PHILADELPHIA - Now Nick Foles and Frank Reich can start diagramming the "Indy Special."The Colts announced Monday they had signed Foles to a two-year contract that reunites the quarterback and coach who combined on a trademark play call to help the Philadelphia Eagles win the 2017 NFL title.Foles adds depth behind 37-year-old Matt Ryan, the league's 2016 MVP whom Indy acquired from Atlanta in a March trade.
And it gives Reich a proven backup, someone he knows well and who had long been rumored to be Indianapolis bound."I love Nick Foles," Reich said when the rumors began last August after Carson Wentz injured his foot in training camp. "I haven’t talked to him, but I think he’s a great player, I think he’s proven that.
I think he’s a great teammate. There’s nothing about Nick Foles that I don’t like. I think he’s a winner. He’s certainly a guy that fits our kind of culture but he plays for the Chicago Bears."Foles spent the past two seasons in Chicago but appeared in only one game in 2021.
The Bears were still paying him under the four-year, $88 million contract he signed with Jacksonville in 2019. Chicago released the 10-year veteran May 1.It didn't take long for Reich and Foles to get back together.Two weeks ago, they appeared together in Buffalo at Reich's Call to Courage Awards breakfast.