and Oh, Hey everybody welcome to another episode of

Matthew collar here just getting back from

TCO Performance Center another day of Vikings practice but it was a little bit

different today because Kyrie Jackson's funeral was taking place in Maryland.

So Kevin O'Connell, Brian Flores, Dallas Turner, there are a few people not present at today's practice and so instead of Kevin O'Connell running things, it was Mike Petton and West Phillips that were taking the reins today and without the entire staff there, the team decided to do more of a walk-through so there wasn't

super competitive 11 on 11 seven on sevens it was a very different look to practice,

and Harrison Smith didn't even put on a helmet

the entire day because they were not moving

at any type of high speed.

So that means that there's not a lot of takeaways. I can't tell you about a bomb that

J.J McCarthy or Sam Donald through or who caught passes because there weren't

really any passes to be caught in any high-speed reps.

However, that does not mean it was a waste of fuel to drive out to TCO Performance

Center today because J.J McCarthy had a chance to talk to the media and

I will say for the first time in training camp it's only been three days. So it's not like

well you know we've been waiting for weeks for

J.J. to finally get in front of the mic. But it has been a while since we spoke with

him last. It was the end of mini camp when we talked to him the last time and I will tell you the truth

J.J McCarthy is always a pretty confident guy but looked at the end of mini camp like he had

just tried to drink out of a fire hose and he had kind of a like okay wow

all right this is going to be very very complicated for me to play in the NFL.

But that is why he decided to stay around Minnesota

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