EAGAN, Minn. -- Carson Wentz took a dramatic step Wednesday to defuse the controversy over his painful final appearance as the Minnesota Vikings ' quarterback, saying he bears no ill will toward the franchise and making clear he did not want coach Kevin O'Connell to remove him from last Thursday's game against the Los Angeles Chargers .

"This isn't my first rodeo," said Wentz, who was placed on injured reserve this week and soon will have season-ending surgery to repair his left shoulder . "I'm not an idiot. I know what I was signing up for going out there. Nobody was forcing me, pressuring me, any of those things."

Wentz grimaced in pain throughout the Vikings' 37-10 loss, the result of a torn labrum and fractured shoulder socket he suffered Oct. 5 when he dislocated the shoul

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