Coach Doug Pederson formally announced that Wentz will be the starter and that he is healthy to play despite suffering a hairline rib fracture in a preseason game that he played.
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“I’m very confident and I’m very excited to get this opportunity”, Wentz said Monday. “His release is a little slow, so we plan to take advantage of that”. It’s something now that we’re prepared to do. On Tuesday, he showed up at work around 8 a.m., even though it was a players’ day off. Daniel joined him then, too. “We feel like we had to find ways to improve this football team in an unconventional manner”. It’s something that we believe in.
“Would the ideal situation be later than sooner?” Sure. But right now, where we are, we got a good football team around him, great defense, special teams. All the pieces are here for him to be successful and for us to win some games.”But how many?”
Those veterans are still convinced the Eagles can win with a rookie quarterback whose preseason consisted of just 39 snaps and 24 passes, all of them coming almost four weeks ago.
“With Carson and his mentality, I don’t want to harness that aggession”, Pederson said.
The Lions will have some depth at receiver on the practice squad with three players who arguably could have made another team’s roster.
But instead of waiting, Wentz will start right away. “Just felt real comfortable.so everybody’s going to have their opinion obviously, that’s just the way this business is, but we’re very comfortable with Carson and the direction he’s headed”.
“We’ll see who gets exhausted first, ” he said. I think that’s the hardest part, just maintaining your discipline because you have the need.
If Wentz puts up those numbers, he’ll be on the first bus back to North Dakota. Given his struggles in his limited preseason action, that’s a viable opinion. This is why we drafted him. “There just may be not be anybody in that year who’s good enough to be a top 20 quarterback in the NFL”, DePodesta said. I was developing at a fast pace and now it’s here.
“In a given year, there may be two or three NFL-ready quarterbacks at the college level”, DePodesta told WKNR-850 AM. The Eagles face off with the Browns on Sunday at 1 p.m. EST. In his first game, he completed 9 of 21 passes for 75 yards and an interception in a 7-0 loss to Washington.
Mark Sanchez guided the Jets to the AFC title game in 2009, and Andy Dalton led the Bengals to the playoffs that season.
Pederson also stated that the team plans to start Lane Johnson at right tackle, and that the National Football League has not notified the organization of a suspension.
Our friends at sister site App Trigger did the sim, which found Chase Daniel in the starter’s role to begin the season, replaced by Wentz later in the year.
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