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The Minnesota Vikings select.

He's a long time NFL draft expert who's been sweating Vikings football since the Randy Moss era.

Great day, Norman.

Welcome to Thor Talks Purple.

Hello and welcome to Thor Talks Purple.

We are here on a glorious victory Monday coming up the best performance of J.J. McCarthy's career so far, we have plenty of to talk about. I'm here, as always, with producer AJ. AJ, lots of fun stuff to talk about today. Let's hop right into this thing. Oh my God, so much to talk about today. J.J. McCarthy you said, we finally, we eclips the 200 passing yards for James McCarthy. And then we got even extra because he eclips 250, 10.4 yards averaged on a pass. He had one interception, but two touchdown passes. He ran one in. What a day it was. And now this is back to back, really good performances, I would say, for the young 22-year-old.

Let's just dive into it. I don't want to be it around the bush here. Thor, what are your thoughts? Because this is now showing a lot of promise for J.J. McCarthy. Consistently good. You go on the road again. It's prime time. and I think a lot of people forgetting like this is this is the second prime time win on the road, going back to week one, Monday night football on the road against division rival Chicago. Yeah, that's right. Now you've beaten Chicago on the road, you've beaten the Detroit Lions on the road, and you beat the Cowboys on the Road. And we're already hearing people, of course, JJ haters, poo, pooh, oh, but the defense isn't very good and this sort of thing. Dallas Cowboys on the road. We're already hearing people, of course, JJ haters, poo-poo,

oh, but the defense isn't very good and this sort of thing. Dallas Cowboys were desperate to win

that game. Their season was on the line. That was it for him. That was a must-win scenario for the

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