But coaches were impressed with his workouts and progress in the film room.
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“We went another direction”, he said. It could be a good sign Wentz being in great physical condition though. “Missing the reps kind of is what it is, but I’m very confident I’m ready to go”. “But to me, this is just the beginning of the new normal”.
Just a few months ago many Cleveland Browns fans, along with other fanbases at the top of the draft envisioned Wentz with their team.
For the first-round rookie with a week to prepare for his National Football League regular-season debut, Wentz is working overtime in an attempt to be ready for the Browns on Sunday.
Griffin said the key to putting it all together is repetitions, something Wentz really hasn’t had the luxury of having.
“Yeah, I plan on playing this week”, Johnson said. I felt like I developed at a fast pace.
No Eagle will be more consistently linked to Wentz’s down-to-down performance than the one who will be handing him the football.
The Los Angeles Rams gave up a lot to select Jared Goff first overall in the 2016 NFL Draft but he is not even their backup quarterback. The one exception? A 34-14 beatdown of Big 12 team Iowa State in his first NCAA start.
Wentz reached out to Bradford this weekend and expressed his appreciation for the veteran, who Wentz said had been a mentor.
“It was right for this football team”, Pederson said of the blockbuster trade. Mere hours later it was announced that Wentz, the rookie who head coach Doug Pederson announced could be a healthy scratch on gamedays just months earlier, will start for the Eagles Week 1. That’s because Sam Bradford had just been traded to the Minnesota Vikings. If Matthews reaches those goals, not only will he have done his part but the Eagles as an offense will prosper. But maybe it won’t. Things have taken a more dramatic, and better turn for Wentz since then to say the least.
“I definitely believe the playbook is wide open”, Wentz said.
“I want to exude that confidence in him”.
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Wentz in his brief preseason appearance against the Bucs showed the same recklessness that got RGIII into trouble during his days in Washington. So we’ve communicated that to him – myself, John (DeFilippo), Frank (Reich) – that you have to protect yourself at all costs, whether it’s a run or a pass. I don’t need, necessarily, that extra yard. It was something that needed to be done, their season opener is less than a week away. Yeah, I’ll need the yard. “Slide, get out of bounds, get down, and he’s very aware of that”. Considering those are Daniel’s peers, not the starting quarterbacks he is paid like, it seems a bit odd that the Eagles both chose to pay him an exorbitant amount of money, and now refuse to even let him compete for the starting job. He’ll have plenty of family members in town to witness his first start. Just remember which organization has had 25 starting QB’s since 1999, and which one has had six, including Wentz. The 2008 Detroit Lions also were 4-0 in exhibition games before going 0-16.
