Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of Purple Insider, Matthew Collar here.

And a crazy thing happened today at TCO Performance Center for the Minnesota Vikings.

Absolutely wild.

We haven't seen this in a really, really long time.

The Vikings got positive news on their injury report.

I know, I know. It's something that we're not used to, and we're going to have to change the entire tenor of the show to analyze good news on the injury report.

First of all, Andrew Van Ginkle practiced in full.

And what a difference a Van Ginkle can make to this defense.

But also, to go along with that, J.J. McCarthy practiced in full for the first time since

September 14th, maybe, the first time since he got hurt,

whatever the date of that was, that he got injured against the Atlanta Falcons.

This was the first time that on an injury report, he was listed as a full participant.

So we had a chance to speak with J.J. McCarthy today about just the

last five, six weeks for him, what he's been through, what he's tried to take away, and how

the ankle feels right now. And if you're seeing the headline, then you realize what he said.

He said that the ankle feels, quote, amazing.

And he described it.

I'll play you the clip in a bit.

So he described it as not being ready for last Thursday,

but said that time has helped him get to the point where he is ready to go.

And we can move past all the soft benching discussion and all that other

stuff about whether the Vikings actually wanted Carson Wednesday to start and yada,

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