Laughter and boos ensued, given the support for the rookie NFL quarterback who hails from Bismarck, N.D., and played college football at North Dakota State University. While Cleveland looked bad on Sunday, the biggest highlight of the game was Carson Wentz.
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“Which made me feel good for a lot of different reasons”, Haslam said. “I am very familiar with those”. He had two receivers to throw to and he gave me an opportunity. The results? I don’t know what they’ll be; you can’t tell the future. He was stuck behind Sam Bradford and Chase Daniel.
Pederson, who played for Reid and coached under Reid both here and in Kansas City, appears to have learned the value of sticking with the running game by watching his former boss. Conventional thinking says that Fangio will throw a lot at the rookie to see if Wentz can handle it, but he managed Cleveland’s pressure just fine. No crowd will turn on a player faster than the Eagles faithful. Now, Fox will try to stop Wentz when his Bears hosts the Eagles, Monday night. “He’s not anxious about the fact that that’s one of the best corners in the league against him”. After serving his suspension, Richardson was back on the practice field with the Jets on Monday and is expected to play against Buffalo on Thursday night.
“It’s a man play on the front side, and I’m on the back side finding the middle void”.
Agholor played 67 of the 77 offensive snaps. He relayed the plays quickly to Wentz, giving him time to break the huddle, get to the line and survey the defense. Some wondered if Chip Kelly’s 2015 first-round pick would be traded. Originally selected by Detroit in the fourth round of the 2015 draft, he appeared in seven games past year and totaled six tackles.
Wentz set the tone on the opening drive of the game when he took the Eagles 75 yards down field and capped the march with a perfectly lobbed 19-yard touchdown pass over the shoulder of wide receiver Jordan Matthews. Absolutely not, but it will at least make them more competitive on offense, which has to be a welcome sight to all Browns’ fans at this point. “It’s just part of our every-day business”. “They like to run the ball and I do too”. And I would imagine that if we go, we’re going to see some of those.
Tight end Zach Ertz made two seriously tough catches in the opener the Eagles wouldn’t have won without.
The Browns will not be able to go into full tank mode the way the Philadelphia 76ers did and the Cleveland Cavaliers have in the National Basketball Association because the leagues are structured differently, and rosters can obviously be overhauled in much different methods. Wentz was then named the starter. “I don’t really get into TV”.
“I thought it was kind of amusing”, he said.
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It’s early but Agholor has a objective to play for in Wentz, and that’s good news for the Eagles. When you get drafted high, you better show out. “When you know that we’re throwing the football, everybody is a viable option”.
