{"id":3493,"date":"2018-02-05T07:32:53","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T07:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/?p=3493"},"modified":"2018-03-14T01:52:51","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T01:52:51","slug":"my-eagles-nick-foles-just-won-the-super-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/my-eagles-nick-foles-just-won-the-super-bowl\/","title":{"rendered":"My Eagles &#038; Nick Foles, Just Won The Super Bowl!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/foles-is-great.jpg\"><img  title=\"My Eagles &amp; Nick Foles, Just Won The Super Bowl! Dream Weddings Hawaii\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3494\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/foles-is-great.jpg\"  alt=\"foles-is-great My Eagles &amp; Nick Foles, Just Won The Super Bowl!\"  width=\"424\" height=\"516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/foles-is-great.jpg 424w, https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/foles-is-great-247x300.jpg 247w, https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/foles-is-great-45x55.jpg 45w, https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/foles-is-great-310x377.jpg 310w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 424px) 100vw, 424px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>So many sportswriters got it wrong &#8211; again.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Anyone who knows me, knows that I&#8217;m a diehard Eagles fan.\u00a0 \u00a0It&#8217;s in my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/about\/meet-the-boss-steve-young\/\">bio<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/philadelphia-eagles-win-nfc-championship\/\">posted throughout this site.\u00a0 \u00a0I&#8217;m also a huge Nick Foles fan.<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0From the first day the Eagles drafted him, I&#8217;ve told friends, family, and anyone who listened, &#8220;That guy is going to win us a Championship.&#8221;\u00a0 \u00a0The dude is just an all-around great guy.\u00a0 Close to God, moral; and let&#8217;s not forget to mention, one hell of a football player.\u00a0 \u00a0I thought he had a natural pocket presence, threw with incredible anticipation, and tossed one hell of a deep ball.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2013 Nick Foles threw for 27 TD&#8217;s and 2 interceptions and made Chip Kelly&#8217;s anemic offense under Michael Vick, look like something revolutionary.<\/li>\n<li>Against the Raiders in 2013, Nick Foles threw for 7 Touchdowns in 3 quarters and could have thrown for more if Chip didn&#8217;t pull him.<\/li>\n<li>That year Nick Foles went to the Pro Bowl and was named the MVP<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Despite these stats, sportswriters dismissed him as a fluke, a career backup, basically a nice name for a loser.\u00a0 It was sad to see Nick as a benchwarmer for the past few years when I knew that he was capable of much more.\u00a0 \u00a0It was nice to see Foles back on the Eagles roster, but having him sit behind Wentz killed me.\u00a0 \u00a0Hate to sound a bit evil here, but I was kinda happy when Wentz went down &#8211; haha.\u00a0 \u00a0I said to myself, &#8220;Finally, Foles is going to have his moment to really shine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The media, as predicted, was not supportive of Foles.\u00a0 \u00a0Many sportswriters called for the Eagles front office to hire Colin Kaepernick.\u00a0 \u00a0 Really?\u00a0 \u00a0Sportswriters in Philadelphia were not fans of Nick Foles.\u00a0 Could you believe that?\u00a0 \u00a0They hated him!<\/p>\n<p>Fast-Foward a little&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Nick Foles demolishes the #1 defense in the NFL, the Minnesota Vikings and the media still doesn&#8217;t\u00a0give him credit.\u00a0 They said he just had a fluke great game.\u00a0 By the way:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Against the Minnesota Vikings, Nick Foles had one of the greatest quarterback performances of all time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Super-bowl-sunday.jpg\"><img  title=\"My Eagles &amp; Nick Foles, Just Won The Super Bowl! Dream Weddings Hawaii\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3496\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Super-bowl-sunday.jpg\"  alt=\"Super-bowl-sunday My Eagles &amp; Nick Foles, Just Won The Super Bowl!\"  width=\"540\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Super-bowl-sunday.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Super-bowl-sunday-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Super-bowl-sunday-31x55.jpg 31w, https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Super-bowl-sunday-310x551.jpg 310w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Me on Super Bowl Sunday.\u00a0 I never work on that day <\/strong><\/em>beacuse<em><strong> I always said, &#8220;What if..&#8221;\u00a0 \u00a0This time, my &#8220;what if&#8221; actually applied!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Super Bowl comes around and it&#8217;s Nick Foles versus Tom Brady.\u00a0 And of course, it feels like no one thinks Foles can outplay Brady, except for me,\u00a0 my parents, and a handful of friends.\u00a0 \u00a0 Every pundit out there, doesn&#8217;t choose Foles as their likely MVP candidate.\u00a0 \u00a0No one wants to bet against Brady and Belichick, and I don&#8217;t blame them.\u00a0 They say that it&#8217;s the defensive line that will win the game for the Eagles, if anything.\u00a0 \u00a0 Not Foles.\u00a0 \u00a0Foles was the Eagle&#8217;s Achilles heel.<\/p>\n<p>The pundits were wrong again.\u00a0 \u00a0The Eagles defense didn&#8217;t stop Brady.\u00a0 In fact, the Patriots didn&#8217;t punt the ball once.\u00a0 \u00a0They had two great plays, which probably won the football game for us, though.<\/p>\n<p>We know the story.\u00a0 More than likely, you saw the story.\u00a0 Foles played outstanding, much better than the rest of the team.\u00a0 \u00a0Making incredibly accurate throws down the field, between defensive backs, hitting his receivers in stride.\u00a0 These passes by the way, were<a href=\"http:\/\/theeagleswire.usatoday.com\/2017\/09\/26\/carson-wentz-has-to-start-completing-deep-passes\/\"> balls that Wentz struggles on.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That brings us to the present:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nick Foles is the only quarterback to catch a TD in a Super Bowl<\/li>\n<li>Nick Foles is a Super Bowl winning quarterback, something many quarterbacks in NFL can&#8217;t claim<\/li>\n<li>Nick Foles is the MVP of Super Bowl LII<\/li>\n<li>Nick Foles is the only quarterback that brought a Super Bowl Championship to the City of Philadelphia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of course, I need to add, that this was a team win.\u00a0 When the Eagles need a turnover or a kick, a stop, it happened.\u00a0 Everyone played a key role.<\/p>\n<p>Now I wonder, what will the pundits say now?\u00a0 \u00a0That he was lucky?\u00a0 \u00a0Hmmm&#8230;.. Maybe it&#8217;s time for those writers to eat some major crow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So many sportswriters got it wrong &#8211; again. Anyone who knows me, knows that I&#8217;m a diehard Eagles fan.\u00a0 \u00a0It&#8217;s in my bio and posted throughout this site.\u00a0 \u00a0I&#8217;m also a huge Nick Foles fan.\u00a0 \u00a0From the first day the Eagles drafted him, I&#8217;ve told friends, family, and anyone who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3500,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}