THE EAGLES' longest run last Sunday at Cincinnati went for 10 yards, and the runner was Carson Wentz.
Splashier, more spectacular failures commanded the headlines in that 32-14 loss, the Eagles' third in a row, with each of those setbacks more onesided than the one before it.
There was a lot of analysis of Wentz, of his three interceptions, of the way his mechanics deteriorated. But as the Bengals' margin increased, to 29-0 in the third quarter, Doug Pederson made rookie Wentz the fourth quarterback in franchise history to attempt 60 passes. This was, as Pederson noted this week, "kind of a recipe for disaster.