While Carson Wentz put on a happy face in front of the cameras as Nick Foles and the Philadelphia Eagles won the franchise's first Super Bowl title in his absence in 2017, things apparently weren't as smooth behind the scenes.
In a story that's never been shared before, Jeff McLane of The Philadelphia Inquirer details an incident where Wentz and a teammate got into a confrontation after he acknowledged that he wasn't thrilled that the team continued to have success after he tore his ACL in Week 14:
"Sometime before the championship game, Wentz voiced his displeasure with the Eagles' success to a group of other injured players, sources with direct knowledge of the incident said. One of the players immediately confronted him and the two eventually had to be separated."
We'll probably never know the identity of the player who is said to have "confronted" Wentz, but Jason Peters, Darren Sproles, Caleb Sturgis, Jordan Hicks and Chris Maragos were among those who, like him, had suffered season-ending injuries throughout the course of the 2017 regular season.
There's no doubt that it would burn to be the front-runner for NFL MVP on the team with the best record in the NFL, only to have a season-ending injury and see the team go on a Super Bowl run without you. It's probably a natural feeling for a quarterback not to be especially giddy about the idea of another player leading his team to a championship. But to verbalize that in a team environment certainly seems selfish.
After the Eagles defeated the New England Patriots 41-33 in Super Bowl LII, Wentz seemingly forced himself into the story as he tried to comprehend the fact that it was Foles who won Super Bowl MVP and delivered a championship to Philadelphia:
Again, this is a natural thing for an athlete to think. But saying it as his teammates celebrated the biggest win of their lives almost certainly rubbed some the wrong way.
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