Four days after knee surgery and 263 days from the start of the 2018 season, Carson Wentz lay on his couch and watched the Eagles play the New York Giants about 80 miles north of his home in South Jersey.
He was miserable. Not only was his season over, but he was in pain. Unable to take care of himself and determine his future, the Type-A quarterback had to surrender the control that had him atop the NFL just a week earlier.
Wentz had to surrender to God, and on that December day he had to surrender to his nurse — then-girlfriend Maddie Oberg.