Nick Foles Breaks Down His MVP Performance in SB LII

let's go to the Super Bowl guys can you pull up a couple uh clips for me I wanted to Nick I was on the sideline for these throws and I was just praying you would make him because we couldn't stop a we couldn't stop anything uh we needed you to score I don't know if you remember me walking around do you remember this the week of the Super Bowl me walking around and asking every offensive guy including you how many points can you score this week do you remember that I yeah that didn't how many point how many let me ask you this as as we set these plays up what did you think it was going to take to win that game and was there a number in your mind like when you watch that defense where you're like hey we could score 30 we could score 41 points or was it like you know it's going to be a tough day at the office but we have to do these specific things you know what I uh I kept it pretty simple um you know your dad I'm a dad we try to teach our kids things they don't like to listen right but they'll listen to someone else we did the same thing when we kids I mean you know your dad knew what he was probably talking about you know for because he did it at such a high level but you probably still didn't listen yeah um I was the same way and going into the Super Bowl I took a lot of what my dad taught me as a kid and put it into play and kept it simple in the sense of this my dad always told me never look at the game clock never look at the score play as hard as you can until that clock hit zero and just see where you stand at the end because he didn't want me me to change the way I played based on what was going on with the score or what was going on with the clock because we all know that there's been teams that have huge leads that feel comfortable and stop playing and stop executing yeah so the way that worked for me was the only thing I looked for was the shot clock and that was it and then every now and then you see the game c I wasn't really consciously thinking about that I was just thinking about execution of plays ex hey Doug calls a play execute this play Doug calls a play execute this play understand what the game situation be is like I remember going to Doug at one point um I think when we got the strip sack from uh BG and being like hey what are we thinking here because there's like a couple minutes left we're up like are we wanting me to like milk the clock in the Huddle are we wanting to be aggressive and score like what are we wanting to do um he's like we're going so that was the one time I remember like sort of like confirming with Doug like what is the situation other than that it's was just execution execution execution and then I just remember looking up when the clock kids zero when that ball hit the ground and that was the first time I felt like I like took a breath and just like let everything relax and not like in a I wasn't tense but I was in this like Flow State of just playing ball and just like mentally in such a good position to play the game where it was like peaceful but aggressive and at that time I just let everything relax and be like it's done we did it we executed we scored 41 points and that was what we needed that's exactly what we needed and your answer I think was 35 not I think you were trying to just be like hey off Chris like I'm I'm trying to get into a flow State and not look at anything but I'll give you a number I think most of you guys told me in the 30s you know uh which I thought would be enough I thought it would be enough but we really we really we really it was down to the wire there all right so pull pull up this play I want I want Nick to see this play okay talk me through it is what is it uh 33 this is early in the game all right roll the tape Cowboy you can see it Nick um right here is a touchdown I want you to talk me through your thoughts on this play as it's happening yeah this was just uh I mean I forget what we call it's probably double post yde deep cross um as we you can see pre snap man coverage then man goes with the motion you know it's man so typically the the Deep cross is actually to throw right but I also am a player that plays with Instinct and gut at times and my gut wanted to throw Alshon a sort of lean it post which is a you know he keeps it thin because it's man coverage and then as you see at the top he sort of leans away and creates separation and makes an amazing catch but if you're like a coach and you're watching this and you're teaching this you're probably telling your quarterback you're going Nelson down to the back right now like that's your throw and you potentially that the safety Cuts Nelson you have another cross coming the other way that's a man alert but I would say the lanet post is not high on the list um and so this was just gut instinct trusting a player fing it and then alson alson making like spectacular one of the most amazing catches you can I mean like let's keep it real like it was a good throw minded their job all this stuff but like that catch is unbelievable and the fact also like he's sponsored by Jordan brand and he's up in the air with his Jordans making this like that brand is doing so well and then now they're doing even better so um that's just that's just playing good ball that's just teammates um that's just a lot of fun so probably gave us confidence nicked out Nick that gave us confidence it was like oh we're gonna do the same thing we've been doing okay put it to the next one this is uh fourth and one um second quarter I know this play this is the Philly special so pause it right here cowboy and this goes back to like I've heard a story where when you came in that year Doug was like what do you like running and this is the culmination of that it's like hey fourth and one in the Super Bowl what do you guys want to run yeah this is uh I think in this situation right before this so there was a timeout um we had I don't know if you remember watching us all week and um practice but we had a speed option from the shotgun and every time we butchered it and it was awful so that was actually the play that was called and then we called a timeout and I ran over to the sidelines and asked for Philly Philly to this day I have no clue why I asked for Philly Philly um cuz it's Philly special I I I I I've I've thought NFL films like and now with artificial elligence I know that you can create voiceovers and stuff so there's part of me that thinks that could have happened but in reality my brain was just probably in a weird State and I said Philly Philly and now we have the Philly Philly dad hat line and clothing line so this yeah we do um but yeah I mean we when Doug and I talked about this because we were going to rep this against the Vikings in the NFC championship game but we decided not to and I just threw a touchdown to alsa made it easy got to save the play we were going to R we were going to run this second half to go up by two scores m m not first half to get up in general um but I ran over there and I think that that situation where I'm asking for the play from Doug is a culmination of like you know when I was drafted Doug flew to Austin Texas to work me out at Westlake High School that was the first time I really got to build trust with him they draft me he's my quarterback coach then I come back to Philly and I'm the backup quarterback and then everything that happens I go over there and Doug trusted me enough because he knew me enough to know like Nick is fing this let's execute this CU he could over this play call but he pauses and he said let's do it and then we run this and I remember going up there you know we had a shift um we had to have like a some acting that took some time like right here and lane lane was the trigger for Kel to snap the ball to Cory and uh then you know Trey makes a amazing throw I mean people don't realize like Trey made an awesome throw that made it easy for me but I was just worried about the DN right here but the second he went went down and I paused and I was out I was just like look this ball all the way in and just catch it and tuck it and score and I didn't realize what this play would be um for the city of Philadelphia or even the NFL I just realized like man this play worked to put us up on the Patriots going into halftime which is huge and and yeah and it is good acting buddy and and a great catch with the whole world watch and Brady didn't catch the ball when they threw it to him that's neither here nor there um Nick when do you remember when we were getting ready for this Super Bowl going to do walk through at the stadium and we were running a bunch of fake plays do you remember this and I came up to Doug and I'm like what the is this play Doug and he's like oh we're not running this play he's like he's like we're worried the Patriots are up there in the uh in the in the bleachers somewhere like are they're hiding in the state we had like 13 guys on the field and stuff yeah dude oh yeah so you remember you guys ran a couple fake plays oh dude we we had 13 guys in the Huddle and we were making we knew what formation we're making but then we're like just line up and do something random so we could run our plays but it what it didn't look clean because we had 13 I mean we were shredding papers after every meeting um we had I mean it was crazy the you know what we were trying to do and you know they just they like you know getting every Advantage they can um but fortunately this play this play worked well and uh helped out a lot yeah that worked out well okay let's go to the Third a good play Let's go to the third quarter I think we'll keep it 22-19 725 to go I believe we got another touchdown here it's third and six and if this is the ball might Falcon stiffy yeah Falcon stiffy baby falcon stiffy okay so walk me through Falcon stiffy including like Cory's not that open and he's waving his hand like he's naked oh yeah well I mean he's a rookie right he's a rookie at this point right so you know you really want man coverage versus this um and so I start my progression right to left keep my eyes normal for the play because it's a typical play we run all the time we want to get the safety out of the middle and really just get a one-on-one with Corey yeah and so I drop back and I look and then when I peek at Corey I see like basically triple coverage I'm like oh man but if you watch closely the defender has a so I'm like I'm just totally in like my subconscious thought there's like a slight little stumble for the defender that maybe slowed him down 0.1 miles hour and my body like I'm not going to throw it and all of a sudden my body triggered and threw the ball um because I saw that and I just threw it and then you know Cory makes a great catch there's three guys around him I think I had a f uh fellow Arizona wild cat on them um you know flowers sorry buddy oh yeah sorry but uh Maris well I mean M shows up kind of late you know where you're like oh and the ball's probably already gone yeah so like look at my eyes like you know going starting right keeping it normal look down the middle find them and then just like there's a split second where it's like this look I mean it doesn't look good even when it's caught it does not it is not clean at all but there was something inside me that felt yeah he was inbounds they looked at that thing a lot yeah I agree Nick I tend to agree okay hit the next one here we got the fourth and one and this was the the biggest play of the damn game I you know and no surprise you go to Zs but talk me through the thought process here yeah this is Maestro so left to right read really built for man coverage you have a Zone read but so we get this and I remember dropping back and your your first reads the back and we hit a big play to Cory K earlier in the game but they you know they in peels then the next is the shallow so the guy the cornerback drops off so Ur is like open first split second but if you look at it I get pressure so I got a side step left put it on him he makes a great play fortunately he's a yard past the line of scrimmage I mean that like you said this is like one of the biggest plays in the Super Bowl because you New England gets this play right here game ball game's over probably probably probably I mean this we were all puckered up on the sideline and you can see yeah the the end peeling with the back and if you have more time maybe you could hit him on like a wheel or something but you know s is the guy does such a I mean he does a great job if you watch him like sure handed but watch his route yeah so Trey's running or no it's celic so cel's running her does a great job of sort of lifting his Defender and then cutting flat like look here lift him boom and that's because of obviously celic being a very Savvy vet great tight end but then Z and him working together to make this happen naturally and knowing it's man coverage the only person that could mess up the play um fell off it but Ur made a great play and we got enough for the first down by a yard and then we've got the the final nail in the coffin here 32 well yeah we're close here but 32 to 33 this is the go-ahead touchdown uh third and seven on the 11 yd line yep we're basically seeing the back in motion it's um really you really have if you have numbers to the back it's really like a bubble screen but you're really trying to push the whole defense to the right and Get Ur your best when your best route Runners most sure-handed guy on a lesser Defender and having them run a slant yeah and what happened is they you know I think we barely got this ball off with the shot clock and uh you know I look and just her makes a great play he's so open I I threw him like a really clean softball I did not fire this thing in there very very catchable ball I know that like at the end of it he took like three or four steps and dove in the ball popped out and everyone's like is this is this a catch I'm like right this isn't a catch the NFL is in a weird position he just took like three or four steps like like he's over the but this was this was a lot of fun