Carson Wentz

[Hawkeye0202]

Sunday's game may have ended his career as a legit NFL starter......

https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.c...berger-steelers-nfl-playoffs-fmia-peter-king/
Goat of the Week
Carson Wentz, quarterback, Indianapolis. The Colts traded the farm and made a big-money investment in Wentz in the offseason to capture win-and-in games against bad teams like Jacksonville. Now, after a horrendous and embarrassing performance against the Jags, Wentz will be questioned for the next eight months. Is he good enough to lead a team deep into the playoffs? He sure didn’t look like it this season. The worst for him came in the third quarter in Jacksonville. Down 13-3 with 12:40 to go, Wentz was strip-sacked, leading to a Jags field goal; Jacksonville, 16-3. Wentz was 0-for-3 on the next series, and on the next one, his first pass was underthrown and picked by linebacker Damien Wilson. Soon it was 23-3 Jags, and this one was out of reach.

In his biggest game as a Colt, Wentz came up so small. And needing one win in the last two weeks to get the Colts to the playoffs, he lost to the Raiders at home and the Jags on the road. No wonder the Colts were so crestfallen after this game. “Wentz was an albatross around the neck of the offense in three of the final four weeks,” wrote Bob Kravitz in The Athletic on Sunday night. And that’s not going away. Wentz came to Indianapolis to solve the quarterback problem. All he’s done is exacerbate it.

 

[Hawkeye0202]

The Colts have a mess on their hands..

 

[Hawkeye0202]

https://www.si.com/nfl/2022/01/10/mmqb-week-18-raiders-chargers-near-tie-playoff-seeds

It’s hard not to look at the Colts and think of how Andrew Luck’s retirement has hovered over the franchise for three full seasons now, from Jacoby Brissett giving way to Philip Rivers and now Carson Wentz. Indy’s final price for Wentz is going to end up being the 84th pick in last year’s draft and the 16th pick in this year draft, and based on that, you need more on a Sunday like this one. Wentz finished 17-of-29 for 185 yards, a touchdown, a pick and a fumble. And that, really, was after racking up some meaningless yards down the stretch of a blowout loss at the hands of the Jaguars. Wentz’s contract is such that moving on from him next year is close to a non-starter—he’s guaranteed $15 million of his $27 million base for 2022 already—given the cap ramifications if you try to trade him ($24.6 million in dead money would hit your cap). And it’s not like trading him would be easy after this year, either. So it looks, on the surface at least, like this reclamation project will get one more run. And if it doesn’t work? Well, then the Colts will lose a good year with their impressive young core, and that’d be a tough pill to swallow.

 

[Ranched]

MEANWHILE....

 

[RonWashington]

That was Jacksonville he lost to . The equivalent of Temple Owls football .