Hey, everybody, welcome in to the Minnesota Vikings Postgame show here on Purple Insider,

presented by Fanduil, Matthew Collar, along with Dane Mizatani for one final ride here at

U.S. Bank Stadium.

And there was a lot to think about today coming out of this game.

The Vikings win. They get to 9 and 8, so an above 500 record, and had it gone a different

way to get to 9 and 8, a different path, maybe it would feel different.

Maybe if other teams in the NFC had left the door open for the Vikings to be in the playoff race.

Maybe if this had meant something to knock in the Packers down,

it all would have, again, felt not like a preseason game,

but that doesn't mean that nothing happened.

J.J. McCarthy played the first half of the game,

looked very much like J.J. McCarthy with some ups and some downs,

and then comes out in

the second half and throws his first pass, shakes his hand, walks over to the sideline, and takes

him out of the game, himself out of the game, which he said after that he was feeling throbbing,

and he said he had, you know, the good cop and bad cop on each shoulder,

or the angel and the devil on each shoulder.

And one was saying, you got to go back in.

And the other was saying it's better to take yourself out and said that he learned his lesson from staying in the game against the New York Giants where he fumbled because he could not grip the football.

But unfortunately for McCarthy, this does count as another injury. against the New York Giants where he fumbled because he could not grip the football. But

unfortunately for McCarthy, this does count as another injury, even if it's the same,

another quarter of football that he does not play because he is banged up. So we thought,

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