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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Carson Wentz starts, hardcore Vikings-Eagles breakdown

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

🗓️ 17 October 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Andrew Krammer of the Minnesota Star Tribune joins the show for a deep dive into the Vikings-Eagles matchup and Carson Wentz starting this weekend. 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, Matthew Collar here,

0:10.0

and we will bring you my conversation with Andrew Kramer of the Star Tribune in just a moment.

0:15.0

But first, your update from Kevin O'Connell on the injury situation for the Vikings.

0:20.6

As we expected, J.J. McCarthy will not be playing this weekend.

0:26.1

He will be the emergency quarterback, but Carson Wentz will start, and Max Brosber will be

0:31.0

the backup as McCarthy continues to recover from his ankle injury.

0:35.8

Also on the injury report for today, Blake Cashman is going

0:39.9

to be listed as questionable, but O'Connell said that he is expected to play. So that is a huge

0:46.3

return for the Vikings defense to get Blake Cashman back. Also, Michael Juergens,

0:53.4

Ty and Grim Dawkins are questionable for this game along

0:56.9

with Tyler Batty, but Baddy also expected to be able to return if they so need. Andrew Van

1:03.2

Ginkle, though, is still out, which means another huge game for Dallas Turner along with

1:09.1

Jonathan Granard, who did miss some practice time yesterday,

1:12.6

but Jonathan Grinard is good to go with no designation.

1:16.5

So there is your official injury update.

1:18.7

Let's get to the hardcore breakdown now with the Star Tribune's Andrew Kramer.

1:23.5

Hey, everybody.

1:24.3

Welcome to another episode of Purple Insider, presented by Fandul,

1:28.1

Matthew Collar here, along with Andrew Kramer of the Star Tribune inside TCO Performance Center

1:33.7

for our weekly hardcore breakdown of Vikings Eagles. And believe it or not, there is more to

1:40.6

this story between these two teams than the starting quarterback, although I think we have a

1:45.3

pretty good sense that it will not be J.J. McCarthy starting in this game. So that's where I would

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