The Carson Wentz Scam
Rejoice, Eagles fans! Philadelphia will soon be catching touchdowns from Carson Wentz once more.
After his last season with the Eagles, Wentz was controversial as a QB. Some people thought he was completely broken and garbage, others saw a guy who was stuck in a bad situation trying too much and taking all the blame. But thanks to his 2017 campaign pre-ACL tear and some positive play in the following years before 2020, a lot of folks still saw potential in the guy. One of those people who saw that potential was Frank Reich, his former OC in Philly. The Colts and Eagles manufactured a trade to send Wentz and his garbage contract to Indianapolis to solve the Colts QB vacancy. I don’t blame anyone for thinking it could work out. Wentz seemed to be going to the best possible spot for him as the Eagles were imploding.
One year later and all of that is really funny.
The Eagles went rebuild with Hurts and by halfway through the season had figured out an identity that took them to the fringes of the playoffs, and now the Eagles are looking stronger with Hurts even though Hurts has obvious limitations. The Colts started rough, seemed to come together through a strong run game, and then when the chips were down and everything was on the line, Carson Wentz put together the worst possible game he could against the worst team in the league. The Colts got bumped out of the playoffs in probably the single most embarrassing loss of the season for any team. Reports surfaced of a rift between Wentz and management, shades of similar rumors that abounded during his struggling Philly seasons. Now one year after trying to fix him, the Colts tried desperately to dump him. And someone bought in.
Oh Washington. I can’t call them the Commanders. Commanders is such a bad name that gets worse the more I hear it. I thought I’d adjust to it, but a month out and it still feels like a generic USFL name. I had no problems adjusting to WFT, but Commanders is so bad. But now the Commies have their QB. They even took on the terrible contract. I can’t wait to watch Wentz stare down McLaurin and then throw a dead duck straight into a DB’s hands 6 yards away for a pick 6 from their own 7 yard line.
I saw someone call Wentz a pyramid scheme and suddenly everything made sense. Pyramid schemes rely on buying in and then finding someone dumber than you to buy in after you, with diminishing returns down the line. The Browns effectively are at the top, being the team that the Eagles traded with to get Wentz. The Eagles swapped 1sts, added another 1st, a 2nd, 3rd, and 4th to the Browns over two years for Wentz. Yes, the Browns fucked up those picks, because Browns, but consider that them using their scam money to blow it in another scam.
The Eagles got some use out of Wentz, enough to convince people he’s good, and traded him away for a decent haul to the Colts. The Colts were now the new dummy. Now the Colts realized they made a mistake, and have managed to pawn Wentz off onto Washington for slightly less than they paid for him. At this point, we have to assume this trend shall continue. Who will Washington sucker next season? The Texans? The Panthers? The Seahawks? It’ll be fun to try and figure it out. Eventually Wentz will end up as a 3rd stringer somewhere, come up in a meaningless game, immediately throw a gutterball into the arms of a linebacker, and we’ll all smile and gently laugh that this guy once got MVP votes.
When Wentz joined the Colts I assumed that he’d avoid the mind-numbingly awful decisions since he had better protection and playcalling that didn’t effectively force him into playing hero-ball 24/7. I could not have been more wrong about that lol. Man just can’t help himself.
“ probably the single most embarrassing loss of the season for any team.”
Didn’t DVOA darling Buffalo lose to the same team? While Urban was still the coach? I would call that more embarrassing.
Yes, but it ultimately didn’t matter much because the Bills made the playoffs and won their division anyway. The Colts had to beat the Jags, a team all but like two other teams has mopped the floor with, to get into the playoffs. It was that easy, and they failed in every conceivable way.
Context is everything. For Buffalo, it was an embarrassing loss but ultimately had no impact on the season. For the Colts it made them the biggest chokers in the NFL and led to the QB getting fired.
This is right. Stupid inexplicable losses happen, that Buffalo loss was bad, but Buffalo recovered. It ended the Colts season.
What about the Dolphins? If they hadn’t given Meyer his first NFL win, they WOULD have made the playoffs
Every loss to the Jaguars was an embarrassment, but the Dolphins lost 7 games in a row. That contributed to them missing the playoffs more than any individual game did.
The Colts had to win just one game, against the already drafting #1 team, and shit the bed.
In no way, shape, or form am I intending to defend Wentz in any capacity, but it feels a little like the Colts have been trying to shift the focus. Carson absolutely sucked in those last 2 games… but the rest of the team was sucking right there with him.
Will they be better with just about ANY other quarterback next year? Yes. But they still have some ‘splaining to do.
I think the real issue is that he’s disruptive in the locker room. Lots of reports after the season was that the Colts wanted to move on for off the field stuff rather than his poor play the last two weeks
That, I fully believe. For Philly to put a statue of the backup QB outside the stadium, in a year where Wentz could have been MVP if he stayed healthy… that says something, lol.
Except players keep coming out and supporting him. JT just made a second statement saying he is sad he is gone.
This had way less to do with Wentz, and way more due to Irsay being high all the time.
I hope that Colts fans don’t think a just competent quarterback play puts them back in the playoffs. All the supposed strengths of the team faded in the final quarter of the season.
That’s every fan’s delusional go-to, right? “It’s addition by subtraction! NOW WE WILL SOAAAAR!!!”
*SPLAT*
I will defend Wentz. He wasn’t the problem. The OL sucked, there was no receivers, and the defense is garBOOO.
Wentz is gone because Irsay is high, not because of Wentz.
I don’t watch Colts games, so I won’t stand firm on this hill if people insist otherwise. Statistically, Wentz didn’t look awwwwwful on paper, but for what he cost compared to what he provided… it’s hard to argue that he wasn’t at least SOME of the problem.
The Eagles vs WFT games are gonna be legendary. Hurts airmailing 5 yard drag routes vs Wentz staring down a safety. The NFC East is truly a beautiful dumpster fire.
Riverboat Ron is great piece of comic artwork. Kudos Dave.
This one hurts. Being an Eagles fan, I was defending this guy all during that 2020 season. Without that 2017 season in which he played at an MVP level, the Eagles don’t win that Super Bowl. I love Nick Foles, but i don’t think they go 13-3 with him starting the whole year. And yes, he was godawful, but he wasn’t the only problem on the team. Then, when he got shipped to Indy to be with Frank Reich, I figured he was going to be much better. And while he was, he still had his baffling moments that ultimately cost them a playoff spot.
Now it looks like Reich has cut ties with him, so at this point, I just can’t defend him anymore. I don’t wish ill will on him or any player, but I don’t see this working out.
> Philadelphia will soon be catching touchdowns from Carson Wentz once more.
This is such a funny meme, because Wentz doesn’t throw interceptions much. Here are his INTs: 14 (rookie), 7, 7, 7, 15 (garBOOO team), 7 (in more games!)
Wentz wasn’t the problem in Philly nor was he the problem in Indy. Philly has Hurts, who all Eagles fans know is garBOOO (which I said the second we drafted him). Indy has no QB and a high owner.
Going to be real awkward for a lot of people when Wentz destroys the NFC East, wins the Division, then wins the Super Bowl.
Agreed. WFT has a better overall offense and coach than Indy imo and may even sneak into the playoffs with Wentz.
Yeah, this is probably the case. He’s really not terrible, I just fail to see how he’s better than Teddy Bridgewater, who WFT could have signed.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Are you still alive after this hysterical take or have you died of embarrassment yet?
Am I the only one that when I hear the name “Commanders”, I think of Commander McBragg?
Maybe I am just much older than everyone else.
Washington not only gets another QB for the web, but the Hydra might not be dead just yet.
We might just be seeing a Dave comic where Baker, exulting over slaying the Hydra, finds himself morphing into the new Hydra and the dead, cut-off heads attaching to himself, then lets out a scream of despair that becomes a monster’s howl as he becomes the grandest head of them all(for letting Browns fans actually taste a sliver of sweet, real hope before plunging them back into despair).
Nothing’s set in stone yet, but given the Browns’ luck in the past I’m not counting out any outcome, no matter how outlandish…
This is horrifying, nice work
I’m trying to figure out what the most Browns thing to do for QB this year would be.
Daniel Jones? DeShone Kizer?
To be honest, this kinda depresses me. I’m a North Dakota State Bison fan (obviously), and Wentz was awesome for us. Sure, I know that college success doesn’t automatically translate to pro success, but I always felt Wentz had the potential to do good things at the NFL level. Here’s hoping that Easton Stick and Trey Lance do well in the coming years.
Wentz is like politics, very divisive.