The Eagles announced Wentz’s injury, suffered Thursday on a hit in the team’s preseason game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, on Saturday.
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Despite being just a rookie himself, Elliott gave Philly’s No. 2 overall pick, quarterback Carson Wentz, his “welcome to the National Football League moment”. Then he came out of the game, which was expected anyway because the Eagles wanted fourth string quarterback McLeod Bethel-Thompson to finish the game. The QB quickly bounded to his feet, later admitting he needed to make sure not to land on his neck. He did hit a 38-yard field goal later.
Bell is in his second year out of Nebraska but spent the entire 2015 season on the injured reserved list.
Daniel was sacked as many times (four) as he had completed passes. Pederson’s west coast offense will be unique to Bradford, considering the quarterback had just gotten acclimated to Kelly’s high-octane, no-huddle offense where he was hand-cuffed from making audibles or adjustments at the line of scrimmage. – Wentz on his pro debut. “I think we are all pretty motivated to get a touchdown on that first drive”. WE have to beat the guys, especially the guys up front.
While one game is a hard read into just about everything, there were a few revelations. – Cox on his team’s defence. Najee Goode forced a fumble on the opening kickoff and Chris Maragos recovered at the Bucs’ 18.
The Eagles preseason had an auspicious start.
New head coach Doug Pederson, a former quarterback and offensive coordinator will be calling the plays for his three quarterbacks.
Buccaneers: Reserve tight end Brandon Myers hurt his knee in the second period and didn’t return.
Pederson said Matt Tobin, who struggled mightily past year at right guard, will start for Peters. He took a shot right in the ribs, which knocked the wind out of him, he said. Isaiah Johnson intercepted Philadelphia’s Carson Wentz in the third quarter. The Eagles’ second-team offense went up against the Buccaneers’ first-team defense across multiple drives, but there were some plays where Seumalo didn’t look good at all. “They’re not going to have an easy time”.
Wentz still has much to learn, and only the coaches will know when the rookie can enter a regular season game and not have his head spin, but I’d be surprised if Daniel deserves to be the No. 2 quarterback ahead of Wentz for the entire season.
Pederson will script some plays for Wentz and for all the QBs, he said. “When the play is breaking down I can go on the run”.
The Eagles had to like what they saw from undrafted free agents Quentin Gause and C.J. Smith.
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So just because someone gets an interception or two, or takes the quarterback down three times, or makes some spectacular catches or forces a couple fumbles or whatever, it doesn’t take into account what they were doing on all the other snaps. Daniel threw for 15 yards and lost 19 on sacks.
