(11-26-2019, 03:46 PM)Caldrac Wrote:

(11-26-2019, 01:05 PM)JagFanFirst Wrote: Voicing an unpopular opinion here.  Foles isn't bad, like some of our heavily paid busts were. He's just not the Super Bowl QB we saw in Philly. He's a serviceable QB with an 80 million dollar contract. If we could have paid him, say 8 million per year as a backup, he'd be a bargain.

Go ahead and rip me.

You're right. Again, it's hard to judge him personally at his position. All of the blame goes to the continued mistakes and bad evaluating this front office loves to put on display on a yearly basis. 2017 was a fluke. I know some of you hate me on here for saying that and pissing in your cornflakes but it was a fluke. They barely scrounged up 10 wins as a team and they beat up on some pretty weak teams with gigantic holes and question marks at their QB position. 

They were able to get away with running the football and bailing out the defense just enough with special teams plays to keep the offensive on the football field. The coaching staff then showcased the same exact "play not to lose" attitude during the AFCC that they continue to showcase today. This team is poorly coached. And it's poorly managed. And it needs to be bagged up and thrown out of town already. 

Nick Foles caught fire at the most crucial point of the season with a pretty much stellar supporting cast surrounding him at that time. It was the perfect situation. When you couple that with Doug Pederson's "play to win and NOT to lose" attitude you get a Championship title for it. He wasn't afraid to gamble with Foles because he knew he had the pieces around him to succeed. 

This front office legitimately looked at Foles, didn't consider that maybe it was coaching, scheming, adjusting and players like Peters, Johnson, Kelce, Jeffreys & Ertz making his job easier. But it was all Foles during that play-off stretch and Championship victory. They're blind as hell. Most of us on here saw this coming a mile away back in January. At that time, I gave them credit for at least taking a swing. But I didn't think they would pay so much to take that swing. And that's why I agree with you. Had they paid him something more along the lines of "Prove you're a Franchise QB. Not just lightning in a bottle". 

We would all have a different tune today. It doesn't help their cause now though after the mishandling of the QB situation. I still think Foles, although cleared to play by the team since that initial injury back in week one, he's just simply not all there mentally to play right now. And it's shown already in two weeks of football. They put too much on him. He's been sidelined for entirely too long. And for better or worse they should have just left Minshew in there and prepared Foles for next year since they invested a lot of money into him. 

Also, the analysis showed prior to them signing Foles that the risks highly, HIGHLY outweighed the reward for bringing him in here. This wasn't Drew Brees or Peyton Manning up for grabs during free agency. This was a guy with a few good moments in his really tipsy topsy career. No different than Ryan Fitzpatrick.