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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Jeremiah Sirles is seeing legit progress from McCarthy (and KOC?)

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

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

4.7958 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Former Vikings lineman Jeremiah Sirles joins the show to discuss J.J. McCarthy's big game against the Cowboys and what it signals for his development, as well as Kevin O'Connell's offense. Then Maggie Robinson joins the show for our weekly Robinson Roundup. 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,

0:10.4

Matthew Collar here.

0:11.4

And it is time, once again, for Tuesday morning left guard with Jeremiah Searles,

0:16.2

who was on the hunt for the next Nebraska quarterback after Dylan Ryola decided he was going to leave.

0:22.5

Also maybe going online and ordering a Buffalo Bill's Super Bowl championship banner as a,

0:29.6

as a former bill.

0:30.7

What a day this week for National Football League Football A.

0:35.7

And we have progress from J.J. McCarthy.

0:39.7

So why don't we begin there, Mr. Searles?

0:42.5

We have, you know, gone on the ride here of a good training camp, a good start to the season, stops, starts, injuries, bad performances, good performances.

0:52.6

So where are we now after back to back

0:56.9

quality showings from J.J. McCarthy? It's exactly what we asked to see out of him. And so I'm

1:01.5

not going to sit here and be like, oh, it's just a Dallas terrible defense because yes,

1:05.3

Dallas's defense is terrible. But he showed that he can beat up on a terrible defense. And that's

1:10.1

a step in the right direction, right?

1:11.8

That's a step we asked, hey, be simpler, execute more, go out there, play, have fun, be energy, right?

1:19.1

Be the lightning rod.

1:20.1

And you're seeing all that from him.

1:22.5

And so it was steps in the right direction.

1:24.3

And do I think that this changes and erases weeks zero through 12? No,

1:30.4

but it shows progress. And that's what we were asking when we did to play the game last week

1:34.3

of what happens if. Well, this was a step of, hey, we've now won one, right? We got one in the book.

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