The curtain will open on Nick Foles’ third act — or is it the fourth or fifth? — Sunday with no crowd in the Soldier Field stands. One of the most important people in the Bears quarterback’s life, though, will be in attendance, standing on the other sideline.
Colts head coach Frank Reich might have saved Foles’ career.
“He was the one,” Foles said Wednesday, “who really figured me out as a player.”
In 2016, Foles contemplated retirement, only for his love of the game to be resuscitated by, among others, then-Chiefs assistant Matt Nagy.
The next year, Reich helped revitalize Foles’ skills.