Well I got my hunch half right. I definitely thought the Eagles D would play much better than they did, but they were picked apart and outside the first couple drives didn't get any pressure on Brady until the strip sack at the end, and their secondary was brutal all night. But nobody on that field tonight was going to be more motivated than Nick Foles was. He was playing for his ultimate payday, his one shot at life changing money. And he delivered and will certainly get at least a contract in the range that Osweiler got and probably more. The Eagles should have no problem getting a first round pick for him, and there should be many suitors. Lest we forget he was third in MVP voting not that long ago. As we saw when Pederson altered the offense to Foles strengths, he produced.
And really, as great as Foles was, the MVP was Pederson. He called a nearly perfect game, I would have liked to see him pass on that third down before the FG at the end, don't even give Brady a chance to make something happen, and a 46 yarder is no gimme, a miss and you almost certainly lose given who the QB is and the time left. But that's a small complaint given everything else basically went perfectly. I think we all know his mentor would have blown that game.
Also, congrats to Eli on winning the all-time Super Bowl commercial MVP. How the NFL came up with that, that person deserves a promotion.
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