Lurie thanks Wentz for 2017, wishes it ended differently originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia
PALM BEACH, Fla. — Just hours after Colts owner Jim Irsay blasted Carson Wentz, Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie took a more measured approach.
Lurie thanked Wentz for 2017, but admitted he wishes things would have ended differently with Wentz in Philadelphia.
Speaking publicly for the first time since the Eagles traded the quarterback to the Colts last February — Wentz was traded again this offseason to Washington — Lurie on Tuesday at the NFL owners meetings finally weighed in on the franchise-altering move to ship Wentz to Indianapolis.
While Lurie said things ended differently than he imagined between Wentz and the Eagles, he made it clear that he doesn’t think the Lombardi Trophy would have come to Philly without No. 11.
“Let me just say, Carson, 2017, we’ll never forget it,” Lurie said at The Breakers resort in South Florida, taking questions for the first time since…