You ready for this possibility?

foles is talented. i’m telling ya. he’s a good qb. just in a bad situation with the rams at the time.

i don’t know that the eagles are necessarily doomed at this point although it’s a definite drop off from wentz to nick.

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Yeah except the bad situation was Foles melting down in his first real year running a pro system after running spreads in college and with Kelly in the pros. (Though he was in a pro style system his rookie year but was not good at it). 3 training camps later he has been learning pro offenses now–making it 3 straight years—and yeah he looks better at it now.

yes. hence the bad situation.

there’s lots of reasons keenum and foles didn’t work out with the rams. lots of reasons. i think some of it does fall on the coaching staff as well. not just fisher. but the coaching staff as a whole. just as i credit the coaching staff for developing goff. and not just mcvay. and goff is in his first season in a new offensive scheme. that’s 2 schemes in 2 years. his first two in the league. that’s a credit to the coaching staff. and i don’t think boras and company achieve that with goff. even with goff being in the same system for 2 years.

but i also recognize that many coaching staffs probably couldn’t either. the rams just struck gold hiring mcvay.

but i could also say the same when spags was fired. i wasn’t fully on board with spags firing, but i accepted it when i realized fisher was coming. and at the time i thought it was the right decision. and it was. fisher did a lot of good things for this organization to get it to the point that it was at when it arrived at los angeles.

and similarly, this was the right decision. mcvay picked up where fisher left off, and i think he has taken this team to where fisher wouldn’t have been able to. but that doesn’t discredit where fisher did take this team. which is signficant. there was mediocrity, but he made this team at least competitive. which is better than it was before fisher got here. he built a foundation.