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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Can the Vikings beat the Lions with J.J. McCarthy under center?

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

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

4.7958 Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Andrew Krammer of the Minnesota Star Tribune joins the show to preview and breakdown the Vikings-Lions Week 9 clash. 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.

0:10.8

Matthew Collar here, as always.

0:12.6

And we will get to my hardcore breakdown with Andrew Kramer, the Star Tribune, in just one second, but want to give you the official injury report before we get

0:22.8

into that conversation. So Christian Derisaw and Brian O'Neill both questionable. That will be

0:28.7

something to watch big time before the game. We know the struggles that the Vikings have had with

0:33.6

backup tackles in there so far this year. So they will be hoping for a full game out of Derisaw and O'Neill, and they'll need

0:42.3

it considering the defensive line of the Detroit Lions.

0:45.8

Andrew Van Ginkle also questionable and a bit of a surprise one.

0:49.8

Josh Mattelis showed up as questionable on the injury report today in terms of players who are out

0:55.8

Josh Oliver, C.J. Ham and Jeff Okuda will not play in this game. As far as J.J. McCarthy,

1:02.8

a full and complete week of practice the first time since early September that that has happened.

1:10.1

And Kevin O'Connell said that J.J.

1:13.0

looked like himself. So there you go. Ready to start against Detroit, the reset button being

1:18.7

hit on this season for the young quarterback. All right. Let's go back to TCO Performance Center

1:24.5

where myself and Andrew Kramer dove deep into these two teams in the battle

1:29.1

that is to come with the Vikings and the Lions. Thanks for watching.

1:32.5

Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of Purple Insider presented by Fanduel, Matthew Collar,

1:38.4

here, along with Andrew Kramer of the Star Tribune for our weekly hardcore breakdown of Vikings and Detroit Lions. Let's start with the bigger

1:48.1

picture here of these two franchises, Andrew. It's very interesting how much Detroit has had the number

1:55.3

of Kevin O'Connell and the Vikings, and that really has been kind of regardless of what either two

2:00.7

teams' records

2:01.6

have been. Why do we think that is, and do we think that that will change now that there are

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