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Episode Date: July 4, 2025

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as you dive into this addictive series. Love thrillers with a paranormal twist? The entire Oracle trilogy is available on Audible. Listen now on Audible. ["Purple Insider"] Hey, everybody. Welcome to another episode of Purple Insider. Matthew Coller here. And joining me on the show, Will Raggits. Hey everybody. Welcome to another episode of purple insider Matthew collar here and joining me on the show, will rag it. So we are going to have a little fun summer football

talk here where we break down will's article naming his all quarter century team for the Minnesota Vikings and a will, this is a great time in our lives to do stuff like this. Stop and look at the last 25 years and go position by position and name an all quarter century team. So here's my first question before we start diving into each different position and all the individual decisions that you had to make. Was this a struggle for you or did you find this to be kind of straightforward? Because as I was reading your article, which is over on SI on Vikings and Bring Me the News, I was kind of like, how can I fight Will over some of these picks? And I think we're going to struggle to fight each other, but we can go through some of the positions

that maybe were a little more challenging. Yeah, it was fun. I wouldn't say it was a huge struggle. I was just kind of estimating with you before the show. I feel like 75% or so of the picks are pretty straightforward and then there's not a whole lot of room for argument or debate. And maybe you could come out of left field and make a bold talk me in two type of case for somebody. But that does leave 25%, maybe a little more of the spots that you have to do some consideration. And I think the biggest thing that I wouldn't say I struggled with, but that I had to figure out how to weigh is peak against longevity.

And how do we factor that in? Am I making a team that is the best guy of one season in the last 25 years of Vikings football to go out and try to play the best possible football at that position and win a game or am I gonna consider the longevity as well? And I think you have to because it's, the purpose is kind of try to reflect the best players at each position of the quarter century. So there's no exact right answer

for how you weigh those two things. I tried to incorporate both, and I think that's where some of the difficulties can come in. But yeah, it was a fun exercise. It was cool to look back on some of the more recent guys that I've covered over the last five, six years, and then also some of the players from my childhood.

And I even had to do a little research on guys like just before my time, because we got it. We got to include the early 2000s here, too, before I was really old enough to be super locked in. But yeah, it was it was a fun time. So here's a couple of things I want to do. Number one, I want to try to go into maybe some devil's advocate arguments with your team. And I also want for each position us to name a completely random guy. But just to make an all super random quarter century team

as well. And there's no rhyme or reason. It's just who comes to your head, totally random guy. So let's start out with the quarterback position. So you've got Dante Culpepper. I would agree with you on Dante Culpepper, the high end going to Lambeau field and winning a playoff game there, getting to the NFC championship, kind of taking the NFL by storm with Randy Moss, the excitement level, the entertainment level. But if I'm making an argument that's against Dante Culpepper,

again, which I would not agree with, but let's just try it. I think it would be a couple different things. Number one would be the most memorable season of the last 25 from a quarterback came from Brett Favre. There's no other nomination there. There's a lot of good seasons, including Sam Darnold last year, but Brett Favre had the best season of the last 25 years. And with Kirk Cousins, there was a lot more consistency

with Kirk Cousins quarterback play because even in his bad years where they missed the playoffs, Kirk still put up huge numbers in 2020, still put up huge numbers in 2020. Still put up good numbers in 2021. He was pretty much the same quarterback every single season and how much success they had, had a lot to do with, did they fire an offensive coordinator or did they build an offensive line that was reasonable enough? Did they run the football a little better and things like that?

The accumulation of Kirk is, I think, a little bit more robust than the accumulation of Culpepper, even if Culpepper's best three seasons are better than Kirk's best three seasons. So is there an argument, do you think, for either farve as just like the single best for the last 25 years or for cousins having more consistency through his time here? Yeah, there definitely is. I think if you like what I was talking about, if you want to do the peak, the best quarterback season, right? Farve is up there.

You could also argue, I think 2004 Dante Culpepper being up there as well with the statistics and how fun that team was. I mean, the numbers he put up that year were pretty ridiculous. To me, I didn't really want to do just a one season guy as great as 09FARB was, as great as 2024 Sam Darnold was, honestly. This came down to Culpepper and Cousins. And I actually think it's one of the trickier debates. I think there'll be a lot of people who could make an argument for Cousins that

I would absolutely listen to. To me, it came down to adjusting for Era a little bit, because Kirk Cousins, the raw passing stats, if you pull up one of those stat head comparison things, the raw passing stats for Kirk Cousins are better. Fewer interceptions, better passer rating, things like that. But with the eras, like this football was just different in 2003, 2004 than it was in 2022. And the league wide passing stats. So that has to matter. If you look up pro football reference has these, this kind of era adjusted, like adjusted passing stats.

And you look up Dante's, you know, his net yards per attempt adjusted to era. He had 128 with 100 being average in 2000, 126 in 04, over 100 every year 113 and oh three Below actually below average in oh five, but then you look at Kirk and he's kind of consistently With the Vikings in the like 115 108 122 110 So the peak wasn't there of that close to 130, 30% better than league average season that Dante had twice. And then you factor in the rushing stuff as well, which those stats don't measure.

I think that has to mean something too, because Dante was an absolute freight train when he was able to get out of the pocket and get in the open field. So you can make the argument either way. There was some frustrating turnover stuff with Culpepper, some inconsistency, but I think the peak was higher. Both played six seasons, so the sample is pretty much the same. And I just think adjusting for era, that's where Culpepper won it for me, but it's pretty close. I agree with your methodology of not going with someone who just had one great season because they've had that numerous times. So then it only really comes down to two players essentially. And if you were just going to do a tie break,

the running matters a lot for Dante Culpepper. And they both had some similar ups and downs and streakiness. What Kirk had in the early part of his time here, 2018, 2019 was a really good defense, but then in common, they had that like 2020 Kirk stats are great because they're playing badly on defense. There's a lot of shootouts.

That was a lot of Culpepper too, where they never had good defenses during the Culpepper era and they were playing in a lot of shootouts. I might go tie goes to the entertainer and I think Dante Culpepper over the last 25 years in football would be a top five entertainer along with Michael Vick and Lamar Jackson and Josh Allen the guys who have my homes guys who have these just wild plays crazy throws throwing it from the opposing 40 yard line to the end zone to Randy Moss streaking

down the sideline and I think Culpepper's era was a little more defined by excitement of Culpepper emerging on the scene and getting them to the NFC Championship game. And where you have cousins, it was more starting with frustration. And a lot of times it was frustration that it just wasn't getting to that next level. And Culpepper would have won this, I think, easily had 05 not been a disaster. They let their offensive coordinator go because they didn't want to pay him. And then he ends up getting the injury and so forth. But I think Culpepper does get this.

But Kirk is probably right there. Who do you think? Do you think that if you had to, how about this before we move on to the random quarterback? Like if you had to win one game from any Viking quarterback over the last 25 years, you've got to win one game against the best team in the league. Who would you pick? That's tough. I think that's, I think that's probably Oh nine far.

And that's a gamble there in the same way that picking Dante would be, where that could go really, really well. Or there could be a few dumb interceptions in there and you're losing to this hypothetical best team. I just think 09FARV, the gunslinger that he was, how experienced he was, gives you a really good chance against anybody. But I mean, to your point, I completely agree that just if it was even closer statistically, I think I tried to be unbiased here. And I think statistically, it's Dante Culpepper. But if it was even closer, I think

that tiebreak of the entertainment and the style of play and how fun Dante was. And admittedly, I'm watching Dante Culpepper when I'm like eight years old or seven, eight years old and I was covering her cousins. So there's some nostalgia there, but I mean the hitting the whatever you want to call the celebration. Just the joy that he seemed to play with that. I think that would factor in just a little bit here as well.

All right. Who is your random quarterback? There are so many of these. Um, but the name that jumps out to me is Brooks Bollinger, uh, who was, sometime I want to say like mid to late 2000s, I think he went to Wisconsin. I just, it was just the kind of perfect example of a very mediocre 2000s Vikings quarterback. I don't I don't know that I have like extreme memories of Brooks Bollinger or like what he did. But maybe the alliteration helps his name stick in my brain, too.

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Brooks Bollinger, 06 to 07, started one game when 0 and 1, went 46 for 68, passing 537 yards, a touchdown, two picks, and an 84.0 quarterback rating. Shout out to Brooks, who was once on the radio with me. Great guy. I will go with Spurgeon Wynn, because Spurgeon Wynn has the name element to this. And also if you're picking the most random of all random quarterbacks, a guy with a name that stands

out who just did atrociously. I mean, you could not have played worse than Spurgeon winded in his two games as a Minnesota Viking. He completed 49% of his passes through six picks to one touchdown and ended his Viking career with a 38.6 quarterback rating, which as you know, Will, if you just threw the ball directly into the ground on every single play, it is a 39 quarterback rating. Spurgeon win was worse than doing nothing. And there you have it. That is a good one. I like that.

I think we're going to have more fun with the random running backs than we are the pick. It's Adrian Peterson, and I know ESPN did theirs. And I know a bunch of Vikings fans were mad. Well, they should have been. Obviously, Adrian Peterson should have been on that list. I have no idea how you pick anyone over him in the last 25 years in the NFL at the running back position. I think he's probably the best running back of the last 25 years in the entire league, certainly the most dominating.

And I mean, I love Priest Holmes, but he's not Adrian Peterson. So clearly, if he's the pick for the entire NFL for me, then he would be the pick for the Minnesota Vikings Who is second for you? Is that Delvin cook? Yeah, I think it is. I think it's Delvin cook off of that peak run He had from like 2019 to 21 22 numbers are pretty good, too But the we know the advanced metrics in that first Kevin O'Connell year were kind of rough. So 2019 to 21, you can give Delvin Cook 22 as well. He had the big run against the Bills, the huge catch against the Colts, some moments. 2020 was like I think the season where he really

peaked and was just incredible. Like I'll remember that game at Lambeau in the COVID season where he had like 250 yards and four touchdowns or something along those lines. That was pretty incredible. So I think he's too, I don't know, I don't think Robert Smith quite got enough into the 2000s or maybe he did. Just 2000. He had a great season, but it was just 2000. Okay, just 2000.

So no, not him. And yeah, so I'm trying to think of, but it was just 2000. Okay. Just 2000. So no, not him. And yeah. So I'm trying to think of who else it would, would really be. And I don't Chester Taylor had one good season too. Uh, there's, yeah, I thought that there would be actually some more guys mixed in, but truly it's Delvin cook. And then the next from the 2000s is Michael Bennett, who was one of the fastest players ever, probably in the NFL. And then Chester Taylor after that. And then the next guy on the list from the 2000s is Dante Culpepper for Russian Yards. Are you going by yards here? Yeah.

Just by yards. And then Alexander Madison and Jarek McKinnon, and then Latavius Murray. You throw in Mo Williams a little bit there. I mean, Leroy Hoard didn't get into the 2000s. I mean, so there really isn't much of a second place outside of Delvin Cook. There was always a little bit of a desire, I think, from fans who had gotten frustrated by Peterson and the off-field stuff and the lack of pass blocking and catching and stuff that wanted to say like, oh, Delvin Cook's actually better or better all-around player. He wasn't. No, he was.

He never turned into this. The thing about Delvin Cook is that he had a really short run with the Vikings and he never turned into the player that they said he was going to be. So even though he was a great runner, he was the same as Adrian Peterson. He was not. If you go by their metrics, their PFF pocket blocking metrics, he was not a better pass protector. There's very few running backs who are actually good at it. And he never became the pass catcher. He had one great year in 2019 of screens, but never really was that,

oh, they're gonna line them up in the slot and all that sort of stuff. That didn't happen. He was a one dimensional running back who was really good for about three halves of seasons. 2019, first half of the season amazing. 2020 first half of the season amazing. 2022 pretty good.

But that's about it really for Adrian Peterson or for Delvin Cook's career. So it doesn't even begin to whiff Adrian Peterson. I did name some random running backs but not random enough. Who's your random running back? Yeah, there I'm trying to think of a really deeper cut here. The recent one from like my era of covering the team would be shout out to Mike Boone, who people thought were going to like, people thought he might break through at one point. He had that one game late in the 2019 season, point. He had that one game late in the 2019 season, um, not against green Bay, maybe against Chicago at the end. Um, chargers, he had a 19 against the chargers. He was great. He kind of came in and like mop up duty and went off. Sure. And then he had a big, he had a

big opportunity on a big Sunday night game at home against green Bay and it didn't go well. Like he was the starter in that game. And then I think the meaningless game against the Bears, he ran for a bunch of yards, but that would be one. And then I'm trying to think of an older one. And I'm only John, my guy from Stanford, Toby Gerhardt. That's not, that doesn't feel quite deep enough to me though. Maybe that, maybe that is. I think at this point at one point, because he would have been talked about so much as a second round pick and he was so popular in college. So good at Stanford. Right. But now definitely definitely. Shout out to Toby Gherhart. My I got some Stanford people in my family. So I remember watching him play a bunch in college and thinking he was going to be the truth. And it just, it just didn't happen.

But Ontario Smith would have been a random one here. If not for the Wisinator incident, which makes him famous, but not his rushing. He only ran for 1100 yards. I'll give you a deep cut. Um, and unfortunately this, uh, this guy is not with us anymore. Um, sadly Ronnie Hillman. Remember Ronnie Hillman? He was a Super Bowl champ with Denver and then came to the Vikings.

Was only a Viking for a very short period of time. And then that was it. But he had a really great, I think it was a catch against Detroit and ran down the sideline in 2016 when they were trying to replace Adrian Peterson. So their ultimate though, if you really want the random of the random, it would be Stephen Ridley. Stephen Ridley is the random of the random because play for the Vikings in a regular game.

Let me tell the story. So he did. But here's the story. So when Adrian got hurt in 2016 and decided to have the whole surgery instead of the shaving of the knee because he thought he was going to play till he was 45, the Vikings brought in Steven Ridley and they signed him. And because he had had a decent history, we all assumed that Steven Ridley was going to be Adrian Peterson's replacement to go along with Jarek McKinnon and Matt Asiata.

So we interviewed Steven Ridley at his locker. He had a real good conversation with the media about kind of where he was at and everything else. Every person in the group wrote our stories about stephen ridley is ready to keep the vikings running game going post adrian peterson. Here's all these great quotes and everything and they cut him two days later. So we all sat down at laptops and wrote the same story about Stephen Ridley.

And then, I don't like to bring back the curtain too much on the goings on of the media room, but I decided to create a Stephen Ridley Hall of Fame in the media room. And so I put like his career statistics for the Vikings, zero runs, zero yards, zero touchdowns, zero yards per carry, zero,, zero touchdowns, zero yards per carry, zero, right. You know, all that sort of stuff. And I created a map with all

of Steven Ridley's different locations that he had been, including Minnesota, you know, that kind of thing. So Steven Ridley technically was a Viking, but did not play in a game. That's like the like Edo Smith was on the Vikings, but didn't play. He played in the preseason game. It didn't Wayne Galman. I think actually did play in a game or two. That's a great one. Cause I called him the sheriff. I remember from, from doing, I do the football immaculate grid every day. So you gotta, gotta have like the Wayne Galman spots ready to go. I remember I called him the sheriff is like, you know, Sheriff Wayne Goldman's in town. Everybody hide.

Okay. Anyway, well, we'll carry on. We'll never finish this if I tell all the stupid stories from random players, but I like the flavor it's adding wide receiver is just not competitive at all. Kind of like running back. You've got Jefferson Moss and feeling. I don't know how you could do it a different way. I suppose you could, if you were stretching it,

here's the question on this. It's not, okay, Moss, Jefferson, Thielen. If you're stretching it to five wides, because Diggs would be the next guy on the list. If you're stretching it to five, or maybe there's like a digs Thielen competition But the way that it ended with digs you even though he's the Minneapolis miracle man You got to go with Thielen because he continued to have a couple more good years after Stefan digs left

But who would be the fifth who would be the fifth wide receiver after that? That's a good question. I didn't even get far enough to consider that because I was just like, oh yeah, Randy Moss, Justin Jefferson. Those are like, obviously 120% locks, and then Thielen I think is like 95% lock. Like he's, you add in the story of him being from Minnesota and the underdog, you know, rookie tryout camp, and he was gonna go to dental school or whatever it is. And, um, you know, the, the rags to riches story, like, plus the numbers, I mean, he made an all pro team, um, two pro bowls, like it has to be him. Um, so yeah, I think digs would be, uh, fourth. If you're, if you're going fifth, let me pull up the, let me just refresh my memory here and pull up the, um, yeah, let me throw a couple at you.

Okay. Yeah. Uh, you could toss out there, Sydney rice, Bernard, Barry in, he was wide open. Farve should have thrown it to him. Uh, you could also have Percy Harvin there. I would probably go with Percy Harvin just because the, you talk about entertainment value and I think, look, this is a sport, it's entertainment. I think entertainment and fun matters, probably more than drama.

If we're tossing drama in there, Percy Harvin would be elite with that. But how many players over the last 25 years in the NFL were more exciting to watch if the football came to them than Percy Harvin, not that many. Yeah, I was blanking in on him for some reason, but you look at the list and I mean, I think he'd be clearly number five.

Those are the top five guys in terms of yardage, which it isn't just a ranking of yardage by any means, but he was electrifying for a couple of years there when he had the ball in his hands. Some of the things that he could do athletically were really special. So I think he would clearly be him and digs would be the two guys added to the five. The one actually other question that I, I want to know what you think is if you're only picking one Vikings receiver representative from the twos, is it Jefferson

now or is it still Moss? And you have to consider that 98 and 99 for Moss don't count here. I think it might be Jefferson, just how unbelievable he's been over these five years, but I think you could probably make a case either way. Let me see. I got to look. five years, but I think you could probably make a case either way. Let me say, I got to look, uh, so Moss was 2000 through 2004, right? Oh man. I mean, yeah, no, that's one you could definitely throw out. So cool. He did have some of his best seasons in that run 2003, 111 catches, 17 touchdowns led the NFL, uh, 15 touchdowns in 2000 to lead the NFL thousand yard seasons every year, except for Oh, for

this miserable Oh, for season, he still caught 13 touchdowns, even though he was dealing with injuries. He was like Jefferson's like 800, 900 yards ahead of him in terms of just the 2000s. Moss is 24 receiving touchdowns ahead of like, touchdowns aren't close yet. Yeah, touchdowns kind of matter. They're sort of a big deal. Ah, it's with with Moss. It's kind of like anything where it's like when you bring up Michael Jordan, like, you know, could this guy be like Michael Jordan in some area? Like, maybe let me pull up his basketball reference.

And you're like, no, probably not. No, no. You know, I think the Jefferson's darn close. And if you want to make the Jefferson argument, now, of course, entertainment value goes to Randy Moss. But if drama value brings some of that down, Justin Jefferson has zero of that through his entire time here.

Jefferson isn't far off in the entertainment value. I would say. Yes. Right. The gritty and the spectacular catches and just the consistent game to game greatness. No, I agree. Yeah. That's, I think the case for him would be, um, the consistency, just how dominant he has been since week three of the 2020 season with like a handful of quiet games mixed in. And then, yeah, you could take some points away from Moss if you wanted to in terms of the off the field element. Who would you like to go to with a random wide receiver?

Oh, my goodness. There are so many possibilities. Hundreds, hundreds of options. Yeah. I think back to, um, you could, you could go more recent guys. Um, but for me, I just, I love some of the two thousands names, like a Devin Aroma should do, um, who I think was a, is bears legend as well. Um, just a really cool name. That's the one that sticks out. And then you got guys like Bobby Wade in that era and like Andre Allison was, I think he returned to Punter kickoff for a touchdown once. Guys like that in the two thousands are,

I have a soft spot. I think I will go, if you want to go that direction, I think I'll go Greg Camerio. Poor Greg Camerio, who is a good player for Miami, got to the Vikings when everything was just going to hell in 2010. So poor Greg Camerillo came off back to back 50 reception seasons with the dolphins was looking like he was going to have a pretty good career. And then it just kind of, you know, there, it, it didn't work out. As far as guys that we've covered,

Chad BB seems like the right answer of someone that if you tried to explain Chad BB, you're like, yeah. So he caught like 30 catches at Northern Illinois. Like, and he made the team multiple times. Yeah. Multiple times. He returned some punts, didn't really do much there, had one long catch against the Packers. It's really tiny. People wanted him to be Jerry is right. Game winner against the Panthers in 2020. Yeah, that's right. That's right. And he has moments. He had a deal on the, on the COVID list. And 10 years from now, the other, I'll give you two more. Dee Dee Westbrook.

I was watching the game the other day on NFL network where they had Jefferson pick the games. And I was watching the one from 2021 when Jefferson goes off against the Packers and they win that game on the last minute field goal. But Dee Dee Westbrook lined up at wide receiver and I was like, oh yeah, celebrated signing DD Westbrook would be another one. And there's some deep cut

ones like that. Tristan Jackson, two catches as a Minnesota Viking. I think maybe in the same game. That's in the Dobbs Atlanta game. Yeah. Yeah, that's right. Yep. And then almost caught a touchdown and a two point conversion and was around forever. It was like on the team for a really long time and had those two catches, uh, tight end Kyle Rudolph, another one at Vasanti. Shenko would also go in this conversation, but I don't see. The thing is that Rudolph played tight end for like the whole decade.

So it's kind of hard to fight that one. I think that was pretty easy probably for you. Yeah. There's a couple of guys here that longevity helps them and it's like, part of the exercise has to be when I think of a 2000s Vikings tight end or not 2000 but you know the 25 years of the 2000 century I think of Kyle Rudolph just because he did it for so long. And that not to be overlooked that he had a pretty solid peak. He's a pro bowler a couple of times, pro bowl MVP,

which doesn't mean anything, but is a fun fact. I think the one argument even more than Shanko would just be TJ Atkinson because his 2022, he was on pace easily to break the Vikings tight end receiving record set by Joe sensor, I believe in like 1981 had 960 yards and then he had a missed the last couple of games because of Kirby Joseph taking out his knee. I believe that I believe that was that year. Um, it was at 2023. Uh, 20, it was 2023 where Hawkinson was 20, 23,

cause it was just last year that he was still recovering from that. Um, so he has the case. And I think if you were to do this in a few years, given that Hawkinson is under contract for a bit, it might end up being him. Uh, I think peak wise, like as a receiver, he offers a little more dynamic athleticism than Kyle Rudolph, who was just a big body with great hands, which is valuable. But yeah, I'd give it to Rudolph right now.

Great player, great guy. Long time Vikings contributor, but I think Hawkinson, if you were to do like, if we do this in like 2030 and be like the all century team now and I guess the last 30 years, I think it might be Hawkinson by that point. I thought Irv Smith Jr. was going to be that guy at one point and it kept looking like it and then it just never happened. That injury that happened in 2021 because Mike Zimmer thought it was so freaking important to play his starters in the fourth preseason game. That kind of

ended in chance for Irv. And one thing that I kind of blocked out was that Irv was their tight end at the beginning of the 2022 season. And I think it was, was it against got hurt and prompted the trade. Yeah. Right. And it was against maybe Philadelphia that he could have caught a big pass down field and went through his hand. Right. It just never materialized. And then he showed up like 20 pounds heavier on the Houston Texans as a blocking tight end last year. So what is happening with Irv Smith that if we were doing an all team of players

that we as reporters have hyped up too much and I was certainly guilty of that, Irv Smith might get a lot of votes there. He had some training camp practices. You can attest to this too, where he was one of the best players on the field. He had some games where he was. There were games where he was really good. This guy is a matchup pro. Safeties can't cover him. like safeties can't cover him.

Linebackers can't cover him. It just didn't quite happen. I got my random one. It has to be because I will never forget a training camp moment in must have been 20 21 maybe this would be Brandon Dillon who went to Marion Flash the Marion Flash. That's right. Dylan, who went to Marion Flash, the Marion Flash. That's right.

He went to Marion, wherever that is. And he caught a pass in practice. And Kirk Cousins turned around and looked at us and screamed the Marion Flash. And we were like, OK. I mean, I guess. Like, that's cool, man. You gave him a nickname.

He had one catch as a Minnesota Viking. But I did hear a story that the Vikings were not happy. The some of the upper management. This is previous regime were annoyed with Kirk praising Brandon Dillon too much because they were worried about potentially losing him in the cuts and he ended up with one catch. That was one of the things that the current regime is not so silly about.

Like the keeping to Sean Bauer over B Robb and stuff. They just sort of always thought that they were gonna lose these practice squad guys. And now that the practice squads are so big, teams don't really poach, but they were always worried about guys getting poached. But I will not forget that. Turning around and yelling at us, the Marion Flash! We were just like, yeah, I guess?

So there you go. Brandon Dillon is my guy. I got one from the early 2010s. John Carlson had a few good years for the Seahawks and then ended up with the Vikings and did not do a whole lot on some not very good teams, but That would be that that's one I would go. I mean you could obviously go like I don't know if Jim Klein saucers considered a tight end or a fullback, but he's one of my favorite Vikings of my

Childhood got like the Rhett Ellison's David Morgan like those blocking types. But yeah, shout out to John Carlson. David Morgan had some serious moments, man. A reception in the fi- let's see, it was to clinch the division, I think, in 2017. He had like a put the Packers away first down catch and he was a great blocker. So I don't want to go through every single player at the rest of the positions because it's almost July 4th and there's

no need to do that to you, but I'll run through some of the ones that you had and we can name a quick random one. Offensive tackle Bryant McKinney and Christian Darasaw. I know it's pretty recent, but I feel like a guy named Oli Udo who hung around forever just deserves to be named here. Or one of my favorites was Aviont Collins, who Rick Spielman repeatedly referred to as AC Collins, though there was no C other than the C in Collins. And we couldn't figure out whether his name was Aviont, Avion or Aviont, and he basically never played.

Yeah. I mean, as far as the actual team very quickly, like that's a, it was, that's a little bit of a tricky one because you can go with the two different eras. You had like the Oh nine team that had Bright McKinney and Phil Lotholt. And then you've got the current team, the last few years with Darryl Saundon O'Neal. I think those are the only four that are really in the mix at all. So if technically speaking,

like if I was choosing a left tackle and a right tackle, then I have to decide between McKinney and Darasa. And it maybe goes to McKinney off of longevity and Darasa's had some injuries. But I didn't wanna make the team and not put Christian Darasa on it because he's so unbelievably fun to watch on the on the film when he's when he's healthy. And so I just kind of cheated and went with both of them with.

Shout out to Brian O'Neill has been very consistent, very, very good right tackle. Phil Lothold was pretty it was a very solid right tackle, too. But I took both. I took both left tackles. And I think Daris in this hypothetical world could figure it out over on the right side. So I think Darasa is a better player and probably Brian O'Neill would even tell you that. But Brian O'Neill has had the clearly better career so far because Darasa with some injuries and he just has only been on the field a little bit as opposed to, I mean, not like as opposed to O'Neill,

who's played almost every game of every year. So I would have picked Brian O'Neill here as opposed to Darasaw just because he's got much more of accumulation. He's got the Pro Bowl, you know, that kind of thing. But I think we if we're looking forward, there's no question that Darasaw over the next five years might be a top three tackle in the entire NFL. So I might quibble slightly with that one, but I think you could go either way. The interior Hutchinson Matt Matt Burke, and David Dixon, there has not been, Oh, we got to pick a, Oh, did you pick a random tackle? No, I was just trying to think about, I think 20 years from now, Cam Robinson will be a pretty good one, but that just happened. So,

um, well, I mean, shout out to Jeremiah Searle's friend of the show. That's a random tackle. That's pretty good. And then, uh, TJ Clemmings in the mid 2010s, not good. I might go with Willie Beavers, I believe one appearance. In Thanksgiving 2016, Willie Beavers appeared in a game after being cut as a fourth round pick was the highest draft pick that got cut out of training camp. That was what he was known for. Then they brought him back.

And then they tried to make him a guard and that didn't happen. And that was the whole story of Willie Beavers. Last one I just thought of is Storm Norton is a great, he started at least, he started at least one. Great call. What we used to, so, um, Steven Weatherly and Storm Norton used to go at each other and practice, which was just funny. Like weather versus versus the storm and that's pretty good. Yeah. Sound the alarms.

Anyway, interior. Everyone has been random over the last number of years for the Vikings on the interior of the offensive line. Steve Hutchinson, Matt Burke, David Dixon. I we don't have to talk a lot about the interior offensive line. I get I get upset. I mean, I don't even know who would even be the I guess Drew Samia. Drew Samia is my random pick because he played maybe

three games, and one of them was the worst game I've ever seen in my entire life. And that wasn't even the game where he got thrown by DeForest Buckner. That was the game against Seattle where he ran the wrong way on a screen. Yeah. And then never played again. Yeah.

That early 2020s to Samia Dakota Dozier was a tough time. The only question with the team is just who you put it right guard. David Dixon was a good 90s guy who played into the 2000s or talking like Joe Berger or something. It's not great. But hey, the interior offensive line in 2025 looks pretty good. Donovan Jackson, you're already in like third place and you haven't done anything yet. Yeah, we'll promise.

Give us like two seasons and you'll be there. Danny Isadora starting in London against Cleveland would be another one. Okay, defensive tackle the Williams wall you went with here. Linval Joseph had his moments, but he did not have enough moments as opposed to the longevity. It is certainly close. His 2017 is one of the most dominant defensive tackle seasons you're ever going to find, but I don't know if there were other years where he just completely took over or was healthy enough to do that. Whereas I feel like Pat Williams was a premier nose tackle of an entire era. Yeah. If you, you could take either of those guys though. And,

and I wouldn't fight you on it. They both played, I think it's six seasons or five seasons is the same number of seasons. They both were really physically imposing nose tackles. Lin-Val Joseph, if you look at the PFF grades, PFF loved him. Oh yeah. We're talking high eighties, like nineties, like elite, elite grades for a couple of years.

So I just, I ultimately went with Pat Williams because that dude was slightly even more of just like frugitiously large and athletic human being. And I didn't want to break up the Williams wall on this completely made up team that will never play together. Random defensive tackle. Random defensive tackle. I got one if you want to think for recent recent one that jumps out to me

would be Jaleel Johnson. I like that one. Once got in a little bit of a tussle with a reporter over McChickens and you can Google that. But I think I might go either James Lynch or T.Y. McGill. T.Y. McGill, there's a funny preseason T.Y. McGill was legendary and he did play in real games for the Viking. so it does count. It's always the stories that stick into my mind that T.Y. McGill had three sacks in a preseason game. And Kellen Mond was horrible in that game, and there was no other takeaway other than, wow, T.Y. McGill did a thing.

So we convinced Dane Mizutani to go ask T.Y. McGill what T.Y. stood for. And it wasn't his name. I forget what it was. And I think that his exact response was like, do I have to answer that question? And Dane was like, you don't have to. And then he explained it. But because we look this up, you would expect T.Y. to be something, but it wasn't. So let me see. Let me see what it was. Something like his name was Tyrone, which is T-O-R-R-O-N-E. And he went by T-Y, but his middle name wasn't a Y. And I think it was because his dad was also named,

or his dad was named Tyrone. And so he went by T-Y, but his name was Tyrone. It was crazy. So there you go. Why McGill. That's good. And I'm just sorry to you. I'm a Gilded. I don't remember why your name is what it is. Uh, edge rusher. So you've got Jared Allen, which is obvious. And, uh, Daniel Hunter, Everson Griffin versus Daniel Hunter is a hard conversation. Hunter is here longer or at least was a key elite starter longer. I would probably pick him.

I will say, though, I think that at their absolute best, and this is talking about Daniel Hunter, who is unbelievable. I would be a little more scared if I was an offensive tackle of Everson Griffin at his absolute best because he was just lightning and those quick wins, those guy takes the snap and Everson Griffin eats his face. I would go Pete Griffin, but Hunter had the better career. Yeah, it's that that's a close one. Everson Griffin that that spin move, just how unbelievably fast he was able to pull that off and then continue on his path and at full speed was pretty ridiculous to watch. He was incredible for a little bit there. But Daniel Hunter, to me, the peak is really close, if not better. I think maybe his game is a little

more well-rounded in terms of setting the edge against the run and all those boring things that defensive ends and Outside linebackers also do in addition to sacking the quarterback a bunch of times and then yeah, he played a little longer So I gave him the nod there but Somewhat close the difference between them in total sacks as a Viking is not much. It's about no, it's not it's not huge The difference between them in total sacks as a Viking is not much. It's about, you know, it's not, it's not huge. No one else even gets in the discussion. So I will go with Kenny Willikis as my random guy. There was just, there was just a minute there where Kenny Willikis kind of looked like he was going to be a dude for this team.

And then I think he tore his ACL maybe. And then he came back and then he played in a game and Kenny Wilkis. Yeah. I have to go with my, my fellow Northwestern product, the Fadi Odenabo who, uh, sneaky in 2020, uh, was like their best pass rusher for a bit after they traded in Gakwe, which was a very low bar to be to be clear because Daniel Hunter wasn't playing and they traded Yannick Ngakuei who they never should have traded for in the first place but Odenbo he had some juice and he ended up playing I use him in the in the grid all the time because he ended up getting on like six teams somehow so shout out to him. I also nominate Eddie

Yarbrough who had an amazing preseason game against the Vikings. So of course they went out and got him and nothing ever happened after that. But one time a listener called out Andrew Kramer for not knowing how many snaps Eddie Yarbrough had. And I thought that was hilarious. You know who that makes me think of really quick? I think his name was Jonathan Brailford. Oh yeah, oh. Oh no. Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. He played at one

point. He played like 15 snaps in one game and he had like a 95 pff grade. So if you know the game, I know, you know, the game Jaguars. Yes. Yes. Yes. In 2020 Mike Glennon tried to run and Jordan Braille is it Jordanon tried to run and Jordan Braille. Is it Jordan? I think it's Jordan Brailleford. Jordan Brailleford, not Jonathan. Sorry. Brailleford chases him down from behind and strips strips him. It helps the Vikings ultimately win the game and then never play.

If you started the PFF with no snap minimum, he was the number one. Like it's him. And then like all your superstars after that, that was, that was pretty good. If someone knows Jordan Brailford, I want to do a story on Jordan Brailford. Please contact me. Linebackers. This again, I think is a depends. If you asked Mike Zimmer, I know who he'd say he would probably say Anthony Barr and Eric Hendricks. And I also think in the next five years, Blake Cashman is going to put his name here, but Chad Greenway, I mean, this is, you know, we're talking about one of the Pro Bowl players.

They drafted a real centerpiece of the team for a long time. When I got here, he was toward the end of his career and it's sort of been bumped in the lineup by Eric Hendricks and then Kendrick's the all pro season. It is kind of hard to make any debates about this. This is why we're picking random ones as well because Chad Greenway and Eric Hendricks just make so much sense here. I think you can make a case for Barr with some of his early career seasons like 2015, his second year. PFF loved, he had like a 90 plus season long grade there. And he

I mean, he made four straight Pro Bowls. I don't know that he necessarily should have made four straight Pro Bowls. That's kind of like when Xavier Rhodes made it in like 2019. And it was just like, oh, we know his name. Pro Bowl voting a bit flawed. But yeah, I think Greenway it's a little bit like Kyle Rudolphie, where he just like played for a decade and was good and legitimately had a real peak as being a pro ball level player and contributor and did a lot of good things. So I think he has to be on there. And then it's Kendrick Zabar. And I just 2019 Eric Kendrick's the coverage ability 2019 and 2020 was just pretty special.

I think it was 2020 in that Packers game where Dalvin Cook went off when Kendricks ran like 30 yards up the scene with Devante Adams and full out leaping past deflection where I was like, Oh, that is an unreal football player right there. So, uh, Kendricks makes it over bar, but it's not like, I had to think about it a little bit. I, yeah, I feel you on that and the argument that Mike Zimmer used to always make for Anthony Barr that I completely agreed with was that Barr was the defensive play caller and all the time

we talk about now how important Harrison Smith is how important Byron Murphy is how important Blake Cashman is for their communication abilities and that was Barr. Barr was the one him and Harrison Smith who were playing the mind games with opposing quarterbacks, reading opposing quarterbacks, their adjustments, making changes, uh, setting the front, like all that sort of stuff. And he did so for elite defenses. I mean, bar was only really a part of one defense that wasn't great. I think, um, cause he got here in 2014 and they were okay.

They were improved, they were improved. But then 2015, great, 16, really good, 17, elite, elite, elite, 18, really good, 19, really good, and then he gets hurt in 20. So every year that he was in that position, they were really good. But I think Greenway's just got a little bit of a stronger overall case. But you could definitely go either way with that. And shout out to, he wasn't in the mix for one of the two spots necessarily. But if you were to go for, I think it's pretty clearly Greenway,

Kendrick's Bar and then E.J. Henderson was actually. Oh, yeah. Very good player for a while. I'm going to go Blake Lynch. All I remember from Blake Lynch is that that game where Alvin Kamara scored was was it six touchdowns? Touchdowns, Christmas 2020. He had to start and we were leading up to the game. We're like, oh, this should be interesting.

Like he's getting us to. Oh, no, it wasn't. I want to say it was like Hardy Nickerson playing with him, too, in that game. Yes. Yes. Yeah, not not great. Shout out to Ben Gedeon. He's pretty random. That's random. That's random.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's pretty random. And Audie Cole too in the 2010s. Pretty good special teams guy. All the people who watched that one pre-season game will never forget Audie Cole. Safeties, you've got Harrison Smith and Corey Chavis. Did you debate that one at all?

Because I think you could have gone with maybe can't buy them here. There's just it's been such a merry-go-round. Anderson Dayho was very good for a little bit. Anthony Harris had his moment enough to get franchise. That will never forget is Anthony Harris got franchise tagged. And then I think was out of the league like two years later. But Chavis was an above average player maybe for a little longer. Yeah. So obviously there's no debate about Harrison Smith is,

is the guy who comes to mind, the like head and shoulders over any other safety of the quarter century for the Vikings. But then the second spot, you can, you can debate a variety of guys like Pure football resume wise there's a real case for Darren Sharper I didn't want to put him on this team if you don't know why you can you can Google it I wasn't even gonna go there. I was yeah, I guess I didn't even need to bring it up But I didn't want to put him on the team. I like Corey Chavis there, but I think you can also, any of the more recent guys, which

would be Cam Bynum, Anthony Harris, and even Josh Metellus, I think there's a case for with the last few years and how versatile he is. And I mean, if they work out an extension and if he's here beyond this next season, I think he has a chance to to end up in that that number two spot. But I ended up going with Chavis. He did it for a little longer, had a really good three season, I think like eight picks. So he got onto the team. I will throw out Brian Russell, who had nine interceptions in a single season for the Vikings

and then really never did a lot and ended up in Cleveland very quickly after. But if we're talking peak seasons, nine picks is crazy for one year, even in that early 2000s era. I don't have a lot of other ones, but the random one for me is Miles Dorn, because I could, if Miles Dorn was doing this podcast with us, I wouldn't know what he looked like. It was in the time where we were a little more separated from the players, the COVID era and things like that. And yet it always seemed like we would talk about him, but I don't remember anything about what he did in practice or ever like, you know, this guy, Miles Dorn might be on the rise. Yeah, I think he and Blake Lynch were both in the same, like 2020 undrafted

class. Right. Because we weren't in the locker room. So I didn't get to know these guys. Right. I couldn't like put a finger on who they were. And sometimes I think about like, when we talk about these random players, how some of them were just names that we said in practice reports, like Miles Dorn made a couple of plays out there and then you never even see these people. So anyway, that's the one for me. You got one? Yeah. The early 2010s, Hussein Abdullah was a pretty cool one. I think he like played a game once or twice and it was some religious holiday of his faith. And so he like had fasted for a super long time and he like, so he hadn't eaten in like a day or like days

and he went out and still played a really, really good game which is just incredible to me to do in the NFL. So shout out to Hussein Abdullah and like Mistral Raymond was that same time period too. Super random. Cornerback Antoine Woodfield, Xavier Rhodes and Byron Murphy Jr., which I think is a good pick after last year elevated himself. I, for me, I mean, Brian Williams gets tossed out there. I think I had a good number of interceptions was not a part of great defenses. Trey Waynes was a part of great defenses, but for his first couple of years, they

didn't even really want to play him until 2016 and then 2017. He played a lot. And, uh, when it comes to the random corners, I know my pick is Tremaine Brock, because I recall when the Vikings picked up Tremaine Brock, he had been released from the 49ers. And there were like big arguments over whether that was to replace Trey Wayans. I was like, no?

Like what? But that just kind of shows you that where Wayans was that even as part of that epic, unbelievable 2015 draft class never really quite lived up to what he was supposed to be. And the rest is sort of just a rotating cast of characters through other than when it's Wayne's and Terrence Newman would be on this list.

Probably maybe Captain Munderland gets a mention as a random player who had a really good start to the 2016 season. But through a lot of these years, the Vikings kind of struggled to find their corners. Yeah. Corner's a little bit like guard. It just has been kind of a, a weak spot for a lot of this century for the Vikings. Um, and each one has a guy like oftentimes you're like, Oh,

the 2009 team had a guy, uh, like Steve Hutchinson and, and then Antoine Winfield obviously is easily on this list. He actually made like PFF did one of these for the whole league and they put Antoine Winfield on there as one of their three corners, which I thought was kind of incredible. I don't know that he necessarily quite should be, but I'm all for it because Antoine Winfield was awesome and underrated and the PFF grades really, really loved him, which I think is cool because maybe sometimes his impact didn't show up in terms of gaudy box score stats, but he's gotta be here.

And then Xavier Rhodes is easy just because of the peak, how good he was in like 16, 17, that range. But then, yeah, the third guy I thought about like Cedric Griffin and Brian Williams and Trey Waynes and all these, I was like, did Patrick Peterson, old Patrick Peterson do enough? No. So I went with Byron Murphy after last year because of how really, really impressive that season was. And you know, if you're talking at all about like imagining this as an actual football team,

like I could put Byron Murphy in the slot and then I can put Rhodes and Winfield on the outside, and it works all nicely. My random guy that I'll shout out, and I remember this, I probably find in the tweet, but there was a training camp practice in 2021, I think, where I was like, I think Holton Hill is the Vikings' best cornerback, because he was balling in this practice.

He was making plays left and right. He was long, athletic. And then that is a reminder with training camp coming up in a few weeks that if somebody plays well in training camp, let's not go crazy. Let's not overreact. And I'm going to overreact because it's the sample that we have to watch sometimes but That shout out to Holton Hill or Hilton Holton as I believe Mike Zimmer once called him

Everson Griffin called everything Griffin caught. Yep in a press conference Everson Griffin said Hilton Holton. Yep. I Remember that era because when he came back after a weed arrest Mike Zimmer was just totally totally done with him. And our friend Chad Graff, I think asked Zimmer, he said, you know, Holted Hill looks pretty good out there in practice. And he said something like, oh, you've been watching the practice tape. And Chad was like, well, I don't know. Like, what do you said? I don't know. What do you think of him? And he said, I don't think of him. It's like, okay, I guess Mike's done. Classic Zimmer. I missed, I missed those. I don't miss all of it, but I definitely missed those. I will go as I'll match your alliteration and I will go Harrison hand because 2020 that same Elvin Camaro six touchdown game, Harrison hand picks off drew breeze. And of course

we were all like, Whoa, this guy's got some playmaking ability and everything else. And that was it for Harrison hand. Nice guy though. Uh, your kicker punter and returners long. Well, there's no other pick. Uh, cluey. I probably same deal. Like I don't think they've just had a rotating cast. And then the return specialists, Cordero Patterson and Marcus Sherrill's. And if you were combining it into one and you wrote this, you know, Percy Harvin would be the most, if you're trying to return one punt for a touchdown,

you're probably throwing Percy Harvin back there over Sherrill's, but the resumes of Patterson and Sherrill's are among the best in the entire league during the last 25 years. So that means random kicker, random punter, and random return specialists. Random return specialist punter, I'll go Brandon Zylstra as my random punt returner.

Random kick returner might be hard. I don't know how many kick returns they've even had. No, it's tough because in recent years they just haven't. And Kenny Wong was awesome. Which is why Silas Bolden might make the team this year, potentially. Because they're going to have to return kickoffs this year if the touchback is at the 35.

He's more punt returner. But yeah, the one thing I'll say really quickly is like kicker, I think it's definitely Ryan Longwell. But Blair Walsh had the best season as a rookie in 2012. But unfortunately, Blair Walsh the next few years did not go well enough for him to make this team. Obviously, there's a certain certain kick that I think is a little disqualifying perhaps. Um, but yeah, I'm trying to think. I already mentioned, I mentioned earlier in the receivers, Andre Allison, that's a pretty random punt returner, um, from the two thousands.

Apparently my Matt Ossiata had 10 kick returns. That's probably like those ones where they squib it a little bit and he ends up. I don't know. I mean, Adrian Peterson having 17 of them is pretty wild when you consider just how much that disappeared that he was actually doing that a little bit. Early in his rookie year. Yeah. Okay. I'll give you one. I'll give you a random kick returner. Amir Smith, Marset. People love Amir Smith, Marset. That is a good one.

I don't know why, but they,. And maybe Jordan Berry, punter? That's pretty good. That's pretty good. Jeff Locke, as a punter, I don't know. Is it random? Jordan Berry's pretty random. Jordan Berry is pretty random. Locke, let me look for punters.

We can't wrap this podcast. You've got things to do, you've got a life and I'm just keeping you from that. So we can look up some random punters. Cause I just don't think there have been that many. Okay, Matt Wild was pretty random, but it was a full year. Cause when I think of random, I think a guy shows up and punts for like a week and then disappears.

Gosh. Eddie Johnson. I don't know who Eddie Johnson is. I don't either. Someone named Lee Johnson punted 25 times for the Vikings in 2001. He gets it. Good job, Lee Johnson. Your award is in the mail. Right. Okay. Punted once it says he Oh, yeah, he did. Yeah, I'm sure that was probably for an injury. So let me ask you this question. I know this is, um, this has been a fun and ridiculous discussion here of the current roster. Give me the players who

will be on the all three 10 sets of 10 years team. How do you put that? The all 30% of the century. When it's 2033, right? The all 33.3 continuous team in 2033. The all first third of the century. Yeah, we mentioned a few of them over the course of the show. Like, I think Hockenson will be on there. I think you got a good chance at Blake Cashman. You got to look at the positions that are a little bit light. Um, like Donovan

Jackson or Will Fries could could easily wind up on there. Josh Mattelis if he ends up here for a while. Could JJ McCarthy be there by 2033? That would, that If he's the quarterback for the next eight or nine seasons and plays really well and perhaps even wins a certain game, then I think he'd be the easy choice over the Dontas and Kirk's. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know who else necessarily would have a chance to get on there. I was thinking about maybe Jonathan Grenard, but it's just going to be so difficult to

beat Daniel Hunter or Jared Allen. If you're competing against all of those era, if we were just doing maybe an all-decade team by 2030, then someone like Jonathan Grenard would have a good chance at that. Cashman would have a good chance at that. And maybe like, I wouldn't want to totally write off a Jordan Addison as being part of a next decade team from 2020 to 2030. Because Adam Thielen, a lot of his damage was done from 2016 to 2019. Jordan Addison doesn't have a chance there, but it's probably the younger offensive lineman who could unseat somebody if we were doing it that way.

You know who else could get on there is Will Reichard. Yes. Over Raiden. And whoever is the kick returner this year. You've all got a chance. Hope for good kicking springs eternal. Anyway, Will Regetz, this was very fun to do this. And it's the exact type of stress-free content

that I think everybody can enjoy while they are going to their lake house over the 4th of July weekend. So I had a lot of fun with this discussion. I know we ran through it, but all of your explanations there over on Bring Me the News and SI on Vikings. So make sure you go check that out. Follow you on the internet and wherever you're

on social media, you can find Will. So anyway, great stuff, man. I can't wait for camp, dude. I'm just, I'm getting antsy. Yeah, I'm at the time of year where I'm like, I am enjoying the time away from football because then it's a, then the season grind starts, but three weeks from now or whenever I'll, I'll be ready for the, I'll be ready for the football. This year's a little different, just a little different. So, uh, all right. Thanks for your time, Will. And we'll see you again soon. Yep.