Carson Wentz is Ass

The Washington Commanders fell to 1-2 this season after an 8-24 one-sided beatdown at home by the Philadelphia Eagles. The biggest takeaway—and honestly the only takeaway—from this game is how terrible Carson Wentz is at playing quarterback in the National Football League.

Carson Wentz has already been sacked 3 times today. We’re about 5 minutes into the 1st quarter. This is going to be a special game pic.twitter.com/m7plsSYMvi

— Dead Serious (@Deadseriousness) September 25, 2022

Carson Wentz was sacked 4 times in the first quarter and finished the game being sacked 9 times with 2 fumbles.

Normally, you would attribute this many sacks to a horrible offensive line and we should certainly shout out Washington’s o-line for having no idea that it was their job to stop the Eagles pass rush. Still, if you watch Wentz play, it doesn’t take long to realize these sacks are mostly his fault.

Every time Wentz drops back, he believes he is the only quarterback on the planet capable of shedding all tackles, extending all plays with his legs and finding receivers open deep down the field, regardless of how well the opposing team’s secondary is covering them.

In actuality, it’s all hubris and ego. Wentz isn’t this amazing baller who dodges linebackers and chucks it deep for touchdowns like 2015 Cam Newton. He holds onto the ball way too long which makes it impossible for offensive linemen to block world-class athletes for extended periods.

When ou get the ball out quickly, you make your pass protection look outstanding. But Carson holds his pass protection hostage because all he wants to do is throw 50+ yard bombs. And as he’s only looking downfield at whatever receiver is dumb enough to sprint down the field for a pass that’ll land nowhere near them, Wentz disregards the incoming pass rush and often gets powerbombed in the backfield or fumbles it up.

Here’s Wentz’s final stat line from Sunday afternoon:

25-for-43 (58%)
211 yards
0 TDs
71.0 QB rating
Sacked 9 times
Lost a fumble

The good news is Wentz didn’t throw an interception so there’s some hope in Washington.

Carson suffers from the Donning-Kruger effect where he overestimates what he’s capable of and thinks he’s Dan Marino mixed with Jon Elway when he’s really more like Rex Grossman mixed with Uncle Rico.

And the best part is Washington has already declared they won’t be making a QB change.

Ron Rivera asked if he’s considering a QB change: “No. I’m not.”

— Nicki Jhabvala (@NickiJhabvala) September 25, 2022

Wentz is going to have a full 17 games to have some of the worst-looking plays in the history of history while opposing pass rushers take turns breaking single-game sack records against him. Micah Parsons is going to break him over his knee like Bane while Wentz hurls the ball into the chest of a defensive tackle.