3 takeaways from the Philadelphia Eagles wild comeback win on TNF
By David Esser
Your Philadelphia Eagles are back in first place.
Heyyyyy, look at that! The Philadelphia Eagles, owning a lovely record of 2-4-1, are back in first place and currently in line for a home playoff game!
It was by no means pretty (in fact it was almost exclusively ugly), but the team ultimately got it done. The Eagles topped the New York Giants by a score of 22-21, walking out of Thursday Night Football as sole owners of first place in the NFC East.
Here are my three biggest takeaways from the jumbled mess of a win that we all just witnessed:
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Just let Carson be Carson.
I don’t know if it’s specifically a Carson Wentz thing, or if it’s just a Philly thing, but the constant criticism surrounding #11 needs to stop eventually. He’s out here throwing to almost exclusively undrafted rookies at the moment, and yet some people are still worried about him “not throwing the ball away” in the correct manner.
Is Wentz prefect? Nah, definitely not. He’s a trigger happy gunslinger who never gives up on a play, and that hurts him at times.
Can this style of play also lead to the Eagles winning football games that they have absolutely zero business winning? 100%. We just watched it happen.
Despite throwing to guys that we didn’t know existed 12 months ago, while playing behind the worst performing offensive line in all of football, Wentz got on his horse late in the ballgame and delivered two back-to-back touchdowns in the fourth quarter (oh, he had a perfect passer rating on those two drives as well).
His game-winning TD that he threw to Boston Scott was very much a “throw the ball away Carson” type of play, and yet he slotted in an absolute peach down the sideline where only his receiver could get it. Wentz finished tonight with 350+ yards and 3 total touchdowns, even with all of his “reckless” play sprinkled throughout
The Philadelphia Eagles don’t win tonight’s game if Wentz tries to act like anyone other than himself. That will remain true for the rest of the season as well.