Carson Wentz’s Highly Anticipated Playoff Debut Ended Before It Even Began
It was finally the day. After four long and wild seasons, quarterback Carson Wentz was finally going to be starting a playoff game after watching his team play 5 postseason games with Nick Foles under helm, including a Super Bowl.
The stage was set for Wentz to come on his home turf and duel with one of the best in the game in Seahawks signal-caller Russell Wilson. At worst, it was going to be a loss but still provide him with playoff experience, setting the stage for future runs.
Suddenly, with 9:35 left in the first quarter, Wentz was taken down behind the line of scrimmage with Jadeveon Clowney’s helmet crown hitting his helmet. (Which drew no flag!) The same Clowney who knocked Nick Foles out of a game last season as a Houston Texan. Within minutes Wentz was seen walking down the sidelines with the medical team, bringing back haunting memories of his torn ACL in LA two years ago. This game went from Carson’s playoff debut party to 40 year old Josh McCown’s postseason debut extravaganza.
Wentz’s final number and playoff career numbers now officially say:
4 attempts, 1 completion, 3 yards.
So yes, Carson Wentz now has playoff experience. But not really.
On a side note: During halftime Jerry Jones officially confirmed that the long rotting corpse that was Jason Garrett’s head coaching tenure was officially dead. I hope Mr. Jones is at peace trying to make up with how he fired Tom Landry 30 years ago.
Despite showing signs of a comeback and reaching the redzone multiple times, the Eagles didn’t have enough to score a touchdown. Chris Collinsworth told a surprisingly thoughtful folk tale about how Josh McCown seeing an opening to run for the endzone brought back memories of his high school football days. The only difference being that this time he was 40 years old and a younger athlete named Jadeveon Clowney took him down for Seattle’s 7th sack of the day.
17-9. This wound up being the exact same score as their regular season loss to Seattle and was also the score of the Birds signature win against the Cowboys a few weeks earlier.
In the end, the better quarterback and MVP if not for Lamar Jackson guided the Seahawks to victory and earned the 9th postseason win of his career. Also, in the tradition of teams not named the Eagles drafting pro bowl receivers, Seattle 2nd round rookie D.J. Metcalf had an awesome game. JJ ARCEGA-WHITESIDE WAS #$%^@ DRAFTED EARLIER.
The saddest thing of all about Wentz’s injury is that narratives we all thought were done with will be softly creeping back up over the next year.
“Can Wentz stay healthy for a season and a full postseason?”
“Is Wentz ready for the big moment since he’s never really made it through a playoff game?
“Can Wentz win in the playoffs?”
The nauseating debates will occur 24/7 all over Philly sports talk radio and on National Take Shows. Pray for the Pro-Wentz crowd again this year.
The 2019 Eagles had a bad ending, but should still be remembered as a season where Wentz proved his worth during the last month of the season. The organization will have to make plenty of changes to the roster in order to restore this team as a Super Bowl contender again. And hey, the Linc still has banners for division titles so we’ll gladly take one.
While this Seahawks game sucked, this loss is at least overshadowed by the Saints blowing it again and the Patriots dynasty finally being legit over. . .maybe. . .