Foles says Drew Brees' pregame texts put him at ease

Nick Foles got a little help from his friend and fellow Westlake High School alumnus ahead of his Super Bowl LII MVP performance.

According to Charean Williams of Pro Football Talk, Foles said at Monday's post-Super Bowl press conference that he received pregame text messages from New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees, whom he considers "one of the greatest of all time."

"A lot of the message I'll keep to myself, but the big thing was going into this game, he just reminded me that it's just football," said Foles, who became just the second Texas-born quarterback behind Brees to start and win a Super Bowl. "There's a lot of things going on, pregame, a longer pregame, a big halftime show, but at the end of the day when you're out there, the game will settle down, and it'll just be football."

It didn't take long for him to settle down Sunday, as he led the Eagles on a 67-yard field-goal drive to open the game. They scored their first of three first-half touchdowns before the end of the first quarter.

"He was right," Foles added. "You don't really know. I've never played in a Super Bowl. It's the biggest stage there is in this game, something you dream about as a kid, so when you're out there, you don't know how your body's going to react, you don't know how your mind's going to react. I was able to settle down."