Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of Purple Insider, presented by Fandul, Matthew Collar here, as always got a bunch of notes from today.

We heard from J.J. McCarthy.

We heard from Kevin O'Connell and the Vikings getting ready to play the New York Giants,

but the injury report is not so friendly.

So we will go through all of that, plus your questions, comments, thoughts, feelings,

and so forth, happy to answer whatever is on your mind this evening as the Vikings get to play their third to last game of

the season. Can you believe it? It's almost over, folks. And the show, by the way, as always,

presented by our friends at Fandual, and we will have a Fandual question of the day coming up

very shortly. So let us begin with J.J. McCarthy.

He talked today.

And you'll have to give J.J. McCarthy credit for this, that despite all the ups and downs

throughout the season, I don't think that on his Wednesday press conference, there's been

really any change in

J.J. McCarthy, uh, always affable and answering the questions, but there is a point in

every season with the quarterback if they're not going to the playoffs, where the questions, we

just sort of, all right, what is left to ask J.J. McCarthy.

But what we did have to ask was how he felt he came

out of the Dallas Cowboys game. What's going right for him? Where's he making progress in these

last two weeks? And so I kicked off the old press conference myself with just asking J.J.

a pretty simple question, which was, what did he

like from himself on tape in his strong performance against the Dallas Cowboys?

JJ, when you just reviewed the tape, what did you like most about your performance?

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