Credit the Eagles’ once maligned and exiled GM, Howie Roseman, for having the prescience to waive vogue backup QB Chase Daniel in favor of talking QB Nick Foles out of an early retirement (2 years and $11M.) Eagles’ head coach Doug Pederson, once himself the backup QB to Dan Marino, Brett Favre and Donovan McNabb, had an unwavering faith in Foles and urged Roseman to make the switch from Daniel to Foles---for what appeared to be, at the time, an exorbitant cost.
The rest is history, as they say---for Nick Foles led the Eagles to its first ever Super Bowl win while replacing MVP candidate QB Carson Wentz.