Let me introduce you to Joe Flacco, Eli Manning, and Joe Namath. The “very good for a short while, but barely above average over a career” QB club has a lot of members.
Oh, to be sure.
But none of them ever got a contract for 4 year and $88 million with $45 of that guaranteed. Or worked so desperately at being a prima donna while openly marketing themselves to other teams while offering so little.
Foles still wins that money/entitlement/drama vs talent ratio battle over any of those players quite easily.
Eli Manning is the highest paid player in the history of the NFL. He was, over his career, an average NFL QB, yet continued to get big contracts and a guaranteed starting job. And he notoriously refused to play for the Chargers if they drafted him at #1 overall. On the money/entitlement/drama v. talent ratio, he’s Nick Foles with 3.5 times as many starts.
I played against Eli Manning in high school (and my brother played against Peyton). My proudest football moment was making his RB fumble, though they still dominated the game.
… and twice as many Super Bowl MVPs. Bringing home that trophy makes up for a lot of average QB play.
There’s a lot you could use to describe Foles, but I don’t know if “primadonna” is really one of them. I don’t think “3rd string QB wants chance at starting job” is that noteworthy.
Kirk Cousins: another unvaxxed idiot
Watching the Hall of Fame game right now.
Not the greatest game I ever saw, for certain.
I find myself wondering dumb things like “When there’s a break, how does the Gatorade squeeze-bottle guy decide who to run up to first?”
And for that matter, how the hell do you get that job? It’s gotta be nepotism, right? I mean, I’ve never seen a classified ad reading: “Wanted: NFL sideline personnel; hydration technician. Must have experience with electrolytes.” 
Watch the movie Waterboy and you might get an idea.
LOL
But seriously, to go off on a completely random tangent, Sandler had a weird obsession with that character for a long time. Little Nicky was essentially the exact same thing and I never got it. Not that the man was or will ever be an shining example of creativity, he was a very funny man once; I loved Billy Madison, and Happy Gilmore is still a Top-5 movie for me to this day, but that Bobby Boucher character was one of his weakest ideas ever and he couldn’t let it go. I mean, I get that those movies made him many solid gold dumptrucks full of hundred dollar bills, and props to him for accomplishing that, but personally I never found it funny even a little bit.
Yeah I too loved Billy Madison (it was one of my favorite movies as a teen, my kind of humor) and Happy Gilmore. Waterboy was not nearly as good. Little Nicky was unwatchable.
He did the “Cajun Man” when he was on Saturday Night Live and he also did a variation of the character on some of his comedy albums (I think called something like “the Nervous Southerner”). He’s been doing it for a long time. I don’t think it has ever been funny. Some of his other stuff is but not that.
When one teams’ punter had the best game of all the players, it’s a red flag. By the by, the punters name is Pressley Harvin the Third. I can’t help but picture him having a little tea party table on the sidelines, and when asked to punt, he gets up, removes his cravat and states to his tea party friends (in the poshest British accent of course), “Oh, pardon me, Mum.”
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Cravat…lol
"Nice to be in a place where people want you and care about you progressing as a person and a player,”
Far be it for me to defend the Bears, but Chicago was nothing if not supportive of Mitch for 3 years (even if they thought his last name was Trubinsky). He was coddled, the offense changed to fit his strengths, and he was given every opportunity to succeed. Of course, we don’t know the reality of the day to day that happened at Halas Hall, but this potshot by Mitch seems to be unwarranted and whiny. And it made me smile.
And as a Packers fan, you’re a certified expert in whiny QBs, so I trust your judgment on this 
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Rodgers is a very talented and historically successful whiny quarterback. So was Favre. Just to be fair.
(Also I think most QBs whine, even Russell Wilson who is a cliche about always talking as if he was giving a pep talk has been whiny of late.)
Week One of the preseason is in the books, and every rookie QB showed flashes and the fans really have a reason to be excited for their new franchise QB, every player was in the best shape of their career, every young player has tremendous “upside”, and all the UDFAs have a good chance to make the team.
My favorite part of the NFL season so far was when Packers’ Head Coach Matt LaFleur, when asked about his evaluation of Jets’ rookie QB Zach Wilson, said: "He’s got to make sure he gets the proper coaching up there. That’s the one thing I question.”
Wilson’s offensive coordinator? Mike LaFleur, Matt’s younger brother
What is also entertaining to me is seeing all of the third backup QBs who I have never heard of (Webb, Boyle, Montez, Lauletta, etc.) get a chance to show their stuff.
Zing! Love that - classic older brother behavior.