DOUG PEDERSON remembers his first NFL preseason game, as a rookie quarterback.
"It was late in the fourth quarter, and I knelt down three times. Three knees, in Miami," Pederson recalled recently. "Dan Marino, Scott Secules and Scott Mitchell were the three" quarterbacks ahead of Pederson on the depth chart, that 1991 training camp, he said. Mitchell was the up-and-coming QB who got most of the work that night.
Pederson, then an undrafted rookie from Northeast Louisiana, wasn't facing great expectations. Were his parents watching?
"Heck, no. It was too late. They were in bed."
Pederson's first preseason game as an NFL coach, Thursday night at Lincoln Financial Field against Tampa, ought to produce more memories, for Pederson and for his rookie quarterback, Carson Wentz.