and Hey everybody welcome to another episode of Purple Inside or

inside TCO Performance Center,

following the final OTA practice of the year.

It is summertime.

I'm here with Dane Mizetani of the Pioneer Press

as the Vikings will head off to Cabo for some, maybe Europe for others, but not for

J.J. McCarthy, as he informed us today that he will not be going on vacation.

Instead, he said, I'm getting a little bit of golf, but he is going to

go on vacation instead he said I'm getting a little bit of golf but he is going to hang around the facility and continue to try to improve and

master the Minnesota Vikings offense which I think is probably a good sign for him

that there's no days off for J.J. McCarty. which I think is probably a good sign for him,

that there's no days off for J.J McCarthy

is going to stick around, but we're going to talk about

his improvement as a whole where he said

that he made the biggest strides and the biggest challenges of course for him as well and

then go through some other news items that we learned today but we need to start off

with watching Will Reicherd kick inside it was unbelievable I'm not even kidding. It really was unbelievable. But let's start with

J.J. McCarthy will work our way around back to the kicker. I think that what you wanted to hear from

Kevin O'Connell and J.J. McCarthy is

everything that you have heard that he has been the type of player that they were

looking for from the outset that his work ethic has been there that there has been improvement and I think we definitely saw that but also

Kevin O'Connell confirmed to us today that if he had to start a game today

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