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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Jeremiah Sirles needs Vikings to find their identity around JJ McCarthy (Part 2)

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

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

4.7958 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Matthew Coller talks with former Vikings offensive lineman Jeremiah Sirles about the Vikings' offensive identity and how Kevin O'Connell and JJ McCarthy will find that. And then they preview Vikings-Bears from the trenches perspective. Maggie Robinson then joins for a rundown of predictions from NFL executives. The Purple Insider podcast is brought to you by FanDuel. 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

Bitter Bruce says don't have nearly as many worries about McCarthy having

0:08.7

rookie struggles. The kids' stats under pressure situations have been outstanding. Well,

0:13.4

the thing about is, like, I don't disagree with the concept of McCarthy being able to work

0:19.7

through rookie struggles better than actual

0:22.5

rookies would.

0:23.8

But whatever stats you had at Michigan, it's awesome.

0:27.2

They just don't mean anything.

0:28.4

It was so long ago that we don't know anything about J.J. McCarthy other than what

0:35.1

we've seen at training camp, which was good.

0:38.4

And under pressure situations, I think he was often at his best in the last two training camps. But now that we're

0:44.7

going to have real games, then we will find out what it really is, as opposed to what we've had

0:50.9

to kind of invent and imagine for a really long time about J.J. McCarthy.

0:55.8

I mean, the college stats, they just, they're so long ago. He's just a kid at that point,

1:00.4

and he still is a kid, but a much, much more developed kid than he was coming out of Michigan.

1:07.6

Tom says, I don't think KOC has the patience to run 15 play drives.

1:11.6

I think that it's not his philosophy.

1:14.5

So I don't know if it's, maybe it is impatience, but I think it's also his philosophy in general to just be aggressive.

1:21.3

And he's talked about this, I think, well, drove everybody insane when Ed Donatel was the defensive coordinator.

1:27.5

But what he wanted in Brian Flores as a DC was somebody who was going to have the

1:33.6

defensive version of what he does on offense.

1:35.9

He's always going to want to be aggressive.

1:38.9

But can you ring that in at times and trust the guys that you have in the backfield

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