Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of Purple Insider, Matthew Collar, here, along with Dane Mizatani, the Pioneer Press, inside TCO Performance Center after we have just watched, wait for it, the first training camp practice of 2025. We all had our sunglasses and sunscreen and

we're ready to go outside and Mother Nature had other ideas. So it was an inside practice

here today, but it was a full practice without pads and we have a lot, a lot of takeaways to

discuss. And where to begin? What player to start? Oh, how about

J.J. McCarthy? That seems like a fair spot to begin. I know what everybody wants to know. How did

J.J. McCarthy look in his first training camp practice ever as QB1? So for that, I will let you react first, Mr. Mizatani.

Go ahead. How did you think that J.J. McCarthy looked at his first training camp practice

ever as QB1? Yeah, a little tongue twister there. I thought he looked good. I thought he looked

the part. I thought it was, we talked about how the spring was

a continuation of last summer and how he hit the ground running and there was no rust. I thought

today was the continuation of the spring. He just looked like QB1. It was like not even a question.

I saw I'm running over to the offensive lineman after stretching and dapping everybody up.

He just carries himself with not only a youthful exuberance, but like a guy that just knows

he's the guy.

So that's the starting point.

Even before he threw a pass, he looked like the quarterback of the future, of the present

and of the future.

But then you watch him in practice. And when the bullets actually start to fly and you see him actually drop back and

throw the ball, I thought it was kind of a slow start, but not a bad start by any means. I think

this is the time of the year. We have to remind ourselves. And I think both of us will probably have to remind ourselves and I think both of us will probably

have to remind ourselves this year at least of once or twice over the summer that the defense is

ahead of the offense just inherently that's how it works in training camp so it wasn't a bad start

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