The Life for Carson Wentz in Philadelphia
Carson Wentz, arguably the most polarzing athlete in Philadelphia since Allen Iverson and #5 were playing in the city, has had a careers worth of ups and downs during his tenure in midnight green. Hes been considered by fans and pundits alike as everything from an MVP franchise saving QB to an injury prone, overpaid bum. While I dont know if he will ever capture the magic of 2017 again after two career altering injuries, I believe he is closer to the former than the latter. This is my case for Ginger Jesus.
2016 he comes into training camp with Sam Bradford starting who gets traded the week of the first regular season game only to come in and exceed expectations as a rookie and set franchise rookie records in the process. Making individual plays that have never been made in this league by any quarterback before.
2017 he plays like an mvp, sets us up with home field advantage throughout the playoff run, only to blow up his knee putting his body on the line for a close game (throws a td pass while on a torn acl mcl and pcl) everybody knows the story.
2018 comes back in record time (9 months) after we’ve built a statue of his back up and put it infront the stadium only to hear from the fan base he’s not the same qb as he was before, even though statistically he had been having a better season than his mvp front running previous season. Proceeds to FRACTURE A VERTEBRAE IN HIS BACK! -mid season only to be called injury prone by the fanbase.
2019 comes back from a devastating injury once again and while the team falls apart around him for the 3rd year in a row (because we’ve had the oldest roster in the league and what do we do? Bring in desean Jackson to help) literally carries a team with players who won’t play a down of nfl football for the rest of their lives to four straight wins and gets his team to the playoffs for a third straight year to only be cheap shot hit in the first quarter of the playoffs by a known dirty player to hear again how injury prone he is by the fanbase. Oh and I forgot to mention setting franchise passing records in the process and an NFL single season record by throwing for 4000 yards with no wide receiver over 500 receiving yards individually.
To this point in his career Carson had set another nfl record to have 95 pass tds and 35 or fewer ints in his first 54 games only qb in LEAGUE HISTORY to accomplish this.
2020 has been horrible football by this kid and you cannot say anything else, but once again we reached on a project wide receiver in the first rd and refused to bring in elite talent that was on the market in DeAndre Hopkins and Stefon Diggs. All along the way of this journey Carson has had to hear from this fucking stupid ass fanbase how bad he is and how we should have kept nick fucking foles (who I love btw but the guy can’t beat out Mitch tribusky and lost 5 straight games this year barely scoring the least amount of offensive points a week and is also a combined 2-9 since leaving Philadelphia)
If I was Carson I would say screw these ungrateful Monday morning qbs and take his talents somewhere else. But the kid has put his head down and gone to work day in and day out in a city that has called for the backup qb my entire life from AJ Feely and Jeff Garcia over Mcnabb; to Hurts and Foles over Carson because a portion of the fanbase is so football inept that they can’t understand the problems of a football team don’t always fall on the quarterback. They just need somebody to point the finger at. You wonder why guys like McNabb have always felt jaded towards this city? They had to deal with this shit for 10+ years. I love our fire and passion as a city and fan base but this fanbase is ruthless when they latch onto a problem
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