Daily News | Jalen Hurts dominates, Carson Wentz chokes in Eagles revenge game
The green-clad fans were ecstatic. By halftime they’d taken over rainy FedEx Field. By the fourth quarter, “Fly, Eagles, Fly” was echoing through the stadium.Wentz shined as a rookie and was better in 2017, but injury, circumstance, and his own bad attitude led to regression the next three seasons.
But even when new coach Nick Sirianni was hired to replace Pederson, Wentz reiterated his trade demand, preferably to Indianapolis, where former offensive coordinator Frank Reich was head coach. The trade left the Eagles with a $34 million salary-cap hit, the biggest in history for a departed player. The cap hit kept the Eagles from adding talent last season.
Nevertheless, they went 9-8 behind Hurts. Wentz started hot for the Colts but fizzled at the end. Finally, unvaccinated, Wentz contracted COVID-19 before the last two games of the season. The Colts lost both games. Wentz was abysmal. The Colts traded him to the Commanders, the most dysfunctional franchise in the NFL.He connected with DeVonta Smith eight times for 169 yards, the latter the most of Smith’s brief career.
contest, and the prime-time nature of the contest will resurrect all of the points highlighted above. Given the vagaries of the NFL — players get hurt and benched and traded — there might never be another Hurts vs. Wentz. Since Wentz plays within the division, and since he’s under contract for two more seasons, this could turn into a two-man rivalry.
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