Hardly anyone gave the Philadelphia Eagles a shot at winning the Super Bowl once starting quarterback Carson Wentz went down with a season-ending knee injury. However, backup quarterback Nick Foles proved those doubters wrong as he stepped up in the postseason to lead the Eagles to their first championship in franchise history.

As former Eagles quarterbacks coach John DeFilippo explained, they made a concerted effort to get Foles’ input as to how he wanted the offense to look like in order to make him as comfortable as possible.

“I sat him down and made him list me with our coaching staff, ‘What are your best concepts? What do you see yourself do well? Because … myself, Frank Reich, Doug Pederson, we're not the ones out there throwing it. He is,”DeFilippo said on 1500 ESPN Twin Cities.

“So we sat down and spent time with Nick formulating game plans on what he felt comfortable doing. For me, that's coaching. Why would you ask a player to do something that he's not comfortable with? That's good coaching to me. Nick was open and honest about things he was comfortable with.”

The result of that consultation with Foles saw more of the run-pass option concepts that helped him thrive under Chip Kelly, and they worked again. Foles had a truly terrific postseason as he completed 77 of 106 passes (72.6 percent), which is a new record for the highest-ever completion rate in a single postseason. He even had the confidence to suggest one of the gutsiest play calls in Super Bowl history.

What DeFilippo and the Eagles did with Foles seems like common sense. Instead of forcing a set gameplan onto a quarterback, especially a backup QB like Foles, it feels much wiser to adjust to the QB’s strengths in order to get the very best out of him.

As a result of that good, smart coaching, DeFilippo landed a new job as Minnesota Vikings offensive coordinator, Foles is a Super Bowl MVP, and Philly has its long-awaited championship.