(Kim Klement-USA Today Sports)
Nick Foles
As the fate of many NFL teams are already determined, the spotlight turns to their head coach and the question is: Should he be fired?
To take a page from golf, you might as well call this part of the NFL schedule, the “silly” season.
The Philadelphia Eagles are a team that will be in this category. They will miss the playoffs in consecutive seasons, despite sky-high expectations in both years.
Even though most around the league will tell you there are not many better coaches than Andy Reid, the thought of late has been that the Eagles — and possibly the veteran players — just need a new voice to challenge the team.
“I feel like the veteran guys are responding to him,” Nick Foles, the rookie starting quarterback, told the 110 Sports Podcast. “Everybody respects Coach Reid and loves Coach Reid.
“Everybody respects him, everybody is going to continue to play for him and work for him. He’s done a great job here since he’s been here.”
If a change is made, the rumors of who could succeed Reid has been everything from what would be a flashy hire in Jon Gruden to an interesting potential pick in Oregon coach Chip Kelly.
It has been a couple disappointing seasons for Eagles fans. After several trades and acquisitions, the team was looking like Super Bowl talent and was even dubbed a “dream team.”
“We haven’t had the season we wanted to have,” Foles said about the trying year. “But guys are still working, we’re sticking together as a team, and we are still playing hard for our coach.”
Foles has gone through something like this before. Last fall in college at Arizona, Mike Stoops was fired midway through the season and it was something from which he said he gained a new experience.
“The thing I learned is, each and every day you continue to work hard and play for him,” he said.
“I don’t know what is going to happen, I just know that right now Coach is my coach, and I’m going to play as hard as I can for him and continue to work and do everything I can to help this team.”
Arizona native Matt Minkus is the host of the 110 Sports Podcast, a show that pays homage to one of the most repeated cliches in sports: “Giving 110 percent.” Excerpts of new shows will be available at LindysSports.com every week.
