Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Manny Hill joins Matthew Coller and Sam Ekstrom to talk about five key questions regarding famed What Coulda Beens in Vikings history, starting with how many Super Bowls the Vikings would have with an elite QB and which decade they would have been the strongest. Also they talk about running back-related What Coulda Beens, the season that should haunt the Vikings the most and other teams that compete with the same amount of What Coulda Beens as the Vikings.

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Matthew Coller and Sam Ekstrom continue What Coulda Been Week by looking back at the Vikings' draft picks that didn't have success and what the butterfly effects would have been had players like Mike Hughes, Laquon Treadwell, Pat Elflein and even Christian Ponder turned into good NFL players.

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Matthew Coller and Star Tribune columnist Patrick Reusse get together for What Coulda Been week to talk about why Patrick loved Daunte Culpepper, how the Vikings botched the franchise's very first trade and how they left two of the greatest defenses in NFL history on the table because they couldn't find a quarterback. Patrick also talks about what the Vikings would have been like had they selected Warren Sapp and the Minnesota Gopher player who could have made the Vikings even more insanely good on defense in the 70s.

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We continue What Coulda Been Week with Judd Zulgad, who talks about Daunte Culpepper and Percy Harvin's legacies along with why Judd thinks it's fair to wonder what would have happened if the Vikings had drafted Aaron Rodgers despite Daunte's excellence the year before. Plus Judd talks about Randy Moss from the perspective of the first trade to send him to Oakland and his disaster 2010 return.

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All week Purple Insider will be holding Vikings discussions about the great "What Coulda Been" questions in franchise history. For this episode, Matthew Coller and Sam Ekstrom talk about the Zimmer Era quarterbacks, starting with Teddy Bridgewater and what might have happened if he hadn't gotten hurt in 2016. Would the Vikings have gone farther in 2017? Where would they be now? Why was everyone so high on Bridgewater and what QB might he have been most compared to if healthy? Plus they discuss Sam Bradford's flash of greatness in 2017 and whether he could have gotten the Vikings more than 14 wins and the 2018 decision that led to Kirk Cousins as the present QB.

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Matthew Coller and 92.3 The Fan in Cleveland host Ken Carman share a June 27 birthday, so they get together on June 27 to talk about NFL players born on June 27 and more importantly the Vikings/Browns connections. Remember the Odell Beckham rumors? Why OBJ is a swing man for the Cleveland season. Plus Baker vs. Kirk and Kevin Stefanski vs. Mike Zimmer will be fascinating matchups with the Vikings play the Browns this year.

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Bryant McFadden co-hosts the "All Things Covered" podcast with Patrick Peterson. He also won two Super Bowls with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Bryant joins to talk about his experience working with the new Vikings cornerback and why Peterson has become a good podcaster. Bryant explains why Peterson is happy to be in Minnesota and tells a story about him impressing NFL players before he was even in college. Bryant also discusses why his hot take is that the Vikings are going places this year and talks about how a team can win a Super Bowl.

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Matthew Coller is joined by Pro Football Focus lead analyst Sam Monson to talk about the Vikings' approach to the offseason and rebuilding their defense. Does this season represent a pivot point for the franchise? They also look at the PFF50 countdown and talk about which Vikings player would be the one to protect in a hypothetical expansion draft and why Justin Jefferson isn't yet in the top 50 players in the NFL.

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Matthew Coller and Sam Ekstrom react to the news that defensive tackle Jaylen Twyman was shot while visiting family. Luckily Twyman is OK but his unfortunate break could cost him a chance to get in the mix with the defensive tackles during training camp if he misses time. It seems like every year there's an out-of-left-field story like this -- what are some of the craziest? Matthew and Sam talk about Zimmer's eye, Norv Turner resigning, the protester hanging from the ceiling and many other wild Vikings stories. Plus they talk about Eli Manning being honored by the Giants and what his career says about QB stats and how he compares to Kirk Cousins.

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Matthew Coller and ESPN's Courtney Cronin talk about her stance regarding the interior pass rush finally coming to fruition with the Sheldon Richardson signing. Does it mean the Vikings were slow to understand mistakes in their post-2017 process? What other hills to die on does she have? Will the Vikings have a new kicker? Will Aaron Rodgers be back? Will the offensive line mix up schemes?

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