If Nick Foles Wants His Job Back, He's Going To Have To Start Stretching In His Jock Strap ASAP
We have officially hit the “what do the Jaguars do when Nick Foles comes back from his injury” portion of the quarterback controversy in Jacksonville. Gardner Minshew had a decent showing in his first start even though they lost by 1 to Houston. Then he locked up the first win of his career on a Thursday night in a game where he went 20/30 for over 200 yards and 2 TDs. That’s when the legend of Gardner Minshew really began, but there were still plenty of folks out there who thought it was just a bizarre little sideshow and that Minshew would quickly fall back to reality shortly after. But then when Gardner Minshew followed that performance up with another win in week 4 where he again threw for over 200 yards with 2 TDs? Well this is where we really enter the Take Zone because everybody loves a good QB controversy and the Jaguars are knee deep in one right now. It doesn’t matter if Nick Foles doesn’t even hope to be back before week 11 and that gives Gardner Minshew plenty of time to regress and make the decision incredibly easy to go back to Nick Foles. People want answers and they want them right now. What do the Jaguars do when Nick Foles comes back from his injury?
Well I will tell you right away that if Nick Foles has any chance of not getting Foles’d himself, it all starts in the locker room. Not that he needs to be a vocal leader or anything like that. Not that he needs to know the playbook better than he knows the story of his own life. But Nick Foles is going to have to take a page out of the ol’ Minshew Manifesto and start stretching in nothing more than just his jock strap.
Sometimes you just need to go out there and you need to beat somebody in their own game. And the reality is that sometimes life is really nothing more than a dick measuring contest. With that being the case, Nick Foles needs to show his teammates that he still puts them in the best position to compete. Because as of right now, he is just the Napoleon Dynamite to Minshew’s Uncle Rico. And while I know that the movie was titled after Napoleon, everybody knows who the true star of that film was. God blessed Nick Foles with a hog the size of a python. The time is now to put God’s plan into action.