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

The show is always presented by Fanduel.

And let me throw out the Fanduel question of the day right away here.

The over under for Vikings and Chargers, 44 and a half on Fandul.

How many points do the Vikings need to score to win this game against the Chargers

and keep the season rolling?

Because if they lose this one to a beleaguered Chargers game,

it's going to feel like a serious uphill climb the rest of the way as

difficult opponents are on the way. So Kevin O'Connell came out today and announced that

J.J. McCarthy will not be starting. Sorry to break everyone's hearts, but that is the case.

As we expected, it will be Carson Wentz. And I'll give you the O'Connell announcement because he went into a little bit more detail

than just saying, hey, it's Carson Wentz.

So here's what O'Connell said.

We did put J.J. McCarthy through an on-field workout just to see if he had a chance to make it this week.

You know, JJ, the medical staff, myself, we're all kind of encouraged about where he's at and the progress he's making, but he's just not there.

And if this was a Sunday game, maybe it would be a little bit of a different story and we could push it throughout the week and see where he's at towards the end of the week. But really, I look at today almost as the combination of a Wednesday, Thursday, but really it is a Friday on the timeline of coming up on being 48 hours out from the game. So we wanted to have a plan at the quarterback position. and it'll be very similar to last week.

Carson will start.

Max will be the backup,

and JJ will be available in the case of emergency as the third.

And like I said, encouraged about where he's at and very much looking forward to continuing his progression,

and hopefully having a chance to go next week.

And we'll keep you guys posted on that.

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