(12-05-2019, 07:37 PM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote:

(12-05-2019, 02:20 PM)MikePete54 Wrote: - His wife suffered miscarriage 5 months ago.
- He suffers broken collarbone in and came back way too soon. Should have stay out the whole season.
- Maybe he was afraid to lose his job with the Minshew thing. He was forcing a lot of throws and you can say that his arm is not as strong as it was in Philly.

Just a whole bad year for him. Maybe with a new coaching staff and a better OL/weapons, he could come back as a starter for us.

That first and third reason are personal issues that should not effect the on the field psyche of an elite athlete. I don't mean to sound heartless, but I've seen players like Brett Favre who lost his father and Kwon Alexander who's brother was murdered, come back the next week, even the next day and have the game of their life. They used the pain as motivation. You either use tragedy as motivation to propel you forward or it will make you fold if you're not mentally strong. In order to succeed in football, you cannot let off the field issues effect your play or it will ruin you. With that said, from a more practical point of view, this team looks nothing like the team Foles had success with in Philadelphia. They had a very strong O-Line, that gave him tons of time to make his reads, they had RB's who were good receivers out of the backfield and set up screens well and they had not one, but two good TE's who were excellent receivers. We don't have any of those things. When we signed Foles, we tried to fit a square peg into a round hole. The system we have in place was not designed for him to succeed. To give him a shot to be anything close to what he was in Philadelphia, we're gonna have to make a lot of changes and I just don't see that happening in one year. 

Just because you are an elite athlete, doesn't mean that you can get over it. A miscarriage is something that can affect your whole life. Football is nothing compare to this tragedy. 
People calling Foles "weak" is just not fair. Can you imagine all the pressure this guy used to have on his shoulders after the Wentz injury ? The team was 12-2, a Superbowl contender. As a backup, you better be mentally strong. 
Same with Jacksonville. He knows that people are expecting a lot from him with the huge contract. To me he was trying to do too much in the last 3 games. He is not healthy, he wanted to prove that he could lead this team to the playoffs. 
I agree with people saying that this team is not build to play for the strengths of Foles and DeFilippo offense (thank you Front Office....).  The tight end position is a big part of DeFilippo's offense. And what do we have ? Geoff Swaim, 48 rec in 43 games in career...A rookie who has been injuried most of the season. O'shaughnessy is our best TE, but 60 rec in 58 games and 3 TD in career....
The RB position...they keep trying to run in the middle while our inside Oline is struggling to create holes for Fournette. 

We have two good QBs. One is a pocket passer, the other one is a mobile QB. But as long as the OLine collapse in 2 seconds, none will be able to play with his strengths.

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