This episode of Purple Insider is presented by Fandul.

All right, Brian Murphy, Manny Hill.

Everybody say aye, if I've got you in the room here.

Aye, aye, aye, aye.

All right, good to see both of you guys.

Why don't we begin with this?

I saw Mani backstage there.

I don't know if Murphy heard what I was talking about.

So let's start with Mani.

About the timeline of J.J. McCarthy and the ups and downs we've seen, some have been really excellent, some great moments for him so far.

And even yesterday, some great moments for him.

And yet, you know, some moments where it's very clear how far he's going to have to go.

How does this match up with where they need to be?

Like, when you watch him, do you think it's right around the corner?

Do you think it's got a long way to go?

That's a great question.

I think certainly the potential is there.

We know J.J. McCarthy is very talented.

But I am wondering if this, if we're a little further away

from really getting a good idea of how good he's going to be that we maybe initially thought and

the more i think about it it's it shouldn't be that surprising because he is 22 years old.

And he has frankly not played a lot of football yet.

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