After rough game vs. Rams, Foles chalks up Griese's comment on ESPN as miscommunication

With the offensive line sputtering, Monday was another rough night for Bears quarterback Nick Foles. He threw two interceptions and the Rams sacked him four times.

“We have to continue to look at ourselves in the mirror,” Foles said. “We’ll be there for one another and [get] through this thing.”

It's been a weird year for the Bears, and Monday might have been the lowest low yet. On national television in prime time, the Bears laid an egg in a 24-10 loss to the Rams. The offense was maddening, and the defense wasn't good enough to mask those problems.

The optics, all around, were bad. On the Monday Night Football broadcast on ESPN, announcer Brian Griese relayed a conversation he had with Foles a day earlier.

It raised some eyebrows.

“[Foles] said, ‘Sometimes play calls come in and I know that I don’t have time to execute that play call. I’m the one out here getting hit,’” Griese said. “Sometimes the guy calling plays, Matt Nagy, he doesn’t know how much time there is back here.”

Foles chalked it up to a miscommunication between himself and Griese.

“That was definitely a miscommunication with Brian and I,” Foles said. “We do these pregame conversations the day before the game just to give [the broadcasters] information. That conversation, Coach Nagy and I have a great conversation on the sidelines.”

Foles later said, “I would never say anything like that.”

One has to wonder if Foles thought he and Griese were speaking off the record, or if Griese simply took something Foles said out of context. Either way, it wasn’t a good look for the Bears on a national broadcast, especially on a night where the Bears already looked bad.

It didn’t help ease frustrations after a disappointing performance.

“The hard part is when you care so much, you’re trying so hard to figure out that identity and where we’re at and the why part,” Nagy said. “That’s the part that stings, just trying to get that thing right and it hasn’t happened. So we have to look across the board at everything.”

That has to include the quarterback, who missed a couple of throws, but who was also facing a lot of pressure up front. Foles finished 28-for-40 passing for 261 yards. The two interceptions and four sacks plummeted his QB rating to 66.8.