Few trades were as awkward last year as the move the Washington Commanders made to bring in Carson Wentz. It fell apart today with the announcement that the team has cut the quarterback. The exchange, it is worth remembering, was not so cheap given what Wentz was presenting until then: a second round was in the package for Indianapolis, who very happy, cleaned his sheet and the air of his locker room by sending the problem quarterback to the capital American.
Wentz, with the best running back in the league and a solid offensive line, did little when needed in Indianapolis. When the Colts needed him, he spread the word in Week 18 against the Jacksonville Jaguars. In view of the hiring, we were quite pessimistic here in ProFootball. So Deivis wrote:
I can’t see a scenario where Washington gets much better next season because of Wentz. The Colts stayed with him for just one year and understood that continuing with the number 2 shirt would be embracing limbo, immediately trying to pass Marea forward. Carson is now a bad quarterback and whenever he needs to solve something on his own, he fails. It was like this in the game against the Jacksonville Jaguars in week 18: the ground game was not enough for him to spread the flour and see the qualification for the playoffs go down the drain.
What defines the situation is precisely this analogy with a Marea Turbo – a somewhat problematic car to “pass forward”. Those in the know, however, know the caveats and are overjoyed to get it out of their garage. That was the case with Indianapolis, even though they had another problem to call their own.
cutting was inevitable
The truth is that the cut was a matter of time. In the case of cutting Wentz, the Commanders would have absolutely zero dollars stuck on the sheet and, if he was retained, his contract would be worth 26 million dollars for 2023. It would make no sense, given that Wentz is not in the team’s plans.
It’s not because it doesn’t deserve it and it did justice to all the criticisms that its capybara already, as a matter of fact, had before arriving in Washington. Wentz was benched in the middle of the season by pedestrian Taylor Heinicke, who also did little. The drop in performance of the ex-Eagle and Colt is vertiginous in recent years.
