and Hey everybody welcome to another episode of Purple Insider. Now wait a minute, it's not just another episode.

Tuesday morning Left Guard is back recording in the afternoon as you might expect with

former Minnesota Viking Jeremiah Searles and Jeremiah we've got football this week.

I am extremely jacked up Nebraska thinks they've got a quarterback so I know that you are through the roof for football this year, but you know where we need to start though.

Because the listeners have been waiting waiting they've been waiting for you

to come on and admit that J.J McCarthy is awesome and that you were wrong about the draft.

So what have you got to say for yourself?

I will say in the 33 snaps in which I got to watch J.J McCarthy's NFL career,

I may have been wrong. I may, but hey, he still has not proven to me that he is the next coming. He showed

glimpses, but then his knee exploded, unfortunately, but I'm not, I'm not sad that he's

going to miss this year.

And I hope that's not taking the wrong way.

It's going to be good for his development.

You know, because I do think with as well as he played in the preseason,

there was a really good chance we were going to see him out there really early in this season.

It was just going to happen and that could have been good, but it also could have gone really poorly

for his development.

So, serendipity, you're paying Sam Donald $10 million. You can now let J.J. Rehab, learn the system, be around. This is not a wasted year as much as I've seen some people like, oh, it's a wasted year. He's going to learn a ton this year. He's going to get to understand the ins and out of how NFL season works. He's going to get to understand the ins and out of how

NFL season works. He's going to get to understand how guys study, how the prep

goes, all of that, and then he's going to be primed to come back and take the

reins for a year two. I may have been wrong, time will tell, but from what I saw for him, he was playing lights out ball in that first preseason game.

I think if you had seen practice and the way that he interacted with his teammates and how much he grew in such a short period of time you would feel more wrong.

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