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ESPN's Fowler: 'Probably over' for JJ McCarthy with Vikings (Part 1)

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

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

4.7958 Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2026

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Matthew Coller talks about the crazy amount of speculation about the Vikings QB situation. Jeremy Fowler said that it's probably over for McCarthy in Minnesota. Plus The Athletic reports on more details of McCarthy and plenty of others speculate on Kyler Murray, Geno Smith, Kirk Cousins and even Tua Tagovailoa. What are we supposed to make of all this? 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.

0:12.0

And what a day for the rumor mill surrounding the Minnesota Vikings.

0:18.9

Holy cow, I could barely keep up to how many NFL insiders, reporters, and even a fantasy

0:25.5

guy throwing out different options for the Minnesota Vikings.

0:30.5

So I'm going to run through them, including some startling reports by Alec Lewis and

0:36.0

Jeremy Fowler to start the show.

0:37.5

And then we'll talk about what it all means where the Minnesota Vikings and the

0:43.3

quarterback carousel stands.

0:45.9

So let's waste no time and jump right into it.

0:49.2

We begin with Jeremy Fowler on the Dan Patrick show today,

0:55.9

with the biggest needle moving quote that we've had maybe in the off season

1:01.6

surrounding the Vikings and Jeremy Fowler,

1:05.7

and J.J. McCarthy, I mean, Jeremy Fowler of ESPN said this on the Dan Patrick show. He's said of

1:12.9

J.J. McCarthy in the Viking situation, it's kind of like when you get broken up with or someone

1:18.7

starts seeing other people. When they do that, it's kind of clear. It's probably over. So,

1:24.9

uh, the heat coming off of the combine for Jeremy Fowler about J.J.

1:31.3

McCarthy. Now, here's the thing about McCarthy and the Vikings and whether it's over.

1:37.3

We just don't really know yet, uh, because we don't know who else they're going to bring in.

1:43.3

And we don't know what level of're going to bring in and we don't know what level of

1:45.4

competition it's going to be for J.J. McCarthy. So I understand where Jeremy is coming from

1:52.8

and saying this because historically speaking, if you go look at quarterbacks that were not

1:59.6

necessarily drafted in the top five, because were not necessarily drafted in the top five,

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