Welcome everybody into TCO Performance Center.

Matthew Collar here, along with Andrew Kramer of the Minnesota Star Tribune for our weekly

hardcore breakdown, Vikings, Falcons, national television, 24 quarterback, narratives, et cetera, et cetera. So Vikings, Falcons, National Television, 2024 quarterback, narratives, et cetera, et cetera.

So Vikings Falcons, Andrew, we saw this matchup last year, but it looked very different

because Kirk Cousins was the quarterback.

So instead of revenge game, now it's, hey, you guys were drafted in the same year game.

And that is a fact.

So we're going to go through the best matchups between the Vikings and the Falcons.

And I think the best place to start with this conversation is probably how J.J. McCarthy and the offense match up against this falcons defense.

What have you taken away from the last two days of Kevin O'Connell and West Phillips talking

about the reflective on J.J. McCarthy's game, what happened early in the game.

The pick six was talked about today, how he came back in the fourth, how he handled himself,

all of that.

Yeah, I think what stood out to me is how they've talked about pointing the finger at other people, the other 10 guys in the huddle saying that at that start of that game, other guys were just not on their responsibilities. We heard their offensive coordinator, West Phillips, tell us just now that great offenses usually don't take turns messing up. Great offenses usually are on top of things and understand what they need to do.

And the Vikings just showed whether it was Brian O'Neill seemingly missing a block on the opening run play or Justin's school giving up pressure early drops in that game, guys slipping

on the field, whatever the excuse may be, they weren't all executing around McCarthy as much.

But at the same time, McCarthy looked overwhelmed at times in the noise with the operation,

shouting out the changes, canning plays.

He seemed like a guy who very much was settling into what he needed to do and really, you know,

spinning many, many plates at once.

So I think this will get better. The Vikings coaches say it's going to get better in

terms of being at home, not dealing with the noise, and just getting those first game jitters out of the way. This guy had not played a meaningful game in 600 plus days. So I think that's what it looked like. That's what it looked like to the coaches. And they're expecting the operation to be smoother and not have, for instance, the two delay a game penalties they had in the first half.

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