Nick Foles has spent the last couple of weeks turning into the loudest former Eagle in the room, and he’s not exactly soft-pedaling anything. First came his comments about the team’s culture slipping. Then, on Wednesday, he took his criticism straight onto Brandon Graham’s podcast and made it clear he doesn’t care if people inside the organization are bothered by it.
“The fact that they’re getting emotional about what we say. Like, block us out.
We’re talking to the fans. The fact that you’re getting frustrated about what Nick Foles and Brandon Graham are saying.
We care so much about the Eagles. BG and I want to talk really good about the Eagles, but when we go and put on the tape, there are too many things that we have to share from our perspective and insight.”
He doubled down in a longer stretch of the same point, saying the reaction from people at the top “bothers me a little bit,” and adding, “Like, block us out. Do not listen to what - we’re talking to the fans.”
Foles said he and Graham want to speak positively about the Eagles, but argued that the tape forces them to point out what they see. He also brought Jason Avant into that same bucket, saying, “BG and I wanna talk really good about the Eagles.
Jason Avant wants to talk really good about the Eagles.” He finished by saying, “I always believe that.’
The next day, Foles kept going on the SZN Podcast and shifted from the building to the offense itself. He compared the current operation unfavorably to Kevin Patullo’s and said the numbers back him up.
“To look at the numbers, and everyone was so tough on Kevin Patullo last year - Kevin Patullo’s offense was way better than this offense. Like, you know, what was it, like 19th in one category, 24th in another? The Eagles are like dead last, like in like 30th in like -”
When Evan Moore pointed out that Patullo had Jalen Hurts and, for the most part, DeVonta Smith, Foles pushed back but stayed on the same theme. He said he’s seeing players fail to finish plays, referenced Nick Sirianni saying a week earlier, “I don’t see a hustle or a not playing hard sort of thing,” and said he can point to specific snaps where that effort is missing.
He also singled out the run game, saying he’s seen “two or three” plays where Saquon Barkley “wasn’t doing the right thing.” From Foles’ view, the bigger issue is confidence, and he said that confidence is slipping while the players are being asked to trust coaches who “have never proven to you their worth.”
He specifically said, “These offensive coaches. The new offensive scheme has not proven to the players that it’s worthy cause it has not been brought to life, which, this becomes very difficult during the season.”
There’s also the numbers angle, which Foles leaned on, and the split between 2025 and 2026 is stark. Still, the situation is complicated by injuries and roster holes, and it’s hard to fairly judge Sean Mannion and his offense in that context. The comparison to 2025 feels like too much of an apples-to-oranges exercise, even if the current results are ugly.
That said, Foles doesn’t seem interested in dialing it back. If anything, he’s leaning into the role.
He’s been going heel, doing a Stephen A. Smith thing, and for now he’s making criticism of the Eagles look like his new hobby.
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