Hey, everybody, welcome into the Purple Insider Postgame show for the Minnesota Vikings.

The show, as always presented by Fanduel, Matthew Collar here, along with Dane Mizatani

at Lambo Field, where we just witnessed the Vikings lose 23 to 6.

And, you know, coming down here, Dane, as I was driving down, I thought, well, you know what?

Maybe we'll see is a grinded out, gritty type of game that comes down to Will Rikert's foot.

That was my prediction heading into this game that the Vikings would run the ball like crazy,

get three or four plays from J.J. McCarthy, and then kick their way to victory because they had

an edge in kicking. And you know what? I'm taking a W for that. They had a very clear edge in kicking

and actually in punting today. But I never expected J.J. McCarthy to play a game in which he nearly lost as many yards

as he did throw for that many yards. And what the Vikings have been looking for from McCarthy

is progress, learning experiences. And I think the hard part coming out of this game is what exactly are you supposed to learn from that?

And we can talk about the mistakes that were made.

We can talk about having your tight end run to quarterback sneak instead of just handing the ball to Jordan Mason.

We can talk about Miles Price, another catastrophic mistake from the special teams. And yeah, at some point,

we do need to have that discussion about the special teams coach if they're going to every

single week make hugely costly mistakes. But all of that feels like deck chairs on the Titanic

in comparison to the way that McCarthy played.

And after the game, a lot of the players tried to say, we all need to be better, we all need

to band together, we all need to lock in, a lot of platitudes that players say when the

quarterback is nowhere close to being good enough to help his team win.

And this was the first time, though, I think that I saw McCarthy, to me, look like unplayable.

There were certainly times where he was airmailing passes against the Chicago Bears,

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