Eem wrote:Here's the thing that's soured me on Foles. You can live with INTs and even inaccurate throws. Young QBs make them ALL the time, and it isn't necessarily fair to expect Foles to live up to what he did last year. Those things are mechanical -- on both picks, he made the right read, just bad throws. They're backbreakers, but at least you know he made the right throw.

But all of a sudden, he is cowering in the face of pressure. I don't know if that's something I've ever seen a QB recover from. He overreacts to teams just showing blitz. Bowles knew it -- look at that play to end the game last night. Bowles knew Foles was going to back up as soon as the ball was snapped, and he'd have to make an extremely low-percentage throw to win the game. How many throws did he make yesterday that had just no chance at all of being completed?

td11 wrote:

WheelsFellOff wrote:

Eem wrote:

ek wrote:they aren't a SB contender because they don't have a good enough secondary.

This, frankly, is BS.

They blew coverage on Brown but had been good for most of the game. Floyd didn't catch a pass, outside of Fitz's long TD on a perfectly executed pick play he was held in reasonable check. They're not great, but they're more than good enough to win if the offense doesn't blow in the red zone.

Definitely. They left at least 14 points on the field. The Huff fumble I can overlook for now, lots of rookie WR's have issues securing the ball. The Cromartie INT was inexcusable though and 100% on Foles.

both INTs were horrendous

Eem wrote:Foles isn't "not tough" because he gets up and keeps ticking when he gets hit. The problem is that he tries too hard to NOT get hit. It's Gabbert/Kolb syndrome. I almost wonder if it's better if he DOES get hit early and realizes he won't die. His best game this year was Washington when he got the crap kicked out of him.

Napalm wrote:the 2nd int was his second best looking pass of the night behind the maclin bomb

Eem wrote:Yeah that's seems really insensitive now given his problems, sorry it reads like that. What I meant was before his concussion problems, he often drifted backwards in the pocket, which is what Foles is doing now.

Doll Is Mine wrote:

Napalm wrote:the 2nd int was his second best looking pass of the night behind the maclin bomb

It looked like he held onto the ball too long and thru the ball behind (I believe it was) Cooper.

heyeaglefn wrote:What would have been the score if McNabb in his prime played yesterday?

The Nightman Cometh wrote:Also, Cooper blows so that does not help.

When you compare Cooper's contract to what Sanders and Tate got, it puts it more into perspective how bad a move that was.