Former Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Nick Foles is not backing down. His blunt podcast comments about the Eagles drew a response from head coach Nick Sirianni, and Foles went right back at it with an even sharper message about the locker room, the coaching, and the offense. Honestly? He’s right.

Let’s rewind. Last week, Foles went on his podcast and said what a lot of Eagles fans have been thinking for weeks:

“This is probably gonna go viral, but I have to say it, like, this team has something wrong,” Foles said. “There’s something internally wrong with this team. You could see with their body language, the way they’re speaking, just the quotes that are coming out and how bad this season has been beyond all the injuries.”

Sirianni responded during a radio appearance.

“Well, Nick’s not in the locker room with us, so pretty much don’t take into account what he says,” Sirianni said.

That’s a fair point. Foles isn’t in that building every day. He doesn’t sit in the meetings, and he doesn’t see what happens behind closed doors. But here’s the thing. He doesn’t need to be in the locker room to see what’s showing up on the field every single Sunday.

Nick Foles fires back at the Eagles

Now, Foles has doubled down on his rant about Philly, and he took aim at how the team is handling the criticism:

“The fact that they’re getting emotional about what we say, like, block us out, we’re talking to the fans,” Foles mentioned. “The fact you’re getting frustrated about what Nick Foles and Brandon Graham are saying — we care so much about the Eagles. BG and I want to talk really good about the Eagles. But when we go and put on the tape, there are too many things that we have to share from our perspective and insight.”

Shout out to Nick Foles. That is not an easy position to be in. When you’re in the media and the podcasting game, especially with what he accomplished in this organization, it’s incredibly hard to walk the line between the relationships you’ve built and speaking the truth. Most guys would play it safe. Foles isn’t doing that.

He’s basically saying he’s there to do his job. He turns on the games and sees what everybody else sees. Poor coaching, laziness, missed tackles, guys not running the right routes, a vanilla game plan. These are all the things fans have been screaming about all season long.

And if this were a different sports city or a different fan base, maybe nobody cares. But this is Philadelphia. Foles is a legend here, and he’s keeping it real anyway. If anything, he earned even more respect from me. He’s not afraid to say how he feels.

Of course everybody wants this team to win. But this isn’t a normal losing stretch where you drop a few games and regroup. The Eagles are hitting rock bottom, and they can’t seem to get out of their own way.

So yes, I agree 100 percent with Foles. Sure, he might catch some backlash behind the scenes. Maybe a couple of text messages. But the Eagles are supposed to be a prestigious organization. Handle your business, keep everything in-house, and go win a game. Who cares what anybody says on a podcast? We’re looking at your results on the field, and right now those results are ugly.

Foles talks about what he sees

Foles went even further when he got to the offense:

“An offense in college in the Big 12 has more details than the Eagles offense in the NFL,” Foles added. “That’s a problem.”

Is he lying? No. What do people want him to say instead? That everything is sunshine and rainbows? That it’s all good?

I can’t stand that approach. We’re all passionate fans, and I understand the urge to look at things through a positive lens and search for the light at the end of the tunnel. There is no light right now. It’s raining. It’s thunderstorming. Pretending otherwise doesn’t fix a single snap.

The only way you get better at anything in life is by holding yourself accountable. You reflect, you figure out what you’re doing wrong, and you find a way to fix it. Every organization goes through ups and downs, and Philly is in a down period. Foles sees it, Graham sees it, and the fans see it. Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.

I have no doubt that Eagles GM Howie Roseman and owner Jeff Lurie will address this and get it fixed. They always do. But nothing gets fixed until somebody is willing to point it out, and Nick Foles just did the Eagles a favor by saying it out loud.