Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of Purple Insider Matthew Collar here,

and this is mostly a fans only episode where I answer your questions that you have either

emailed to me at Matthew Collar at gmail.com or sent me on Twitter over at Matthew Collar.

But I've got something to get into first, which is that the Vikings are holding

mini camp this week.

And reporters such as myself will be there for three practices.

So our biggest look yet at J.J. McCarthy this year. So far, we've been in attendance for just two OTA practices. And there's not a ton that you can glean from that so far. But this should give us a larger sample size of what McCarthy looks like at this point and where he needs to go during training camp coming up in the middle of

July. So here's my three things that I'm going to be looking for at Vikings mini camp coming up

this week. Number one, yes, it is J.J. McCarthy, but not just looking at him. What I'm looking

for is consistency from J.J. McCarthy in those two

OTA practices, one of them was very, very good, felt like it was smooth, he was accurate, on

point, the ball was coming out quickly. And then the other practice, I would call it choppy.

I would describe it as a little rougher than the first one.

I would not say that it was bad. It just didn't have him finding the receivers he was supposed

to get the ball to. There was an interception that was undercut by Isaiah Rogers. There were a couple

conversations with Kevin O'Connell off to the side. So it wasn't quite as good looking as the first one we saw,

but that is such a tiny sample size. So now we will get to see more from him. And it's in an

environment in minicamp that is clicked up a notch. I mean, of course, this is still the learning

phase, as Kevin O'Connell is, I'm sure, going to remind us again next week.

But they usually run more seven-on-sevins, might get into a little 11-on-11s, red zone drills start to happen a lot more.

So the first couple practices, we only had a handful of snaps to look at from J.J. McCarthy. Well, now we'll get more

of a complete practice. It is still not a training camp practice where they are going all out.

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