and Hey everybody welcome to another episode of purple insider Matthew Coller here and I have just returned

from TCO Performance Center where the Vikings held their annual night practice and they did it with a lot of reps for Nick Mullins because

J.J McCarthy was not available for tonight's practice due to routine knee soreness is the way that it was phrased by Kevin O'Connell and

they said that they were having more testing being done to J.J. McCarthy's knee, but that he arrived at the facility with some knee soreness coming out of the game against the Raiders.

And I guess there are some questions about

how, why you're still having to do testing

when it's routine, but I suppose that you would want to take every precaution possible for

J.J McCarthy and then we'll see what happens with the practices in

Cleveland but the fact that Kevin O'Connell was coming out and talking about not being sure whether he was going to be able to go to Cleveland does sort of maybe hint that he's not going to be able to go to

Cleveland because O'Connell talked about how the plan was to start working him in

a little bit with the first team, which I know he has said before, but considering the way that McCarthy played, it seemed like slash seems like the right time would be in Cleveland to give

J. McCarthy those opportunities if he indeed is able to go

because of whatever happens from his knee.

Now I don't think it's going to be a long time before we find out because the team is going to

take off in a plane and I think that it wouldn't be a surprise if we got an update from them before they leave with or without

J.J McCarthy and then I am flying myself in a plane to Cleveland as well.

Dane Mizetani will be there from the Pioneer Press so we'll get a

podcast in from Cleveland and we'll see if J.J McCarthy ends up being there

but not that it's ever really seemed like J.J. McCarthy had much of a chance to be

QB1 in week one, but to not participate in the night practice. And then if he is not able to go to Cleveland then it would be

much less likely that he would be able to come back to practice and take the job

away from Sam

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