There is no secret to how different the Eagles seem to play as a collective unit whenever Nick Foles takes the reigns as starting quarterback. That was evident in 2018 when the up and down squad reeled off win after win when he took over following the injury to Carson Wentz.
On Monday, Santoliquito of the Philly Voice wrote a scathing article with a ton of unnamed people that ripped into Carson Wentz and how he is as a person around the rest of the players.
His aw-shucks, overgrown-Opie-from-Mayberry routine plays well with the local and national media. Indeed, sources describe Wentz as “incredibly hard working,” “determined,” and “highly intelligent.” But the true Wentz is more nuanced and complicated, with sources describing him as “selfish,” “uncompromising,” “egotistical,” one who plays “favorites” and doesn’t like to be “questioned,” one who needs to “practice what he preaches” and fails “to take accountability.”
…. The glaring difference is that Foles, every source stated, would go through progressions within the offense — exactly how it was designed to run — and hit the open receiver, regardless of who it was or where they were on the field. Wentz only saw, it seemed, one receiver the majority of the season: Zach Ertz. This understandably frustrated the rest of the offense, considering other receivers were open downfield. To stop the Eagles in 2018 under Wentz was rather easy: Stop No. 86.
Several Eagles players weren’t having any of that nonsense, so they took to social media almost immediately to rip the person who wrote that report.
Fletcher Cox:
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Zach Ertz:
Wentz was completing 69.6 percent of his passes for 3,074 yards, 21 touchdowns and seven interceptions at the time of his injury that ended his 2018 campaign.
