Eagles’ Nick Foles can correct first half mistakes
For the first half of the Philadelphia Eagles’ game against the Jacksonville Jaguars Sunday, it looked like all the speculation that Nick Foles was a farce had come to a head. Foles and his team were 17 points down. Then we saw vintage Foles — if you can call it that. We saw the Foles that was sensational last year. He just needed to make some adjustments.
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“I simply didn’t execute [Sunday],” Foles said Wednesday, via ESPN.com. “I wasn’t really doing a good job of stepping up in the pocket. The O-line was giving me a good pocket to step up into. It’s one of those things where you keep playing, you keep working. Once I started stepping into the pocket, getting some completions, we were running the ball well, we started getting things flowing.”
It’s admirable that he takes much of the blame — and it was partially his fault. Foles isn’t daunted by the stress of making changes to his game. He sees mistakes and then he sees solutions. He’s excited to implement those solutions.
“I know what it takes to fix those [things],” Foles said. “We’re going to work to improve every single day. I was definitely inaccurate on a few throws. When you watch that on film, it sort of excites me. It’s correctable. It’s not something you look at and there’s nothing you can do about it. All the stuff I saw on film, it’s correctable.”
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