Carson Wentz more focused on winning than Cleveland’s snub

Wentz later revealed he arrived to the team’s facility at 5:15 AM. Chase Daniel was right beside the rookie.

“Extra preparation is pretty normal”, said Wentz. “Be at the right place at the right time so he can rely on us”. “That’s the type of guy that we knew we have in Carson Wentz”. “The biggest thing for any quarterback, particularly a rookie quarterback, in the first game is how well you can control your emotions early in the football game and the nervousness and all of that and just kind of settle into the football game”.

Hollywood might want to start paying attention if this whole Wentz thing works out and he becomes the quarterback the Eagles hope.

You got to like a guy who, while receiving possibly the biggest news of his life, was lying in the middle of a cornfield goose hunting.

WHETHER OR NOT the Eagles are right about Carson Wentz being “ready”, in the wake of their decision to trade Sam Bradford to Minnesota, it’s a fact that this time last week, the starters were already preparing for Sunday’s opener against the Browns, and Wentz was not.

“Um, yeah”, Reich said, when asked if Wentz was ready to make the jump up the depth chart. You just have to trust what you have been doing.

It should be noted that the Browns will start Robert Griffin III on Sunday. “With the trade, it definitely sped up Carson’s timetable to play”, Pederson said, adding that Wentz was in the film room at Eagles headquarters at 5:45 a.m. Wednesday when the coach arrived. We’re excited for him, I’m excited to go out and play with him.

What’s happening with the Philadelphia Eagles during the season? “We just felt so comfortable at the Eagles to make the moves to go get Carson Wentz and felt very strong about the way we evaluated”.

“There’s absolutely some things that we can take advantage of with him being so young back there and we plan on doing those things, whether it be disguising, whether it be blitzing”, safety Ibraheim Campbell said Wednesday. “Just what he’s done in the last couple days in getting himself ready to go just shows you the type of leader and the type of person that he is”.

Jackson is right. We will soon see, starting on Sunday when Wentz will play his first pro game at a sold-out Lincoln Financial Field, in front of a crowd that will be filled with electricity in anticipation of seeing him play. “Just this natural play-making ability. But to me, this is just the beginning of the new normal”. Listen, we went to North Dakota. He displaced Nate Orchard as the starter opposite rookie second-round pick Emmanuel Ogbah and said Horton has been teaching them about beating a rookie quarterback. Keep the game plan simple. He can run the ball. Bradford certainly helped diffuse the tension, but Matthews said Wentz’s maturity helped there, as well. So there might be some read option, but in small doses. “We spent a lot of time with him like everybody that has drafted quarterbacks in the National Football League. I don’t think it’ll be too much for him to handle”.

Wentz and Kelce are watching film together “looking for the different blitzes, different looks they’re going to give us in the game, how we’re going to handle them”.

It won’t all be about Wentz, though.

Wentz is not where he would be if the plan all along had been to get him ready to start Week 1. “The confidence that we both need to have in each other is huge”.

“We need to be as devastating as we can on defense to give our team the best opportunity to win”.

Wentz did not practice from August 12, the day after he broke two ribs in the Tampa preseason game, until this past Monday, when he was cleared medically and also took over the reigns from Bradford.