Jameis Winston and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers offense struggled early in the team’s first official 2016 National Football League preseason game.
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So Pederson said he will meet with offensive line coach Jeff Stoutland next week and go over the options that are available. He came out. He was in the right frame of mind. Still, the Eagles and their fans did need to see numerous things that Wentz would put on display in just over a quarter of second-half work.
“It was fun”, Wentz said after the game.
“It was exciting, and I was ready to go”, he said.
Tonight, I want to see the Eagles offensive line establish some dominance upfront by coming off on the snap of the ball and owning the line of scrimmage.
One preseason game is not enough of a sample to project how successful Wentz will be in his career. The rookie quarterback had some expected rough patches – passes sailing high, inconsistent ball placement and a small dose of questionable decision-making – but he showed flashes of talent not everyone possesses. He also gave up other pressures and quarterback hits. “That redzone interception, that’s something you never want to do”. The aggressiveness in his style of play, he’s got a lot of (pass breakups) and he’s got hands on the ball.
Wentz played from the two minute warning in the second quarter up through the mid-point of the fourth quarter.
Wentz had the Eagles in third-and-seven at the 46-yard line of the Bucs when he threw incomplete. “Dan Marino, Scott Secules and Scott Mitchell were the three” quarterbacks ahead of Pederson on the depth chart that 1991 training camp, he said. “He stood in the pocket and took some tough shots”.
I don’t know if the Eagles divisional rivals could have come up with a more negative news story than starting right tackle Lane Johnson possibly being suspended for the first 10 games of the season. I was shocked to re-watch the game and see how poorly Stefen Wisniewksi played. He made some nice throws on quick slants and some outs, all very vanilla.
The Eagles preseason had an auspicious start.
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Philadelphia Eagles rookie quarterback Carson Wentz is out indefinitely with a hairline fracture in his ribs suffered in the preseason opener. On a corner blitz during that same drive, the rookie was able to pick up the rush and without hesitation hit the receiver left open by the blitz. “I think we had rhythm despite the early turnover by me”. His only pass was a three-yard completion to tight end Brent Celek on a crossing route. An optimist would say Bradford looked sharp in his first action of the preseason.
Best Hope: After his fumble, quarterback Jameis Winston actually played fairly well. Head Coach Dirk Koetter was reluctant to agree, citing miscues by a handful of players on that play, not just Winston. Both were on the field when Chase Daniel was sacked four times.
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Johnson is witty, not dumb, a jokester, not a hater and the one guy you would choose first for a pickup game of just about anything. In overtime while in Dallas, Bradford tossed a gorgeous ball to Matthews for the walk-off 78-yard touchdown pass to defeat the franchise’s bitter rivals. During his last two seasons of college, Wentz threw 42 touchdown passes, 4,762 yards, and ran for 936 yards and 13 touchdowns in only 23 games. The real drama of the day was catching the first glimpse of the Eagles quarterback of the future.
