Hey, everybody, welcome inside TCO Performance Center, Matthew Collar, along with Ben Gessling of the Star Tribune.

And for those of you who have been watching slash listening for a long period of time, you know what this means.

In fact, you're probably making a noise already related to what this is going to be.

You know what time it is.

And it is that time. It is time to look into our crystal ball.

Just a little background on the crystal ball episodes.

Mike Zimmer once declared that he didn't have a crystal ball to find out if Sam Bradford was going to come back way back in 2017.

And then a local fortune teller sent him a crystal ball.

And that didn't really help either.

So we are going to look into our, for that year it did for a while until it didn't.

And then we're going to look into our crystal ball to talk about 2025 Vikings and this

preseason game.

So how about this?

Let's start right off, Ben, by looking into your crystal ball for Saturday's football game.

And J.J. McCarthy getting back on the field for the first time.

If you're looking at it, what is it that you are seeing in terms of how much he plays and how

comfortable he is under center? Yeah, I'm seeing, looks like the clock is still in the first

quarter when he comes out.

It looks like probably a couple of drives.

They've got a seven to three lead.

It looks like he must have, I gather that means he led a scoring drive and they said,

okay, we're good.

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