and Hey everybody welcome to another episode of Purple Insider Matthew Collar here and guess what? Free season action is upon us. Saturday afternoon, U.S. Banks Stadium, Minnesota Vikings, Las Vegas Raiders, and here's what we know.

We are going to see J.J. McCarthy.

In fact, why listen to me tell you what Kevin O'Connell had to say about playing time when I can tell you

Or I could show you what Kevin O'Connell had to say about playing time.

So here he is to start the show. We are planning on playing the majority of our guys.

There's still some guys either dealing with a day-to-day thing here or there that we'll evaluate as we go into it.

And there may be a couple guys we

hold out but for the most part we will play the majority of our guys. Sam

Donald will start the game and then we will transition to J.J McCarthy for, you know, what I'm very, very

excited to see a significant amount of work and really see him hopefully apply a lot of

things that he's been doing really well just as Sam and really

well,

just as Sam has every day in practice.

And it's been a really good start to the process

for all those guys.

And now we get the opportunity to play against somebody else in a game

setting before our joint practices next week so now we're reaching the point

where we get to see a lot of you know good barometer on where we're at not only at that position but a lot of competitive

positions right now on our team. More than likely J.J. will turn it over to J.R.

Hall to finish and talking to Nick Mullins.

He's had just an unbelievable way about him

in that room with those guys stepping in,

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