Hey, everybody, welcome in to the Purple Insider, Minnesota Vikings post-game show presented by

Fandul. The Vikings win 34 to 26 on a night where J.J. McCarthy had his best career performance.

So let's break it down every part of what J.J. McCarthy did tonight.

Some of the other things that happened throughout this game, the Vikings defense very

much bend don't break.

And actually, the Dallas kicker who has seemed invincible was not so much tonight.

But I'm not sure that made a huge difference with how well J.J. McCarthy and the Vikings

offense performed. So let me tell you something that was on my mind as I was watching McCarthy

tonight. And we'll get into Dallas's defense, what they were bringing to the table today, and how we

factor all of those things into evaluating this performance by J.J. McCarthy.

But something that came to mind for me was all the way back against the Cincinnati Bengals in

week three for the Vikings. So if you recall, they won the first game with McCarthy and

you know, beating Chicago. Second game was a disaster. And then he got hurt. And Carson Wentz came

out and performed really well against the Cincinnati Bengals. But it was making me think tonight about J.J. McCarthy, and if he hadn't hurt his ankle, and he would have gotten to face the Bengals who have a defense that's about as good as Washington's or Dallas.

And what that game might have meant to J.J. McCarthy had he gotten to play against a defense

that was pretty poor, the confidence he might have been able to build up, the connection with

some of his receivers, and the corner that he could have potentially turned earlier than right now,

that when we think about J.J. McCarthy and we are about 600 days

into his Viking career, which makes all of the evaluation a little bit tougher. But when we think

about the stops and starts that have happened, the injury last year certainly set him back.

But I think that that ankle injury, which forced him to be

out as long as it did for five weeks in the middle of the season, I think that prevented him

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