Carson Wentz’s time as the starting quarterback of the Philadelphia Eagles is officially on life support.
Wentz enters a “Monday Night Football” matchup against the Seattle Seahawks on the verge of being replaced by rookie quarterback Jalen Hurts.
The chatter has grown louder in Philadelphia for Eagles Head Coach Doug Pederson to cut his losses and move on from Wentz as the team’s signal-caller.
The Eagles find themselves at 3-6-1 in what has been an underwhelming 2020 season.
Wentz is the major reason why the Eagles have underwhelmed this season, and ever since the team’s Super Bowl 52 win.
Wentz has never won a playoff game in his five-year NFL career and has only played 13 games of good football in his career. And those 13 games were back in 2017.
Wentz has been a turnover machine in the NFL, and 2020 is no different. He has thrown a league-leading 14 interceptions and has put the ball on the ground six times already this season.
Even though the Eagles have been injury-riddled the past few seasons, Wentz has shown time and time again that he is not a quarterback that can elevate those around him.
This is why the Eagles owe it to themselves to see what they have in Hurts, and why the rookie is expected to have an increased role against the Seahawks on Monday night.
Pederson must stop living in the past, and a quarterback change is at least two or three games overdue. Wentz has never been able to follow up a stellar 2017 season and his bad play week in and week out is dragging the Eagles down.
Wentz being benched is the first step in the Eagles franchise trying to get back on the right track, but if Pederson does not coach better over the season’s final stretch, the Super Bowl- winning head coach could find himself out of a job as well.
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