“I knew I was taking the mental reps being out the last couple weeks even going the first game, first pre-season game, you know, I felt very confident, felt like I’ve developed at a fast pace and now it’s here”, said Wentz.
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Soon, we will begin to find out. “It doesn’t matter where you come from, if you can play, you can play”.
Nobody knows if it will or won’t. The Eagles cleared him to return and installed him as the starter Saturday. “We drafted him to take over the reins”.
There’s no way they can start Daniel and claim that they’re still competing. No, it’s not the veteran backup Chase Daniel getting the nod. The team had prepared for him to sit this season and develop, but Pederson said the trade offer from the Vikings accelerated the timetable. “So Carson’s been exposed to everything in our game plan that we put into today, what we’ll put in tomorrow and on Friday”, he said.
By making a major play for Wentz, the Eagles are essentially claiming that he will be their quarterback of the future. Bradford fell into the lap of an National Football League team with playoff aspirations and Wentz earned a starting quarterback role while recovering from an injury.
The Eagles doubled down last week, dealing away their incumbent starting quarterback, Sam Bradford, to the Minnesota Vikings. If he struggles, that phone call he answered in the New Jersey cornfield could wind up illustrating one of the franchise’s more damning missteps.
Wentz and Dallas Cowboys starter Dak Prescott are the only rookie quarterbacks in Week 1 starting lineups. The Jets hired Rex Ryan as their coach and used the fifth overall pick on Mark Sanchez.
“I have a great opportunity right now to grow with somebody and I think that’s cool”, receiver Nelson Agholor said. In a given year, there may be two or three NFL-ready quarterbacks at the college level. Luck was only 16-of-29 for 186 yards and took three sacks, but rushed for two touchdowns (because, of course he did) to take down the Browns. During that game, Wentz reportedly fractured a rib, and he has not played one snap for Philadelphia since then.
“They like to stay after, get extra routes in”, Green-Beckham said. “But that’s up to us to pick him up, elevate him and help him do well”. “I really just block it out”, Wentz said.
The temptation might be for players to try and do too much.
“He didn’t make it a big deal, just saying Carson is the guy”, Ertz said. “We quickly cleaned up and got out of there because there were just so many emotions going on”. “But in this particular case, we just didn’t feel it was necessarily the right bet to make for us at this time”. Rather, the game against the Eagles will simply go down as just the latest step in the latest rebuilding efforts by the Browns. “Everyone has their role and that’s the way we have to approach it”. The Browns open the season Sunday in Philadelphia, and WKSU commentator Terry Pluto says there’s already a twist to this game that has fans lamenting and second-guessing. His numbers were modest – 2,424 passing yards and 12 TDs against eight INTs – but good enough to take the Eagles to an 11-5 record and an NFC East title.
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“No”, Celek said. “Never”.
