Philadelphia Eagles rumor mill: Might Carson Wentz return in the preseason?
Many an Eagles fans woke up to 94 WIP-FM’s Morning Show and Angelo Cataldi posing a very interesting question. Might Carson Wentz make an appearance in a preseason game?
It’s been an interesting week if you’re a Philadelphia sports fan. The Philadelphia Phillies have over 30 strikeouts in the last three games. The world champion Philadelphia Eagles returned to the practice field, but four days days later, are taking a much-needed break. All of that pales in comparison to a question posed on 94 WIP-FM’s highly-popular ‘Morning Show’. Might Eagles quarterback Carson Wentz return to the field during a preseason game?
Angelo Cataldi is one of Philly’s favorite sons and the host of ‘The Morning Show’, and he sure knows how to get us to listen.
We heard he’d be back early, but this early?
Every indication that most of us got from Wentz’s injury, an ACL and LCL tear on December 10th of 2017, was this was the type of injury that would need ten months to heal. Here we are, not even eight months later, and the theory has been for a while that QB1 was progressing so quickly that many were eyeing an opening night start versus the Atlanta Falcons.
Now, some of the focus has shifted from ‘maybe’ to there are a lot of people who would be surprised if Wentz wasn’t on the field on September 6th.
Cataldi backs off (a little).
On Sunday, one writer asked Eagles head coach Doug Pederson if it was fair or not to say that someone who was unaware of Wentz’s injury could look at the third-year vet and state it didn’t look as though anything was wrong. Pederson agreed.
Take a look:
Doug Pederson agrees that if someone was watching Carson Wentz at practice and didn’t know about the injury, they would think he looked fine.
— Dave Zangaro (@DZangaroNBCS) July 29, 2018
Cataldi, after bringing on Jimmy Kempski of The Philly Voice did back off his comments a little, stating that the desire to see Wentz on the field is, mostly, his own desire and not something that’s been discussed heavily by the or even approved by team doctors.
Most Eagles fans would probably also agree there isn’t much to be gained by rushing Wentz back to the field, especially to throw five or six passes in a meaningless preseason game.
It’s better to have the franchise around for the next 15 years, not the next 15 games. Here’s a message to the Eagles’ organization. It’s, no doubt, one that they’re already thinking. Don’t bring Wentz back until he’s one-hundred percent healthy!
After all, you’ve got a darn good backup if you need to call upon him.