#769: What Was Kevin O'Connell Thinking?! Vikings QB Blunder Exposed | NFL

Tim Paul critiques the Minnesota Vikings' decision-making regarding player injuries, particularly focusing on Carson Wentz's situation. He expresses outrage over the coaching staff's choice to allow Wentz to play despite his severe injuries, questioning the ethics of prioritizing a player's desire to play over their health. The discussion also touches on the implications of injury management within the team and the potential repercussions for the coaching staff.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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It spells the same details have emerged about Carson Wentz's injury.
This tweet comes from Ian Rappaport. In the first half
of the London game, Wentz suffered a dislocation that tore
his labrum and fractured the socket. He gutted out two
and a half more games for the Vikings with a

(00:57):
big stabilizing brace. Well JJ McCarthy recovered from a high
ankle spring. Kevin O'Connell should feel ashamed for putting Carson
Wins on the field with a torn labrum and a
fractured socket. His left arm was basically dangling by his side,

(01:21):
and where it really got exposed was in the matchup
versus the Chargers on Sunday. You play the Eagles, it's
a short week against the Chargers.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
There's no way that shoulder.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
Is ready, and Carson Wentz played anyway. I've heard arguments
that Carson Wentz wanted to be in the.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
Field, so it was okay.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
Why does it make it okay if a player wants
to be in the field. JJ McCartney spoke to the
media on October fifteenth and said he's ready to play.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
He wanted to play.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
Why not put him on the field because the coaches
prevented it from happening because he was not mechanically ready.
They were hiding behind his injury. Carson Wentz wanted to play.
That's very commendable in his mind, is his last opportunity
to start. But Kevin O'Connell's decision to play him is

(02:11):
not defendable. Okay, give him the first quarter, give him
the first half. But when your team is down twenty
one to three in a short week and there's nothing
going the defense can't stop Herbert, the offense has nothing clicking.
You take him out of the game, regardless of how
Carson Wentz feels, because every hit, every throw, every movement,

(02:36):
Carson Wentz was Carson Wentz. Carson Wentz was the sacrificial lamp.
Could you imagine if Jajon McCarthy had this injury. I'm
old enough to remember the original report by Adam Schefter
ESPN sources, and we're talking Adam Schefter here. We're talking

(02:58):
about the big boys of the big boys. Vikings quarterback
Jaje McCarthy is expected to be sidelined two to four weeks.
With McCarthy out, Vikings quarterback Carson Wentz is now in
line to start.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
That changed fast. It went from oh.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
It's a two to four week injury too, Oh, it
was always a six week injury timeline.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
It's bullshit. They were protecting.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
McCarthy and killing Carson Wentz and it backfired because the
Vikings organization should feel ashamed of themselves for allowing Carson
Wentz to set foot on the football field despite a
blowout against the Chargers, knowing that he had a torn
labram and his socket was fractured.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
We are getting to a point where the.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
Vikings organization needs to be investigated because of how they've
dealt with injuries this season. Christian Derrisa is now on
record saying, yeah, I kind of felt pressure to come
back earlier than I wanted to. McCarthy's injury originally two
to four weeks. Oh. Now at six, Carson Wentz is

(04:08):
left armis falling apart.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
Go on the field anyway, you pansy, what the hell
is going on? What is becoming.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
Truer and truer by the day is that the Vikings
are afraid to play Max Brosmer because if he looks
better than their tenth overall pick JJ McCarthy, then there's
a problem. Even if Wentz was great, it was always
only going to be a short term fix for a

(04:38):
long term problem. If Max Brosmer played well and flashed
some signs of quarterback play that JJ McCarthy has not displayed,
then there's a real quarterback controversy. But this Carson Wentz
thing is just ridiculous, and Kevin O'Connell and the Vikings

(05:00):
organization should face some repercussions for what they allowed to happen.
But Carson Wentz wanted to play. That's the argument you're
coming with. Players want to play through injuries and concussions
all the time. Yet there's a reason why they don't,
because coaches and medical staffs protect players from themselves. Wentz

(05:22):
playing and grinding out that gritty effort is commendable, but
Kevin O'Connell allowing it to happen is not defendable.

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