The NFL MVP Right Now Is… Carson Wentz?? That’s Right, You Stupid Idiots!
For good reason, the rest of the country does not watch too many Eagles games. They are currently 1-4-1, which looks more like fast food order than a football record. The Birds look pretty terrible (but still the odds on favorites to win the NFC East). In a league where quarterbacks take all of the blame and all of the glory, it’s pretty predictable that the ignorant masses on the internet are calling Carson Wentz trash, and making memes about how he’s a horrible quarterback. Those people can shut up or catch these hands.
Rooting for a team that has 1.5 wins after 6 weeks really sucks, and the knee-jerk reaction to having a crappy team is to blame the quarterback. As someone who has watched every second of this crappy Eagles season, I’m here to tell you Wentz deserves the MVP.
How? First, In his last 3 weeks, he’s played top 10 defenses, and has mustered up 25, 29, and 28 points. On it’s face that doesn’t look too impressive, but let’s look at what he has to work with. At the end of game yesterday, here’s who was missing on the offensive side alone.
Offensive Line: Jason Peters, Lane Johnson, Andre Dillard, Brandon Brooks, Matt Pryor, Jack Discoll
Wide Receivers/Tight Ends: Zach Ertz, Dallas Goedert, Alshon Jeffery, Desean Jackson, Marquise Goodwin, Jalen Reagor
Running Backs: Miles Sanders, Corey Clement
Let’s put it another way, the only starter on the offense besides Wentz who is still playing is his center Jason Kelce. Even with an offensive line that can’t block, and talent positions who are all practice squad alum, Carson Wentz had 3 touchdowns against one of the top defenses in the league and could have had more had it not been for two dropped touchdowns.
Wentz was sacked 6 times yesterday, hit 17 times, and pressured on 58% of his dropbacks. Any other quarterback under that kind of duress would crumble and look like the worst quarterback in the world. How can I be so sure? Let’s look at a potential MVP candidate this year, Aaron Rodgers.
Through four games, Rodgers was setting the world on fire. Then, yesterday he has one starter on the offensive line go down, and he started to feel the pressure. Rodgers was hit 13 times (4 less than Wentz), and completely folded losing 38-10, and putting up a 17.8 QBR. For those not familiar with QBR, 17.8 is reeaaaallllllllyy bad.
In other words, it’s really hard to play quarterback when you have horrible blocking. Guess what though, Rodgers still had more weapons in Pro Bowl running back Aaron Jones and receiver Davante Adams. Wentz’s most experienced receiver is Greg Ward who came off the practice squad last year in week 11, and has the same name as your State Farm agent. With even less help versus a much better defense, Wentz scored 22 points in the 4th and brought the Eagles all the way back to potentially tying the game on a failed 2 point conversion.
Wentz > Rodgers
So everyone on the internet talking trash on Wentz a week after pretending to feel bad for Dak Prescott’s leg exploding take a long look in the mirror, and then shut up. If you keep talking, then I better see you online singing his praises when he carries this team to the playoffs…. AGAIN. I know I won’t though, as you’ll probably scurry back to your troll holes, you literal pieces of trash.
