I agree and mentioned it above as well. There’s too much smoke for this to not happen
It’s not bizarre at all. I’ve mentioned it quite a few times in the other thread. You will struggle to find a franchise QB handled more poorly than what we did with Wentz.
It all started from the VERY beginning too. He’s a back up all summer and we deal Bradford a week before the season and make him the starter. Who does that?
By all accounts he had a solid rookie season and in 2017 he was playing at an MVP level.
Foles takes over and we win the Super Bowl. We than proceed to build a statue for Foles, media, radio and everyone starts the “we need to keep Foles and move Wentz” after we decide to keep Foles heading into ‘18. You can’t have a 3rd year QB playing in the shadow of your back up to open ‘18. Who does that?
2019 starts off and after going 3-3 reports start to surface of an anonymous source criticizing Went and the offense. By all accounts it’s Jeffery, more on this later. We are 5-7 heading into January and win out. How did the guy who can’t handle adversity do?
See for yourself. Than the cheap hit and concussion in a playoff game.
Now at this stage, you have a 27 year old QB
WHO’S DONE THIS. Please read that if you read nothing else posted
How does our front office respond? Remember that guy who was allegedly the anonymous source? WE KEEP HIM. Ah, he makes too much money so we can’t cut him, but we’re not done yet! We literally draft a QB in the second round. WHO DOES THAT?! We have all been watching this sport for a long, long time. If the Cowboys gave Dak 100+ million, after he lead them to the playoffs and than drafted a QB in the second round we would laugh hysterically!!! Why? Because we are smart enough to understand the politics of football, especially when it comes to the QB position. The Cardinals drafted Josh Rosen with the 10th pick and a year later were going to take another QB. Surly they were in a good situation to start a QB factory with two top 10 QB’s in consecutive years but for some strange reason they dealt Rosen to welcome an unproven rookie. Strange. Murray probably told them he was afraid of the competition.
At the time I didn’t see it but with hindsight this is where I now believe the fracture/break started. Wentz in 2020 resented Doug, Howie and whoever else above him. He didn’t care. This is why I believe you hear rumors like “Wentz checked out of Doug’s calls a lot” or that he’s “stubborn”. This is why I believe Wentz “just looked different”. Wentz is basically saying now “you have your QB in Hurts, I want out”.
Even using Hurts in the stupid packages and not deactivating him. Doug names Sudfield the back up and changes it a week later. Now at the end of every game is questions about what?
Our GM publicity said he wanted a QB factory
Doug going for 2 in games down 4. Punting out of anger etc etc
Everyone knows we need weapons and we pass on super stars constantly. And not the Diamond in the rough types, we pass on the ones millions of people know we need and will be good.
The list is just so damn long. It’s crazy
Like I said, you can’t handle a franchise QB much worse than what we did here. We can make him the scapegoat like we did with Jackson and others we boot out but this is so obvious why Wentz is pissed.
Sorry for the long post