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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

JJ McCarthy: 'Not 100%' but will he start?!?!? (Part 1)

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

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🗓️ 16 October 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Matthew Coller breaks down Kevin O'Connell and JJ McCarthy's comments about whether McCarthy will play this weekend versus the Eagles. The Purple Insider podcast is brought to you by FanDuel. Also, check out our sponsor HIMS at https://hims.com/purpleinsider Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody, welcome into another episode of Purple Insider presented by Fandul,

0:11.8

Matthew Collar here and spent the day out at TCO Performance Center.

0:17.4

We heard from Kevin O'Connell.

0:19.0

We heard from J.J. McCarthy and Carson Wentz as well.

0:22.7

So we could dive into the takeaways. We'll have the Fandul question the day as always. And your

0:29.0

questions, thoughts, comments, and feelings. So let me just get this out of the way. I think after

0:36.1

hearing from J.J. McCarthy, from Kevin O'Connell, and then

0:40.2

the injury report comes out, and J.J. McCarthy is limited, whereas Carson Wentz was a full

0:47.1

participant, that as of this moment, it seems like things are leaning in the direction of J.J.

0:53.9

McCarthy not playing against the

0:56.4

philadelphia eagles because kevin o'connell has said that he doesn't want mccarthy to go back

1:02.8

out there unless he is 100% and j j j j mccarthy said today that he is not 100%.

1:11.6

Uh, ankle is, you know, it's, it's getting there. I wouldn't say it's 100% right now, but, you know, we're striving every day to get there as fast as possible. So, do you think it's every day to play? Me selfishly, I'm going to play if it was, you know, off or not. But, you know, we got to be smart here and understand, you know, there's a lot of things that go into place.

1:30.2

And, you know, at or not. But, you know, we got to be smart here and understand, you know, there's a lot of things that go into place. And, you know, at the end of the day, I'm just going to do what I'm told and try to get better as fast as possible. I mean, that comment right there does not exactly scream I'm playing on Sunday. Neither does a limited participation on the injury report. So, of course, this isn't 100%. It's not locked in. He could fully

1:47.1

practice tomorrow and Friday and be ready to go, but it seems unlikely that with a limited

1:54.4

amount of practice on any day, I mean, think about how many times Kevin O'Connell has gone up to

2:00.4

the podium and talked about how

2:01.9

McCarthy missed that one practice on the Thursday before the Atlanta game and not having a full

2:09.4

practice today would suggest to you that it is a lot less likely that he's going to be out there

2:16.8

based on things that they've said before about needing him to be 100%. less likely that he's going to be out there based on things that they've said before

2:18.6

about needing him to be 100%. He confirms that he's not needing him to have the full week of practice

2:24.1

doesn't get the full week of practice if he doesn't today. So if that seems to point toward

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