Thank you to Christopher Gates of our sister site the Daily Norseman, which covers the Minnesota Vikings, for stopping by and answering a few questions about his team as they get ready to play the Green Bay Packers on Sunday. If you want to find the pairing piece to this article, where Gates asks me questions about the game, you can find it HERE.

We gotta talk about J.J. McCarthy. What is the temperature like in Minnesota right now?

The answer to the McCarthy question depends almost entirely on who you talk to. There are people in the camp of wanting to give McCarthy some leeway because he’s only had five NFL starts and that he needs time to develop, and there’s the crowd that’s already decided that he needs to be cast to the Spartan hillside and it’s already time to move on to another o

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