Where do I even begin?

   This season was a trainwreck for the Philadelphia Eagles, and there was no better way to end it than to blatantly tank the last game of the season against the Washington Football Team. On national TV.

   It has really just become pathetic by this point.

   And now that the Eagles have fired head coach Doug Pederson and are without defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz, they are in need of a new coaching staff.

   So was firing Pederson the right move? I’m torn, but it was probably for the best. Yes, he led the Eagles to their first Super Bowl win in 2017, but since then, the team hasn’t been anything much greater than mediocre. The Eagles finished 9-7 in both 2018 and 2019, and then completely collapsed this year finishing 4-11-1.

   “Very few people probably after success deserves to lose their job,” Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie said in a press conference on Monday. “This is much more about the evaluation of whether the Eagles, moving forward, our best option is to have a new coach.”

   It was clear that Lurie and Pederson struggled to reach an agreement on where they wanted to go as for the future of the team, leading to his firing.

   “Pederson was sick of people telling him what to do,” NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport said.

   As the head coach, Pederson felt it was his call to decide what he wanted to do with his coaching staff, but Lurie was not thrilled with Pederson’s short-term plan in staying loyal to and promoting coaches who were already on the team. And understandably so. What the Eagles truly need for a more successful future are new coaches with new ideas outside of Philly’s current coaching staff. A rebuild.

   “It’s a transition point and we’ve got to get younger and we have to have a lot more volume of draft picks and we have to accumulate as much talent as we possibly can that is going to work in the long run with a focus on the mid-term and the long term and not on how to maximize 2021,” Lurie said.

   The visions didn’t line up. That’s what it came down to.

   Yet despite all of the disagreements, it’s still a little bittersweet to see Philly’s Super Bowl-winning coach go.

   What’s less bittersweet, however, and quite honestly just bitter, is seeing what this could all mean for quarterback Carson Wentz.

   I’m still trying to figure out how the franchise quarterback we saw in 2017 now looks like he has never seen a football before.

   Wentz regressed dramatically this season, becoming one of the worst quarterbacks in the league. After 13 weeks of insisting that Wentz was the guy and that he would get better, Pederson finally decided to bench him and roll with QB Jalen Hurts.

   How ironic that as soon as Wentz wasn’t on the field, the Eagles actually had a somewhat functioning offense.

   This sparked a lot of controversy among the Eagles, however.

   Wentz planned on asking for a trade in the offseason, as league sources said that he felt his relationship with Pederson was fractured beyond repair— so much to the point that Wentz would kill plays purely out of spite. He was also said to be unwilling to compete against Hurts for the starting quarterback position. Philadelphia Inquirer’s Jeff McLane reported Saturday on Wentz’s uncoachable behavior and his inability to take responsibility or criticism.

   “His resistance to hard instruction made him lose faith from coaches and an unwillingness to accept blame for his mistakes hurt him in the locker room,” McLane said. “‘He doesn’t understand that he lost games for us,’ a veteran player said. ‘He will never admit that and that’s a problem because he can’t get it corrected.’”

   And this is why I have grown to dislike Wentz so much. A whole lot of entitlement for a man that had 15 interceptions, 50 sacks, and six fumbles with a QB rating of 49.7.

   Now you can make the argument that Pederson ruined Wentz and that Wentz is fixable. 

   But you can also make the argument that Pederson’s record with Wentz was 35-32-1, while his record with any other Eagles QB was 11-2 — which in this case, you blame the quarterback. And I do.

   This was all just a Pederson vs. Wentz thing. All of it. And now that Pederson is gone, it means that Wentz won the fight. It would unfortunately not be a surprise if he remains in Philly as the starting QB.