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The Viking season has just concluded, and they won a fifth straight game. They get to nine and eight in a winning record. Unbelievably so I'm here with producer, AJ, and we're going to break down everything that we saw on Sunday. How are you doing today, AJ? Oh, Thor, I'm doing good. It seems like the reoccurring theme. You joined the team full time and the Vikings just refuse to lose. So hopefully that continues in next season as well.

But I think let's just get right into it because season wraps up yesterday.

It's always fun watching the Vikings beat the Packers.

It's just unfortunate that now they drop to the 18th draft position for this upcoming

April.

Talking about the game, though, we have to bring it up.

J.J. McCarthy, after a week of speculation, he does get the start.

And frankly, I thought he looked pretty decent in the time that he was in the game,

but he leaves seemingly pulling himself after sustaining that hand injury a week ago,

pulls himself from the game. Um, first off,

what do you make of the decision in the first place to start him in a meaningless game?

What does it tell you about what Kevin O'Connell in the front office maybe think or maybe the

uncertainty about how they feel around him? Um, and then just overall his performance, because like

I said, I thought he played pretty well up until, uh, that drive where he did remove himself. But at the same time, it just brings a big question

in my mind, like, why are we even having him start this game to begin with? Yeah, I, you know,

as we talked about last week, I was pretty surprised that the Vikings decided to start him.

JJ McCarthy had a fracture in his throwing hand. and it turns out fractures with an S, as we

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