(03-12-2019, 07:23 PM)SeldomRite Wrote:

(03-12-2019, 06:07 PM)JackCity Wrote: Foles is not severely limited and is undoubtedly better than Blake

I won't pretend to have watched him play enough football to know what his limits are, but the "experts" are laughing at the jaguars and the massive contact they gave Foles. My guess is the team won't have the kind of injuries they did this year, so there will be a lot of crowing about how much better Foles is than Bortles as he leads the team to 8 or 9 wins, but in my opinion he has to win a Superbowl here, and I don't see it happening with a guy like him that has always failed as a long term starter. Hopefully he can prove that history wrong.

I would actually argue that Foles has been viewed as a "place holder" by every team who had him.

He fell into the Eagle starting role with the Vick injury, but then after half a season of Kelly wanted to move on because he didn't believe Foles was good enough.

The Rams got more draft capital in the Foles-Bradford trade. That was the Eagles wanting Bradford, Rams wanting out of the contract, and willing to take flyer on in place holder in Foles/Keenum. Also that Rams team was one of the worst dumpster-fires ever. The owner was doing whatever to piss off the city of St. Louis. The fans had given up on the team. The GM was basically trying to not spend any money whatsoever before they moved to LA. Heck half, the offense players had given up before the season ended. Plus Fisher was a horrible evaluator of QB talent. Essentially, Foles was never in their long term plans.

Then back up in KCC and Eagles before falling into starting role due to injuries in 2017 and 2018.

This is the first time he is really being given a chance as a long term starter.

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