The improbabilities keep piling up for Nick Foles and the Philadelphia Eagles who are playing in Chicago on Sunday against the Bears. A month or so back it appeared that the Eagles, who are the reigning Super Bowl champions, would not be playing at all this weekend. That they would not only miss the playoffs but might finish the season with a losing record. And then, to compound the misery,
The improbabilities keep piling up for Nick Foles and the Philadelphia Eagles who are playing in Chicago on Sunday against the Bears. A month or so back it appeared that the Eagles, who are the reigning Super Bowl champions, would not be playing at all this weekend. That they would not only miss the playoffs but might finish the season with a losing record. And then, to compound the misery, their quarterback broke his back.
The Eagles record at the time was six wins against seven losses and their next game was in Los Angeles against the Rams, one of the strongest teams in football. The NFL’s best story — and it had been needing a good one — began at that moment.
The Eagle’s backup quarterback is Nick Foles. In his career of 7 seasons, he has played for the Rams when they were in St. Louis, for the Kansas City Chiefs, and twice for the Eagles. Before the 2017 season, he’d had one very good year (2013) with Philadelphia along with the usual travails of a journeyman NFL quarterback; to include trades, injuries, and benchings. At one point, he came close to quitting the game. As backup to the Eagles’ Carson Wentz in 2017, he seemed destined to end his career in obscurity.
Then Wentz went down with a knee injury. Nick Foles started at quarterback for the Eagles. He survived against Atlanta. Played brilliantly against Minnesota. Then finished off Tom Brady and the New England Patriots.
