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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Justin Jefferson talks JJ McCarthy and 2025 ups and downs

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Sports, Nfl Team, Nfl, Nfl Draft, Football, Minnesota, Vikings

4.7958 Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Manny Hill joins the show to discuss Justin Jefferson's comments about J.J. McCarthy and the ups and downs of the 2025 season. 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

Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of Purple Insider, presented by Fandul, Matthew Collar here, along with Manny Hill.

0:13.6

Happy New Year, Mr. Hill.

0:15.4

We have a lot to discuss.

0:16.9

Justin Jefferson talked about J.J. McCarthy and his future.

0:21.8

We're going to break down Clayton Tune tape. That's going to be a lot of fun. No, I'm just joking, but he will start for

0:26.6

the Packers on Sunday. And we're going to look back because it is New Year's at the biggest

0:33.3

successes and disappointments from the Minnesota Vikings in the year 2025.

0:39.4

Of course, that second category might have a couple more than the first, but we'll get

0:43.3

into it.

0:43.8

And then we'll pick the games that matter this weekend, since there's no point in picking

0:49.8

Vikings and Packers.

0:52.4

But, Manny, let's start off with what Justin Jefferson had to say about J.J. McCarthy.

0:59.5

We're going to play that here, and then we'll get your reaction.

1:06.7

That's not my job.

1:07.9

Of course, I would love for him to be here. Of course, I would love for him to be the quarterback, especially off of this year. I feel like he needs to show everybody, improve to everybody that he is that top-tier quarterback.

1:19.6

So I would love to have him and I love to work with him and show everybody he is that number one guy.

1:26.6

But I feel like it starts in the offseason.

1:28.7

Start that offseason working, building that connection,

1:32.2

eliminating those habits that he had that we felt that hindered him throughout the season.

1:37.8

So just working on those little bitty pits of his game, but he's still young. He still has, you know, learning to do and growing to do.

1:48.1

So that's all part of the game. But it's up to me to, you know, require more from him and to work

1:54.5

with him more. All right, Manny. So what do you think about Jefferson's approach to answering the J.J. McCarthy question? Well, I think,

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