Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Matthew Coller talks about some of the crazy bad stats that Vikings corners of the past had and whether the current crop of corners can improve on them and then talks about a Vikings-Lions game from 1993 that has reflections of 2023 with SumerSports' Eric Eager.

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Matthew Coller and Julian Council get together to have a conversation about the Vikings and Panthers. Did they make the right call in drafting Bryce Young? What can the Vikings take away from Carolina's path to the No. 1 pick? Should the Vikings be concerned about that game on the schedule or is it a gimme? Plus a hilarious Minnesota connection to the all-time Panthers passing list

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Matthew Coller and Jonathan Harrison discuss Mike Clay's projections for the Vikings and which ones have the biggest chance to beat or come short of those projections. Plus a hilarious tweet about Justin Jefferson spurs a discussion about players with "ceiling"

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Purple Insider launches a new weekly bit in which we look back at a random game each week during the summer. For the first episode, Matthew Coller and Judd Zulgad each watch back the Vikings' 2009 victory over the Baltimore Ravens in which Brett Favre made it clear that the Vikings were going to have an elite offense. The wild game opened up a lot to talk about from the 2009 season

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Matthew Coller answers Vikings fan questions, from whether the Vikings shouldn't have restructured Kirk Cousins's contract to whether they should still consider trading him after his comments at the end of minicamp to whether rookies who were drafted high will get preference in camp to whether the secondary is reminiscent of 2020.

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ESPN's fantasy football guru Mike Clay joins Matthew Coller to talk about his projections for the Vikings' 2023 season, including whether Alexander Mattison will be a three-down back, whether Justin Jefferson will repeat last season's greatness, whether Addison or Osborn will catch more passes and much, much more.

Here's where you can find his projections: https://g.espncdn.com/s/ffldraftkit/23/NFLDK2023_CS_ClayProjections2023.pdf

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Matthew Coller is joined by Dave Campbell of the Associated Press to rank each offseason by intrigue over the last 10 years. Does 2023 take the cake?

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Matthew Coller and Sports Illustrated's Will Ragatz get together inside TCO Performance Center to discuss the Minnesota Vikings' end of minicamp and Matthew runs down his list of all the things we learned, from Kirk Cousins being OK with playing out his contract to Justin Jefferson showing up at camp to Lewis Cine and the 2022 draft class being under pressure.

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Matthew Coller and Jonathan Harrison talk about Justin Jefferson showing up at minicamp and a few rookies getting opportunities with the first team.

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Matthew Coller reacts to the news that Danielle Hunter is not going to attend mandatory minicamp and debates over whether the Vikings should extend or trade him.

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