First Take’s Max Kellerman got dragged a bit last week after Carson Wentz supporters obviously sided with Dan Orlovsky in his breakdown of some Giants game film.

Kellerman is playing the role of the anti-Wentz guy on ESPN, while Orlovsky, the former professional quarterback, is on the pro-Wentz bandwagon. That’s how the debate shows are set up, yeah? One guy on each side, blah blah, but we watch them anyway and people click on these stories, so go figure.

Today Kellerman decided to not budge at all, but went back and clarified his Wentz stand instead:

Right, so he’s just doing a combination of the “Wentz has regressed” and “Wentz needs to elevate the people around him” arguments, which we’ve heard ad nauseam this season. There’s nothing wrong with either one of those arguments, but it then gets twisted into some narrative where Wentz is labeled as the #1 problem with this franchise, and that’s where ‘you people’ lose me.

I wrote it already this morning in the takeaways column, I’ll just repeat it here:

“For the second straight week, Carson Wentz did what his detractors have been asking him to do. He led a game-winning drive.

Of course, they’ll immediately poo-poo that by saying, “well it was just against the Giants and Redskins,” which is a fair enough point, but you really can’t have it both ways. You can’t demand something specific from the guy and then try to downplay it when it actually happens.

Like most things in the life, actuality lies somewhere between the lunatic fringes of perception, and this Wentz game was no different than most of the games he’s played this year, a sampling of some great plays and some bad plays, like the fourth-quarter fumble preceding the comeback drive. The problem I have with the Wentz haters is that they continue to believe he’s problem #1 when he’s really problem #4 or #5 when looking at the Birds from a macro perspective.”

Again, it’s fine if you are down on Wentz. I think anybody who has paid attention this year would understand that he has made plenty mistakes that have nothing to do with a limited receiving corps or any kind of play calling or personnel situation. We’re asking for the guy to be elite instead of just good or very good, especially after coming into the season healthy after signing a big-money contract.

We’ll see what happens Sunday and go from there.