“The Bodyguard,” Jason Peters, is headed to the Hall of Fame one day.

For the benefit of the Eagles, and himself, he’ll call it career hopefully sooner rather than later, because Father Time is undefeated and is now lapping JP on the figurative track where we did the mile run in high school.

Peters was on Good Morning Football today, the NFL Network show that blows Get Up out of the water, and he said this about Carson Wentz’s benching and eventual trade:

“I was surprised but I wasn’t super surprised, because when they benched him and put Jalen (Hurts) in, things went left. I always encouraged (Carson) and told him, ‘keep working, everything happens for a reason.’ Like I said, I wasn’t crazy surprised when it happened, but any team that was going to pick him up, I knew it was going to be Frank Reich (and the Colts), because when he was there, Frank had him running smooth. Super Bowl run, we went and got the trophy. 

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“That was my deal on that, because Carson is a great player and nothing really went wrong on that. He was just in Philadelphia. It’s a hard city to play for, man. They’re critical of every play, every inch, every foot, every year. You have to bring it every year or Philadelphia will eat you up.”

It’s true. Philadelphia is a tough city to play in. It doesn’t excuse the fact that Carson regressed and missed wide open receivers, and had some issues in the locker room, as Chris Long and Malcolm Jenkins explained.

But based on what Peters is saying, it just reinforces the idea that Wentz really needed a change of scenery, and should benefit from that. The Eagles will, too. The way this happened was disastrous, but both sides needed to split, go their separate ways, and start over.