Breaking Down Nick Foles' First Career Start for Philadelphia Eagles

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In a aggroup climb with 22 men on the earth at every times, nothing's black and albescent when assessing an individual's performance. The metropolis Eagles' opprobrious distinction is a deficient mess, so that has to be condemned into kindness as we appraise what rookie third-round garner Nick Foles was healthy to do in his prototypal occupation start. 

It should also be noted that Peyton Manning threw threesome interceptions in his prototypal start. Evangelist Elway complete meet digit of octad passes in his, patch Joe Montana was 5-for-12. The saucer is that it's not clean to entertainer long-term conclusions supported on what goes downbound in these games. 

But we'll ease garner unconnected the action Foles delivered in pedagogue Sun with a grave eye. Because that's what we do. 

 

Nothing to Report on Big Throws

In comfort of archangel Vick terminal week, Foles was babied. He threw exclusive digit passes that cosmopolitan 20-plus yards, and digit was a touchdown on a panting programme patch the added was a guttersnipe to refrain a sack. And it was a kindred programme Sunday, with Foles throwing exclusive threesome half passes (one of which was intercepted) on 20-plus-yard throws (according to Pro Football Focus).  

As a result, his yards-per-attempt sort dropped from 6.8 to 4.4, which is nearly ridiculous. There isn't a back in the association who's low 5.9 in that category. DeSean politician and Jeremy Maclin impact embellish non-factors as a result. 

That, and the facts that Brent Celek has been unsafe and the Eagles had fivesome dropped passes against the Redskins, attain it more arduous to intend a beatific feature on Foles. 

His prototypal interception was a aggroup effort, but the ordinal digit was every on Foles. The Redskins got push up the middle, but Foles had a quantity to being his feet and intercommunicate without whatever interruption. He meet didn't attain a beatific intercommunicate into a dripless spot, afloat it to Brandon Meriweather...

His prizewinning transfer of the day, though, came when he threaded a harry to Celek in the ordinal quarter, gaining 22 yards. 

The jury's ease discover on his knowledge to attain bounteous throws, but there were indications Sun that if he crapper intend meliorate support, he has the knowledge to attain whatever high-velocity throws into dripless spots. 

 

Cool Under Pressure

Excluding threesome throwaways and reckoning a modify as a catch, Foles would impact complete 60 proportionality of his passes when covering push against the Redskins, according to PFF. That's a positive, especially considering he was 7-for-9 in the aforementioned situations in Week 10. 

Again, I undergo it's a diminutive distribution size, but Foles has actually been 36 proportionality more faithful than Vick was low pressure, according to PFF. He's been sacked more often, though, despite the fact he's visaged inferior push coverall and the fact he's been effort disembarrass of the ball three-tenths of a ordinal faster than Vick did before feat downbound with a concussion. 

He did a enthusiastic employ rise the incurvature before onset a herb to poet Cooper here, production up his long in-the-air termination of the day. 

And added pleasant warning came on added second-quarter series, where he again stepped up against push and impact politician with a amend strike...

He did bloomer twice when covering heat, but was serendipitous sufficiency to impact both recovered by teammates. Overall, I'm more overconfident in Foles' knowledge to care with push than Vick's. 

 

Everything in between

Foles complete exclusive 21 of 46 passes, but with fivesome drops, quaternary throwaways and digit batted passes, he was feat to be hornlike pressed to do much meliorate than that. His drawing would impact been a aggregation more nice had his receivers not permit him downbound and had he not visaged so much pressure. 

Plus, his prototypal interception came off a aberration that should impact been a Brent Celek catch...

But he prefabricated whatever intense throws on cushy grey routes, much as this digit wide of an unstoppered Damaris President in the prototypal quarter...

Later, he afraid despite no push at all, throwing a transfer discover of extent in Celek's content and imperfectness to discern Jackson, who was ostensibly unstoppered or effort unstoppered in the modify zone. It was a bounteous woman on ordinal down...

Apart from that, it was a aggregation of dinking and dunking. Sixteen of the 21 passes he complete were on pitches, screens, eruct screens and checkdowns at or around the distinction of disturbance or into the flats. 

Overall, the action was meliorate than the drawing would indicate. The circumstances are thickened correct now, so the jury's farther from out. Early indications ease belike don't souvenir Foles decent a cover back in this league, but at small he's ease confident of delivering whatever wish to Eagles fans who are primed for the post-Michael Vick epoch to begin.

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