My favorite geighbacking Foles takes

[JuTMSY4]

The draft:

Well the good news is he has prototype size and arm strength apparently. Is he accurate? Is he smart? I dont know the answer to those questions. He obviously needs mechanical work but FF and Marty should help with that. If FF was about to pick Wilson then im glad it worked out this way.

https://igglephans.com/iggboard/show...79&postcount=8

Let's just get this out of the way now. I don't care about his size, accuracy, whatever. He's not good enough. Unfortunately, we now get to enjoy too many threads about this kid and him potentially being the future.

I'm more concerned with this team getting a real starting QB than turning this kid into a future draft pick.

https://igglephans.com/iggboard/show...8&postcount=17

FOOLE'S GOLD!

Most likely, they all suck. Watching Foles do well in his first preseason game is most likely fools gold. It's very hard to evaluate players in the preseason.

https://igglephans.com/iggboard/show...7&postcount=11

Note: Most people were pretty even keel on Foles draft prospects. Anthony wasn't (shocker), but the usual suspects were intrigued and saw him as a prospect. This was interesting (from around his first preseason):

I think the argument he's trying to make is a reach. However, height and size can certainly help cure an o line that's struggling to find a groove. He sees above the muck whereas Vick has to escape just to find passing lanes, putting himself in more danger. Foles can simply throw over it at times.

Nobody really knows how good, average, or bad Foles is, but what he has shown is certainly encouraging

https://igglephans.com/iggboard/show...35&postcount=5

The Bradford Trade:

Bradford had no talent around him. He is definelty better than last season Foles.

Less mistakes, better long ball. Foles isn't much more durable. Bradford stays healthy he is the better player.

https://igglephans.com/iggboard/show...60&postcount=6

and the great Kelly Green!

Shady traded for a linebacker who lost last season to a torn ACL. Nick Foles traded for a quarterback who lost last season to a torn ACL. Free agent Ryan Mathews signing with the Eagles, a running back with tons of promise who, according to the Union-Tribune in San Diego, played "...five seasons ravaged and interrupted and shortened and diminished by injury after weird injury."

Hello, Chip? What the FUCK do you have against getting HEALTHY players?

Are you trying to tell us the BEST you could do in deals for the best running back the Eagles have ever had, and a quarterback who just two years ago had one of the greatest seasons any NFL quarterback has had in decades, were players who made surgeons, nurses and a couple of hospitals extremely wealthy and had them clapping their hands and giggling like schoolgirls??

Ryan Mathews? A running back who gives new meaning to the phrase "freak injury?

There. I've vented. I got it out of my system and I promise if, Heaven forbid, my current feelings turn out to have been warranted, I will not say I was right. However I will probably join the fans searching for a big barrel of tar and a rail with which to ride you out of town.

Conversely if you are right and the trio of Alonso, Bradford and Mathews turns out to be three certifiable gems, I definitely WILL admit I was dead wrong and that you are a genius.

Frankly I hope the Football Gods make that admission a necessity.

https://igglephans.com/iggboard/show...06&postcount=1

I didn't link, but I also totally forgot when Chump said he was offered a 1st for Sammy Sleeves. Man, that guy was a wreck.

From March of 2017, after Foles signed here again:

Super bowl = confirmed

lol...have to get my shrine to foles back up and running.

He'll be starting by week 2. Super bowl.

(Narrator: And indeed, the Super Bowl was confirmed)

And the Wentz injury:

The Rams had all the momentum, were moving the ball at will, and we lost the NFL MVP.

The fact that they fought like hell to win this battle tells me they can win the war.

Foles has caught lightning in a bottle before. If it's his team the rest of the way, he just stepped into a dream-come-true scenario. No way I'm giving up on this season now... no fucking way.

(the whole thread is worth a read, tbh)

https://igglephans.com/iggboard/show...es#post1894456

Some reactions were negative:

Get Romo on the Phone. What do you have to lose?

https://igglephans.com/iggboard/show...94&postcount=1

But most were positive (whole thread again): https://igglephans.com/iggboard/show...es#post1894842

Other posters have already mentioned QB,s much worse than Foles that have a SB ring. Christ......fucking slack jaw has TWO!

This Iggles team is well prepared to go forward with Foles.

The only real problem is who the hell wants to go to Minnesota in February?(Or any other month for that matter)

You are beyond delusional if you think this team can go anywhere with Foles.

They might be able to luckbox a divisional playoff game, but come on, get real.

This seasons over. 2018 is probably shot too.

And, of course, I believed too:

in January of 2014.

I believe in big dick Nick.

https://igglephans.com/iggboard/show...09&postcount=1

[IronEagle]

I will probably change this soon but I would like everybody to take a look at my current avatar. Lightning in a bottle

I put it up it when BDN took over in 2017. It symbolized my heart at that moment and it is what happened.

BDN did it.

[royal]

A few years back the Eagles had a game against AZ. This was chip kelly’s last year and cards were legit SB contender.

I went over to a cards board and I shit you not their was a poster named the token asshole saying he is done being an eagles fan and likes what the cardinals are building and that is his new team. Since then we won a sb and they are the worst team😂😂😂 He was the mush that held us back all these years.

[The Duck]

The draft:



https://igglephans.com/iggboard/show...79&postcount=8



https://igglephans.com/iggboard/show...8&postcount=17

FOOLE'S GOLD!



https://igglephans.com/iggboard/show...7&postcount=11

Note: Most people were pretty even keel on Foles draft prospects. Anthony wasn't (shocker), but the usual suspects were intrigued and saw him as a prospect. This was interesting (from around his first preseason):



https://igglephans.com/iggboard/show...35&postcount=5

The Bradford Trade:





https://igglephans.com/iggboard/show...60&postcount=6

and the great Kelly Green!



https://igglephans.com/iggboard/show...06&postcount=1

I didn't link, but I also totally forgot when Chump said he was offered a 1st for Sammy Sleeves. Man, that guy was a wreck.

From March of 2017, after Foles signed here again:





(Narrator: And indeed, the Super Bowl was confirmed)

And the Wentz injury:



(the whole thread is worth a read, tbh)

https://igglephans.com/iggboard/show...es#post1894456

Some reactions were negative:



https://igglephans.com/iggboard/show...94&postcount=1

But most were positive (whole thread again): https://igglephans.com/iggboard/show...es#post1894842





And, of course, I believed too:



https://igglephans.com/iggboard/show...09&postcount=1

Man, that thread takes me right back to that night (and morning) after the Rams game. What a great, nervous, exciting, surreal time that was.

Greatest. Season. Ever. God bless Nicky Foles.

[JuTMSY4]

Yeah, you were in that one thread with OB, I think. More than a few folks talked about talking themselves into Foles (fairly or unfairly, myself included).

One thing that I think makes the whole Foles thing special is, we're obviously thrilled that he won us a Super Bowl, literally no one else has ever done that, but also he has this incredible affinity to Philadelphia. It's not just the Eagles, but the City and fans as a whole draw him here. He'll probably be here after his career ends (or a frequent visitor). We love Nick and he loves us. truly an incredible story.

[nerd]

Yeah, you were in that one thread with OB, I think. More than a few folks talked about talking themselves into Foles (fairly or unfairly, myself included).

One thing that I think makes the whole Foles thing special is, we're obviously thrilled that he won us a Super Bowl, literally no one else has ever done that, but also he has this incredible affinity to Philadelphia. It's not just the Eagles, but the City and fans as a whole draw him here. He'll probably be here after his career ends (or a frequent visitor). We love Nick and he loves us. truly an incredible story.

It's because he's a sincere dork that truly cares. Plus, he has stretches of brilliance. I remember when someone tackled sproles in a game from 2014 and someone bent sproles in a pretzel. Foles was mic'd up and came to the defense of sproles and gave the ref a bunch of sh!t for not protecting sproles.

[art vandelay]

Man, there were some great hot takes on Foles.

Give credit to Kelly Green for being completely right about the 2015 off-season! (Even though Mathews was a decent Eagle).

[AthensEagle]

That game losing fumble against Detroit is the only memory I have of Matthews at this point.

[art vandelay]

Yeah, that was bad. But he had some good games in 2016 and was a better back than Murray in 2015. Would have been better off with a trio of Mathews, Sproles, and a Smallwood type than they were with Murray as the feature back.