Nick Foles did something that Tom Brady couldn’t during the Super Bowl — catch a touchdown pass.
Nick Foles caught a Super Bowl TD on the same trick play Tom Brady once used against the Eagles
That’s how it’s done.
After the Patriots failed to convert on a trick play that would have given Tom Brady a Super Bowl reception, Foles and the Eagles basically looked at them and said, “Anything you can do, I can do better.”
Foles caught a touchdown pass after a perfect Trey Burton pass, all after walking to the line and pretending to deliver signals:
Foles’ score put the Eagles up 22-12 as the second half was ending, and it was one that had U.S. Bank Stadium on fire.
It was a gutsy call on fourth-and-1. At halftime, Eagles head coach Doug Pederson explained why they didn’t settle for the field goal, saying “We had just gone all the way down the field, and I wasn’t going to stop.”
Burton played quarterback while in college and has turned into an NFL player who can do what’s asked of him. But he was able to pull out the arm and throw a touchdown in the Super Bowl, something that nobody saw coming after how his career path changed.
But there’s more to it than just the Patriots trying it earlier in the game.
The Patriots have actually run this very play against the Eagles before.
In Week 13 of the 2015 season, Danny Amendola threw a touchdown pass to Tom Brady on the same play:
It’s also a play straight out of the college ranks.
Ohio did the same thing to Akron in a November game, where Ohio quarterback Nathan Rourke called an audible for the play:
They had stolen the play from Navy, who ran it just a couple of weeks earlier:
Foles has now done something that no other player has done in Super Bowl history.
That’s how it’s done.
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