Fun fact: The Eagles host the Browns on Sunday in the regular-season opener, though Pederson doesn’t think Wentz will use the snub by Cleveland as extra motivation.
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Wentz did not practice from August 12, the day after he broke two ribs in the Tampa preseason game, until this past Monday, when he was cleared medically and also took over the reigns from Bradford. I’ve been able to grow as a player and as a leader in this locker room. Wentz had arrived at 5:15 a.m., which was about 30 minutes before Pederson did and shortly before Daniel, the Birds’ veteran backup, joined him.
Robert Griffin III, who will start for the Browns against the Eagles on Sunday, led the Redskins to the NFC East title in 2012. I think there were a lot of people that were surprised, but now, it is just move forward. So having that’s important.
Despite coming from North Dakota State, an FCS school that hasn’t produced a ton of National Football League talent, Wentz doesn’t think the National Football League stage will be too big for him.
“No. I don’t think that’s a factor at all.in fact, I don’t even think that even factors into his thinking, ” he said. “Coming from a smaller school, you kind of have a chip on your shoulder, so to speak”. But once that kickoff happens, once we’re playing ball, it’s just football again.
“If you can play, you can play”.
“It does make it exciting when you know you’ve got a guy who is in there who can play and a guy who’s going to be here a long time in Carson, so I’m as excited as everybody”.
“The whole time all along, I was just getting ready for whenever this time would come”, Wentz said. At one point, Browns executive Paul DePodesta revealed his staff didn’t believe Wentz would be a top 20 quarterback in the NFL. They know what he can do after seeing him in practice. “It doesn’t matter where you come from, if you can play, you can play”. One day at a time with him.
Coach Doug Pederson made the announcement two days after the Eagles traded Sam Bradford to the Vikings for a 2017 first-round pick and a 2018 conditional fourth-round pick.
“I don’t like to say the word tough, you know?” said Matthews, who didn’t practice with Wentz until this week. I mean, my butterflies will be going, too. “A lot of the reps that we have already had, even going back to the offseason, the game plan hasn’t changed”. You want to obviously get into the flow of the game and see how defensively they are going to scheme him and scheme us.
Matthews has had his share of responsibility, and no matter how you label him he has straddled the fence of good and bad.
“Interacting with coach Pederson has been awesome”, Wentz said. So yeah, sometimes it’s a challenge, but at the same time it’s something I’m really used to.
In the meantime, Wentz is trying to put in as much work as he can in order to prepare for the Browns.
The Eagles drafted Wentz after trading a handful of picks to the Browns for the No. 2 pick.
He’s not focusing on that. Invariably, the team cuts ties with the player a few years later, no better off than they were before they drafted him.
“That’s in the past”, Wentz said when asked about the Browns passing up the opportunity to draft him. I have said all along and he is such a sharp guy. Second head-coaching stint for Jackson, who went 8-8 with Oakland in 2011. “I really do. He’s going to be a good player”. “We need to win football games”.
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Our friends at sister site App Trigger did the sim, which found Chase Daniel in the starter’s role to begin the season, replaced by Wentz later in the year. “It was an opportunity to play a handsome game in a league where it’s not guaranteed and there’s no entitlement of you having that opportunity”.
