J.J. McCarthy's Ankle Injury: Real or an Excuse to Bench Him?

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00:00I'm of the belief that J.J. McCarthy does not have anything wrong with his ankle.

00:05They wanted to bench him in the second half.

00:06As the story goes, Justin Jefferson told Kevin O'Connell,

00:09don't do that, you'll lose the kid forever.

00:11Give me some insight, what's really cooking in Minnesota?

00:15I actually haven't heard that.

00:17I'm fascinated by it.

00:19I love the credit card theories.

00:20These are my favorites.

00:22To me, they're as entertaining as the game itself, if not more.

00:25But what I was told was that he came into the facility the next day

00:29and his ankle was really bothering him.

00:32They looked at it, they scanned it, and the doctor said,

00:36he's got a real problem here, and if you play him, it's going to get a lot worse.

00:40I don't think he's going to miss four weeks.

00:43I think he misses two games, and he comes back.

00:47He's a fast healer, he's 22 years old.

00:49He did not play well at all against Atlanta.

00:51Actually, both quarterbacks struggled.

00:54McCarthy comes off this Chicago game, then has a baby,

00:57and then he's got to play on Monday Night Football three days later.

01:00It wasn't a recipe for success,

01:03and I think Atlanta's defense is going to surprise a lot of people as well.

01:08So I would push back when you say you don't think he's hurt,

01:11but the fact that Jefferson had to tell KOC,

01:15don't bench him now, you'll lose him forever, that's not nothing.

01:18All right.