
Matthew Coller
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Author "Football is a Numbers Game." Covering Vikings at Purple Insider. Formerly 1500ESPN and WGR550. Pro Football Writers of America member. Adopt greyhounds
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This article is a contribution from Joshua R. Smith, a longtime Purple Insider subscriber and is the sports editor and an award-winning writer at The Frederick News-Post in MarylandHere we are. Training camp awaits, and it's either 2025 or we're in some kind of weird NFL time warp. Because the young, inexperienced quarterback who is taking over the built-to-win Minnesota Vikings is seen widely as something of a mystery, a gamble or both. Hold on. Where are we? And what year is it?
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EAGAN - How did JJ McCarthy look in OTAs and minicamp? Well, in practices that are largely dominated by walk-through periods with a handful of 7-on-7 and red zone reps mixed in, there is no football scout alive who would be able to watch these "learning phase" workouts and tell you how good McCarthy is going to be in 2025 but one thing that we clearly observed about McCarthy from the five spring practices open to the media was that he was throwing the football with accuracy, velocity, confidence.
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The Vikings' rookies will report to Eagan for training camp on July 20. Vets on July 22. The countdown is on. Buckle the seatbelts.

this is why the Vikings "hunt explosive plays"

Understanding Expected Points Added (EPA/Play) This plot illustrates the average EPA/play on some of the most common offensive plays to give a sense of how beneficial/detrimental these plays are relative to each other. https://t.co/tl89ijoL05