and Hey everybody welcome to another episode of Purple Insider Matthew Coller here and you have asked for it

everyone has been calling for an episode a crossover with Judd Zulgad and what a time Judd to be back with you on the show just hours after Kevin O'Connell announced to us that

J.J McCarthy is going to be out for some period of time with surgery on a torn

meniscus. You know we had planned this anyway and it's almost like the football

gods just said you know what if you guys are getting back together, there might as well be a surgery for a key player involved.

How you feeling, Judd? This is quite a gut punch for Vikings fans here.

Yeah, it's a bigger gut punch I think for fans and for us because clearly those of us, like the two of us who do content,

J.J McCarthy's name had turned into like just bang click click click

but anyway it's a gut punch it's not the end of the world that it feels like

because we've sort of been here before and I mean you go back to Teddy being hurt which was

absolutely catastrophic this is not that nonetheless I really was I'm guessing

that you're on the same page of me I was really enjoying watching this kid progress in practices.

Saturday was fun, but I felt that was sort of the culmination

for the hours that guys like us stand in the sun

and sweat and watch football practice,

which a lot of times is not enjoyable.

But I sort of enjoyed this because McCarthy,

you can see him going back to the off-season camps.

Like this guy's making progress.

And Saturday was like, like okay there's all the

progress and now we're Sam Darnold and Nick Mullins and so four practices left

to watch.

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