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JJ McCarthy will NOT start for Vikings vs. Chargers -- is he close??? (Part 2)

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

🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Matthew Coller talks with Vikings fans about the news that Carson Wentz will be back under center against Los Angeles on Thursday night. But did it sound like JJ McCarthy is close? 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

This episode of Purple Insider is presented by Fandul.

0:10.0

Adrian says,

0:10.8

KOC praised JJ for practicing Friday,

0:13.7

saying the missing Thursday was not good.

0:16.4

Yeah,

0:16.8

just going back to that,

0:18.4

the missed practice that's been brought up so many times by KOC.

0:21.8

My point is that that week he had talked about how well he practiced that Friday when he came back.

0:28.9

I think that it's only been because he saw the results that he understood what happened better,

0:35.6

that in the moment, I think it was a lot harder to understand

0:38.2

that missing that Thursday practice, which is a huge practice in the week for NFL teams.

0:44.4

But, you know, I think that in hindsight, he saw that and said, well, I don't want to do that

0:48.9

again.

0:50.0

That's the way I've interpreted this is some people have interpreted it differently, but I've just interpreted it as, okay, we saw what happened when he had a shorter week.

1:01.0

We don't want to do that again.

1:02.8

And that's why you're not playing him on a Thursday.

1:06.1

Blanco says KOC needs to worry about coaching, maybe do a better job of putting people in positions to be successful. That's what separates him from McVeigh. Yeah, I mean, look, McVeigh is one of the best coaches of all time. I think we can pretty clearly say that right now. It's not, I mean, that's, you could look at 28 other coaches and be like, you're not McVeigh. But here's a crazy thing that I noticed today.

1:30.7

When I was looking at a chart, the internet's got a lot of these, of expected points added

1:36.2

when Carson Wentz has been in versus his PFF grade.

1:40.4

No surprise.

1:41.5

He's one of the lower graded quarterbacks in the NFL.

1:45.2

And yet their expected points added as a passing game has been like around average since he's been in, which to me,

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