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Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of Purple Insider.

Matthew Collar here.

And returning to the show from Fox 9 and also as his podcast, must be two sides.

Amad Hicks, what's going on, Amad. How are you? I'm good.

I'm good. Just enjoying some cold, snowy weather here in Minnesota nonetheless, but enjoying the

offseason time to kind of wind down after that biking season. Yeah, it's the, it is the

hardest probably I've had time walking my dog from all of the years that I've lived here.

Everything is just frozen and he's sliding all over the place.

Has not been an ideal situation.

But we're going to have some fun on the show.

Usually when you come on, we do nine questions with Amad Hicks because Fox 9, it's incredibly clever.

So why don't we run down those questions?

We'll get into some conversations and see where this world takes us.

Here's where I want to begin, Amon, is with the end of year press conference that happened this week with Quasi Duffel, Mentson, Kevin O'Connell.

First question for you was, how did you interpret their comments regarding J.J. McCarthy?

That they want him to be better. I think they want some competition around him. I think last year,

maybe they made the assessment, early assessment, that they didn't need to have a quarterback

competition heading into training camp based on what he looked like in the previous training camp

in those couple of weeks. But I guess they were wrong. And so I think they realized that I think

they want J.J. McCarthy to be the guy. They've seen some things from him that show he can be that

guy. But I think they want competition because competition makes everybody better,

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