Nick Foles, Philadelphia Eagle

[MDS]

im listening to buzz on angelo the legend now...this dude is off the reservation

[ice grillin you]

hes the greatest

[MDS]

he wrote 1 good book 25 years ago and hes basically acting like hes the goat....gotta respect it. dude is philly through and through.

[ice grillin you]

he wrote 1 good book 25 years ago and hes basically acting like hes the goat

yeah its kind of crazy that all hes done is that one measly book if you dont count the thousands of fantastic magazine and newspaper pieces hes written...one of which got him a little thing called a pulitzer

[General_Failure]

Was that one more full of purple prose than this article, or less? Or was it just Foles' high school bowl cut that made him whip out the thesaurus?

[smeags]

obviously buzz is a racist.

[Eagaholic]

obviously buzz is a whiney little jilted media bitch.

he's not the only one around.

[NC_Eagle]

Been reading the 2014 Athlon football preview magazine, they have a stat called "Average Depth of Throw" to rank QBs. (distance each pass travels down field, complete or incomplete, not including YAC).

Nick was ranked 6/7 (tie) with 9.7 aDot, top was Kapernick with 10.2, 2nd was Eli with 10.1. Some other QBs of note were Peyton at 32 with 8.2, Brady at 19 with 8.9, Big Ben at 26 with 8.6.

Not the sole indicator of a great QB of course; Jay Cutler, Case Keenum and Carlson Palmer are in the top 10 also, but it does mean he gets the ball down-field more than most QBs. According to the article QBs with high aDot are aggressive and take chances on big plays with the potential for a big loss, low aDot are conservative and take the safe/secure route.

[ice grillin you]

Not the sole indicator of a great QB of course

wait a second....aDot is NOT the sole indicator of QB play?

[General_Failure]

You have to combine it with ESPN's totally legitimate QB rating.

[NC_Eagle]

You have to combine it with ESPN's totally legitimate QB rating.

No worse than the NFL QB rating in the context of present day passing offenses. 

Just found the stat interesting since Nick gets knocked for arm strength but in Chip's offense (basically a jazzed up W/C) it's not that important, but they are still aggressive at completing passes in the mid range and Foles targets his passes deeper than most QBs in the league.

[ice grillin you]

[smeags]

wtf 

[BigEd76]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmgGpmEX5nU

Good thing he's a QB and not an undercover cop

[Sgt PSN]

Who the hell rents a conference room for a fantasy draft?  Draft party is Havas' basement?  Sure. Renting a conf room?  Gtfo.