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With Nick Foles, the Bears get a QB with a similar philosophy to its head coach. He will kill you with the underneath stuff, force you to come in and stop it, then immediately go in for the killshot over the top of the defense. This is well illustrated in the first possession of the Foles era.
Foles first pass is an easy throw to Jimmy Graham against Tampa 2 coverage. Tampa 2 is basically cover 3 with a linebacker as the middle safety. One thing noteworthy on this play is Jimmy Graham’s body language. This is the next possession right after a soul crushing INT down big. Not only that, Graham is a finesse player yet he tries to barrel right through a defender while dragging another one. It looks like some sort of inner fire has been lit with Foles on the field...
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Screen pass into a blitz. Perfect timing by Nagy...
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After driving the field on underneath stuff, Foles gets his chance on 3rd down. As the ball is snapped, the deep safety creeps over to help on Jimmy Graham. Without hesitation, Foles immediately lofts it to Robinson on the sideline...
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With Foles, the Bears get a QB who is incredibly active pre snap. He is always looking to find an edge. Here he sees something and believes the Falcons are going to be in man. He changes the play from a run to a play action pass looking for a deep shot. The Falcons end up going into a cover 2 zone so Foles immediately checks it down...
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It possibly could have worked out for the best that Foles didn’t get this throw off cleanly, as he was going to Mooney and the safety may have been able to cut it off if he didn’t put enough on the ball...
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Foles sees both LB’s in the A gaps, leaving Cohen potentially wide open past the line of scrimmage. He checks to a swing pass to Cohen, but the LB’s bail back to the sidelines at the snap...
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One of the keys to a successful short game is recognizing the defense quickly and getting the ball out as early as possible to help the ball carrier. Nothing flashy really, but very important. Tom Brady has made a career of it. Here Foles recognizes the cover 2 and gets it out to Robinson for 7 and a face mask...
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Foles recognizes the Tampa 2 and gets it to Mooney on the crossing route...
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Another thing on this particular play. When you’re in a motion of throwing, you’re body is in a vulnerable position. There are 3 defenders aboot to hit Foles here from every direction. To expose your ribs here knowing that takes a lot of guts...
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This is what a bad defense looks like. It looks like the Falcons are in a cover 3 zone. But the middle safety doesn’t get back in time, so the wide side safety has to go and cover Miller out of the slot. This essentially leaves Mooney wide open once he clears the trailing defensive back...
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It’s hard to criticize this play given the circumstances, down big in the 4th quarter trying to make something happen...
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But I’ve seen and read that Foles is prone to throw balls up for grabs...
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Foles really seems fearless, but that’s not always a good thing. There is nothing here, Graham is being doubled. Yet Foles holds the ball until the very last moment and gets crushed...
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This is a big time throw, Miller’s gotta come down with it. At second viewing, should have known he dropped it when he just immediately ran off the field. Nice job by the offensive line...
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Foles had Robinson here. He tried to loft it over the defender sidearm and under threw it...
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That’s another thing aboot Foles, he throws out of various arm angles from play to play...
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I love the aggresiveness here. The Falcons are guarding that 1st down marker on 4th and 6 and Foles throws it 25 yards downfield. Great route by Ginn splitting two defenders...
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This is a pretty bad miss but they score on the very next play...
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Here Foles knows he doesn’t have much time, so he sidearms it to get the ball out of his hand quicker for the TD...
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The game winning TD was sort of Nick Foles signature play. It’s his great equalizer to not having exceptional arm strength and no mobility. Early throws lofted into spots where his receivers will eventually arrive.
What I’m speaking to in particular are the longer extended routes where you have to either buy yourself more time to allow the route to develop or gunsling it in there at max velocity. Foles bypasses this by getting the ball out early in the route progression to a spot at the eventual conclusion of the route.
Foles did this to the Bears in the playoff game. It was on a long developing full field crossing route to Alshon Jeffery. Danny Trevathan came scraping through the line on a blitz unimpeded before Alshon Jeffery’s route had a chance to materialize. So Foles flung the ball into a zone where Jeffery would eventually run under into...
***CLIP***
The current play was sort of a half assed all out blitz. It was a desperation play by Atlanta to try and get the Bears out of field goal position. The reason I say half assed is because without a safety, the slot CB really has no chance on this play. He has to guard his man inside and outside with no help. So the Falcons have to either get to Foles or they are going to get burned. But then they only send 6 blitzers.
All that being said, they actually did get to Foles in time. But he was able to get the ball off because he was prepared. He was so prepared that he didn’t even have to set his feet in the direction of the pass. He throws this ball with his front foot facing the opposite pylon...
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It’s going to be hard for Foles to live up to Bears fans expectations following this game. He’s pretty much a career back up for a reason. It’s the same reason most back ups are not starters. Inconsistency. Its Nagy’s job to limit the inconsistencies, and now we’ll see what he’s really made of.
Foles first pass is an easy throw to Jimmy Graham against Tampa 2 coverage. Tampa 2 is basically cover 3 with a linebacker as the middle safety. One thing noteworthy on this play is Jimmy Graham’s body language. This is the next possession right after a soul crushing INT down big. Not only that, Graham is a finesse player yet he tries to barrel right through a defender while dragging another one. It looks like some sort of inner fire has been lit with Foles on the field...
***CLIP***
Screen pass into a blitz. Perfect timing by Nagy...
***CLIP***
After driving the field on underneath stuff, Foles gets his chance on 3rd down. As the ball is snapped, the deep safety creeps over to help on Jimmy Graham. Without hesitation, Foles immediately lofts it to Robinson on the sideline...
***CLIP***
With Foles, the Bears get a QB who is incredibly active pre snap. He is always looking to find an edge. Here he sees something and believes the Falcons are going to be in man. He changes the play from a run to a play action pass looking for a deep shot. The Falcons end up going into a cover 2 zone so Foles immediately checks it down...
***CLIP #1***
***CLIP #2***
It possibly could have worked out for the best that Foles didn’t get this throw off cleanly, as he was going to Mooney and the safety may have been able to cut it off if he didn’t put enough on the ball...
***CLIP***
Foles sees both LB’s in the A gaps, leaving Cohen potentially wide open past the line of scrimmage. He checks to a swing pass to Cohen, but the LB’s bail back to the sidelines at the snap...
***CLIP***
One of the keys to a successful short game is recognizing the defense quickly and getting the ball out as early as possible to help the ball carrier. Nothing flashy really, but very important. Tom Brady has made a career of it. Here Foles recognizes the cover 2 and gets it out to Robinson for 7 and a face mask...
***CLIP***
Foles recognizes the Tampa 2 and gets it to Mooney on the crossing route...
***CLIP***
Another thing on this particular play. When you’re in a motion of throwing, you’re body is in a vulnerable position. There are 3 defenders aboot to hit Foles here from every direction. To expose your ribs here knowing that takes a lot of guts...
***CLIP***
This is what a bad defense looks like. It looks like the Falcons are in a cover 3 zone. But the middle safety doesn’t get back in time, so the wide side safety has to go and cover Miller out of the slot. This essentially leaves Mooney wide open once he clears the trailing defensive back...
***CLIP***
It’s hard to criticize this play given the circumstances, down big in the 4th quarter trying to make something happen...
***CLIP***
But I’ve seen and read that Foles is prone to throw balls up for grabs...
***CLIP***
Foles really seems fearless, but that’s not always a good thing. There is nothing here, Graham is being doubled. Yet Foles holds the ball until the very last moment and gets crushed...
***CLIP #1***
***CLIP #2***
This is a big time throw, Miller’s gotta come down with it. At second viewing, should have known he dropped it when he just immediately ran off the field. Nice job by the offensive line...
***CLIP***
Foles had Robinson here. He tried to loft it over the defender sidearm and under threw it...
***CLIP***
That’s another thing aboot Foles, he throws out of various arm angles from play to play...
***CLIP***
I love the aggresiveness here. The Falcons are guarding that 1st down marker on 4th and 6 and Foles throws it 25 yards downfield. Great route by Ginn splitting two defenders...
***CLIP***
This is a pretty bad miss but they score on the very next play...
***CLIP***
Here Foles knows he doesn’t have much time, so he sidearms it to get the ball out of his hand quicker for the TD...
***CLIP***
The game winning TD was sort of Nick Foles signature play. It’s his great equalizer to not having exceptional arm strength and no mobility. Early throws lofted into spots where his receivers will eventually arrive.
What I’m speaking to in particular are the longer extended routes where you have to either buy yourself more time to allow the route to develop or gunsling it in there at max velocity. Foles bypasses this by getting the ball out early in the route progression to a spot at the eventual conclusion of the route.
Foles did this to the Bears in the playoff game. It was on a long developing full field crossing route to Alshon Jeffery. Danny Trevathan came scraping through the line on a blitz unimpeded before Alshon Jeffery’s route had a chance to materialize. So Foles flung the ball into a zone where Jeffery would eventually run under into...
***CLIP***
The current play was sort of a half assed all out blitz. It was a desperation play by Atlanta to try and get the Bears out of field goal position. The reason I say half assed is because without a safety, the slot CB really has no chance on this play. He has to guard his man inside and outside with no help. So the Falcons have to either get to Foles or they are going to get burned. But then they only send 6 blitzers.
All that being said, they actually did get to Foles in time. But he was able to get the ball off because he was prepared. He was so prepared that he didn’t even have to set his feet in the direction of the pass. He throws this ball with his front foot facing the opposite pylon...
***CLIP #1***
***CLIP #2***
It’s going to be hard for Foles to live up to Bears fans expectations following this game. He’s pretty much a career back up for a reason. It’s the same reason most back ups are not starters. Inconsistency. Its Nagy’s job to limit the inconsistencies, and now we’ll see what he’s really made of.
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