In the spring of 2012, Doug Pederson was on the road scouting draft prospects when he received a call from then-coach Andy Reid. Pederson was scheduled to visit Brock Osweiler in Arizona, but Reid wanted his quarterbacks coach to change his plans and work out another nearby quarterback.
When Nick Foles showed up at the agreed-upon field, Pederson was already there, sitting in his rental car, looking at his iPad.
“I knocked on the window,” Foles recalled in 2013. “I said, ‘Are you Coach Pederson?’”
Their working relationship has been off and on over the last five years, but Pederson and Foles now face the greatest challenge of their careers, and they’ll face it together.