Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of Purple Insider here inside TCO Performance Center.

The show is always presented by our friends of Fandul, Matthew Collar here, along with

Alec Lewis of The Athletic and The Alec Lewis Show.

And it's been an interesting couple of days here, Alec,

as really the core question of the 2025 Minnesota Vikings is what happened?

How did you end up as a five and eight football team?

And I think that we all know that it comes back to the performance of the quarterback, where if you have the 32nd out of 32 quarterback rating in the league, you will

probably end up at actually usually worse than 5 and 8, where the Vikings are right now. But

a debate has sprung up on the internet about pure progression systems and whether the Vikings set up

J.J. McCarthy for success with the right kind of system. It has been my opinion that what

really happened here this season, Alec, was that J.J. McCarthy simply was not ready to lead a team with expectations this high,

as is the case for many young quarterbacks in the NFL who are struggling this year,

and the organization miscalculated that. I don't believe that they have gone wrong in terms of

how they have created a system, coached him, tried to get him to improve fundamentals

and things like that. But you might have a different opinion. So how have you felt

amidst the conversation about scheme and what they have put on J.J. McCarthy's plates to this

point? Yeah, first, thanks for having me.

Matthew, good to be here in the beautiful TCO Performance Center.

Pure progression, this is the pure progression winner of 2025.

That's how I'm going to remember it.

We got Kurt Warner tweeting JTO Sullivan, Brian Hoyer, Chase Daniel.

Any quarterback who really has a social media. reading JTO Sullivan, Brian Hoyer, Chase Daniel.

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