Hey #Colts and (I guess) #Bears fans here's the Carson Wentz 2020 Week 1 thread.

Anybody have a good jersey swap of Wentz? I feel like that would spice up my next thread.

From his second attempt of his season I noticed how much lower he was holding the ball and as a result how elongated his throwing motion is in 2020 compared to 2017.

It looks small in stills but the motion is longer as a result.

The first drive of 202 went as well as possible and Wentz made the throws he needed to make. One thing I noticed that I didn't notice from 2017 were multiple pumps in places that a pump fake didn't make much sense. It looks like he's second guessing what he's seeing.

Now he's holding the ball high and tight again, has for the past three attempts, it's just one quarter but so far this has been inconsistent, at best.

Another difference I've noticed pre-snap is his stance in gun. His footwork is different as a result. In 2020 there seems to be less wasted movement than 2017. 2017 on left. 2020 on right. Might not mean much, just looking for details.

Washington Football Team's Ryan Kerrigan has 95.5 career sacks and the Eagles offensive line gifts him another one even though he didn't need the favor. Wentz didn't have a chance. The real question is, should the protection have been changed or did someone blow an assignment?

Next play, botched TE screen. Kerrigan played it perfectly, goes down as a sack. Wish he would have thrown it away, no reason to take a hit and lose yards. Small gripe but a gripe all the same.

Very next play. End zone angle and my thoughts in the next Tweet.

1/2 Here Wentz does a good job moving the safeties with his eyes and small pump to his left. If you slow the tape down you can see him glance to the playside safety, he sees that he's playing shallow and Wentz knew where he wanted to go.

2/2 I've noticed on a lot of Wentz's throws he tends to fade away at the end. He did it in 2017, he's doing it in 2020. Normally it's not as pronounced as it was on this play. I don't love it. Maybe the ball would have been placed slightly better, maybe not. Something to watch.

Chase Young destroys this play. There's not much Wentz can do. His first read isn't there, he moves to his next and then he gets hit. Would like to see him protect the ball here but Young slapped at it perfectly. Great defensive play.

Before the snap Wentz appeared to change this play. He does a good job feeling the pocket collapse, gets his eyes back downfield, resets his base and places this ball where only his guy could get it. If he puts this ball in front his WR gets hit or ball gets picked. Nice rep.

Regardless of the year the Eagles have lived off of play action. Here they try to run a naked boot and either someone blew an assignment or Montez Sweat was supposed to bite on the fake and he didn't. Up to 4 sacks and we're less than 16 minutes into the game.

Just a bad miss on this throw.

Only thing I see different from the throw above is where he's holding the ball before he starts his windup. Has it lower than on other downs. My working theory is the long windup this creates makes this ball late and it's why he's inaccurate here.

This was another play that Wentz changed at the line. He never looked off his receiver on this one, he knew where he wanted to go with the ball before it was snapped and he threw a perfect pass for six.

This time Wentz knew where he wanted to go with the ball but things went poorly. He's really good looking off safeties before coming back to the side he wants to hit but he never saw the CB who was blanketing his receiver. He didn't read the defense, he just guessed.

That wraps up the first half I'm going to keep adding to this but Twitter doesn't seem to like how long this thread is, so I'll tweet this out and work on the second half.

It looks like the placement on this ball is bad. Assuming a 5th round rookie WR ran to the right spot in his 1st pro game w/o camps or preseason, so. What he definitely didn't do was work back to the ball and break this pass up. Tough to know what happened but it's not good.

This one is on Wentz, he has to get rid of this ball.

There have been a lot of plays like this one, Wentz looks to be moving well in the pocket, eyes downfield and getting hit as he throws.

Had a couple bad drops too, but hardly a drop epidemic yet.

Yet another ball low and behind. Holding the ball low again. There's an extra hitch in his windup here that delays the throw. It's the only difference I'm seeing from 2017 to now.

The delayed blitz got home on 4th and 4.

It's easy to 2nd guess a failed 4th down call but they were up 3 in the 3rd quarter. I get going for it, but the offense hasn't lit the world on fire so far in this one. No shame in punting one away from time to time.

After WFT tied it at 17 in the 4th quarter, this happens on the very first play of the next drive.

After a screen lost them six more yards, Wentz forces this one on 3rd and 26. The game is tied but they're playing like they're down multiple scores. Got that feeling while they were winning, too.

Now that they're actually losing by a touchdown, they're calling more short concepts and have sprinkled in a run. Doesn't feel like they're pressing as much as before.

Then on 4th and 3 the ball goes off the TE's hands on what would have been a first down. Wentz's mechanics seem better here. Don't like that he "felt" pressure that wasn't there (stepped to his left) but the way he's been hit in this one, it's not that surprising.

Now down 10 points Wentz tries to do too much and turns the ball over. A bad result but you can understand the intent. He does a good job escaping pressure initially, just needed to do something with it after that.

This one effectively ends it.

All in all this wasn't the garbage fire I expected to find from Wentz. I realize it's just one game, and it wasn't a good game, his picks were bad, but every quarterback has bad games, especially getting hit the way he got hit in this one.

WFT has a really good D-line, this isn't the only time they punished an opposing QB this year.

I understand that people are going to tell me that this gets worse, and I believe you, but I need to see it for myself. Because so far

It's still tough for me to understand why you would trade Wentz. AGAIN, I know I've only broken down two games, but this is just based on what I've seen. The WFT game was rough but Wentz wasn't that bad in context and he showed good traits.

My next thread will go back to 2017.