Hey, everybody, welcome to an emergency episode of Purple Insider presented by Fanduel Matthew Collar here fresh from TCO Performance Center,

where Kevin O'Connell announced that J.J. McCarthy has entered the concussion protocol.

So here is what O'Connell said that last night after the game, when they were on their way home, that McCarthy

reported some concussion symptoms to the medical staff. And then they made the decision to put him

in the protocol. And we don't know a lot else about how this is going to play out throughout the week.

Clearly, Max Brosmer is the backup quarterback, and Kevin O'Connell said that if McCarthy

cannot practice, if he can't go this week, that Max Brosmer would get the first team reps.

That makes a lot of sense.

I did wonder about John Wolford because of his previous

experience in the Los Angeles Rams system and him being a veteran quarterback. And there have been

times where O'Connell has pointed to, you know, maybe the inexperience and not wanting to throw

Brosmer out there, but that might have to be the case this week. And just to go through

kind of the way that it played out with the conversation with Kevin O'Connell, he was asked

about, you know, the chances of J.J. McCarthy and what this means that he is just into the

protocol, but they don't know where it is going from here.

So if he is cleared, then he could return to practice.

And the normal way things work during the week is the guys come in on Monday, they get

treatment and so forth.

Tuesday is the player's day off.

And then Wednesday, everybody comes back for practice, the game plan, all that sort of

stuff.

So there is a timeline here for McCarthy to potentially be still clear to play against the

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