“Philly Philly?” “Philly Special?” It doesn’t even matter, because in the end, both worked to perfection.
During his Friday news conference, Philadelphia Eagles head coach Doug Pederson addressed the confusion between the two trick plays that look so familiar.
“They’re two different plays, with the same result,” Pederson said to reporters after Thursday’s win over the Falcons.
“The ‘Philly Special’ was the play we used in the Super Bowl for the fourth-and-goal. ‘Philly Philly’ was just basically the play we used last night, but sort of derived from what Nick had mentioned to me during the Super Bowl, so we just used it for the play last night.”
YUP. Nick Foles is catching TD passes.
In the @superbowl.
Unbelievable. #SBLII #FlyEaglesFly pic.twitter.com/NGNpIrrshO
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One day after Bud Light’s statue of Doug Pederson and Nick Foles discussing the famous “Philly Special” play call was unveiled just outside of the Linc, the Birds trolled the Patriots and everyone else around the league by running a different version of the play — a version identical to a fourth-down play Tom Brady failed to execute against the Eagles in Super Bowl LII.
“I went over there to talk to him to say this might be a good time, and he pointed to the call sheet, and it was like, ‘That’s what I was coming over here for,’ ” Foles said after Thursday’s game.
Pederson and the quarterback were on the same page again.
“That play last night actually came off of a similar play obviously the Patriots had run (in Super Bowl LII), but we actually put it in OTAs. We ran it the last day of OTAs. That was where the play actually originated back then and we carried it over through camp and used it,” Pederson said.
