December 11th, 2017 at 12:21 PM ^
damn. there goes my fantasy qb. bortles is my backup so hopefully that will pan out for the rest of the play offs.
December 11th, 2017 at 12:59 PM ^
I read that as “Borges is my back up” and I was thinking your screwed and the threat of running, except up the middle, is gone.
December 11th, 2017 at 12:21 PM ^
DIE, EAGLES DIE! ON THE ROAD TO LOSING IN THE FIRST ROUND!
December 11th, 2017 at 12:21 PM ^
That’s awful, kid was lighting it up
December 11th, 2017 at 12:23 PM ^
thats unfortunate
December 11th, 2017 at 12:23 PM ^
Foles looked pretty solid in back up. Problem is they'll need Wentz for the playoffs. With the wonders of med tech nowadays I wonder how fast Wentz can return.
December 11th, 2017 at 2:10 PM ^
Are you kidding (on the Wentz returning part)? Zero chance this season.
December 11th, 2017 at 2:10 PM ^
Probably more than 3 weeks. Just a guess, I'm not a medical professional nor did I stay in a Holiday Inn recently.
December 11th, 2017 at 12:24 PM ^
I don't like a ton of their fanbase but my poor grandmother loves the Eagles and has lived a lifetime of seeing them suck. I was hoping she'd finally get to see them win a Super Bowl
December 11th, 2017 at 2:11 PM ^
Ever asked her if she personally booed Santa?
December 11th, 2017 at 2:25 PM ^
This Lions fan really doesn't care, Grandma.
December 11th, 2017 at 12:25 PM ^
I'm sorry, Philly fans. Coming from the guy who has now had Deshaun Watson and Carson Wentz go down as fantasy qbs...
December 11th, 2017 at 12:25 PM ^
he scrambled
December 11th, 2017 at 12:39 PM ^
but the point is:
1 - he ran the ball and dove for the end zone
2 - the Eagles DO have designed running plays, so running (and not sliding) are things he does
this isn't college where you have access to 3-4 good QB's - this is why the NFL has tons of rules to protect QB's, and yet he scrambled and dove into traffic to try to score
that game wasn't important enough to do that - playoffs? sure, but not when you are a cinch to clinch the division
December 11th, 2017 at 12:26 PM ^
That really sucks. It’s a huge bummer to see these young exciting QB’s have bad knee injuries. Guys like Wentz and Deshaun Watson are what makes the NFL more watchable.
December 11th, 2017 at 12:26 PM ^
The QBs for the top two teams in the NFC are Nick Foles and Case Keenum.
Have fun betting in the NFC playoffs this year.
December 11th, 2017 at 12:44 PM ^
Actually, I think the worst part is that he tore his ACL.
December 11th, 2017 at 10:38 PM ^
Saints-Steelers Super Bowl
December 11th, 2017 at 12:28 PM ^
nobody's expectations for the team should change /s
December 11th, 2017 at 12:40 PM ^
Or Bogie or Rieger or Caputo?
Without the" /s" tag you provided that is the mentality of almost all hosts on 97.1.
December 11th, 2017 at 12:35 PM ^
cancelling their tour? They had a better chance to win the Super Bowl than the Eagles anyway.
December 11th, 2017 at 12:37 PM ^
The OP makes it sound as if the play Wentz was injured on was a designed run. It was not.
December 11th, 2017 at 12:50 PM ^
That's brutal. Philly should still be able to sneak in a first round bye if nothing else, but their postseason aspirations probably just got dealt a devastating blow.
Foles isn't a slouch but there's a reason that he's the backup. I could see Carolina or New Orleans roll into Philly and take them out straight away in the divisional round.
December 11th, 2017 at 12:54 PM ^
....being an Eagles fan the past 35 years has been quite similar to being a Michigan fan (at least in terms of actual performance)
December 11th, 2017 at 1:03 PM ^
Being a Browns fan means every single play Wentz made the past two years I got to see, over and over again, so that media here and nationally could mock the Browns for not taking him in last year's draft. At first I rooted against the guy just to make it stop but the more I watched him play and the more I got to see of him off the field I realized this was a pretty damn good dude and one hell of a football player.
I wish him a speedy recovery and hope he comes back better than ever. Even if he's not wearing the right helmet or playing in the right city thanks to us.
December 11th, 2017 at 2:45 PM ^
If it makes you feel any better, I don't think Wentz would've fared well in Cleveland. An upgrade over Kizer for sure (not saying much), but Cleveland is such a poorly run organization from top to bottom that Wentz would never have been put in a position to succeed. He'd also have no talent around him aside from a highly volatile Josh Gordon. One day he's tearing it up on the field. The next, he's back in rehab. In the end, Wentz would just be one more name duct-taped to the back of that guy's QB jersey.
When you've been this bad for this long, it's not just that you've got bad players, coaches, scouts or GMs. You've got bad ownership continually making poor decisions. They can always blow the team up and start over, but that's been done so many times with this organization that you have to wonder how much good it will really do to just do it again.
I honestly don't know how anyone can fix the mess up in Cleveland. Easily the most hopeless situation in the league.
December 11th, 2017 at 1:16 PM ^
And I go from 13-1 regular season fantasy champ to a likely loss in the playoffs
December 11th, 2017 at 1:19 PM ^
I encourage everyone to check out the E:60 episode that Wentz is in. Carson is one of the best humans there is. I don’t like the Eagles, but I now pull for them against everyone minus my team bc of how awesome Carson is. It really blows for Philly bc I think they could’ve gotten to the super bowl if they locked up home field advantage. With three games remaining, Wentz had already broke the franchise record for TD passes.
Even though I know it won’t happen, I remember when Phillip Rivers played 3 games, including the playoffs on a torn ACL. Wentz seems like the kind of guy that would be open to something like that. But bc of his age and potential I know he will be sat down. Bright future for this team though.
December 11th, 2017 at 1:36 PM ^
I also had Wentz as my QB going into the playoffs, but I'm lucky to have Rivers as my backup so I'm not sunk. Completely sucks for Wentz--he was having an unbelievable year.
December 11th, 2017 at 1:46 PM ^
I hate the Eagles with all my heart and I want them to lose every game (except against the cowboys, then I wan't a 0-0 tie) but not like this. Hope he recovers quick.
December 11th, 2017 at 1:52 PM ^
The vast majority of Wentz runs, including this one, are not designed. It's just him chosing to scramble and having the athletisicm to make that work. He's had very few designed QB runs this year.
And when you say "run that offense" I have no idea what you mean. They run a ton of RPO but those are not QB run options those are RB run options. He takes hits for a lot of reasons, designed running is not one of them.
to sum up.. .your take was awful
December 11th, 2017 at 2:08 PM ^
Stupid, stupid, stupid. Just stupid. It was not a designed run. If you actually watch the Eagles, you woud know that Wentz runs intentionally 2-3 times a game, at most. Wentz often slides feet-first when he's not trying to get a 1st down or a TD.
Seriously, what a world class stupid post! Moronic! Epicly moronic! Wentz was diving for the endzone in an effort to help his team take the lead in a huge road game against a team the Eagles are in direct competition for playoff seeding. Any QB that doesn't give it their all in that siutation is a QB that I don't want leading my team. This wasn't some meaningless play, in some meaningless game. Granted, it wasn't Elway getting turned into a helicopter in the Super Bowl, but the Eagles season was on the line. They were trailing. They just blew a 10-point halftime lead. Momentum had swung towards the Rams after Blake Countess returned a block punt for a TD. The Eagles D was on their heels. A FG would have been a defeat.
Win, and the Eagles win their division, and likely secure a first-round bye, maybe home-field. Lose, they probably are playing in the Wild Card round, and then facing two super-tough road games just to make the SB.
Such a stupid post. I wish you were forced to sit on the 50-yard at the old Veterans Stadium (RIP) wearing a dunce cap while all the 700-level drunks rained down boos at the top of their lungs. You deserve the Santa Claus treatment.
Go Blue.
December 11th, 2017 at 2:13 PM ^
Aren't you a little agressive here? It's moronic post, but epicly? eh, I don't know.
December 11th, 2017 at 2:47 PM ^
I think this is why nobody likes Eagles fans. At least while they're being, you know, Eagles fans.
December 11th, 2017 at 3:57 PM ^
I concede. We (Eagles fans) are not a likeable bunch. For me, I just love it when the players and coaches representing my teams give it their absolute all. This is why I love coaches like Harbaugh and players like Mike Hart. Athletes who exceed their god-given talents should be celebrated.
December 11th, 2017 at 4:53 PM ^
I used to be viewed the same way as a Red Sox fan. Also: Liverpool. My comment was more sharing of misery than anything else.
December 11th, 2017 at 7:17 PM ^
Yeah because somehow they’re less homerific and jaded then half the morons who post here regularly?
December 12th, 2017 at 9:32 AM ^
No it really is an epically stupid post. The play wasn't a designed run and then later on the op said that wentz shouldn't have scrambled that the game wasn't important enough. Can you imagine the audacity it takes to type something that stupid. He's a paid professional athlete and a team leader. He sees a chance to run it in and he takes it that's what he's paid to do. Outside of Michigan football hot takes this is honestly one of the stupidest threads I've ever seen on here.
December 11th, 2017 at 4:55 PM ^
You don't say..........er.....I guess you do say......
December 11th, 2017 at 2:25 PM ^
I still don't understand how that play resulted in a torn ACL especially considering his leg wasn't planted on the ground when he got hit.
December 12th, 2017 at 12:56 AM ^
Yeah, it was one of the weirder ways for that to happen. IIRC his legs got sandwiched between two players, except they were hitting different parts of the leg.
But Coach Pederson, looking at the film, thinks it happened before the hit.
December 11th, 2017 at 3:31 PM ^
The Eagles have done a great job developing Wentz, and designed an offense that works very well with him. But I think they'll be OK with Foles, too.
Pederson was the QB coach in Philly when Foles was drafted, and helped turn him into a Pro-Bowler his second season. Then Foles morphed back into a pumpkin and moved on after Pederson left for Kansas City. Point being Pederson knows what he can do for them. I'd still say they can make a Super Bowl run.
In checking Foles' dates, I hadn't remembered he was originally at MSU. He transferred to Arizona after his freshman year.
As for the Browns... they would have turned Wentz into every other QB they've had. There are 31 professional football franchises in the NFL. And then there's Cleveland.
December 11th, 2017 at 3:53 PM ^
And Brady has the inside track to yet _another_ super bowl. The only thing in his way now, from my estimation, is Pittsburgh. And we saw how that went last year ....
December 11th, 2017 at 10:07 PM ^
They could’ve made it to Super Bowl to lose to Brady had he stayed healthy.