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What did Kevin O'Connell say about JJ McCarthy's return to practice? (Part 1)

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

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4.7958 Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Matthew Coller breaks down Kevin O'Connell's comments about JJ McCarthy's return to practice and what he wants to see from the young QB. Plus, he does not commit to an answer on either quarterback -- at least publicly. 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 presented by Fandul.

0:11.5

Matthew Collar here, as always.

0:13.2

And later on this evening, Brian Murphy and Manny Hill will be joining for our Monday

0:19.0

night roundtable.

0:20.4

We went out to TCO Performance Center today and had a discussion with Kevin O'Connell

0:25.3

a lot said about where J.J. McCarthy is at, what he did last week when the rest of the team

0:33.0

was on the by week, but J.J. McCarthy was at TCO Performance Center still working, and O'Connell went into

0:40.1

detail about what that work entailed. So we're going to bring you all of that, plus some other

0:46.1

injury updates. We had a chance to chat with Donovan Jackson as well, along with Blake Cashman.

0:52.2

Both of them seem like they are on their way back. Not sure if

0:55.5

either one will play this week, but promising that they are both back at practice. And then

1:01.1

something that I wasn't really sure if we would see was Brian O'Neill was also warming up today

1:08.1

as well at practice. And with the MCL's injury, always a difficult

1:13.8

timeline there that that injury could be pretty nasty. So him at least participating in some way

1:19.5

was good news toward him getting back at right tackle. And then Andrew Van Ginkle working on the

1:25.0

side. So there was a lot to take in there at TCO Performance Center.

1:29.4

But I'll start the show by getting right into what Kevin O'Connell had to say about J.J. McCarthy.

1:35.7

And then let's talk about it. I know a lot of you probably watching Monday night football doubleheaders.

1:41.2

So watch the game in between plays, questions, comments, thoughts,

1:46.2

and your feelings on what O'Connell had to say today about J.J. McCarthy. So we'll just start

1:52.8

out with this. O'Connell was asked about what he saw from McCarthy last week when they were working

1:59.6

out together inside the facility,

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