and Oh, Hey everybody welcome to another episode of purple insider Matthew Collar here and

before we get to my breakdown hardcore of Vikings

Giants with Andrew Kramer wanted you to hear the full J.J McCarthy press

conference today that we had with him inside TCL Performance Center.

First time he's talked since his injury. Great discussion, great insight from J.J. McCarthy about his mindset, what he's hoping to learn from this year, what he's gone through so far with his knee injury, and how he wants to come back better from this injury. So I'm going to bring you that first and then you'll hear myself and Andrew Kramer of the Star Tribune.

Thanks so much for listening. Football.

First off, I just want to thank all the fans, all the love and support that I've received.

Over these last couple of weeks, a few weeks have been immense and tremendous and deeply appreciated.

So really appreciate all the love.

You know, trainers, my fiance, she's been doing a lot helping out at home

and you know really appreciate just everyone throughout this whole process.

It's new for me and you know I feel right at home here.

So you know we've exhausted all options on what we're going to do and you know there's three different

types of meniscus tears you know know, mine was medial and radial, so six weeks of just no pressure and all that and, you know, we're going from there, but I'm just focused on one day at a time, doing whatever I can to help this team win and you know be successful each day

How you working through it just mentally having not had this happen before and then after you played so well in the preseason game?

Honestly really good you know know, it's tough.

It's kind of, you know, kicking the balls, but you know what?

You take everything that life throws at you and you find the positive in it, you know, good or bad.

And, you know, I feel like I've been able to you know gain those deeper connections with

my teammates and really take a step back and learn the offense and you know a

more relaxed kind of state of mind and you know I'm just appreciating every moment.

JJ was there a certain play in that game that you realize something was off or

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