Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of Purple Insider, Matthew Collar, here,

and we have reached a very special week in our lives.

That's right, J.J. McCarthy will go out on the TCO Performance Centerfield and take

snaps as quarterback one for actual

OTA practices.

That's right.

For the very first time, he will be the first string QB1 of the Minnesota Vikings in a

practice setting that's mostly seven on seven and is considered the learning

phase.

But it still does have significance because this is the first time that we're going to

see him and media will be there Wednesday, including myself, and then once next week.

And for three days for mini camp, which is usually more significant because at that

point, they've had a couple weeks of installing offense. They do more 11 on 11s. But this

week at least will be the first time that we can see him playing quarterback for the Vikings after

all of the surgery, the discussions, the

Merriman Rogers thing that got talked about for a really long time. And the Vikings

landing on him, letting Sam Darnold go to the Seattle Seahawks, deciding to stick with

their future of the franchise quarterback, J.J. McCarthy. And we finally got here to the point

where he is on the field after all that conversation. And now we will get to see what that

looks like. So I'm going to have a whole list of things that I want to go through that I will

be looking for over these next couple weeks, not just from one practice,

because it's oftentimes seven on seven. They're just ramping up and you can't figure out

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