The Bears are 9-1 against rookie quarterbacks at Soldier Field since 2001.
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“Well, if they’re not talking about you, something is wrong”, head coach Doug Pederson said.
“He’s certainly talented, ” Fox said about Wentz. “I think the times you see him in preseason he hadn’t had an opportunity to have a lot of snaps in practice”.
If the Bears fail to come out of Week 2 with a win, their already low position in the latest power rankings – they now sit at 30th in the National Football League according to USA Today – could actually get worse.
“They prepared themselves last week for it, and again, credit too to the offensive line and backs for picking up these blitzes”.
“Then we went out and didn’t do as well as we should in the regular season, and it’s all for naught”, he recalled of the 2015 season.
The Chicago Bears (0-1) host the Philadelphia Eagles (1-0) on Monday Night Football to cap off week 2 of the NFL season. “I just want to do the right thing and listen to what they have to say”.
A week ago, in an interview with Tony Grossi of ESPN, Browns “chief of strategy” Paul DePodesta (the real-life guy played by Jonah Hill in Moneyball) said that the Browns didn’t view Wentz as a top 20 type of quarterback, hence their decision to trade out of the No. 2 overall pick.
Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin did not have an update on injured linebacker Ryan Shazier on Tuesday, but he did say several other players that missed a season-opening victory at Washington might be ready to play Sunday against the Cincinnati Bengals. The Eagles won, 29-10, behind 278 passing yards and two touchdowns by Wentz.
“This is where I can step in and help him and protect him and keep him out of that, and keep him focused”, Pederson said.
Eagles quarterback Carson Wentz wasn’t nervous about making his NFL debut, so why should Monday Night Football in Chicago be any different? And then they got Christmas given to them when the Vikings had their misfortune [losing quarterback Teddy Bridgewater to a knee injury] and they were able to [trade Bradford]. “We’ll look back and see where he is over a period of time”. “We have to play better, and I think we all understand that”. What we call spinners, he’ll take a D-end or a tackle and one of his athletic guys and move them around and create some confusion.
“It goes back to how I’ve kind of approached this all the way back since the draft process”, Wentz said.
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“We expect it to be a loud and really exciting atmosphere”, Wentz said. “I like to be excited and go out here to win games, but a year ago we did great in [the] preseason and everybody basically handed us the preseason Lombardi [trophy]”.
