As Browns quarterback Robert Griffin III heads to injured reserve for at least eight games following further testing revealing a broken bone in his left shoulder, the Browns got a first-hand look at what the future could’ve been on Sunday – but from the other sideline.
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Wentz was thrust into the starting job Week 1 after the Eagles traded starting quarterback Sam Bradford to the Minnesota Vikings.
One of the most impressive things about Wentz’s performance was his game sense.
“We have to make judgments on the individual players and we’re not always going to be right”, DePodesta said. Skepticism quickly arose over Wentz’s preparedness for Week 1 against the Cleveland Browns, especially since he had hardly taken any reps with the first-team offense and played at a lower level of competition than most elite college prospects.
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To make matters worse, in Griffin III’s only regular-season game with the Browns for the foreseeable future, Cleveland lost 29-10 to the Eagles in Philadelphia, the only game in the National Football League on Sunday that wasn’t decided by single digits. “The patience he had to let receivers come open…those are the things you see from more veteran-type quarterbacks, where young guys tend to want to scramble in those situations”.
Real talk. If Cleveland makes the playoffs with Josh McCown leading the way, I will print out this post, put some ketchup on it and eat it on Facebook Live. We embrace the opportunity to go out there and maybe do something that people don’t think we can do.
McCown was involved in trade rumors during the offseason, but the Browns are glad he’s still around. We just have to be able to fight out of it and turn a negative into a positive. We all know what we were thinking, the Eagles look to have found themselves a quarterback.
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“It’s very unfortunate”, coach Hue Jackson said. “But in the heat of that moment it kind of just surprised me”. “I knew Jordan – all week we’d been repping that – I knew he would get a good release and beat his guy”.
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Wentz, a two-year starter who guided North Dakota State to two national championships, will play in his first prime-time, nationally televised game on Monday, Sept. 19, when the Eagles play at the Chicago Bears. From an execution standpoint, we have to execute at a higher level because the plays were there to be made.
