Hey, everybody. Welcome to another episode of Purple Insider, Matthew Collar, here. And this is another

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social media has turned into that a little bit. So anyway,

all right, lots to talk about. It's a great time of year to get your thoughts and try to project

what is coming next for the Minnesota viking. So we begin with Steve, who says, the other day I

ran across an article that had a take about the Vikings I had not seen or heard anywhere else.

The writer wrote about how the Vikings are, quote, pivoting to a system to help J.J. McCarthy

become a game manager.

I have a hard time believing this.

Have you heard anything like this?

What are your thoughts?

So number one, if they are pivoting to a different system, first of all, I didn't see that

during mini-camp or OTAs. And I don't believe that Kevin O'Connell or West Phillips or anybody

else has said anything about any type of system change. In fact, that doesn't really make any

sense at all. Because look at last year.

Last year, they go into the offseason OTAs, mini camp, training camp and all that,

teaching their system to two quarterbacks to Sam Darnold and J.J. McCarthy.

So McCarthy spent the entire spring and summer of 2024 as the QB2 learning Kevin

O'Connell's offense. They didn't have the game manager version they downloaded to JJ and

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