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

And I was a little bit surprised this afternoon when, or I guess it was this morning,

when we received an email from the Vikings saying Kevin O'Connell was going to talk.

I thought that they might give the man a chance to catch a nap after coming back from London.

But we've got a lot to talk about here on Purple Insider presented by Fandool.

As always, we've got Kevin O'Connell's answer to my question about what he wants to see from J.J. McCarthy as he returns from practice also

or to practice. And also Blake Cashman and Donovan Jackson as well are expected to practice

this week. And Michael Juergens will be back, although it seemed like the door was left open,

potentially for Blake Brandl to continue at center,

which is something that I want to discuss.

So for the first hour, we're going to talk about the comments from Kevin O'Connell,

what it means to have beaten the Cleveland Browns and the outlook as we go forward into the bye week here.

And then at 7.30, I will be joined, as always, by Brian Murphy and Manny Hill.

So let's have a good conversation.

You could jump in, start with your questions and comments into the comment section.

But I don't want to waste too much time here.

I want to bring you O'Connell's most, I thought, insightful thoughts about what he needs

to see from J.J. McCarthy as he gets back into practice. And just to spoil today's press

conference, he did not come out and say, guys, I'm starting McCarthy or Wentz against the Philadelphia Eagles because you know what?

He doesn't have to at this moment.

He doesn't have to tell us what he's going to do.

And I actually thought from listening to these comments that it's quite possible that he doesn't know yet what he wants to do.

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