Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of Purple Insider, Matthew Collarback, here in Minnesota.

Of course, the show always presented by Fandual.

We'll get to a fan duel question of the day in just a little bit.

And in the second hour of the show, Brian Murphy and Manny Hill will join.

But we have to begin with the news of the day surrounding the Minnesota Vikings.

This came out not too long ago that Carson Wentz will undergo surgery and will be out for the remainder of the year.

Now, the reporting on this, we know essentially when he got hurt against Cleveland,

when he tried to lower the shoulder into a couple linebackers and suffered a left shoulder injury.

We did know that, but from Ian Rappaport says more details, he suffered a dislocation

that tore his labrum and fractured the socket.

So he gutted it out for two and a half more games.

I guess it was maybe even, I would call it a little more than two and a half, which we

will get into here.

Because since this news came out, I have been chatting with some folks with, let's just say,

knowledge of the National Football League.

And I want to get into some takeaways here of Carson Wentz now being out for the year,

which absolutely shines a spotlight into the

handling of Carson Wentz against the Los Angeles Chargers.

So let's go back to the game and the exact situation because I think that everybody now

and the comment section already having this conversation is talking about

how Kevin O'Connell should have taken Carson Wentz out earlier when he was clearly

suffering in pain and had this very, very serious shoulder injury that he was able to play

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