Week 1 - Browns: Hello, Carson Wentz

[PhillyPhreak54]

Apparently the Birds are going with the green/white combo on Sunday. First time they're using that combo for a September day game at home since 9/25/2011 against the Giants, and before that, you have to go back to the last year of the Vet when expansion Houston came to town and Dawkins had the "quadrifecta"


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foxQYMJJdmE

(Jump to 6:20)

I think Westbrook threw a TD that day to Pinky too

[General_Failure]

I like that the video is old enough that they had to explain Wolverine.

[Diomedes]

I'd rather watch the great white hope than his intended back up.  How much practice he had, that he was hunting when the call came, the Browns having passed on him, none of that matters. 

He's the kid let's see him play.

[Sgt PSN]

I don't really get the reckless argument.  If you want to start him after the bye anyway, how is it reckless to play him against Cleveland, Chicago, and Pittsburgh?  The Eagles OLine, as currently constructed, is actually above average until Johnson gets suspended and Peters goes down.  This isn't the expansion Texans feeding Carr to the wolves, and they're playing mediocre/bad defenses before the bye. 

If they were opening with Seattle & Denver I might agree.

I say reckless because he got practically no meaningful work in the preseason, so it's fair to say that he might be ill prepared to face a real NFL defense at full speed like a a month after breaking a couple of ribs.  But he's starting, so everything's pretty moot at this point.

[Geowhizzer]

It's the Browns.  That's about as close to preseason as the regular season is going to get.

[Rome]

I know it's probably just my feeble homertastic hopefulness rearing its ugly misshapen head, but I have a feeling this team is going to destroy Cleveland on Sunday. 

[MDS]

im leaning the other way

wentz is a giant unknown....but the odds are hes going to be out of his element and the defense cant possibly be expected to gel in game 1.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Yeah I'm not sure how this will go. I hope they destroy them but I've got a feeling it'll be closer than we would like.

[Sgt PSN]

Unless the defense absolutely balls out and creates turnover after turnover, there's no way in hell the Eagles scores enough points on their own to blow out anyone this year. 

[ice grillin you]

I say reckless because he got practically no meaningful work in the preseason

he hasnt had any really meaningful work in his life as a qb

for a September day game at home

this is the most eazyest eazy thing ever

[MDS]

lol i was gonna say that....he had the exact date and specifics on jerseys combos. man i love this guy.

maps if you want http://506sports.com/nfl.php?yr=2016&wk=1

[Sgt PSN]

I say reckless because he got practically no meaningful work in the preseason

he hasnt had any really meaningful work in his life as a qb

haha.  Can't really argue that. 

[Eagles_Legendz]

I know it's probably just my feeble homertastic hopefulness rearing its ugly misshapen head, but I have a feeling this team is going to destroy Cleveland on Sunday.

I'm sort of with you on this. Hooray unwarranted and probably illogical optimism.

[smeags]

if wentz lights it up sunday, the town will start booking their hotels for canton. if he sucks, watch the bridges and train tracks.

[Rome]

Not to mention pages of I told you so's from IGY...