Should Broncos ‘shake the QB tree’ with the hopes of landing Foles?
Jan 7, 2019, 11:23 AM | Updated: Jan 8, 2019, 6:39 am
In the team’s end of the season press conference early last week, Denver Broncos general manager John Elway said that while Case Keenum “did a nice job” in 2018, the team is “always looking for that guy,” joking that he was “going to go and shake some trees out there for a quarterback and see if one falls out.”
On Monday, “Schlereth and Evans” co-host Mark Schlereth said he may have found the tree that Elway and the Broncos want to shake.
“There’s one big, giant leaf that’s hanging on that quarterback tree, and that guy’s name is Nick Foles,” Schlereth said. “And you probably ought to do whatever you can do to rectify that situation and bring him here to Denver.”
The comments come a day after Foles and the Philadelphia Eagles knocked off the Chicago Bears in the wild card round of the NFL playoffs, 16-15, much in part due to the quarterback leading a last-minute, game-winning drive.
“Nick Foles just looks like the real deal. And you can wipe away all that stuff from Philadelphia or all that stuff from the Rams. What he’s done the last couple of years has been absolutely unbelievable.
Playoff success has followed Foles the past two seasons, which includes a Super Bowl MVP award and a world championship with the Eagles in 2017.
And while there’s likely to be a trade market for Foles this offseason before he hits free agency, “The Drive” co-host Alfred “Big Al” Williams said the Eagles would be out of their minds if they put the quarterback “out to pasture” if he delivers another Super Bowl victory.
“If last year’s Super Bowl MVP gets back to the Super Bowl and wins another Super Bowl, see you later Carson Wentz,” Williams said Monday.
But Schlereth believes Philadelphia won’t deal Wentz, the team’s starting quarterback, because of the “investment of the first-round draft pick and the No. 2 overall pick.”
To climb up to get Wentz in the 2016 NFL Draft, Philadelphia sent the Cleveland Browns the No. 8-overall pick, a third-round pick, a fourth-round pick, a first-round pick in 2017, and a second-round pick in 2018.
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