's start with

Adams question. Will giving away our mid-round draft picks come back to bite us next off season as we have little to know ammunition for draft bodies or to trade up for proven vets.

I guess I would say that I don't know what the result is going to be long term because I went back and I looked and thinking about third and fourth round draft picks.

All right, who's been a difference maker for the Minnesota Vikings in the third and fourth round in recent years.

Now that doesn't mean that there are not third and fourth round draft picks around the NFL who become

difference makers. There are. But just for this franchise how many guys could I have not lived without or could you have not found somewhere else and I had to go back to 2015 when the Vikings drafted Daniel Hunter to find the last player that I went,

yeah, okay, there's a guy that you could not have gotten anywhere else.

You had to draft him. You had to get lucky in the third round.

Pat Elfline had a very good 2017 season. Struggled after that with the Vikings that was

an important draft pick for them for 2017,

but never really recovered from the injury

that he had in the NFC championship against Philadelphia.

As you point out, you might need ammunition

for a trade that you really can't make because you can't throw an extra third, throw an extra fourth on the pile to acquire a player. And there is such a thing as depth and you have to develop that depth.

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