With one hire, the Philadelphia Eagles have done what they were trying not to do with Carson Wentz. The Birds made their decision, and here’s what it was. The Eagles put mending the fence with Carson Wentz over what was best for their football team.
Oh, and that’s not all. They fired Doug Pederson because he finally grew a backbone and got sick of being told what to do. Then, they made the decision on a new head coach, and whether you like Nick Sirianni being given the keys or not, digging a little deeper can make you question things, especially as it relates to Carson Wentz.
Think about it for a second. Rather than hire someone that would mend the locker room (Duce Staley), bring some much-needed structure, even if there’s a chance that he would have sent the team over the edge (Josh McDaniels), or wait for an opportunity to interview someone who could have done both (Eric Bieniemy), they chose, rather, to hire a therapist for their super-sensitive and super soft signal-caller.
Philadelphia Eagles fans who are Carson Wentz apologists won’t like this part.
Here’s a sidebar. Carson Wentz’s agent should find some sort of endorsement deal for Charmin tissue or something. Get it? They’re both soft. Okay, that was unfair and a little below the beltline. We don’t know if Carson is soft, but you can’t argue much with someone that says he is can you?
Forget that this team let Nick Foles leave town because they didn’t want to damage Wentz’s psyche by having him look over his shoulder. Forget about all of those times 11 said he doesn’t listen to the radio because of the ‘negative feedback’ or the fact that he hated being criticized.
You can even throw out all of that talk about how he didn’t like to be coached hard by John DeFilippo but loved the idea of Press Taylor being his position coach because Press was his buddy. Are you seeing a pattern here? Yet, somehow some of you feel 11’s criticism is unwarranted?
The Philadelphia Eagles may break Carson’s will altogether.
For some reason, Carson Wentz believes that he was done wrong by this Eagles organization when they benched him. He doesn’t seem to have any issues with this team benching or moving on from anyone else who is underperforming, but that’s another story. Who knows? Maybe he thought he was doing a good job?
Here’s the long and the short of it with 11. Carson Wentz believes the coaches, especially his position coaches, work for him. He sees them as employees of his. That’s why, when he’s benched by Doug, he sees no issue with going around Doug to speak with Philadelphia Eagles Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Lurie and the team’s vice president and general manager, Howie Roseman. Ladies and gentlemen, as much as it hurts for some of you to hear this, it’s a fact.
Carson is spoiled, coddled (we’re now hearing that irritated Duce Staley by the way), and he’s used to being told how great he is. Philadelphia has been a culture shock. Never has 11 heard that he ‘sucks’ or ‘can’t play’, and by all accounts, from where most of us are sitting, Wentz can’t handle that. He keeps showing up on payday though!
All of that has been said to say this. If Carson Wentz couldn’t handle Doug Pederson and John DeFilippo‘s coaching style, how on Earth was he going to handle Josh McDaniels? How is he going to handle Nick Sirianni if he, indeed, employs the hard coaching style that we’ve been informed of?
So, you think Wentz needed a Bill Belichick in his ear, huh? Ladies and gentlemen, that would have killed him, and if Nick Sirianni is indeed a straight-forward guy who demands respect, the Eagles may have done the exact opposite of what they were trying to do. This won’t ‘salvage’ Carson Wentz or turn him back into the guy that he was in 2017. This is going to break his will altogether. Those of us who have seen the light dare you to disagree.