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Rookie quarterback Carson Wentz has been an amazing story through the first two weeks of the season. He's helped the Eagles to a 2-0 record and he's done it without throwing an interception. But if there's one knock on the 2016 second-overall pick, it's that he's taking way too many hits -- and not in the pocket, but mostly when he scrambles upfield.

This development does not sit well with the usually mild-mannered Eagles offensive coordinator, Frank Reich, who played 14 NFL seasons in an era when teeing off on the quarterback was a weekly occurance.

That's one way to motivate a young player. (In related news: Maybe Mike Shanahan should have tried that with Robert Griffin III and perhaps both would still be in Washington.)

Wentz, who has been hit on 14 percent of his dropbacks this season -- that's the eighth-most in the league, according to ESPN's Sal Paolantonio -- will face a young, fast, physical Steelers defense on Sunday afternoon.

"We're 300-pound people that can run really fast," Steelers defensive end Stephon Tuitt said this week, via the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. ... "Hopefully, he'll run out of bounds. If not, you'll see what can happen."

At one point during Monday night's game against the Bears, Wentz neared the sidelines, but instead of going out of bounds, he cut upfield, spun, and took the kind of hit that drives Reich crazy.

"I saw that stupid spin he did," Steelers defensive end Cam Heyward said. "If he does that, there's a price to be paid. He better get that out of his playbook really quick because I know Philly fans don't want to lose a guy who they're counting on for years to come."

Meanwhile, CBS Sports NFL analyst and former Ravens and Jets linebacker Bart Scott thinks Wentz is "fool's gold" since he's only faced the NFL's "JV" teams in the first two weeks.