TTP: Would Kevin O'Connell opening up playbook benefit Kyler Murray AND JJ McCarthy?
Purple Daily - A Minnesota Vikings Podcast
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🗓️ 2 April 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Thor opens up the mailbag to answer questions from the audience about KOC opening up his playbook, confidence in the DL room for the Vikings, deep sleepers in the upcoming draft, and much more on the latest Thor Talks Purple!
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| 0:00.0 | The Minnesota Vikings select. |
| 0:03.7 | He's a long time NFL draft expert who's been sweating Vikings football since the Randy Moss era. |
| 0:10.5 | Great cash, all this. |
| 0:11.5 | Welcome to Thor Talks Purple. |
| 0:14.7 | What's up, everyone, and welcome into Thor Talks Purple. |
| 0:17.4 | It's Thursday, so it's an Ask Thor Anything addition of thor talks purple we're going to about to |
| 0:21.7 | open up the mailbag here we had some good questions also enjoyed seeing everyone's uh late day three sleepers |
| 0:27.6 | and udFA sleepers for the vikings in the comments and i believe we have at least one question about a random |
| 0:33.7 | deep deep deep sleeper uh on today's episode a jay how you doing, I'm doing great. This week is sort of flown by. Like I, I look forward to Thursdays every week just because I think the fans, the fans and the listeners and the audience, a lot of the time does a better job than myself in trying to cultivate these questions. So they make my Thursdays a lot easier. So without further ado, we'll just hop right into it here with the first one coming |
| 0:55.5 | from Colin Leary, who says, ask Thornton anything. First off, you two have done a great job running the Thortox Purple Pod. Always a great lesson. Keep it up. Thank you very much, Colin. That's very nice you to say. And then he says, on to the question. after reading Alec Lewis's piece about the QB mentality post-NFL owners meeting, |
| 1:12.9 | I started to wonder if KOC adapting some of the... the question. After reading Alec Lewis's piece about the QB mentality post-NFL owners meeting, |
| 1:12.5 | I started to wonder if KOC adapting some of his playbook to Kyler's play style would also |
| 1:17.5 | translate to help spark some of the style that we've seen in JJ's. |
| 1:22.7 | J.J's play, notably the Chicago Option Touchdown. |
| 1:26.1 | Do you think KOC opening the playbook up for |
| 1:28.4 | Kyler would ultimately help and benefit J.J. McCarthy? I think, you know, first off, I'll speak |
| 1:35.2 | it to Kevin O'Connell. I think the fact that Kevin will finally consider molding his offense |
| 1:42.5 | around a quarterback and not just you have to do my Madden playbook. |
| 1:47.3 | I think that is a sign of growth for the head coach. |
| 1:51.8 | And I think that's probably the biggest takeaway there. |
| 1:55.1 | Some of those things that they're talking about implementing for Kyler, |
| 1:58.3 | you do wonder why some of those things were not implemented |
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