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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Can KOC's adjustments save JJ McCarthy? (Part 1)

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Nfl Draft, Football, Nfl Team, Vikings, Nfl, Sports, Minnesota

4.7958 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Matthew Coller talks with Vikings fans about Kevin O'Connell adapting the offense -- or as Aaron Jones called it "dumbing it down." Is that going to get McCarthy on track? Plus, what do we think of KOC's message to McCarthy? The Purple Insider podcast is brought to you by FanDuel. Also, check out our sponsor HIMS at https://hims.com/purpleinsider Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of Purple Insider presented by Fandul, Matthew Collar, here and got a lot on the show.

0:15.2

Some very interesting comments from Kevin O'Connell and one from Aaron Jones that made me wonder, what's my face doing?

0:23.2

Like, what, how did I just react?

0:25.1

What did my face do when he made that comment?

0:28.6

So I'm going to bring you that in just a second.

0:31.2

Really, the subject of the day has a lot to do with how the Vikings will approach

0:36.9

J.J. McCarthy through the rest of this way.

0:39.8

I mean, it feels like after the game against Green Bay, everybody threw their hands up and said,

0:46.4

all right, that's it for me. And then Max Brosmer last weekend, our discussions leading up to

0:53.0

Brosmer starting,

0:56.6

I think it drew some folks back in,

1:00.2

especially since there had been a lot of interest in Max Brosmer.

1:03.6

It was like, all right, okay, I'll watch the Seattle game. And then, of course, you were wildly disappointed,

1:07.2

as has happened maybe a couple times throughout Vikings history by quarterbacks.

1:11.5

But here you are with five games to go.

1:15.0

When you think about by percentages out of 17 games and think about J.J. McCarthy,

1:21.6

who's only started six, there's like a half a season left for J.J. McCarthy if he could

1:26.7

stay healthy.

1:27.3

And there's a little less than a third of a season left to go, which I feel like the South Park

1:34.0

meme of, I ain't heard no bell. Well, that's how it is on the show, is that I ain't heard

1:39.2

no bell. We'll continue to break all of this down and have a discussion that really starts with the headline of

1:46.1

this here podcast, which is about Kevin O'Connell and the adjustments that they have talked about

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