{"id":13278,"date":"2014-12-15T14:09:42","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T19:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=13278"},"modified":"2014-12-15T14:09:42","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T19:09:42","slug":"nick-foles-will-not-return-in-time-for-week-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/12\/15\/nick-foles-will-not-return-in-time-for-week-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Foles will not return in time for Week 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/10\/nickfoles.jpg\" alt=\"nickfoles\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12224\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/10\/nickfoles.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/10\/nickfoles-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nIt was always viewed as a long shot but Eagles head coach Chip Kelly confirmed that Nick Foles would not return for the team&#8217;s Week 16 game against the Redskins.<\/p>\n<p>Foles&#8217; absence means the Eagles will again have Mark Sanchez on the field at quarterback. Sanchez has struggled in recent weeks including in Sunday night&#8217;s loss to the Cowboys which dropped the Eagles to 9-5 on the season. Still he stands a reasonable chance of being the latest NFL quarterback to pick apart a suspect Redskins secondary.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Eagles?src=hash\">#Eagles<\/a> coach Chip Kelly says at his press conference that Nick Foles\u2019 bone has not healed. He\u2019s out this week.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RapSheet\/status\/544552986652200960\">December 15, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>If there is a silver lining it is that the Eagles did not say anything to suggest that Foles&#8217; recovery had been hampered.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to going down Foles played in eight games completiting 59.8-percent of his passes for 2163 yards and a 13:10 touchdown to interception ratio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was always viewed as a long shot but Eagles head coach Chip Kelly confirmed that Nick Foles would not return for the team&#8217;s Week 16 game against the Redskins. Foles&#8217; absence means the Eagles will again have Mark Sanchez on the field at quarterback. Sanchez has struggled in recent weeks including in Sunday night&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[426,216,160,119],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-13278","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-nick-foles","11":"tag-philadelphia-eagles"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13279,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13278\/revisions\/13279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13278"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=13278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}