Please Allow Dan Orlovsky To Explain Why You're All A Bunch Of Goddamn Imbeciles For Blaming Carson Wentz
Before I even get started here, I would quickly like to reiterate what I have said before. That Carson Wentz had a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad day on Sunday afternoon. There is simply no excuse for your team's franchise quarterback to put up the type of performance that he had on Sunday. But I'd also like to reiterate that blaming Carson Wentz for his struggles with this offense would be like if you took Bill Gates and made him life with an amish family his entire life, and then blamed Bill Gates for not inventing the internet. There's nothing this man can do with the shit that he has been surrounded with this year offensively.
And if you don't agree with me, that's fine. I'm just some guy who types words onto a computer in the hopes that people sometimes agree with those words. But what about, let's say, somebody who has played the position in the NFL before? What if this is coming from a guy whose opinion is generally pretty well respected when it comes to analyzing quarterback play? What if this is coming from Dan Orlovsky?
You see, folks, Carson Wentz is pretty much like a single mother out there raising 5 kids. He cooks, he cleans, he has to get all the kids to school on time, he goes to work, he needs to pay the bills, he needs to take the kids to practice, he does laundry, he helps with homework, and he's got absolutely nobody around to help him. So what happens every once in a while? He accidentally leaves one of the kids at the grocery store because he wasn't able to keep an eye on all 5 of them at once. Did he want to leave one of the kids at the grocery store? Of course not. Does it make him a bad mother for accidentally leaving one of the kids at the grocery store? It obviously doesn't look great in the moment but when you take a step back and look at the big picture, of course not. He would do anything for those kids, but sometimes it just gets tough to do it all on your own.
Carson Wentz accidentally left one of his kids at the grocery store on Sunday against the Seahawks. Metaphorically speaking, of course. It was a terrible game but I just don't know how anybody can blame the guy? I mean he has receivers who are running away from the spots where they are supposed to be to catch the ball. He doesn't have a line that can block for him so he's always under pressure and forced to make a throw while getting hit to a receiver who ends up moving away from the target. He has a coach that doesn't help him out in the slightest by focusing on the run game. The Eagles best receiver on Sunday was a guy who was on the practice squad on Friday, yet Doug Pederson still had Carson throw the ball 45 times. In what world does that make sense? DeSean Jackson, Alshon Jeffery and Nelson Agholor are all hurt, and you still throw the ball 45 times?
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills here. I just don't understand how anybody can watch that breakdown from Dan Orlovsky and still think to themselves that Carson is the problem. Granted, the overthrows to Miles Sanders in the flat were god awful. There's no excuse for those ones. But to think that Carson Wentz is anywhere near as bad as the rest of this offense is making him look would just make you a total buffoon. And it's hard to even blame the offense since none of those guys were expected to actually be on the field for the Eagles this year. It's a Howie Roseman problem. It's a coaching staff problem. It's an injury luck problem. And sure, to an extent it's definitely a Carson problem but even after that game on Sunday, Carson isn't anywhere near the top 5 biggest issues on this team right now. That's not just some idiot typing on a keyboard, that's from the Or-dawg.