Stop me if you’ve heard this before, but Eliot Shorr-Parks believes that Sunday is the biggest game of Carson Wentz’s career. I think it’s the 3rd or 4th time he’s said that this season.

I’d personally disagree, since I believe the 2017 Los Angeles game takes the crown, simply for the fact that the Eagles were 10-2 at that point and trying to secure the #1 seed in the NFC with only four games remaining. Wentz threw a touchdown pass on a torn-up knee and left the field with 23 completions for 291 yards and four touchdowns.

Anyway, ESP wrote a story this week called “Eagles vs Dallas is biggest game of Wentz’s career,” and that actually caught the attention of Colin Cowherd, who then went on an off-base screed about Philadelphia fans valuing Nick Foles more than Wentz:

“WIP Radio, Philadelphia – this is a sports town that thought Nick Foles was better than Carson Wentz. I’m not joking. There is no punch line. They really thought that. Nick Foles, by the way, is now carrying a clipboard for a fourth-place team. Nick Foles didn’t win a game this year. Nick Foles got replaced by something called Gardner Minshew. This town thought Nick Foles was better than Carson Wentz. So when Philadelphia talks, just smile. It’s not worth getting into an argument. Let them have their pale ale at the bar and get into fist fights. So this is an organization and a fan base that just doesn’t know what they are talking about most of the time. So WIP Radio, you call and scream a lot on that station apparently for Nick Foles, is saying this is the biggest game – referendum game – for Carson Wentz. Here’s the article this week. Referendum. Biggest game of his career! Really? So Carson Wentz loses, is he not talented? Jason Garrett wins. Is he now a great coach? Dak wins, is he an all-time great franchise top five quarterback? Dallas wins, they’re 8-7. Are they not still underachieving? What changes in this game? Nothing. This game is not a referendum for anything. It is just a game where one of these two underachieving messes make the playoffs and be the weakest NFC playoff team.

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Carson Wentz is the most talented player they’ve ever had at that position in the history of the city. An hour ago you thought Nick Foles was better. There’s no referendum on anything in this game.”

Couple of thoughts here:

  1. Cowherd is right when he says that both teams are still underachieving. This is just an exercise in seeing which team stinks less.
  2. Cowherd is wrong in believing that the Folesian Society is larger than it actual is. There’s no way the Folesian Society comprises more than 30% of Eagles fans.
  3. Eliot just does the contrarian hot take thing and he’s mastered that art in a very short time. He was given a great platform on which to perform. The fact that he’s now wriggled his way into a national media conversation is somewhat impressive, so I give him weird props for that.

Of course, all of this is just an exercise in trolling. Eliot does his hot take, then Cowherd responds with a hot take of his own, and the cycle continues.