do the eagles have the best young qb in the league?

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foles is playing well but chips offense helps alot too. you just have to be able to execute and be smart with the ball and you can run this offense. foles is smart and this is good for him to get this playing time so we can see if he worth building around. obviously im hoping he is so it is one less thing to go after in the offseason (plus he will already have experience in the offense and connection with the players)

he made some more nice throws today, a nice throw over the top of the linebacker to hit shady in stride stands out. he stepped up in the pocket and had some nice throws. and then he also took what the defense gave him a few times and ran for some change on some plays (he needs to learn how to slide better though). overall like i keep saying every week, he is playing well, he isnt kolb, cassell, flynn or some other bum that dumb coli nikkas keep comparing him too

It's weird how Foles gets more time in pocket in terms of protection than Vick did.
its a different protection, vick is left handed so his blindside is different. plus foles is smarter with the ball, steps up in the pocket, throws it away when there isnt a play there and isnt running around everywhere. its a combination of things, including they are playing better now but its not like they just decided to play better now that foles is there
 

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Foles has been playing great no question....I was anti-Foles but as long as he's playing this good whats there to hate on? That's how u turn haters into believers and he's doing it for me :yeshrug:. People saying he's getting better protection than Vick but a lot of that is on the QB. Vick held on to the ball too long a lot of times and took a lot of unecessary hits which Foles isn't doing. He's been playing smart football the last couple of games. People always wanna say Manning and Brady never get sacked cause of their lines but how u gonna sack a QB that gets rid of it in less than 2 sec anyway? Its always 50% on the line and 50% on the QB
 

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Foles has been playing great no question....I was anti-Foles but as long as he's playing this good whats there to hate on? That's how u turn haters into believers and he's doing it for me :yeshrug:. People saying he's getting better protection than Vick but a lot of that is on the QB. Vick held on to the ball too long a lot of times and took a lot of unecessary hits which Foles isn't doing. He's been playing smart football the last couple of games. People always wanna say Manning and Brady never get sacked cause of their lines but how u gonna sack a QB that gets rid of it in less than 2 sec anyway? Its always 50% on the line and 50% on the QB
and not even that, there have been plays he has held onto the ball but like other slow, unathletic qbs that are smart, they step up into the pocket to buy more time and evaluate the field. there was a good shot of him actually scanning the field with his eyes as he stepped up into the pocket and hit ertz who was like his third or fourth read. thats what you want to see from a young QB. vick would just be stuck in 2004 and dip to the outside after 2 seconds, leading to the oline breaking down and everything going to shyt.

foles still has a lot he can improve but looking at his total body of work from his starts this year and last year, he is looking he could develop into a solid qb
 

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Foles has been playing great no question....I was anti-Foles but as long as he's playing this good whats there to hate on? That's how u turn haters into believers and he's doing it for me :yeshrug:. People saying he's getting better protection than Vick but a lot of that is on the QB. Vick held on to the ball too long a lot of times and took a lot of unecessary hits which Foles isn't doing. He's been playing smart football the last couple of games. People always wanna say Manning and Brady never get sacked cause of their lines but how u gonna sack a QB that gets rid of it in less than 2 sec anyway? Its always 50% on the line and 50% on the QB
Actually, Manning has been getting hit a lot. Brady has excellent protection. The Eagles protection has improved vastly because when Foles first came in for Vick, he was knocked out of the game as well. I tend to agree with the above poster who stated it could be the fact that Vick is left handed and the blind side protection scheme was different. I'll give Foles credit, but before Vick got hurt, it seemed like he was picking himself up off the ground every other play.
 

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It's easier to look good when there isn't a lot of game footage of you for defenses to prepare for...you saw what happened to Kaep in his 2nd year.

I'm still talking Russell Wilson and Andrew Luck before him in terms of young qb's
 
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