So, are you sold on Nick Foles yet?
It's usually not this hard, this business of making up our minds as to whether the guy standing behind center for the Birds is "the one."
I'm not exactly sure what a "franchise" quarterback is. I guess it's a little bit like the famous description of porn authored by none other than a U.S. Supreme Court justice: "I know it when I see it."
Well, I've seen Nick Foles now for an extended period of time, and I'm still not sure.
All of which may be beside the point.
The bottom line is this guy wins. He's the starting quarterback of a team that has raced out of the gate at 5-1 in the NFL season. He's coming off a Sunday night prime-time affair in which he led his team to a dominating, 27-0 win.
And yet he continues to display some confounding characteristics that simply will not allow that nagging feeling that he's not the guy to go away.
Sunday night Foles threw for 34 passes, completing 21 of them, including two TD tosses.
He also threw two incredibly bad interceptions, throws he never should have made.
It's those kinds of decisions that continue to shroud the Foles era, if there is such a thing.
I want Nick Foles to be the guy. But I still have my doubts. Maybe we all were spoiled last year when he somehow managed to do something that may never be repeated. After taking over the starter's job, Foles threw 27 touchdown passes and just two interceptions.
That has not been the case this year. Foles has been turning the ball over at a fairly prodigious clip.
More than that, his mechanics at time seem badly flawed. He has a tendency to drift backward in the face of a rush, leading him to throw passes off his back foot. That's a sure-fire recipe for turnovers.
None of which really matters.
5-1 is all that matters.
And Nick Foles is the guy who has quarterbacked the Birds to that sterling start.
Onward and upward.
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