Nick Foles Got Injured Just to Comeback for Another Playoff Run

The epic saga of Nicholas Edward Foles, the first and only Super Bowl MVP in Eagles history (so far), has taken yet another dramatic turn.

Just after making his debut as a Jacksonville Jaguar and throwing his first touchdown pass of the season, Foles suffered a broken left collarbone that will likely keep him out of play for about 10 weeks. 

The career of Nick Foles has already been as unpredictable as any other in recent NFL history, so much so that he should probably write a book about it. In short: He started as Andy Reid’s last quarterback draft selection as Eagles coach, was a back-up to Michael Vick then came out of nowhere to put up one of the best quarterback seasons of the decade. He gets hurt, traded to Jeff Fischer for Sammy Sleeves and a 2nd round pick, is miserable and wants to retire, rejoins Reid in Kansas City, comes back to the Birds as a preferable backup to Carson Wentz instead of Chase Daniel and Mark Sanchez. Foles steps up for an injured Wentz quickly before the playoffs begin, then goes from the Drunken Giraffe to giving us the two greatest games by an Eagle in team history. Then for the heck of it he does it again the next season and almost gets them all the way back. 

All in all, the Super Bowl MVP has earned the right to become a starter a National Football League franchise, and the Jaguars were a decent fit considering they’re trying to revive the team that brought them oh so close to the Super Bowl two years ago (and he’s filling the shoes of another legend in the BOAT).

So just when it looks like Foles has found a stable position in the NFL in the long-term, his clavicle gets injured in the first quarter of the first game of the season against, of all teams, Reid’s Chiefs. And to Jacksonville’s benefit but possibly Foles’s inconvenience, backup quarterback and rookie Gardner Minshew had a good game in the loss to Kansas City completing 22 of 25 (Big Phil Simms Super Bowl number) for 275 yards and two touchdowns.

Once again, questions raise for the future of Foles’s career and the team he plays on.

Will Saint Nick be able to come back and continue the multi-year commitment he made to Jacksonville?

Will he ever get to start a full season as an undisputed franchise quarterback?

And could this possibly lead to Minshew all-of-the-sudden having a breakout campaign and engrain himself as Jacksonville’s new franchise quarterback?     

Here’s what’s really gonna happen: Minshew will play enough to keep Jacksonville in the playoff picture in a struggling AFC South. He’ll make his triumphant return during Week 10 against the Texans, the same team he had the greatest regular season game of his career and last home game as an Eagle. He’ll defeat Houston in the game that will probably be Bill O’Brien’s last as they try to pry Dabo Swinney from Clemson for a Gruden-size deal.

B.D.N. will then mow through the AFC South including two against his former mentor Frank Reich in Indianapolis, Avenge his loss to the Bucs last year, avenge the Eagles torture-porn OT loss to the Titans last season. He’ll play brilliantly in those games while also having wildly inconsistent performances against the Raiders and Falcons as he did before.

This will set up the Jaguars winning their division and Foles leading to a playoff run even more dramatic than the last two seasons. Jacksonville will start by beating probably an AFC North wild card team in Round 1, upset the Chiefs in the divisional round and add to the Legacy of Failure for Reid, and then break the brains of Tom Brady and Bill Belichick again in the AFC championship game. 

In the Super Bowl Foles will top his performance in 52 and become the first player to win the big game’s MVP for two different teams. 

Unless he’s playing the Eagles.

Afterwards, Nick will play out the rest of his contract for Jacksonville and go down as the best quarterback in franchise history (or at least in conversation with Mark Brunell and The BOAT.) B.D.N. will begin his billion-dollar career as a pastor where his word is spread throughout Texas, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Missouri and Florida. ESPN First Take will debate whether or not he will go into the Hall of Fame as an Eagle, Jaguar, or Chief while not realizing that the Hall of Fame busts don’t have logos. Number 9 hangs from the rafters in two different stadiums and Lily Foles becomes America’s general for World War III.

So don’t worry about a broken clavicle, this is the Legend of B.D.N., it’s not supposed to be smooth!