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Here’s Carson Wentz’s Deep, Probing Combine Interview
By Jim Adair
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Ready to feel uncomfortable? The Eagles tweeted a video of when they put Carson Wentz on their casting couch last spring:
Ever wonder what goes into a #NFLCombine interview?
Here's an exclusive look at Carson Wentz's sit-down with the #Eagles: pic.twitter.com/fX3HtHk6T8
— Philadelphia Eagles (@Eagles) March 2, 2017
The distant voice behind the camera, the angle, the blurred-out room. It feels more like a Dateline prostitution sting than the interview of an NFL prospect. All it needs is a deep-voiced narrator to come in and you could very easily convince me that Carson Wentz was a blissfully unaware happy-go-lucky pimp with a deep understanding of blitz protection packages.
The interview opens with some play-calling questions, then they run through some tape with Wentz, all while looking like a bumbling congressional committee:
The combine is not just a bunch of dudes running and lifting. The real work is done in these sad, dark rooms, and it looks exhaustively awkward.
When he's not writing about sports here or ranting about them on Twitter, Jim is probably watching X-Files on Netflix or drinking a beer somewhere. Jim has nothing against hockey, it's just not his style. He once met Duce Staley at a Sixers game.