“What a Run!” - Rich Eisen Reflects on the Retiring Nick Foles’ “Fascinating” Football Career

there's a retirement that was announced in the National Football League today it's Nick Foles he announced his retirement and I kind of want to pause here and talk about one of the more fascinating careers in football that we've seen in a long while right because I took some time before the show because I'm a professional um to look at all up he's he's a kid who spent one year at Michigan State in 2007 he played one game his first game at Michigan State he wound up getting in the game against UAB this is before UAB folded and opened back up again right he went five for eight didn't play the rest of the year you know was in front of him the guy the Patriots couldn't quit forever Brian Hoyer and so he left he transferred because hoer was there and he wasn't going to get any time and this is back in the day when you had to sit out a year so 2008 he didn't play and then from 2009 to 2011 he was a starter in Arizona from Mike Stoops who got fired in the middle of his final season there where he went 4-8 he was 19 and 19 in three years at Arizona but he was lighting it up so he wound up being the third overall pick in the 2012 draft 88th overall selected by Andy Reed and then he started six games in his rookie season for Andy Reid because Michael Vic got hurt and Reed decided to keep with folos stick with fos when Vic came back from a a concussion so they wanted to see what they had in the kid and that was it for Andy Reid in Philadelphia he was the quarterback when Andy Reid got fired in Philadelphia Chip Kelly came in and he started 10 games with Chip Kelly he made his only Pro Bowl of his career they made the playoffs he lit it up actually he against the Saints in Philadelphia hit Zack Herz for a touchdown with less than five minutes to go in that game to give them a one-point lead but stop me if you've heard this one before Drew Brees led the Saints on a game-winning field goal drive to win it and then the next year he broke his collar bone in week nine and that's when Chip Kelly things off to Mark Sanchez which led to our uh one of our first drops we ever created remember s Sanchez for for in place of fos won a Monday night game for Chip Kelly and he went out and B I want you to have my cheese fries that led that's one of the original drops of our show 10 years ago Mark I want you to have my cheese in that 2013 season he had 27 touchdowns and only two picks think about that ratio that is insane he also threw seven touchdowns against the Raiders in week nine of that that year yeah in 2013 which is n record it's tied with a few other people right and so um in 2015 I guess Chip Kelly had seen enough of fos they traded him to St Louis for Sam Bradford wow yeah Bradford and then Kelly got fired then Kelly got fired in the middle of the 2015 season when he was he went four of seven for the Jeff fiser Rams who had seen enough of him and decided to trade all the way up to the first overall pick to take Jared Goff and F said I want out and they obliged him and he wound up with Andy Reid again in 2016 is a backup for Alex Smith started one game they didn't pick up his second-year option and Philadelphia takes him back and then 14 weeks into the season the Eagles needed their backup to Carson Wentz because their kid who was drafted behind go who drafting in St Louis caused fos to one out he decided to jump head first in the end zone here in the LA Coliseum and Aaron Donald was in the way blew his knee out and FES now is suddenly the starting quarterback for the team with the best record in the NFC and he took him to the Super Bowl and won it and won it beating Tom Brady and also scoring a touchdown of his own receiving in the fame Philly special which is memorialized by a statue in front of the home of the Eagles crazy and he was named MVP of the Super Bowl yeah 373 yards in a Super Bowl three touchdowns beat Tom Brady so many yard only other guy not named Eli Manning to beat Tom Brady in the Super Bowl is Nick fos and he brought that big Nick energy with him the next year they made the playoffs the next year do you remember he had the Eagles on a game-winning Drive late in a divisional round game in the Super Dome against the Saints and a perfectly thrown ball to Alshon Jeffrey went right through his hands and was picked off and that was the end of the Run FS was ready to do it again they had the feeling of wait a minute the Magic Carpet Ride is taken off again and then after that he asked he got he took a player option to get out signed an $88 million fouryear deal with Jacksonville broke his collarbone in week one and that was ESS a dime throw too if you remember that play he got lit up but made the throw perfect on the money and broke his and I remember a few weeks later being in London in a production meeting with Doug Marone the head coach of the time wondering do you go back to fos or not cuz Gardner muu wasn't really lighting anything up and fos they gave him the job back in week 11 he wasn't anything close to the fos that they saw by week 13 he was benched and it was mshu show wound up with the Bears in the co season 10 starts for them after the Bears dawned on them trabis may not be the guy and then the next year when Justin Fields was there and Andy Dalton was there he got one spot start because both fields and Dalton were hurt in 2021 and he threw his final career touchdown pass in a comeback win to beat the Seahawks to Jimmy Graham last year he played was 2022 with the Colts he got a couple of starts no touchdowns four picks and he didn't play at all last year and today he says he's retired what a run for Nick folos a Super Bowl MVP of improbable fashion and if you remember his what he said afterwards about believing in s believing in yourself never giving up was one of the most inspirational sound bites I've ever heard yeah man of extreme Faith correct I wonder if he wants to do media you know what the best thing he could do is decide not to do media somebody comes down with laryngitis he comes in wins the EM award what if Brady get that's the only way catch gets catches J put Nick Falls in he wins the EM award on Friday and they're like we got to call somebody call Big nicked is he the most improbable athlete to ever get a statue that's up there yeah just the highest of highs of his NFL career the guy's got an NFL record that you would wouldn't even think MVP of the Super Bowl MVP of the Super Bowl a trophy after he took the range in the middle of December middle of DEC statue in in the crazy Sports Town of Philadelphia of all places correct called his own play he called he's the one who went to the coach yeah let's do that Philly special we've been practicing hey Philly Philly yeah yeah yeah let's do it it's unreal it is and then the lowest of lows correct bounced around been benched a few times he thought he thought of retiring after playing in St Louis Andy Reed's like okay I'll take you back let's see what you got he backed up Alex Smith and and by the way I don't mean to laugh here but he goes to St Louis they get they get golf he goes to Kansas City they get Mahomes okay so he goes to Philly and goes I'll back up the guy who you got drafting after golf I'll take over for him and win the Super Bowl for you anyway you can't make it up that's maybe that's the headline of Nick F's career you can't make this up here's a question yes who plays Nick Foles in the movie oh I'm I'm gonna say my buddy Adam deos plays him from Rescue High Surf he he I don't know who that is how about how who who played who's the one who is Napoleon Dynamite no he does he's not athletic at all he he kind of looks like him though what is it Josh heer yeah John heer joh don't he look like him a little bit little bit yeah little bit need someone tall that's all I'm saying look look up Adam deos no you don't you just put somebody on an Apple box and just shoot him from up I mean come on there's tricks of the trade come on you're an actor you know how it works great point I mean he's hot right now just have Glenn Powell play Glen po can do whatever he wants play Nick Foles he'll get handled when it gets handled very good well done catch the rich eyes and show every single day on the Roku channel 12 to three Eastern for free