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Bears bench Mitch Trubisky for Nick Foles, who leads a comeback win versus the Falcons


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42 minutes ago, TheKillerNacho said:

no. lol.

I mean Trubisky actually has talent he just grts afraid of the pass rush sometimes and is inconsistent deep. Foles has more command of the offense perhaps, with a little more familiarity of the playbook, but Foles got lucky against the Falcons yesterday. His decision making and passing were dreadful and he is lucky he didn't throw interceptions or get his teammates knocked out from panic throws.

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3 hours ago, SteelKing728 said:

 

 

And so begins the second phase of Trubisky's career.  The phase where, like many Blaine Gabberts before him, he takes all of his "upside" and "draft pedigree", and uses it to bounce around from team to team collecting salary as a backup QB for the next dozen+ years.  Serving as a perennial reminder to Bears fans every time his name pops up, of that time they squandered some years of a really promising team, on a draft bust quarterback.

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2 hours ago, DoleINGout said:

Foles has more command of the offense perhaps, with a little more familiarity of the playbook, but Foles got lucky against the Falcons yesterday. His decision making and passing were dreadful and he is lucky he didn't throw interceptions or get his teammates knocked out from panic throws.

So, you didn't watch the game, huh? 

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Foles has stepped in as the backup in long relief (20+ passes) 4 times in his career.

  • 2012 Philly vs Dallas:  22-32 for 219 1 TD 1 INT and an 84.5 rating in his first ever NFL action.
  • 2013 Philly vs NY: 16-22 for 195 with 2 TDs and a 114.9 rating.
  • 2016 KC vs Indy: 16-22 for 223 with 2 TDs and a 135.2 rating
  • 2020 Chicago vs Atlanta: 16-29 for 188 with 3 TDs 1 INT and a 95.2 rating.

In 2012 he never had a chance as his team was in the process of losing their 5th in a row on the way to 4-12 and Andy Reid getting fired.

In 2013 he went on to post the 3rd highest single season passer rating in NFL history.  The team went 9-2 when they needed him in the regular season.

  • He put up a 100+ rating in a playoff game where he walked off the field with a lead.
    • This includes an awful drop by Riley Cooper that could have been a 65 yard TD. (at worst he gains 45 yards)
  • For context on his 119.3 rating, only 3 QBs in 2020 are ahead of that number right now (and I expect only Wilson will stay ahead of it)

In 2016 he played 2 games, the Chiefs won both, and those 2 wins meant 12 wins instead of 10 or 11 and a playoff bye on a tiebreaker with Oakland.

 

In 2020 he threw what should have been 5 TD passes in 25 minutes of football (one was ripped out of his WRs hands and another was dropped)

  • Wilson should have had 6 and Foles should have had 5. Accept it or wallow in your pathetic irrational anti-Foles denial. 🤣

 

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As a rookie Foles was thrown into the fire. That's OK, you do that to QBs sometimes.

Only idiots treat those stats with significance as if they prove some flaw to cancel out their actual accomplishments afterwards.

  • Steve Young in Tampa
  • 0-7 Goff
  • 1-6 Eli
  • 3-13 Peyton with 28 picks
  • 0-11 Troy Aikman
  • 6 TDs to 24 picks Terry Bradshaw

If you get a rookie year like Marino, Big Ben, Dak, or Matt Ryan then good for you, but its pretty rare.

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We all know St Louis 2015 was ugly. Should we just crucify him out of context or bother to understand?

  • 8 of 11 starts vs playoff teams
  • The team told the fans they were moving before the season started
  • The top 2 WRs were Kenny Britt and Tavon Austin.
  • Todd Gurley was on that team.
    • He missed weeks 1 and 2
    • He went 6 carries for 9 yards in week 3
    • He had 4 good games in a row and Foles went 3-1 in those starts.
    • He averaged 3.13 yards per carry in Foles last 4 starts that year.

Would Tom Brady or Peyton Manning have been better on that Rams team? Absolutely.

Would they have won there? Absolutely not.

 

If you need to heavily focus on this year as some sort of personal failing it again reveals your bizarre delusion.

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Between 2016-2018 he started 13 real games.

His teams went 11-2 and, won 4 playoff games, 5 other must win games, and won a super Bowl.

  • One of the other 2 wins in KC helped clinch a bye

In the 1 playoff loss he had the team at the Red Zone at the 2 minute warning with a chance to take the lead and he hit Alshon Jeffrey in the hands.

  • Alshon skipped the ball to the Saints.

In the regular season loss he played like 2018 Wentz and almost pulled out a miracle in Tampa.

 

I guess you could say he was kinda meh in the 2018 opener vs Atlanta?

 

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