To his credit, Wentz took the high road when asked about the Browns’ low opinion of him. “That’s what we did this year”.
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“Well, yeah, we definitely had heard the comments and all that”, Pedeson said. Philadelphia had said that they planned on sitting Wentz this season. After the Eagles traded incumbent starting quarterback Sam Bradford to the Minnesota Vikings on Saturday for a 2017 first-round pick and a 2018 fourth-round pick.
“We didn’t draft Carson Wentz because we didn’t think it was the right fit for our team at this time”, Jackson said.
In just a matter of hours, Wentz went from a third-string quarterback with little chance of playing this season to becoming the first Eagles quarterback to start the opening game of his rookie season since Davey O’Brien in 1939. Sure. But right now, where we are, we’ve got a good football team around him. It is going to be about us. The 15th-overall draft pick, Coleman timed under 4.4 seconds in the 40-yard dash at his pro day and averaged 17.4 yards per reception with 33 touchdown catches in three seasons at Baylor. The Eagles’ hunger for a player who could stabilize the quarterback position wasn’t any greater than the one that burned inside the Browns. “What the regular season then becomes is you’re nearly running tryouts for all your young players”. Expect the Browns to be well coached on Sunday, even if they are out-manned. The Browns simply decided that Wentz was not a franchise quarterback.
If Wentz can do that and grow into the quarterback Eagles executives envision, perhaps his weekend hunting trip will go down in Philadelphia lore as the birth of a successful era.
The Eagles signed Daniel in March to a three-year contract worth $21 million, among the higher salaries in the National Football League for a backup quarterback. The Browns were 16-6 against the Eagles from 1950-60. The Eagles and Browns were always going to be linked. The Eagles had added LB Quentin Gause, too, but released him to make room for either Turner or Smith.
That was what personnel chief Sashi Brown told reporters in a press conference after the trade. You want to obviously get into the flow of the game and see how defensively they are going to scheme him and scheme us. “In another year, there literally may be zero. There just may not be anybody in that year who’s good enough to be a top 20 quarterback in the National Football League”.
In a July article that just came to light this week, Paul DePodesta told ESPN’s Tony Grossi that they didn’t exactly see Wentz developing into a top-20 quarterback. DePodesta made his name as one of Billy Beane’s Moneyball crew in the Oakland A’s front office, where the organization viewed players as commodities, attempting to quantify the risk and future value involved in any transaction.
“There was a lot of emotion going on with my family and stuff”, Wentz said. “But in this particular case, we just didn’t feel it was necessarily the right bet to make for us at this time”. “That’s just the type of person, that’s just the type of quarterback we have”. “It has nothing to do with Carson”. “I’m excited I’m here in Philadelphia, and I’m ready to go for Week 1”.
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At least he didn’t get trapped in a service station bathroom this time.
