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
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🗓️ 22 October 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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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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