Anonymous Eagles player blames front office after Carson Wentz trade rumors

Carson Wentz might be out of Philadelphia, but is the problem completely gone inside the building? 

The Philadelphia Eagles are starting fresh for 2021. First, the team elected to fire Doug Pederson after a 4-11-1 season one week following their Week 17 loss to Washington. Now, it feels as if Carson Wentz will be playing for a new team come the start of next season.

According to reports from ESPN’s Adam Schefter, Wentz could be traded as early as next week for the same range as that of a “Matthew Stafford type” deal. Both the Chicago Bears and the Indianapolis Colts are expected to be interested in the 28-year-old’s services.

Wentz and Pederson collided for several seasons following their 2017 year which ended with the Eagles winning their first Super Bowl. However, multiple former members of the team have told Rob Maaddi of AP News that both Wentz and Pederson are far from the big problem at the Linc.

Instead, it seems as if the front office, including general manager Howie Roseman, are the ones to blame.

Will the Eagles survive with Roseman still in power?

Eagles’ owner Jeff Lurie has been in close ties with Roseman since hired back in 2000. The 45-year-old executive has spent the last two decades building his way from a member of the salary cap counsel to the man in power inside the Nova complex.

Roseman, who was the prime subject in selecting Wentz back in 2016, seemed to be building a team around the former No.2 pick this offseason to succeed. The Eagles went out and hired Colts offensive coordinator Nick Sirianni as the new head coach while also electing to close the door on offers for his services via the open market.

After Stafford was shipped to the Los Angeles Rams, that all changed. The 33-year-old now will join Sean McVay for the next two years while Detroit can start their rebuild with two first-round picks, a third-round pick and a potential long-term quarterback in Jared Goff.

Roseman’s asking price is steep, but it also has to be to move off Wentz’s lucrative extension. His departure would leave the Eagles with a $34 million dead cap charge, adding to an already complicated cap space situation.

On the flip side, the team that would add Wentz would have to owe the former Eagles’ starter a cap charge of $25.4 million in 2021 and $22 million in 2022. After a season in which Wentz threw a career-high in interceptions (15) and took a career-high in sacks (50), would that worth adding?

Wentz might work with Sirianni. He might work on a different team. However, the Eagles’ dysfunction seems to not be in the coach that helped them win their first Lombardi Trophy in franchise history. It also doesn’t seem to be with the quarterback that could be on a different roster despite all the offseason moves.

Instead, Roseman and the front office names remain a bigger deal. That could be the ultimate culprit in another lost season for Philadelphia.