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Originally Posted by jspchief
Here's my viewpoint on this. You can certainly call it cherry picking, but it's my opinion on the topic of Foles. His play in STL was the outlier. That Oline was terrible and the team was terrible on the offensive side of the ball. Gurley had to put up a herculean performance after contact to accomplish what he did.
And like I said in my first response, this goes beyond just Nick Foles. It's the larger discussion about Smith. Teams aren't threatened by his deep ball. And the Chiefs fans around here want to see more deep throws, not because "fantasy football" but because of the belief that it will open up all of the short game, not just the running game. If you disagree, that's fine. It doesn't change the fact that the people that respond with "hurr durr fantasy football" or think it's just about sexy plays are completely missing the point, probably intentionally.
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And what about his final season in Philly after the league adjusted to Chip?
AYA of 6.3. TD/INT of 13/10.
Again - dink and dunk + turnovers.
You're not even cherry picking; you're going full-Clay and ignoring everything but the 10 game stretch you want to see. And remember how that 10 game stretch ended? With Foles throwing 33 passes for 195 yards to lose a home playoff game to a Saints team that wasn't as good as the Saints team that Smith beat by throwing for 300 yards and 3 TDs in the playoffs for SF.
"Well....if we ignore his rookie year under Reid, his last year under Kelly and his season in STL...oh, and his playoff start...and his college career....he looks great!"
Tell me more about his sample size, JSP....
You can say all day that you HOPE Foles can make a big difference in our offense but there's really no rational basis for it. You'd have to ignore about 75% of what we have available to us in favor of focusing on the remaining 25%. I mean sometimes you hit on 17 and get a 4....I just wouldn't call it wise.