Nick Foles has a Super Bowl ring. He beat Tom Brady in that game when Brady was still at his peak. Only one other man in NFL history can make that claim. That said, is it enough to make Foles the best possible option for the Chicago Bears in their search for quarterback help? No. While his run from 2017 to 2018 as a backup and spot starter in Philadelphia was amazing, Foles' career is filled with too many valleys to call him a surefire solution.
In between those moments of brilliance, he's been marred by inconsistent play coupled with frequent bouts of injury. The most recent being his broken shoulder suffered last year in Jacksonville that kept him out for months. When he returned he looked rusty and unequal to the task of lifting the Jaguars out of the mire. Hence why word persists Gardner Minshew is the guy now.
The Bears obviously make sense in a trade scenario for him. He's got a boatload of connections to the coaching staff and knows the offense as well as anybody. Shouldn't this make him the best choice for them? No. However, it does make him the smartest one and here's why.
Bears can have Nick Foles cake and eat it too
The key to this entire situation is the state of the contract the Jaguars gave Foles. He is due over $21 million this coming year and that number will go up again in 2021. No team in their right mind pays that kind of money for a guy to sit on the bench. This is why expectations are they will try to move him. Finding a team to take that deal will be almost impossible.
That is unless they sweeten the pot.
Most feel the only way Jacksonville will be able to facilitate a deal is if they add a draft pick in the package for a team to take Foles. It took a 2nd round pick for the Houston Texans to unload Brock Osweiler to Cleveland back in 2016. This is something that would appeal to the Bears.
Trading for Derek Carr or Andy Dalton as the rumors insist would cost them pick(s). This method ensures they get a quarterback they know well with a proven track record and also an additional pick on top of it.
The only thing they'd lose in the deal is money. Coincidentally the same amount of money in a Carr trade. Foles is less proven than him and Dalton, but the idea of getting another quality pick would balance things out.
