EAGAN, Minn. -- Carson Wentz took a dramatic step Wednesday to diffuse 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 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 shoulder

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