We got a lesson Monday in how the NFL really works, how high Carson Wentz’s pain tolerance really is and how Vikings head coach Kevin O’Connell has spent the better part of seven games this season sifting between what he deems the least worst of bad options.
I would be lying in bed on PTO or sitting in a sling trying to type this one-handed for you if that had happened to me. Wentz played another 2½ games, absorbing the punishing hits of 300-pound men, and is now limping to injured reserve with a season-ending surgery.
The fundamental question we are left to wrestle with is this: Should Wentz have kept playing through the injury? It’s complicated, but here are some of my thoughts at the outset of today’s 10 things to know: