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

And what a day.

It was at CCO Performance Center as players were talking about a real football game coming up.

And it was J.J. McCarthy's first time as the QB1 walking up for that Wednesday press

conference.

There will be many, many more in his future.

But I want to bring you what he had to say today about being prepared.

Some interesting comments from Kevin O'Connell.

And why don't we get some health

updates going as well. We might as well do that off the bat. And there will be official injury

reports coming. But as far as Harrison Smith goes, I'll read you what Kevin O'Connell had to say

about that. And then we'll get into the McCarthy stuff.

He said that Harrison Smith participated in the walkthrough today, but will not practice.

And the hope is that they can ramp him up.

He is back in the building in meetings, building up his workload for the week. We'll see where he's at throughout the remainder of the week.

So that didn't sound to me like, hey, look out everybody.

Number two, two is coming back.

It'll be something to watch going forward, but maybe they have to prepare themselves for the possibility that Harrison Smith won't be playing.

And as far as Christian Derisaw, well, let me just bring you right off

the top here what O'Connell had to say about Christian Dara So then we'll get into all the

McCarthy stuff. But it was a update that sounded like I badly want Dariusaw to be ready to go,

but I understand that there are many, many football games to be played. So here's what Kevin O'Connell said about Christian Dara So's health.

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