Eagles

This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things

By Kyle Scott

Published: Sep 27th, 2016 · 9:47 AM EDT

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Three games. Three goddamn games and the looming bye week has already motivated the local newspaper to run a back page questioning whether maybe the greatest three-game rookie quarterback start in NFL history will be ruined by its own success.

To be fair, the Les Bowen article that it references is much less inflammatory and basically just talks about Doug Pederson trying to keep Carson Wentz shielded from all of the hype. But, the headline remains. Why? To sell papers, probably. Or just because this is Philly and we have to pee on anything that even looks promising.*

If you wanted to be negative with regard to the Eagles, it would be fair to discuss the fact that teams will eventually catch on to their many underneath routes and screen passes, Carson Wentz will struggle at some point, and the league will compile yet-unavailable game tape on Pederson. But even then, the one constant seems to be Wentz’s unshakable confidence and demeanor.

*I’m telling you, the old guard in this town will be so quick to turn on Ben Simmons the minute he does something other than eating a cheesesteak with union worker who names rooms of his house after Sixers greats.**

**You don’t even want to know what happens in the Chocolate Thunder room.