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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Jeremiah Sirles breaks down Wentz handling, expectations for McCarthy

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Football, Sports, Nfl Draft, Nfl, Vikings, Nfl Team, Minnesota

4.7958 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Former Vikings lineman Jeremiah Sirles joins the show to discuss the team's handling of Carson Wentz and what to expect out of J.J. McCarthy for the rest of the season. The Purple Insider podcast is brought to you by FanDuel. Also, check out our sponsor HIMS at https://hims.com/purpleinsider Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of Purple Insider, presented by Fandul.

0:10.5

And it is time again for Tuesday morning left guard with Jeremiah Searle's former Minnesota Viking.

0:16.9

And my friend, we got some real inside the locker roomy type of stuff to talk about

0:23.6

with Carson Wentz and playing hurts and getting the surgery and how that whole situation

0:30.4

was handled. I will admit to being a little on the zealous side in my analysis because, you know, when bad play calls

0:39.3

happen, when mistakes happen, a lot of times you could go, I mean, that's football. That's how

0:44.5

it goes. The other team gets paid to. But when you see a player like that dealing with that amount

0:50.5

of pain and being put back out there down 31 and 34 to 10, there's something that

0:56.0

fires that is much more human, I think, inside of us than the typical, it's the gridiron

1:02.5

to go, you know, kill the lion. Like that, I think it's a little bit different there. It's called

1:08.4

empathy that maybe goes off in your brain when you see

1:12.1

Carson Wentz dealing with that. But you have played through injuries. You've been on the field

1:16.9

when maybe you shouldn't have during your lifetime. Take me through your thought process as you

1:22.4

were seeing that play out and then seeing the fact that he had season ending surgery. Yeah, you know, as you're watching the game, you can just, you told, you could tell from the first snap, like, just watching him warm up, you're like, do that shoulder's not right? Like, I've worn one of those braces before. It makes your, it makes your arm shorter. You have no range of motion. And that just told me it was like he had a torn labor like

1:45.4

i knew from the second he had that brace on because that is the labrum brace right that is like

1:50.0

oh your shoulder's unstable oh that means your labrum's torn strap this harness on and you'll be

1:55.1

okay which i've done and played an entire year on it in college and it sucked like it wasn't fun at the end of the year they're like oh you fixed it because they kind of said the same thing like well you can't really make it worse oh i did right i made it worse it was a little tear and by the end of it the surgeon was like oh man you're thinking you had 11 anchors in there i think it was holding on by a thread i was like awesome right and so as you're watching that for cars and you're seeing the game progress and

2:18.2

i'm going man every time he holds that arm it's because his shoulder is slipping out of socket

2:22.7

and then slamming back in like that that is what happens and with you have a torn labor i again i've

2:28.1

had two right both these shoulders have been torn and fixed and what happens is the the easiest

2:33.3

movements like for me it was pulling my bed sheets up in bed, which slide my shoulder out the back, right? And so when you're talking about playing quarterback and you're loading up that arm to throw or when he tries to knock down that ball, right, like those are movements that the shoulder usually does, but when you don't have that that labrum in there to keep it in right it's a slide out and slam back in and

2:52.3

that's where the bone damage can start to come in and so as i'm watching like yeah i'm going

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