Eagles quarterback coach John DeFilippo had some sobering Carson Wentz news for the Philadelphia faithful when he spoke to reporters earlier in the offseason.
"This year coming up, he's probably not going to play great in all 16 games," he said.
Not great in all 16 games? Cancel the season. Declare the trade that brought Wentz to Philly a franchise-crippling failure and add Wentz to the Mount Rushmore of all-time draft busts.
Too extreme? Well, football fans in general—and Eagles fans in particular—aren't known for their measured responses. In Philly, everything rests on Wentz's shoulders: the Eagles' season, the team's future, the hopes and dreams of a region in the midst of one of its all-too-common multisport funks.