Nick Foles Is the Eagles' Unlikely Best Hope
Philadelphia’s quarterback is facing long odds at the Super Bowl—but onlookers shouldn’t count him out yet.
Six weeks before the Philadelphia Eagles cruised by the Vikings to reach their third ever Super Bowl, the team’s championship hopes had appeared to wither. On December 11, the coach Doug Pederson had confirmed the league MVP candidate quarterback Carson Wentz would miss the rest of the season with a torn ACL, meaning the National Football Conference’s best team would be forced to confront the playoffs without its offensive centerpiece. “The Eagles just lost Carson Wentz, and their shot at the Super Bowl,” blared a Washington Post headline. “Eagles’ Super Bowl dreams are over,” echoed the New York Daily News.
As football fans everywhere furiously
