Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of Purple Insider, presented by Fandul.

Matthew Collar here, along with ESPN's Kevin Seifert, to break down everything Minnesota

Vikings quarterback situation.

Brian Flores gets his first head coaching interview and the outlook here going forward for

the Vikings into the off season.

Why don't we begin, Kevin, just with the quarterback spot.

I was thinking of something today.

I was thinking of a specific word.

It's something that I have for you, but I don't know that the Vikings have for J.J.

McCarthy. And that word would be trust that teams often operate and coaching staffs often

operate on trust more than they do focus on talent. We see this all the time. Why is this

guy playing over this other guy? Trust is a big

part of it. And as I've tried to think of what they're going to do in the future, how they view

J.J. McCarthy, the one thing I keep going back to is how do you trust that he is going to take the

step that they need him to take for next year.

Reaction to that.

I think they have faith in him that he can become that person, but I don't think that they

would be in their right minds to fully trust that that's going to happen.

It would be a dereliction of duty, probably on the part of the

decision makers in the building. And just, you know, to the naked eye, I mean, when a guy plays

in 10 games over two seasons, like, how can you trust that he's going to be a 17 game guy

the following year? And that's independent of performance, independent of anything

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