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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

SumerSports' Sam Bruchhaus analyzes J.J. McCarthy's future

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Nfl Draft, Football, Nfl Team, Vikings, Nfl, Sports, Minnesota

4.7958 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2025

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Matthew Coller opens the show up reacting to Justin Jefferson's comments about his frustration after Seattle, and J.J. McCarthy's comments about his mentality heading into the final month of the season. Then SumerSports' Sam Bruchhaus joins the show to analyze McCarthy's future as a quarterback in the NFL. Then, Manny Hill joins the show for our weekly segment picking the remainder of the Vikings' schedule. The Purple Insider podcast is brought to you by FanDuel. Also, check out our sponsor HIMS at https://hims.com/purpleinsider Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of Purple Insider, Matthew Collar, here, the show, of course, presented by Fanduil.

0:12.6

And coming up in just a couple of minutes, Sam Brookhouse from Sumer Sports.

0:16.5

And I talk about the future of the Vikings franchise and how they should approach it from a front

0:21.4

office perspective. Also, Manny Hill picks the schedule every Thursday, no matter what,

0:27.0

the Vikings record. But I just got back from TCO Performance Center. A couple of very interesting

0:33.1

things there that I want to bring you from J.J. McCarthy and from Justin Jefferson.

0:38.8

But first, some very surprising news for most of this week. We have talked about the Washington

0:44.8

commanders bringing Marcus Marietta to Minnesota. And Adam Schaefter reported today that

0:51.8

Jaden Daniels is now on track to start.

0:55.7

And today, Daniels practiced in full for the commanders.

1:00.5

When he was limited on Wednesday, I figured, okay, well, that makes sense for him to ramp up.

1:06.1

But would you really want to bring him back against the Vikings at U.S. Bank Stadium?

1:10.6

But a full practice and

1:12.6

Schaefter saying that he is in line to start. We may be seeing another battle of

1:17.5

2004 drafted quarterbacks in Jaden Daniels and J.J. McCarthy, and that may change what

1:24.9

we've been talking about all week of, you know, here's the line for the game and things like that.

1:29.7

That may be a little bit different, the odds of the Vikings winning now

1:33.3

with Washington's quarterback back in the mix, potentially.

1:38.3

So I guess we'll have to find that out.

1:40.3

He might be listed as questionable going into the game.

1:43.3

We shall see. At least that could make

1:45.8

for a more exciting viewing experience if Jaden Daniels is back. I don't know that it changes a whole

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