(04-07-2019, 09:01 PM)Eric1 Wrote: (04-07-2019, 08:24 PM)Cleatwood Wrote: You’re sleeping on Wentz big time.
Dude was the MVP in 2017 before injury. In 2018, he had a 70% completion percentage and 21 TDS in 11 games. If the Eagles didn’t have one of the top young QBs, Foles would still be there.
Of course Wentz is better than Foles, Foles isn't really that good at all though, so that isn't saying much lol (I do like Wentz though). What isn't being considered here is that the Eagles chose a younger, injury prone QB over their "Super Bowl MVP"....
They have more faith in a guy who was failed to finish the past two straight seasons, 1 with an ACL/LCL injury and the latest, a fracture in his back, over the guy who everybody keeps saying "won them the Super Bowl".
It is a "what have you done for me lately league" after all, and all the Foles lovers slop all over that playoff/SB run for Foles. The Eagles moving on from him is blatantly obvious that they know he is nothing more than a product of a system/good team and his loss is of very little value. Easily replaceable and we decided to pay him $88m ($50m+ for sure), hoping he can relive a hand full of games that he had in 2017. Problem is, now he has to do that over the course of a entire season, not just 5-6 games.
First of all... I'd love for you to find one single contextual quote from anyone on this board that has ever stated that Foles "won the eagles a super bowl." I've never seen anyone attempt to site Foles as the catalyst of that. It's just a disingenuous claim on your part.
Folks site him as a one-game MVP, but no one states he's the reason they won it or the reason they got there. It's much the same way only the clueless idiots here claim Bortles
took the Jags to the AFCCG.
Secondly -- your wild speculation about the eagles opinion of Foles - (
he is nothing more than a product of a system/good team and his loss is of very little value) -- that's seriously just some herp derp garbage. You can't actually believe that.
You have know idea what their true evaluation/value of Foles is, and if you actually believe his release indicates what you've implied, you're [BLEEP] kidding yourself. You're reaching there. Badly.
Also - they aren't hoping he can
re-live a few good games from this or that season.
The Jags are very simply counting on their great defense (who held teams to fewer points per game in 2017 and 2018 than the eagles did) and also Foles +70% completion rate over the past two seasons of play to be enough to win those close contests they have lost. It actually makes perfect sense if you look at it objectively.
And this is coming from a guy that wanted them to draft Haskins and not sign Foles.
