Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of Purple Insider, Matthew Collar here and joining the show for the 100th time, Kevin Cole, the unexpected points newsletter.

And I was just reading it here on my phone, the analytical big board.

And when this came out, I immediately sent Kevin a message and said, you got to come on

the show because your analytical big board doesn't like a lot of these Vikings potential

prospects.

So what is going on, Kevin?

How are you?

I'm doing well.

You may have to check the data on the 100th appearance. I'm taking the under on that,

but we will, we will get there. We will get there. It's got to be close. You've been doing

this for quite some time now and, you know, going back to your time of PFF. And then now

with your awesome newsletter that focuses on football analytics and we lost

a couple of people to the NFL who were doing really cool data science stuff like our friend

Eric Eager and people like that. So you know, you've risen to the top of the rankings here

with some of your analytical work. And I appreciate that. So let's,

let's talk about this analytical big board. What I like about it first, Kevin, is that it's a

little different from a lot of the big boards that essentially by the time we get to the draft,

I'm just going to say it. They mostly look the same by. I mean, everybody, you click on a big

or, oh, that guy's a 22 instead of 25. And, you know, I understand why that happens. We all look at the same people a million times and there's some thought leaders and information comes out, things like that. People shift their boards around. But what you attempted to do was also weigh in the positional value, the surplus of

drafting certain positions. And let me just start with this statement. A lot of the positions

I think the Vikings could take are not necessarily the highest on the surplus value. And that's

probably because, you know, the Vikings aren't going to pick an offensive tackle,

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