News that won't shock you: Nick Foles Hitting the Street
 

Per ESPN:

The Kansas City Chiefs plan to decline Nick Foles option for the 2017 season, which will make the quarterback an unrestricted free agent, a source confirmed to ESPN.

NFL Network first reported the news of the Chiefs' plan.

The Chiefs will free up $6.75 million in salary-cap space by parting with Foles.

Foles, 28, joined the Chiefs last year as a free agent after being released by the Los Angeles Rams. He played in three games for Kansas City, starting one. He threw for 410 yards and three touchdowns.

He played three seasons for the Philadelphia Eagles and one for the Rams before joining the Chiefs.

The Eagles' third-round pick in 2012, Foles started five games that season and in 2013 had one of the more remarkable quarterback seasons in NFL history. Foles threw 27 touchdown passes with just two interceptions in leading the Eagles to the playoffs.

The quality of Foles' play declined drastically in 2014 and after that season Foles was traded to the Rams as part of the deal that also involved quarterback Sam Bradford. Foles played poorly for the Rams before being benched late in the season.

http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/1...k-foles-option

Man crush fatality

Speaking of man crush :hmmm:

http://ll-media.tmz.com/2017/03/08/a...-launch-3.jpeg

How the **** does he have so many muscles, and can't throw a 30 yard post pattern!?

Because his heart was 3 sizes too small

It's called "Cowardly Lion Syndrome"

His wife still has his balls.

https://i0.wp.com/arrowheadone.com/w...size=650%2C366
http://tireball.com/uploads/averytd.gif

https://media.giphy.com/media/BW9mfV8cJltyE/giphy.gif

Glennon is signing for $15M. Foles should be worth at least $8M.

He's better than Glennon, though he won't get that money.... KC HAS to draft a QB. The backup market is too rich for them.

I guess that means we are drafting a QB for they think Bray can handle the #2

This does surprise me, actually, for all of the reasons discussed. Either Bray is learning faster than we thought or they're going to draft a quarterback or both. Unless maybe they see some backup on the market who's a better deal, and I'm not sure who that would be.

.

LMAO

That explains a lot.

ROFL

Would like to sign Foles, then sign Romo. Cut Smith.

Win Super Bowl if Romo doesn't die. If Romo dies, start Foles and have same result as this year. Just get pwned at home in the playoffs losing to FGs.

But lets keep riding with Smith!

ROFL

So that's what TiggerUncle****er looks like?

Good alex a good qb can't help that his line is not helping him because their not his starting lineup line.

Can you please repeat that. I couldn't hear you clearly.

Had to post it. Was just too much too resist.. like Smith's dazzling, hypnotic blue eyes. :p

He said, "GOOD ALEX A GOOD QB CAN'T HELP THAT HIS LINE IS NOT HELPING HIM BECAUSE THEIR NOT HIS STARTING LINEUP LINE."

De nada.

"Smiff has all the intangibles"/Clark Hunt

:grovel: Please God let us draft a quarterback of the future and make him a good one and please cut Alex Smith with paper on his fingers so he can't play in that kind of agony.



Amen

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...tual-interest/

Bucs and Foles talking
Pay him 6+ and fetch us a 5th round comp pick !!

can we get a comp pick on him? We basically cut him.

Nope. Compensatory picks do not include players that had contracts but were terminated.

I believe this is incorrect: a declined option is not the same as a release. Pretty sure I read that the Chiefs can use Foles next signing as part of the formula towards compensatory picks.

http://overthecap.com/the-basics-and...y-draft-picks/

Foles' contract did not expire.

He can't get a starting job?
Posted via Mobile Device

"Or was voided after the previous season"
Posted via Mobile Device

It wasn't voided either...

He was released which cleared $6.75M in cap.

What is a voided contract?

I believe that's a player based opt-out.

Wouldn't declining an option count as voiding the contract?
Posted via Mobile Device

Oh ok nevermind. That makes sense.
Posted via Mobile Device

I'm still trying to figure out how Foles missed a wide open Tyreek Hill by 4 yards on a 5 yard slant that was a sure touchdown. I've been watching football for a long time, and that was the single worst forward pass that I've ever seen. I was kind of on board with him being our backup until I saw that pass.

1 year deal + option

1 year deal expired. Chiefs allowed him to become a UFA as the window to pick up the option expired either Thursday or yesterday.....

Still think Chiefs can use him in the formula.

Drew Brees signed a voidable contract.

http://www.foxsports.com/nfl/story/d...plainer-090716

It's a manipulation of the salary cap to prorate the bonus over an extended period beyond the true life of the contract. So it probably says something like the contract is voided if he's on the roster by some random date or something stupid like that.

That was my question
Makes sense

That's not how it works. Team's don't pick up the option by a certain date, they decline the option by a certain date or they must exercise it.

Alex Smith out of college had about *in terms of madden* a 86-88 Throwing power. After his injury.. down to about 82. Prob once he rotates his body.. some of those muscle fibers/nerves fail him or don't work how they used too.

We'll always have the second half of the Colts game to remind us what a deep TD pass to a Chiefs WR looks like.

So long Nick

Smith had deeper TD passes than that to Hill but good joke
Posted via Mobile Device

Ok....I get it. I get your shtick now.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/lTB2y4VxbV4/hqdefault.jpg

You's a trolllllllll. You's a trolllllllll. You's a trolllllll. I said that you's a troll.

What exactly is the troll? Facts? I'm confused. Just so I don't go around shitting on Smith every thread means I'm a troll LMAO?
Posted via Mobile Device

Come on... you are gonna start implying that Smith has a better deep ball than Foles?!? Get da funk outta here. You think Smith is a better QB than Foles? Fine, whatever... You Alexuals can make a case for that. But implying that he throws a better deep ball than Foles? Please...anyone with a barely functioning set of eyes can see that that's not true...unless of course, your Alex boner has erected to the point where it's blocking your vision.

You's a troll.

This is the stuff that people were reporting me on for trolling and the mods have asked me to knock it off. it's ridiculous.

I'm proud of you...you are starting to recognize what trolling is...or at least, what gets turned in for it.

Going around exaggerating how bad Smith is essentially trolling.

First off, send Bob Dole a pm about my "trolling."


And no, my disdain for Smith is pretty real. There have been 2 moments where I have actually liked Smith:

1.) When I went to Arrowhead for the first time ever in 2010 and the Chiefs killed the 49ers...the Moeaki crazy catch in the endzone day. I was so happy that I witnessed such pants-crappage which helped the Cassel-led Chiefs destroy the Smith-led 49ers... I liked Smith that day. I couldn't believe I witnessed a QB, with my own eyes, who appeared to be worse than Cassel...didn't think it was possible.

2.) I liked him when the 49ers beat the Saints in the Divisional round of the playoffs. I thought it was touching...such a limited prag of a QB actually defying logic and securing the win on that final drive. I thought it was a touching underdog story, but was glad as hell that the Chiefs weren't strapped to him. Glad he wasn't OUR QB.

Ugh...Ok...ok...to be fair.

3.) I admit, I was pretty happy with him after the 2016 Chargers comeback game. Was nice to see some fire from him.

Besides those moments...It has frustrated the living hell out of me that he is our QB.

What about the final two drives in Denver last season?

Good win, with good clutch plays your average QB is supposed to make, yeah. And we were fortunate enough to have a below average QB who made the plays.

However, it didn't, for one second make me feel happy with the fact that Smith is our QB. Our 49 yards total offense in the first half was still fresh on my mind.

Oh it is. Yet the reason you and others continue to poke and prod is simply nothing more than your own personal boredom. You are lonely, bored, and reaching out the way you know how to.

So essentially, you are the troll.. fishing for attention by pushing buttons. Need a hug?

If you think I'm trolling, feel free to send Bob Dole a pm.

I make these comments because it pisses me off to no end that the Chiefs are wasting their/our time with Smith given the unbelievably talented guys on our roster.

Not lonely...at all.

Bored? Yeah. I'm bored quite a bit, but things are ok. I have things to keep me occupied in my life.

I would say the best way to describe me at this phase, whether it be my feelings regarding the Smith-Chiefs or regarding certain aspects of my life in general would be; annoyed, bitter, frustrated, angry and hopeless blended with some apathy.

... but we know this about you already, Rico. It's redundant. I guess it somehow eases your pain to utter the same ole shit on a forum? and take shots at other people that don't share in your precise level of QB disgust?

Well rock on, fella. Whatever you have to do.. just know that the troll in the glass house is.. in fact, you.

Seriously, who the **** is trolling?

You and a couple other dipshits that believe in Smith express your belief on this forum.

The rest of us that recognize that Smith is a sorry sack of shit express that here as well.

There is no trolling.

There is only debate between two sides that will never agree.

I'm not the one here who brought up trolling, nor do I really GAF about trolling. I know it will never really end on CP, and accept it for what it is.

I'm simply calling it as I see it, and pointing out the irony of rico calling -king- a troll in this thread.

Do you think Smith throws a better long ball than Foles? I mean, seriously COME ON! To me, that comment was far-fetched to the point where I couldn't take it seriously...so I perceived it as trolling.

I believe you are confusing bored with tired. You wouldn't know about being tired because you weren't a "Chiefs fan" until March 12, 2013. However the rest of us who have been fans the majority of their entire existence are simply tired of being told how great the backup QB they traded for is by a franchise that hasn't won a SB in soon to be 5 decades.

But that won't stop people like you trying to tell us how fortunate we are to have the great Alex Smith who can't even break into the top 20 in passing offense.

But but but... Its not Alex, it's the scheme! If that's the case and the Chiefs are so unreliant on the QB then ****ing cut him and let some backup WR run the wildcat full time and bring Poe back with the money you saved to throw TDs.

This is a passing league and you are going to need something beyond a peewee mindset under center and Alex's helmet is still to big for his scared little brain.

So you're saying the disdain for
Smith is justified but supporting him and the current regime for giving us one of the most successful NFL teams the past 4 seasons is unjustified thus is trolling. Your logic sounds stupid as ****.

It's like being a Trump supporter in the real world, openly do it and you'll be publicly shamed

"One of the most successful teams." 1 playoff win in 4 years. 1 playoff win in 24 years... Here's your participation ribbon.

**** off and die.

Who is this in response to? If this is in response to me, it's not what I said...at all. There is a huge difference between supporting Smith/believing in him and saying that he throws a better deep pass than Foles...

Pretty much how I would summarize CP

#alternativefacts

That's not what happened.

ILC posted that he was holding tight to a couple passes Foles made in the Colts game to remind him what the very concept of a long pass in a Chiefs uniform looks like.

-K- asserted that Smith has made better and longer throws than those particular throws ILC is cherishing.

You misinterpreted that observation to be an assertion of something along the lines of every deep pass Smith has ever attempted has been superior to any Foles pass.

Same dynamic as always. Someone says something hyperbolic about Smith. Someone else points out hyperbole. Smith-haters accuse those who oppose hyperbole of pure blind unsurpassed agape love of any and everything Alex.

Yeah ok.

Have a nice day.

ROFL

Exaxtly.

Glad I could help you understand.

It's a small matter, but it's gratifying.

#TrumpsYourPresidentSuckOnIt

I actually don't know if Foles has a better deep ball than Smith. I haven't seen one the past couple years that was all that great. All his very deep balls this year during the season and in preseason were underthrown. Where's your evidence in 2017 that he has a great deep ball? I'll wait.
Posted via Mobile Device

ROFLROFLROFLROFL

Foles back to Philly. Booger back to Chiefs?

And another thread derailed by crying by the Alex fan boys.

Like clock work...

You deserve Alex Smith.

Oh come on, no one deserves that!!! Especially a group of fans who went through Cassel right before him!!!