Foles Fracture; Vick Starting Season Finale
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Foles Fracture; Vick Starting Season Finale
Les Bowen, Daily News Staff Writer
Somehow, even Christmas Eve can't be devoid of intrigue and bizarre happenstance when it comes to the Eagles.
Andy Reid announced Monday that an MRI revealed a hairline fracture in the second metacarpal in quarterback Nick Foles' throwing hand, suffered just before halftime of Sunday's loss to the Redskins. The second part of the stunner: Instead of going with Trent Edwards, who has been backing up Foles lately, Reid plans to start Michael Vick in what is very likely to be the final Eagles game for both Reid and Vick.
"That's the direction we're going in, as we speak," Reid said. Reid said Vick, cleared after suffering a concussion Nov. 11, is excited, something Vick spokesman Chris Shigas confirmed to your Eagletarian. Shigas said Vick cherishes the opportunity to "leave it on the field," and obviously, getting a shot at showing potential 2013 employers he is healthy and sharp can't hurt, either.
Reid also said DT Fletcher Cox and LB Mychal Kendricks have concussions. There is no word on their availablity for the finale Sunday at the Giants.
Reid said Foles' injury did not show up on X-rays taken at the stadium Sunday but was visible on the MRI Monday. He said it would typically be a three-week injury.
It seems Foles must have been injured three snaps before Alex Henery's 38-yard field goal, which was kicked with 21 seconds left in the half. Foles was driven into the turf by unblocked Redskins defensive lineman Barry Cofield, as Foles dumped the ball successfully to LeSean McCoy for a short gain. Foles went down face-first, on his hand.
Reid didn't really offer a clear rationale for the turnabout from having Vick in street clothes as the inactive, healthy third quarterback against the Redskins to making him the starter again the next day. When Reid said last week Vick would be the third QB, observers hypothesized that if something should happen to Foles, the Eagles didn't need a quarterback they are likely to discard coming in and muddying the waters with an electrifying performance, and that Vick wasn't looking to take any more brutal hits in a season that has been full of them.
But if any of that were true, Edwards would be starting against the Giants, who still can make the playoffs if they beat the Eagles and several other dominoes fall.
"He's had a couple of weeks of practice here," Reid said of Vick. "I thought the first week, he was a little bit rusty out there, I thought this past week, he threw it around well, he feels good ... He obviously deserves an opportunity to play."
Reid said the choice between Vick and Edwards came down to the fact that Vick "had been the No. 1."
Foles' rookie season is over; the next regime will have to judge his potential off six starts and seven appearances, in which he completed 161 of 265 passes (60.8 percent) for 1,699 yards, six touchdowns and five interceptions. He was sacked 20 times and compiled a 79.1 passer rating. Vick's passer rating this season is nearly identical, 79.2. Vick has completed 58.5 percent of his passes, with 11 touchdowns and nine interceptions.
Reid said his evaluation of Foles is that he's "a quarterback who gives your team the oppportunity to win." He noted that the other rookie quarterbacks he is being evaluated against in this strong QB class have been playing all season (with better offensive lines in front of them and offenses that weren't missing key weapons, as the Eagles have been the past month or so). "He has enough skill and ability to play," Reid said. "It's been a valuable expererience for him, but yeah, you'd love to have one more game."
Reid said Foles "really just needs to play ... Every week, I thought the game slowed down for him."
Reid lauded Foles for finishing the game with a broken hand. He said Foles had some trouble gripping the ball right after the hit, but when he warmed up for the second half, he felt he was good to go. Foles completed 18 of 26 passes for 188 yards in the second half. He said afterward his hand didn't affect the ball he threw short of an open Jeremy Maclin in the end zone in the final seconds, but Reid indicated Monday that the hand might have been a factor.
Comments (129)
I guess Foles now has an excuse for that lame duck throw to Maclin that could've been a TD.- That's the funniest post I've read in a long time.
— The Truth Hurts - kinda like your face — NewMick314
- kinda like your face — NewMick314
- In 2008, after starting only seven games where he was at best uneven, a yet unproven quarterback named Aaron Rodgers was paid $65 million over six years by the Packers. Although he was well known, being the 24th pick in the 2005 NFL Draft, he was still in the shadows of one of the best quarterbacks of all time. In his first full season after signing the contract, he tore up the league and threw for 4,434 yards and 30 touchdowns, and a year after that he led his team to a Super Bowl victory.
In 2011, after starting only seven games where he was at best uneven, a yet unproven quarterback named Kevin Kolb was paid $63 million over five years by the Cardinals. Although people did know about him since he was drafted 36th overall in the 2007 NFL Draft, initially he was the backup to another future Hall of Fame QB.
What's my point? It takes time to determine whether a QB is any good.
ALL of you who are going one way or the other have absolutely no idea what sort of QB Foles will be. - Golly Gee lone-bone, you're right about one thing. It takes time to determine whether a QB is any good, but I can spot a loser in about three seconds. Three, two, one - There you go.
- it will be the last game for vick as an eagle, but not for reid.. get ready for that shocking revelation from lurie after next weeks game.— zwarte piet
- That's what frightens me. Something tells me the little wimp is going to bring Reid back and extend our suffering for eternity. Have we all died and gone to he!!? This will be so unfair to the fans of Philadelphia if it happens. — essell
- it will be the last game for vick as an eagle, but not for reid.. get ready for that shocking revelation from lurie after next weeks game.— zwarte piet
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— DixonBunz - it will be the last game for vick as an eagle, but not for reid.. get ready for that shocking revelation from lurie after next weeks game.— zwarte piet
- Hit — DixonBunz
- it will be the last game for vick as an eagle, but not for reid.. get ready for that shocking revelation from lurie after next weeks game.— zwarte piet
- "Post" — DixonBunz
- it will be the last game for vick as an eagle, but not for reid.. get ready for that shocking revelation from lurie after next weeks game.— zwarte piet
- Once.... — DixonBunz
- Like you've never made that mistake... — The Truth Hurts
- You can't make this stuff up can you? Wow, what an ending to a crazy year.— delcodanno
- Wow, just when i was starting to feel like things were pointing to a positive future, we hear this. Oh well this is fitting in a way, to have Andy riding into the sunset on the horse he rode into the ground.— BIGEGLFAN
- lonewolf what's ur excuse for being such an ###hole?— mainstreet
- Phew.
Whatta (fitting??) way to end this disastrous season ... all 3 of the rookie starters injured and done.
Sure, why not have Vick and Reid close it out together. Both can "showcase" themselves for potential future employers.
Phew ...— FishFryFrank - Reid has his drugs back with Vick. His addiction to helter skelter QBs was just too overwhelming to start Edwards. This is why Reid absolutely must go.— Taser
- TELL ME PLEASE WHY DID WE EWAARDS— menzi
- Learn how to spell and write proper sentences, jerk
— fumanti61 - TELL ME PLEASE WHY DID WE EWAARDS— menzi
- THAT'S what I'd like to know. And, believe it or not, Edwards is better than BOTH Vick and Foles. — essell
- Its was fun being able to root for the Eagles again with Foles. Now with Vick, its back to hoping the team loses. What is wrong with Lurie? How can he let Vick represent his franchise in yet another game. Just disgraceful.— Lets Eat
- Well don't watch!! LOL!!! VICK IS BACK. THANK GOD! The Eagles would almost put me to sleep watching them with Foles at QB. HE SUCKS
— elijah29 - Vick is 32 and 12 years in the league with a sub .500 record. He still can't read defenses and is now relying on a quickly diminishing skill set. We have seen all we need to see of him, time to give someone else who looks like they at least are willing to learn to get a chance. Follow Vick to his next backup spot, this isn't the Philadelphia Vicks
- NO Eagles quarterback will stay "healthy" with the O line that shows up each game. Purge and upgrade time.— dogman5
- @zwarte: In the unlikely event that you're correct, there will be plenty of great seats available for all Eagles games in 2013. He can't sell that to the fans. And it's not like hoagiegate or something, this would be a real deal breaker. If Andy is still here next week, they are officially the Jaguars or Chiefs with no hope for Eagles fans in Lurie's lifetime.— drbob1
- Eagles need to lose. That 3rd pick would be tough to lose.— ziller0604
- Time to go get a difference maker, time to go get Tim Tebow!
- Hitting the eggnog a little early? The only time Tebow made a positive difference in Denver was when he left. His QB rating in 2011 was under 30, and this year it's something like 17.5. He even played poorly overall during that 6-game win streak, when Willis McGahee and the Broncos' 'D' carried the team.
Why would you be so jazzed up about a guy who can't get on the field for a 6-9 team that can't wait to cut him?— 1980 - Foles has not shown enough to be handed the starting job. He has shown enough to compete with someone else, not named Vick or Edwards— tony bell
- Foles has not shown enough to be handed the starting job. He has shown enough to compete with someone else, not named Vick or Edwards— tony bell
- YES!! The Great Mike Vick Has Returned— elijah29
- nope this is a try out to see if they have the running qb that chip kelly needs. vick kelly next year lol— defroe
- that fatman couldnt wait to put vick back ,now could he— harveytrabbit
- that fatman couldnt wait to put vick back ,now could he— harveytrabbit
- ain't gonna happen...but it is that time of the year for miracles...Vick 4td passes and runs for 80 yards and 2 td, birds win 45 to 0....and to all a "GOOD NIGHT"— lewisbratspis
- Now if Andy can just bring T.O. back for the grand finale.— Boru
- Yo allword22 lpboys yall got your wish. foles got injured. a real christmas wish come true for yall. get to see your boy play once more and with that decision i actually now think vick will be back next year with chip kelly or whatever that college coach name is. gotta support your boy now. here's to another new miracle at the new meadowlands, na lets see one of those beatings like he handed to the skins in 2010 would be nice no playoffs for you gmen and its because of the birds im with that. back to go vick lol but man if he didnt do so well with the starters how will he do with all these back ups... anyway go green team— defroe
- Seriously, if Reid started Edward, these same folks would be screaming that he wasn't trying to win.— Boru
- I will be at the game on Sunday, and despite this awful season, it would be sweet to knock the giants out of the playoffs. Vick is gonna pull out all the stops too, which if the season were one game having Vick running around ain't so bad. Just saying.— sore richard
- I smell an upset this week. Eli is going down and going down hard.— Drew777
- I smell an upset this week. Eli is going down and going down hard.— Drew777
- Please PLEASE PLEASE -- No Tim Tebow!!!!!— tbjama
- Please PLEASE PLEASE -- No Tim Tebow!!!!!— tbjama
- Please PLEASE PLEASE -- No Tim Tebow!!!!!— tbjama
- If Vick plays, I'm not watching.— hodigger
- Yes you will AND you'll be posting. — The Truth Hurts
- Wouldn't it be a complete shock if Vick leads the Eagles to a rousing victory of the Giants? How deserving for both Vick, Reid, and Coughlin. Irony is best when played out in reality. Maybe the next regime can find a few good men to play offensive line/defensive line. Who knows, maybe they could win a few games? What will be ironic is that Reid will be let go, go to another team, and win there. Oh well, thats how it all works.— drhoffman
- Prediction time: Vick fumbles twice and throws an interception inside the 20 yard line. Also, Jason Pierre-Paul runs Vick down from behind as he tries to run around the end. Vick is a 5'11" running back who has lost his speed.
- Yes!!!!!!! Now the NY POST has something to write about the Cry baby VICK!!!!!!!!!!— MRD
- foles pocket presence is exciting. did you not see the play where he kept making time for himself moving from right to left never crossing the line of scrimage kinda like bens 8sec play the other week— defroe
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There must be a curse on Philly sports teams.— 4thand10 - This team is a new general manager and several skilled players away from competing for a championship.— rubicon24
- they better not win!— sgamble077
- Yeah, lonewolf--a broken hand. That's no excuse. That couldn't possibly be the reason you couldn't grip the ball well enough to get a good throw. Just an excuse. Which he was classy enough NOT to make.— monsieurms
- You can be assured that Vick will stick it to us and win this final meaningless game and our draft pick will drop from 3 or 4 to 7 or 8.— Bobphxville
- The Eagles go down, by the largest margin in Andy's tenure. The end of Reid and Vick as an Eagle.— dan39564
- only fitting that this dismal season should end this way,of course Vick will go out and have a career game, the Eagles will seal the Giants doom in a convincing manner we will get a weaker draft pick, Reid will go out on a winning note, and the management will need more time to evaluate the situation, prolonging the agony of the end of an Error.— lancesimmens
- Funny, Foles didn't fare any better than Vick behind that line: low QB rating, lots of losses, and injured!— sbdons1982
OK, so his hand was fine when he fumbled and threw a weak wobbler that got easily intercepted. Mix a broken hand with a side-arm flawed delivery and you get that abomination of a pass to maclin in the endzone. Vick on the other hand can throw the perfect spiral every time...but to the wrong team. NIETHER QB IS GOOD. 79.1 to 79.2 QB rating..if you think Foles sucks, Vick sucks just as bad...and for a 10 year vet that is TERRIBLE. Vick can be fine in a run first system..but now that hes 32 he has no long term upside worth keeping. You gotta try to draft the best QB available at #4. Or take DT Star Lutelie or LB Manti Teo or a dominant difference maker for the D. I think even if Foles gets to start next year hes just a stop-gap for 1 to 2 years until they draft a better QB. Also Chip Kelly would be almost as bad as Andy Reid. He is probably the most gimmicky guy out there with a system that would take 3 years or more to implement, and still probably wouldnt work. Just get someone that understands FUNDAMENTALLY SOUND FOOTBALL HOWIE. RUNNING THE BALL AND DEFENSE. RUNNING THE BALL AND DEFENSE. ITS NOT HARD. NO SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS AT HEAD COACH PLEASE. IF THERES ONE THING YOU COULD DO, DO THAT.- Dude....the interception was tipped at the line. Yes the pass to Maclin was bad....but the very next throw to Moore was perfect and the guy dropped a TD that would have tied the game. Your hatred of anything Andy/Howie related is skewing your assessment of Foles. Foles is exactly what you should like in a QB! The anti-Vick....he's big, smart, steps up in the pocket and reads the defense properly. You compare the QBR after a rookie plays 6 games to a 10 year vet like Vick? Please. Give Foles a complete off season with the starters and another full year of working with an NFL staff and he'll be FAR better than VIck. And you are DEAD WRONG ABOUT CHIP KELLEY. He would be GREAT! If you look at his team stats, they RUN MORE THAN THEY THROW. His organizational skills are the best in college football, and NFL teams have been copying his philosophy for years(Patriots). You hire the MIND and not the "system". This isn't 1980. You cannot just line up and run the ball and win a Super Bowl. The Giants won last year with the absolute LAST ranked running game in the NFL. We would be lucky to get Chip Kelley! — cdedrick05
- uhh, cderdrick05...Jaworski himself said Kellys system will NOT work in the NFL. most of those rushing carries are at the end of the game bringing the totals u to 50/50, and even most of them before that are QB scrambles and probably other gimmicky plays to smalll runing backs on the outside. His sytem is another "extreme" outlier of spacing football that does NOT work on the NFL level. These defenses are much better then anything he has ever faced in college, and these guys are bigger and stronger, and even faster then every guy on a college D. NFL defenes will DESTROY his gimmicky junk, knock the QB out, and result in his risky system NEVER WINNING A SUPERBOWL. ITS PROBABLY NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. So let some other dumb team waste 4 years on stupid passing-to-much football, WE JUST SAW THAT FOR THE LAST 14 YEARS. ITS A JOKE. Too many college coaches with "great" vertical attacks come to the NFL to FAIL, HORRIBLY. Think Steve Spurier, Nick Saban, and on and on. Its a completely different game up here and that gimmicky system will get DESTROYED HORRIBLY IN THE PLAYOFFS IF HE EVEN MAKES IT THAT FAR. NOT LIKELY.
- WOW...Foles would have had his SECOND dramatic last second win in the last THREE Games....and Foles did it with a BROKEN HAND...this is hero stuff and this rookie has only played in 5 NFL games....GUTSY game by Nick Foles.— jim35
- Vick has been awful and Vick has LOST FIVE GAMES N A ROW...Vick will lose his SIXTH Game in a row on Sunday....LOL.— jim35
- Vick has been awful and Vick has LOST FIVE GAMES N A ROW...Vick will lose his SIXTH Game in a row on Sunday....LOL.— jim35
- I don't see any scenario where Big Red comes back. After 14 years and a great, great era of Eagles football (sans a Lombardi, of course) it's time for a change. Andy's been a great, great coach (sorry HATERS) but all good things must come to an end sometime. Let's bid our winningest coach adieu and pray Lurie and Roseman can identify another great coach. Long live the king....long live Coach Reid!— TruthTeller01
- Yeah, Foles sucks. The good news is our next coach, Chip Kelly, will never have a slow, weak-armed QB like Foles starting for his team!— sbdons1982
- You mean like Brees, Manning, Brady, and Matt Ryan? Slow , "weak arm" guys like that? Because so many really fast guys have won Super Bowls? Foles has plenty of arm. We won't know how good he can really be for a couple more years, but I love his size and his arm strength is fine. Knowing where and when to deliver the ball is WAY more important than having a bazooka for an arm. Wat has arm strength done for Vick,Cutler,and Stafford? Nothing but reckless turnover prone throwing....that's what. It's more about smarts and understanding the defenses coverages. — cdedrick05
- They just want to go out ugly . Vick and the load tossing balls all over in an up yours to the fans . I figure Edwards was only good for clip board holding nice job if you can get it.— d1955h
- They just want to go out ugly . Vick and the load tossing balls all over in an up yours to the fans . I figure Edwards was only good for clip board holding nice job if you can get it.— d1955h
- I guess I have to go back to rooting against the Eagles again. Just when I thought Vick was not going to play another down in this city, Andy does it again. I still had some respect for Andy before today, but he still has to start another controversey in his last game.....It better be the last Eagle's game for both of them! Good riddens.— Pineapple Betafish
- Getting excuses ready for Vick fans....
Vick had 2 turnovers.
You would too behind that O line.
Vick threw a pick into triple coverage.
He did not have time to prepare.
Vick should have thrown the ball out of bounds.
Poor guy was running for his life.
Vick make the worst decisions.
You Philly people don't deserve Vick.
He is too short.
The O line is too tall.
He gets hurt every season.
Stats aren't everything.
Wasted talent-wasted career.
He never had proper coaching.
After two 100million dollar contracts he will be broke by 2014.
He had financial advisors who took advantage of him.— 1000hugs - If Foles is out three weeks, he will miss the Giants game, but if the Eagles win and happen to get a first round bye, he could still be back in time to start the playoffs. Oh, wait...— dasher
- Give Reid and Vick one more year each! Strengthen up the defense and O-line, and run the ball more with Brown/McCoy and this team will be ok...
- Vick sucks...Vick is an old washed-up loser who is 11-17 the past three years....Vick has LOST FIVE GAMES IN A ROW....VICK will lose his SIXTH GAME IN A ROW on Sunday....LOL.— jim35
- Vick sucks...Vick is an old washed-up loser who is 11-17 the past three years....Vick has LOST FIVE GAMES IN A ROW....VICK will lose his SIXTH GAME IN A ROW on Sunday....LOL.— jim35
- Jeff will announce that I will be the next Eagles coach! My ego is so in check I will be able to hire coaches that could steal my job if I made a boo boo. Hey Norv! Get over here your my O-man. Get some good coaches and walk around with an oil can and grease the squeaky wheels!— NYPHILLYPHAN
- Foles fracture Vick's fault? Ok I'll stop. Eagles are probably marketing Vick for his next team.— sighpatrol
- Vick and Reid will both be back— easy
- If I am Jeffrey Lurie, I step in right here and make sure Vick stays on the bench. Right now, a win by the Eagles really impacts their draft position. If they lose they are guaranteed no worse than the 4th pick, if they win they tie with 5 or 6 teams with 5 wins and could draft as low as 10th and no better than 8th.— UncleStosh
- One final installment of the Vick & Osi Show - can't wait 'til the second half, when we actually get to see Trent Edwards flee for his life.— NM Eagle fan
- If the offensive lineman would protect Vick like they do Foles then we would've had a better season. Yes Vick made some turnovers but no QB is perfect. His offensive lineman let him (Vick) get hit every single time. I can see if when Foles took over that the Eagels won every single game but they only won 1 so we know it wasn't Vick...— Karen1975
- What next, Tebow??? Or Sanchez??? In this horrid year of 2012, not only PHilly sports was a mess, the entire nation has been hit by a national injurty. All one can hope is that both Dallas and NY do not make the PO'sso their fans can be just as miserable.— Koons
- I try to just read these comments and shake my head at the biased idiots that can't appreciate the presence, leadership and accuracy of Foles, but distortion of facts is too much for me Charlie Garner. Maybe you didn't watch the game or maybe you didn't read about it or maybe your view of reality is different than everyone else BUT THAT INTERCEPTION YOU CALL A WOBBLY PASS WAS TIPPED AT THE LINE. I guess you and Lonewolf are in some contest for the most obnoxiously negative commenter.— jersey mark
- Jeffery Lurie should stop ths Vick bull...Vick already had his opportunity and Vick FAILED MISERBLY...Vick was an awful 11-17 the past three years...Vick has LOST FIVE GAMES IN A ROW....Lurie should tell Reid to sit Vick on the bench this last game, what is the point of playing Vick now?— jim35
- i bet vick has spent the last several weeks learning how to slide and will display on sunday that he has in fact turned sliding into an art form.— bloodymess
- Beat the Giants? Could happen.— hallux
- @CharlieGarner25..."Vick on the other hand can throw the perfect spiral every time..." Vick, who...Vick Damone? Certainly not Michael Vick. (Not a Vick-hater, here...just a fan who has seen MV throw a "perfet spiral" on occasion...but "every time"...not hardly.)— phillystarfish
Now I am 100% sure that I can't stand Reid's guts. Putting Vick in is an "Up yours" move. "Up Yours" to the fans and to Lurie.— Kioto- Vick's in - the Giants win.— FrankJersey
- Not to pop a balloon here, but this is an example of rich coloring by a columnist. Intrigue? Bizarre? It's football. One guy with a broken hand is being replaced by the guy who had a concussion a couple months ago. I suppose it'd be bizarre if nobody got hurt in a long season. And any intrigue would be enhanced if one team, no matter their position in the standings, didn't try to beat whoever was on the field opposing them.— retzlaff
- Well, well, well! The return of The Mike Vick Experience! YAY! Foles did what he could now here comes a real QB! GO MIKE VICK GO! The Giants better be scared now! We don't have a untested rookie now! Maybe the Eagles will have a better chance at winning a game! The season is over anyway. Why not send another NFC East team home for the season? I just hope the Cowgirls miss ot too!— Panthro2011
- Wow! whats nezt and earthquake! this does not seem to end..
Why is Laurie Not speaking he is a disgrace.. it's all about money!!!
Now What They need a New Team...If Vick is smart he will stay put
it can only get worse..the best is if Reid stays..now wouldn't that be a joke...its like the team that couldn't shoot straight Yikes..
— tajicat - Vick will come back and burn the eagles defense to sheds,watch and see.— Charliewonk
- Vick will come back and burn the eagles defense to sheds,watch and see.— Charliewonk
- Vick will come back and burn the eagles defense to sheds,watch and see.— Charliewonk
- Vick will come back and burn the eagles defense to sheds,watch and see.— Charliewonk
- Vick will be a back-up for Buffalo Bills....Buffalo don't play the Eagles..LOL.— jim35
- so vick was the 3rd qb yesterday, but now he's starting. what happened to trent? sounds like reid is throwing vick a bone (no pun intended) and letting him try to show off to other teams for next season.— Zero
Nick Foles is not the answer. That throw to Maclin pretty much sums up Foles for me, he simply can't make all the throws needed to be a starting QB. Some of you just are starved for something to latch on to which is understandable, some of you, well you know why you support Foles. Just be honest with yourself about what you actually see. He is not the answer. I was fully on board with Bobby HOying because he had some flashes, I just don't see any flashes. I felt the same way about Kolb but with KOlb you could at least see the physical ability. I don't have an answer as to how we get the right guy but I know Foles is not the guy. I wouldn't mind trading for Ryan Mallet. I didn't like his decision making in college but he has a cannon for an arm and might fit well with our speedy WRs. Short of doing that or drafting the QB from Arkansas in the second or third round I don't have a clue what we should do.- Now you will see the difference. There will be far more TOTAL YARDS at QB, more third down conversions, longer drives, short, intermediate and DEEP PASSES, command of the huddle, and a QB that will never, ever give up on a play or throw the ball away at the mere sight of a D-lineman. Stay or go, Vick and Andy Reid will both find work and be appreciated by players and true fans. Put on a show Vick. We want an extraordinary, exciting victory over the little Giants! Ignore the haters.— lbg
- Yeah, yeah, yeah...and Reid will be back with Rich Kotite, Washburn and whoever else you want to make this team look even worse. Come on folks...Reid's time in Philly is over....time for him to move on to another team. I think we thank Reid for his service and then move on...both entities need to decide it is time to cut the umbilical chord.— 5thstrretpast
- Hey garner, everyone knows that "weak wobbler" was topped at the LOS and it's to Foles credit that he brought the team back to what should have been a tie at least. Instead of mentioning the negatives why not talk about the 75% completion rate, the 345 yards, the tying TD pass right into the gut of the TE that was dropped and the guts he displayed to stay in the game with a broken hand. You continue to be a troll even on Christmas Eve and aren't as smart as the piles left behind by his reindeer.— tpizza
- lol, uhh no. You were not correct on 1 thing there pizza. Sorry. Clinging to an "Almost" play that would have tied the game...smart. That wasnt even a TD if he catches it because he was about to get blown up by the safety, watch the replay from the other angle and it shows how he would have been hit and probably down at the goalline. 8 seonds winds down, game over. Even if he catches it...(he pulled a "for who for what" and "dropped" an easy one. Also the pic pass was weak and wobbly when it left foles hands, before it was ever touched. You will almost never see an interception in the NFL like that, because most NFL QB's throw a tight spiral, HARD, so that when it gets deflected it changes course completely. Watch the replay and you will see the ball was wobbly coming out of his hands. You are however a great fan for Jeffrey Lurie, making him a BILLIONAIRE supporting bad and medciore football BLINDLY. GOOD JOB.
- XanderCrews, can't you read. Foles had a broken hand. The fact that he got the ball that close to Macklin and was still in the game competing should show you something. and like Tpizza said, he put the ball right there to the tight end,who dropped it. The real question is, why have a game deciding play to a player who has been here for 3 days. Just like the week before, when he hit another new player, Tennant in the gut with ball, in the end zone. Foles is out there playing with backups to backups. He should be good with a regular starting lineup.— watsonmr
- Really Vick?? WHY??— James A
- Clinging to an "almost" play? That from a moron who said Sanchez and Smith "almost" won a Super Bowl! Hahaha, once again, you trip over your own tongue. Weak and wobbly when it left his hand? hahahaha, moron. With a broken hand you should be praising the fact he was even playing let alone critiquing what he was doing. Yeah, wouldn't have been a TD. Hahaha, maybe in your semi-intelligent brain but every unbiased fan and the announcers said it was a sure TD...which it most definitely was. You continue your slide down the troll tracks pea brain and I'll continue to laugh at you. Maybe Santa can train a troll to do an elves job? That's the only hope a troll like you will ever have. Nw get out your little shovel and start cleaning up after those reindeer. You aren't just gonna step right in as an elf without some basic training! Hahaha, moron. Never see INTs like that? Really? No, just in about every NFL game, that's all. Hahahaha, you just keep getting stupider by the day. Weak and wobbly...hahahahahahahahaha, man are you stupid. How many hours a day do you practice to attain that level of dumbness? Hahahahahahaha, etc, etc.— tpizza
- Andy had to get vick in there someway.— tellitso
- Watching the 16th Eagles farce in 2012 is a waste of time. Laurie is taking good hard earned money from the fans and using it to pay accountants office personnel to judge football talent. The Ownership is a disgrace to the Memory of Teams of the past.— tulsaphil
Please Eagles lose, the team needs a better draft pick,hopefully they can pick a good one.— TimmyDay- If a single person posting on this sight thinks Foles is better than Vick, the moderator of this board should involve a negative drug screen in order to post on this board. Vick is gonna have to put up atleast 31 pts to win because our dee cant hold. Eli, im sure is gonna get his mojo back this week. I love the scenario a qb who has to play good against a team that has to win to make the playoffs. Its gonna be a heck of a game. Cant wait to watch it.— blitzkrieg
- The Eales have suffered a compound frature for 53 years.....and NO one has set it proprely, and don't hold your breath it ain't going to be so for many years to come.— STEPHEN1988
- How about Lurie promotes Andy to King of Philadelphia Eagles Football Club (justifies 2013 salary in his mind) and Andy sends Vick to Arizona for KK, hires TO as head coach for Andy's final year as King, QB controversy develops among KK, NF and Edwards, although Eagles win SB, nonetheless. Don't be quick to say it won't happen. After all, this is the Eagle's organization we're discussing.— wneill
- Vic will bring us to a glorious victory Sunday. With that, both Reid and Vick will be back next year. Laurie will save a wad of money, and us dopes will by into it and continue to pay to see this slop that he puts on the field. Just say'n.— olddog
- I don't even care anymore. I just hope the Giants d-line is up to the challenge to send Vick packing in a full body cast.— kd45music
- It will be nice to see the Giants put an end to all you cry babies season! All you people do is Whine and Whine! The NFL is sick of it!— MRD
- @bigghago- Spot on comment, that's how I feel draft high and go after Smith or Klein.— realtruth
- Who cares? This entire team needs to be flushed down the toilet, from Roseman all the way down to the minion carrying Reid's extra Chinese menus.— jman
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