He had one of the greatest postseasons in NFL history. He accomplished what no Eagles quarterback had ever accomplished. He tore apart the vaunted Patriots in the Super Bowl. He joined names like Joe Montana, Bart Starr, Tom Brady and Jerry Rice as a Super Bowl MVP.
All of which doesn't help Nick Foles one bit when he's trying to move the offense at OTAs.
"We haven't completed every single ball, so there's stuff we can work on," Foles said after an OTA practice this week.
"I've thrown a few interceptions, so there's things I can work on. That's the beauty of the game. You can always get better. And this is the time of year to do it."
How does a guy who has the highest passer rating and highest completion percentage in NFL postseason history get better?
The same way he did before he became a household name.
"In reality, you can get a lot better," he said. "Just working continually. I've always talked about footwork, the knowledge of the game. … If you don't work on it, you're going to lose it.
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"You never arrive. I've never arrived. I have a lot of room for improvement. And that's just the football aspect. Then there's the weight room and all the other stuff, too. That's the exciting part of playing sports. You can always get better, and we're in the midst of that right now."
Not even four months after putting on a historic show on the greatest stage in sports with millions of people watching, Foles is now toiling quietly at Eagles practice, waiting to step aside whenever Carson Wentz is healthy.
It may be the strangest career arc ever for an NFL quarterback, but Foles has this remarkable ability to shrug it all off.
It's not like Super Bowl MVPs get benched every day, but that's going to happen soon.
How does he deal with his impending demotion?
"The big thing is we've gone through a lot in the quarterback room with all of us and Carson and me in particular," he said. "The big thing with us is we're honest with one another and our friendship has always come first and I know that at times when he's injured and watching me play that's difficult, but at the same time he's always been extremely supportive.
"He's rehabbing and looking great and getting ready. We're coming off a Super Bowl and I'm out there practicing but at the same time we're preparing to get him back, so it's definitely a different dynamic and it wouldn't work if we were such great friends and understanding each other.
"And that's a big piece of it that people probably don't understand because it gets a little tricky but not for us because we're handing it like men in the locker room and at the end of the day we want the team to be successful whoever's back there at quarterback."
Does he obsess over when he'll go back to holding the clipboard?
Does he worry that he won't get to play at all this year?
Does he tell Carson to slow down his progress so he can at least start the opener?
"No, we have too much stuff going on," Foles said. "We have too much work ahead of us. We're in the middle of OTAs. There's a lot of competition going on right now at practice. A lot of fundamental work, route work, new players, getting to know them, teaching them the offense, so we have so much going on.
"Whoever plays Week 1, the whole team's going to be behind them, the whole quarterback room is going to be behind him. That's the great part of this team. That's the big reason this team won the Super Bowl last year."
