Instead of running from the quarterback debate-controversy-competition between Michael Vick and Nick Foles, the Eagles are embracing it. Check out these Tweets this afternoon:
Brilliant. That immediately disarms the negative connotation of quarterback controversy and turns it into a positive. They did the same thing with Andy Reid’s firing. I do think they got a bit too out ahead of the Riley Cooper thing and fanned the flames of their own fire (putting a crying Cooper in front of cameras was a bad idea), but that was probably a lose-lose situation. A QB controversy, however, doesn’t have to be.
Well played.