Monday, November 07, 2016

The Swamps of Jersey

A friend writes:

We've now lost 4 out of 5 games, while 4-4 seems like it's possible to come back from, it's not. 
The season basically ended in the swamps of Jersey this afternoon. We're now 0-3 in the division, having lost to all 3 teams, at least 2 of which were eminently winnable (Dallas and today). We're now also 2-4 within the conference. 
It's just going to be very, very hard to get through the tiebreakers having lost so many divisional/NFC games. 
I almost feel as if we should pull back the reins a bit, and basically give up on trying to win games this season. I know that sounds insane, but we can't keep asking a rookie QB to throw 47 passes to a collection of receivers who simply suck. 
Wentz is going to get killed in the 2nd half of the season, especially with a running game that is now simply dormant. They're going to kill Sproles also by making him run the ball as much as he is. He's now at 59 carries on the season, through 8 games, and that's more carries than he got in the entire 2010, 2012, 2013, and 2014 seasons. 
I would give Daniels more reps during the week, and I'd be prepared to rest Wentz for some stretches of really bad games. 
I like him, he hangs in there. After his worst quarter of football, today's 1st quarter, that 2nd quarter might've been his best quarter of football. 
I just don't want to see him get killed unnecessarily for a season that is clearly not going to produce something really great.

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