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dot com and secure your seats today hey everybody welcome to another episode of Purple Inside or Matthew Collar here. And it is time once again for Tuesday morning left guard with former Minnesota Viking Jeremiah Searles. And Jeremiah, I've been on a bit of a run lately where breaking news happens right before the podcast. That's helpful. And not after. And I don't know if this falls under the category of breaking news, but J.J.

McCarthy has spoken.

And he went on the Rich Eisen show.

I guess there's a Michigan connection there with Rich Eisen and J.J. McCarthy.

So to start the show, I have Kevin Seifert's transcription of it on my phone and I'm going to read it.

Thanks, Seaford for watching and transcribing the interview.

Appreciate you doing the work for me.

So here is what J.J. McCarthy had to say about his last year.

He said, it's been really hard.

I'm not going to lie, straight up.

And on him and Kevin O'Connell's conversations about 2025, J.J. McCarthy said to Rich Eisen,

our conversations have just been about nothing but the greatest thing for the Minnesota Vikings.

At the end of the day, there are a lot of things that certainly are above my pay grade and

something's above his,

which is kind of interesting. And he goes on to say, he's the one with the pen last on the field.

And that's all I know, referring to O'Connell. All I can ask is for a fair opportunity. That's the one

thing I feel like everybody's given and it's fundamental. When money gets involved,

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