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O'Connell non-committal on McCarthy's return, Jackson has surgery (Part 1)

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

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4.7958 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Matthew Coller talks about Kevin O'Connell's comments on JJ McCarthy's potential return and Carson Wentz's play vs. Cincinnati. Plus Donovan Jackson will miss the upcoming games due to wrist surgery. The Purple Insider podcast is brought to you by FanDuel. 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, Matthew Collar here, and we have a lot to discuss tonight.

0:13.7

So for the next hour, we're going to go over everything in Viking land here that we heard from Kevin O'Connell and of course have a lot of discussion

0:22.0

about the quarterback situation. And then Brian Murphy and Manny Hill will join for a roundtable at

0:29.3

730 and we'll get their breakdown of this game and expectations going forward for the Minnesota

0:35.8

Vikings after a 48 to 10 win over the Cincinnati

0:39.3

Bengals. And I got to say in all of my years covering the Minnesota Vikings, I have never,

0:45.9

ever done a postgame podcast after a win that was so definitive from the Vikings.

0:54.8

And then had everybody in the comments rip me apart and call me a fool.

0:59.7

So this was a first.

1:01.3

This is a first of me reacting to the comments after last games,

1:06.8

postgame podcast with myself and Dane Missatani,

1:09.9

in which we talked about how good Carson

1:12.1

Wence played. And so I want to go through all of that, what it means the way that Carson

1:16.6

Wentz played, what Kevin O'Connell had to say about it, what he had to say about J.J. McCarthy

1:21.6

and also the Tracy Wolfson reporting as well. But I do want to start out by talking about a little bit about the biggest news of the day today.

1:32.8

Because I don't think any of us thought that J.J. McCarthy was going to start against the Steelers in Dublin.

1:38.0

So he's not.

1:38.6

It's going to be Carson Wentz.

1:40.6

And clearly they are taking it slow from a physical perspective with McCarthy.

1:45.0

But the biggest news that Kevin O'Connell dropped on us today was that Donovan Jackson

1:49.7

has a wrist injury.

1:51.9

And we knew that last week because he was limited in practice.

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