The denouement of the 2017 NFL season — a year that sent a series of seismic shocks through the natural order of things — came on Monday morning in Minneapolis, when a former high school coach and a starter-turned-backup-turned-Super Bowl MVP held court to talk about how they’d upended Bill Belichick and Tom Brady.
“It wasn’t necessarily me; it was everyone around me that did an amazing job,” Eagles quarterback Nick Foles said. “The outcome was, we were successful and now we’re world champions.”
Foles, the former Eagles starter who’d come back to the team after time with the Rams and Chiefs, returned to the starting lineup when Carson Wentz tore his ACL on Dec.