Hey, everybody, welcome to a very special Purple Insider Roundtable.

Matthew Collar here with you as always.

And joining me, former Pioneer Press columnist and contributor to the Purple Insider

newsletter, Brian Murphy, and former colleague of mine of 1500 ESPN,

Mani Hill, fellas, we are back. We did some of these roundtables after the season, breaking down

all of the wreckage and previewing the offseason. And you know what? We had a lot of fun.

So I wanted to do them again. And this is

kind of Monday morning, Murph now, but only it's going to be in the evening during the live

stream. So welcome gentlemen. And the theme of tonight, which you could play along in the

comment section, as well as ask your questions as well. The theme of this evening is what can't we wait to see

from the 2025 minnesota vikings and the nfl season as it is just getting kicked off as we are

live here so let let me start right out with Brian.

Welcome to the 2025 Minnesota Viking season.

Here's what I want to know for you guys to just start the discussion.

Obviously, the answer is J.J. McCarthy and then everything else with finding out.

But what is it specifically, Murph, that you want to find out about J.J. McCarthy?

Not just, is he good? That's going to take a long time to figure out. But Monday night, Chicago Bears, what do you want to find out? I want to find out

how he's going to react when he gets hit the first time. Maybe an unblocked edge rusher or maybe a

linebacker he didn't see coming or a blind side hit.

I want to see if he has a three and out, whether it's the first series or the next series

or both series, how he responds.

Heaven forbid, there's a pick in the first possession because Twitter may melt down.

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