{"id":6364,"date":"2013-10-30T14:55:24","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T18:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=6364"},"modified":"2013-10-30T14:57:31","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T18:57:31","slug":"philadelphia-eagles-qb-nick-foles-to-start-in-week-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/10\/30\/philadelphia-eagles-qb-nick-foles-to-start-in-week-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Eagles QB Nick Foles to start in Week 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6367\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6367\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6367\" alt=\"Getty Images\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/10\/foles1.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/10\/foles1.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/10\/foles1-300x226.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/10\/foles1-50x37.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6367\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Nick Foles has been named the starter for this Sunday&#8217;s Week 9 match-up against Oakland. Foles has been cleared of the concussion he suffered in Week 7 while playing the Dallas Cowboys.<\/p>\n<p>Foles was cleared on Monday and returned to practice on Tuesday. Rookie Matt Barkley will serve as the backup.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nick did really well,&#8221; Kelly said. &#8220;I know he was cleared, but we needed to see him. I was really happy with how Nick practiced yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One of the good things about practicing on Tuesday is you can get your eyes on people who have been out. Nick did a really good job and Nick will be our starting quarterback this week.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Michael Vick\u00a0will not practice or be available for the game in Oakland after re-injuring his hamstring in the Eagles&#8217; Week 8 loss to the\u00a0New York Giants.<\/p>\n<p>Although Foles had a horrific performance before going down against the Cowboys, he is definitely a QB2 option in a plus matchup this week. In his first four appearances this season, Foles completed 41-of-61 passes (67.2 percent) for 542 yards with six touchdowns and no interceptions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Foles has been named the starter for this Sunday&#8217;s Week 9 match-up against Oakland. Foles has been cleared of the concussion he suffered in Week 7 while playing the Dallas Cowboys. Foles was cleared on Monday and returned to practice on Tuesday. Rookie Matt Barkley will serve as the backup. &#8220;Nick did really well,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[426,216],"coauthors":[28],"class_list":{"0":"post-6364","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6364","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6364"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}