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
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🗓️ 3 September 2025
⏱️ 74 minutes
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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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