Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of Purple Insider, Matthew Collar here again with you following a training camp practice, although I must tell you that, well, there were a couple of plays to talk about today.

The Vikings were in shells because they are preparing to go against the New England Patriots over the next couple of days in joint practices.

And should be a very exciting time for the Vikings and for us and for the fans in attendance and the players to actually get out

there and have the best simulation that they can possibly have of actual NFL football.

And, you know, another thing that I like about the joint practices, other than that the

starters don't get hurt like they do during preseason games.

And we've seen a number of injuries around the league and Rondale Moore was a victim of this.

But another thing that I really like is that the other players get a chance to show their stuff more in these preseason games after the starters have spent

the entire week crushing each other in the joint practices.

So that means that, you know, the guys that we liked from the first preseason game that

showed a little bit, now they get big chances.

And I will tell you the highlight of the day before I get to my conversation

with Lucky Jackson out at TCO Performance Center. Actually last week, we recorded this conversation.

So I'm going to bring that to you in just a moment. But the highlight of the day was a Max Brosmer

throw to Tim Jones where it's probably about a 40 yard dime up over the top and uh they

completed it deep down the field and brosemar just continues to gain momentum so he'll have

later in the week the next preseason game i'm sure a lot of opportunity and over the next

couple days in the joint practices wed Wednesday and Thursday, it will be

huge for J.J. McCarthy to show just how much progress he's made.

Because in the preseason, we can always say, well, hey, it's vanilla defense.

Are they really pushing it?

You know, of course he should look fine, et cetera, et cetera.

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