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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

JJ McCarthy practices in full, Jefferson talks 'F it' mode

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Nfl Team, Football, Nfl, Nfl Draft, Minnesota, Vikings, Sports

4.7958 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Matthew Coller talks about JJ McCarthy fully practicing as he gets ready for the Bears. Justin Jefferson talked about a social media post about 2022 and Manny Hill picks the schedule. 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, sorry about that.

0:07.2

Welcome to another episode of Purple Insider, Matthew Collar here.

0:11.3

And thank you all for checking in.

0:13.3

The show is always presented by Fanduel.

0:16.5

In just a moment, Manny Hill is going to drop in and we will do our typical pick the schedule,

0:24.3

but wanted to start out with the update from TCO Performance Center today, which is number

0:30.3

one, J.J. McCarthy practiced in full. Nobody panic. He did have a thing on his hand because it hit a helmet,

0:39.1

but he was out there throwing,

0:40.9

well, we were watching,

0:42.2

and he is going to play football against the Chicago Bears,

0:46.2

never fear.

0:47.8

Jonathan Grenard, though, maybe not.

0:50.2

Grinard did not practice today.

0:52.7

And, I mean, when you look at the injury, it's a shoulder type of injury that I don't think you want him dealing with for the rest of the entire season.

1:01.5

If he practices tomorrow, then maybe there's a chance for a veteran player like that that he could maybe get into action.

1:10.4

But it feels like missing these first two practices

1:13.6

is going to be pretty tough for Jonathan Grenard to play against Chicago, which then would

1:19.0

put the onus naturally on Dallas Turner, but we'll have to wait and see how that turns out.

1:24.7

And on Chicago's side, there were a few interesting names that did not practice for the second time this week, Jaquan Brisker, who is a great player for them.

1:34.2

TJ Edwards, they're a key linebacker. Those two guys did not practice. But DJ Moore was limited.

1:41.0

And when Moore was asked today, this is via Courtney Cronin, when he was asked if he is

1:46.7

going to play against the Vikings, he said, duh. So I guess that means the answer is yes,

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