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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

JJ McCarthy practices, what can he gain from playing???? (Part 1)

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

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

4.7958 Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Matthew Coller talks about McCarthy returning to practice and the chance he can play against the Packers. They won't play starters so what can JJ gain from playing? 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 to another episode of Purple Insider, presented by Fandul,

0:10.9

Matthew Collar here.

0:12.4

And happy new year.

0:14.7

It is New Year's Eve.

0:15.7

There's lots of college football coming up later on tonight.

0:18.7

So I figured that we would fire up the old live take machine a little bit earlier today to make sure we're getting your thoughts, feelings, opinions on the Minnesota Vikings.

0:29.0

They get ready to play the Green Bay Packers and the news today, J.J. McCarthy back at practice.

0:35.8

Naturally, after he fractured his hand and missed last week,

0:40.0

it was pretty unclear. Is he going to have a chance to play again? And is he going to have an

0:45.8

opportunity to fight through it and get one more shot at playing in the year 2025? I mean,

0:52.9

technically early 2026. But in the season of the 2025 year,

0:57.9

is he going to have one more shot to play? So that is the question here tonight is,

1:03.8

what do you want to see from J.J. McCarthy if he plays. Now, I have said it.

1:11.0

I'll say it again.

1:12.2

It's preseason.

1:13.7

The Green Bay Packers said today, Matt LaFleur, that they are not going to play every

1:18.4

starter in this game.

1:19.5

So you are going out there with a motivated Minnesota Vikings team versus a

1:24.2

unmotivated Green Bay Packers team, a Packers team that is motivated to just get to the

1:29.5

playoffs with as many human beings healthy as they possibly can.

1:34.0

So they are not going to play anyone of consequence unless there's nobody left at that position,

1:39.5

which does open up the door potentially for, you know, big numbers for J.J. McCarthy.

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