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JJ McCarthy crushes Vikings joint practice, Day 2 (Part 2)

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

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🗓️ 15 August 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Matthew Coller talks with Dane Mizutani and then Vikings fans about how JJ McCarthy performed exceptionally well in his second joint practice against the Patriots. 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

I also wanted to bring you a couple of quotes, though, from J.J. McCarthy.

0:09.1

We have talked about all the different plays that he made, and Dane Mizatani estimating that he had 15 good throws today.

0:16.7

That might be a little on the high side, but Dane asked JJ after practice about his favorite throw of the day.

0:23.8

Is there a throw from today that you're most proud of?

0:28.3

Throw from today.

0:35.2

It's nice to hit Aaron down the field.

0:36.9

That's for sure.

1:11.8

There's a little pocket movement before that. But I think, you know, just closing it out with JA on a little post in the end zone. That was, you know, I felt like the location was where I wanted it to be, but that was one of those throws where I learned a lot from, you know, just the feeling the pocket and, you know, manipulating my arm. I would like it a little bit higher, but, you know, he made a great catch and a great play. But yeah, there's a, there's a lot of good ones out there. The one to Jordan in the red zone, a little layer ball over the corner. That was something that I was working on a lot this off season. But the guys made the catches,. They got open and it was a lot of fun today.

1:14.7

I like how he said there were a lot of them out there today. And all of us probably went.

1:16.9

Yeah.

1:17.5

Yeah.

1:18.0

There absolutely were.

1:18.9

So the two minute throw that I've mentioned multiple times because this is just

1:23.3

something where every time they go into the two minute drill, I mean, I'm getting

1:27.4

out my notebook,

1:29.3

which is just my phone, and I'm staring, I'm looking, like, I'm ready. Like, I want to see

1:33.8

everything that happens here. And McCarthy has succeeded on almost every one of their two minute

1:39.6

drills in this off season. And then to do it again today with such a great throw and some good management

1:45.7

as well of the pocket was very impressive so i asked him about that after practice

1:51.0

the last couple of jaded success in the two-minute drill and both last couple days what do you think

1:55.9

is the key to executing those drills successful the mentality um the different mindset you have to step into, but I feel like, you know, just

2:05.4

treating it like it's a game. Like these are valuable, valuable reps. Kind of going back to

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