“The whole time, all along, it was just getting ready for whenever this time would come”, Wentz said.
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But they also know Wentz suffered a hairline fracture in his ribs August 11 in the preseason opener, forcing him to sit out the final three exhibition games to let the injury heal.
He found out he would be this team’s starting quarterback while lying in a New Jersey cornfield hunting geese on Saturday. When he does run with that ball, you’ve got to make him feel it. Wednesday was the early-morning film study and game plan work.
On April 20, the Philadelphia Eagles gave up a lot to acquire the Cleveland Browns’ No. 2 overall pick in the 2016 NFL Draft. “I’ll let the Browns analytic department sit with that”, Pluto says. “We are excited for him to get this chapter of not only his career but our career together off the ground on Sunday”.
Wentz was still taken No. 2 overall, after the Eagles traded with the Browns to move up to that pick, but it could be assumed that Wentz wants to prove to the Browns that he should not have been passed up, especially after comments made by Paul DePodesta about Wentz’s potential. Sure. But right now where we are, we’ve got a good football team around him, we’ve got a great defense, special teams, good offensive line, good runners. “I’m really a motivated individual as it is so I don’t have the need for extra motivation going into this one”.
SOMEWHERE WITHIN the realm of possibility is a scenario in which Sunday’s meeting between the Browns and Eagles features the first of many postgame handshakes that Doug Pederson and Hue Jackson will exchange over the next decade.
“We have a lot of talented players on this roster”, Roseman said.
The Philadelphia Eagles are looking towards the future, sort of. “We drafted him to take over the reins”.
“We didn’t draft Carson Wentz because we didn’t think it was the right fit for our team at this time”, Jackson told Pro Football Talk Live. The Eagles went 4-0 in the preseason (I know, it doesn’t mean a thing) and Pederson worked the mechanics of the play calls and managed his timeouts well. Wentz will start for the Eagles against the Cleveland Browns on Sunday.
“I feel like I’ve earned respect with how I go about my business, how I carry myself”, Wentz said. “I am already excited, and I am trying to control it and focus this week”. Even without Josh Gordon, the Eagles have to tired of the deep pass at all times, as the receivers have the talent and speed to go vertical and a quarterback who can get it there. Pederson was asked how the coaching staff can tell whether he’s absorbing the game plan being installed for Week 1 against Cleveland. So there might be some read option, but in small doses.
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Pederson said that he planned for Daniel to be the backup and that Daniel understands the decision. “It’s my background. It’s something I love to do – set up the offense with great field position”. “This is something I believe in, we believe in. It’s just football. If you trust what you are doing, good things will happen”. You want to obviously get into the flow of the game and see how defensively they are going to scheme him and scheme us. When you add the abilities of Marvin Jones to the mix, Detroit will have no problem switching up the roles for different formations and filling in spots as needed during a game.
