He could have done a whole list on Cleveland: Hillis and Gordon already mentioned, but also Derek Anderson, Trent Richardson, Braylon Edwards, and Terrelle Pryor.
I'll never forget the second the news broke that Wentz was out for the season, my dad said, "And the Eagles have just won the Super Bowl" while all of his other Eagles fan friends were so upset. Dude loves Nick Foles and to this day I can't believe he was right about that one run.
As a Dallas fan that’s when I realized how good he was n actually knew eagles had a chance of taking the division that year which they did in 2013 due to Romo getting hurt
Can we all admit that Joe Flacco is currently having this? Yes, he was a good quarterback before but how many of us expected him to have a run like this in 2023/24? Joe Flacco being the one of the most exciting quarterbacks is not a sentence I expected to say this year…..
the crazy thing about flacco is this is the best hes looked from what i have seen from him on baltimore, he was never rlly like that but now hes slinging that mf😂
@@dannywhite7786 dude led the league in receiving yards for a 4 or 5 week span so if he was bad then literally every other receiver in the NFL was worse in that metric. Definition of a linsanity run in the NFL
Calling Nick Foles a linsanity run is an absurd insult to Nick Foles. Foles led a team to a championship and had many years of great play. Jeremy Lin had a month or two. They are not the same.
Raheem mostert sort of fits this list. I know he has been able to have a great season this year, but before this year, he never really was a starting rb and had an insane playoff run with the 49ers in 2019, with an insane game against the packers in the nfc championship game.
@@VarsityAthlete04this year, he had that couple-game stretch with the Vikings when he was put onto the field after being on the team for like 5 days. he pulled multiple wins out of his ass before the clock struck midnight on his run and he got benched for Nick mullens
Foles got a few Linsanity runs lowkey. First with chip Kelly, throwing for 7 TDs in one game and having a 27TD-2INT season. Then some years later he comes back to Philly, replacing wentz to lead them to the first SB win. Almost had another run the next year too. Dudes a legend
In many ways, Nick Foles’ 2018 run was even more magical than his 2017 run - Super Bowl MVP and all! Instead of taking over for an 11-2 powerhouse, in 2018 Foles got a badly banged up, left for dead 6-7 Eagles team. He went on the road, back to LA of all places, and knocked off the eventual NFC Champion Rams, on a prime time game no one thought Philly would win. Then versus the playoff bound Texans, playing for the no.2 seed, with Deshaun Watson firing on all cylinders, Nick went out and set a franchise record 471 yards passing, 4 TDs, and even after getting speared in the chest by Jadeveon Clowny, Foles still pulled off a game wining drive, setting up a short, walkoff FG for Jake Elliott. Week 17, the Eagles dominated the Redskins, with Foles tying the NFL record for consecutive completions, allowing Philly to sneak into the playoffs, where they ran straight into the team with the number one defense in the league, Chicago. Despite it not being one of Foles’ best games, he led a last minute, game wining drive, capped off by a 4th and Goal TD pass to Golden Tate. The Double Doink did the rest. The divisional loss the no.1 seed Saints in the Superdome, was still incredible. Just a few weeks earlier, this team, led by Carson Wentz, had played this exact Saints squad in the Dome as well, and got annihilated 48-7, setting an NFL record for the worst defeat of a reigning SB Champion. Nick Foles takes them on in the divisional, with an even more banged up Eagles squad, makes some big plays early for TDs, coming within a last minute, dropped pass of perhaps knocking off the NFC’s top seed on the road. All things considered, It was incredible.
If you do another one of these, I'd love to see a segment on Patrick Jeffers. A journeyman redeiver who might catch one or 2 a game, absolutely exploded for 700 yards and 8 TDs in the last 5 games of '99.
I remember that, I think what did him in was he blew his knee out right around the time he was arriving, could never get healthy and was just never the same player afterwards.
I'd add Vic Beasley to that list. In 2016, he led the league in sacks and forced fumbles and was a first team All-Pro. He never came close to his 2016 numbers, was out of the NFL after 2020, and was last seen in the XFL.
Danario Alexander was a beast for the Chargers in 2012. Got cut from the Rams after 2 seasons and went off for the Chargers after getting signed mid season, but sadly got hurt in the 2013 offseason and never played another down in the NFL.
thank you for only covering real genuine insanity runs and not random flashes in the pan from the last year people on twitter pretend are “linsanity runs”
Case Keenum with the Vikings. Jimmy G with the 49ers. Geno smith with the Seahawks. Flacco with the browns. Brock Purdy (debatably.) Andrew Luck. Gardner Minshew (Minshew Mania.) Linval Joseph with the Vikings. Earl Morrall for Christ sake.
IMO, Matt Cassell went on a run after Brady went down in the 2008 season and got PAID in KC. Also,Matt Flynn parlayed a single performance to get PAID in Seattle. Small other one was Toby Gerhart running wild for like a season....him and Peyton Hillis (who managed to continue the Madden curse 🤬)
Derek Anderson, QB for the Browns. Had about a half season of great play throwing to Kellen Winslow and Braylon Edwards, then his carriage turned back into a pumpkin and that was that. For about 7 or 8 games in ‘07 though I thought the Browns just might’ve found a franchise QB.
Tebow does not fit this category ...he was god in college everybody knew him coming into the league. he wasn't a surprise for some ppl..... he belongs on a 1 hit wonder or biggest fall off list....not a Linsanity List
Foles has like 3 l insanity runs, first in 2013 where he led the eagles to win the division throwing 27 TDS to only 2 INTS and then comes back in 2017, leads Philly to their first ever ring, and then almost does the same the next yesr
Foles was his own run. 27-2 TD-INT season. Tied most TDs in a game record. Won a SB from the backup position and the SB MVP. Linsanity was what a week long?
Kind of an irrelevant player but…: Jerome Harrison in 2009. He was pretty much a nobody. Although the browns sucked that year, he was on fire the final 3 games of the season and one of those games having 286 rush yards. If he would’ve had 11 more, he would’ve broken AP’s record. After that, never the same and out of the NFL after 2011. U should make a part 2 :)
Just wanted to add a note that Foles did not look good as the season closed out. He had one decent game vs the giants and then played like complete garbage vs the raiders and cowboys. When you look at the context, it makes those 2 games vs the Vikings and Patriots that much more amazing
If Alshon doesn’t drop that pass, and obv the Eagles go on to win against the Saints, I wouldn’t be surprised if they actually move on from Wentz right then and there
Omfg 😂 I forgot Tebow was on the Eagles. Think that’s when I got an autographed Foles picture. My mom was excited when she told me “You want to go and see Tim Tebow?” (Not verbatim) but I think she heard his name a lot & associated him with being good. 😂
Foles almost had another run the very next year but Alshon Jeffrey dropped a pass that got intercepted and ended their playoff run
Foles is just elite when wearing an Eagles jersey, tbh.
@@pedreivalike fr
The double doink!
I had gotten my heart broken that day and needed that interception lol
@@ajuisterToday is the sixth anniversary of the double doink
Peyton Hillis had that one great season with Cleveland in 2010 that even landed him on the Madden cover. I believe he should get a mention here.
Josh Gordon
Definitely. I missed him for sure
Jay Ajayi too. Truly great for about 3/4 of a season
He could have done a whole list on Cleveland: Hillis and Gordon already mentioned, but also Derek Anderson, Trent Richardson, Braylon Edwards, and Terrelle Pryor.
@@williamblackfyre4866 Pryor was less of a superstar, but he could play anywhere on the field pretty effectively.
I'll never forget the second the news broke that Wentz was out for the season, my dad said, "And the Eagles have just won the Super Bowl" while all of his other Eagles fan friends were so upset.
Dude loves Nick Foles and to this day I can't believe he was right about that one run.
Your dad is a true birds fan to have foresight like that. That was a great season the entire team rallied around foles
@@useyourimaginasean yeah my dad's an odd one to be honest, he loves his birds and bills LOL
in my phone, i had wrote "eagles super bowl 2016" with foles as the QB. Gimme a break for being off a year lol. your dad is a smart dude.
2013 Foles had a 7 TD game in the same season Peyton Manning did the same.
I was at that game as a Raiders fan. PAIN
@@reupforthebetter2417you were probably shocked that you were getting torched by the Pole Foles
As a Dallas fan that’s when I realized how good he was n actually knew eagles had a chance of taking the division that year which they did in 2013 due to Romo getting hurt
Can we all admit that Joe Flacco is currently having this? Yes, he was a good quarterback before but how many of us expected him to have a run like this in 2023/24? Joe Flacco being the one of the most exciting quarterbacks is not a sentence I expected to say this year…..
100%. Hes balling out and everyone is excited about it
Flacco's 2012 playoff run was truly something spectacular to watch.
the crazy thing about flacco is this is the best hes looked from what i have seen from him on baltimore, he was never rlly like that but now hes slinging that mf😂
@@zm8w88 the guy is playing like he's got nothing to lose, which is somewhat accurate considering the man was on his couch to start the season
He is definitely playing well, but bro has a super bowl ring, he wasn't exactly an unknown before this
Great comeback, not really a linsanity run
Gardner Minshew during the 2019 season. Literally dubbed “Minshew mania”
And now 2023
Only problem is that the team was really bad, minshew was playing good but the jags stunk.
@@5roductionz1466even better reason it should be talked about
@@Austin.Kilgore linsanity runs are supposed to be where the player plays insane and the team plays good too. The jags still went 6-10 with minshew so
@5roductionz1466 well that is very misleading. The Jags were actually 6-6 when Minshew was starting. They were 0-4 when he didn't play.
Foles won a SB and a SB MVP. That’s like 3 levels above Linsanity
Has been done before by Doug Williams. You don’t know ball
@@dannywhite7786 Foles’ run not being a Linsanity moment (my point) has nothing to do with Doug Williams & the Redskins
@@paisan8766 Right. Most random reply that has 0 to do with Foles or Lin.
Tied most touchdowns in a game and most TDs w/out an INT to start a season.
If it wasn't for Demariyus Thomas, I don't think that play would've worked as well as it did. Man, that was absolutely beautiful.
I speak for every Philly fan when I say BDN WILL FOREVER BE LOVED IN THE CITY
Travis Fulgham's run was insane to even comprehend as an Eagles fan. His ultimate undoing was his reportedly notoriously bad practice habits
He was not good dude. 38 catches for 500 yards on a bad team like wow
@@dannywhite7786 dude led the league in receiving yards for a 4 or 5 week span so if he was bad then literally every other receiver in the NFL was worse in that metric. Definition of a linsanity run in the NFL
Had Fulgham in fantasy, dude carried me to the championship in that season
Foles is not a Linsanity run. He's a step above.
Nicksanity run
@@PlusUltraAdrian a step above. He had multiple good years with Philly.
Calling Nick Foles a linsanity run is an absurd insult to Nick Foles. Foles led a team to a championship and had many years of great play. Jeremy Lin had a month or two. They are not the same.
If anything that means he had the greatest linsanity run of all time.
Raheem mostert sort of fits this list. I know he has been able to have a great season this year, but before this year, he never really was a starting rb and had an insane playoff run with the 49ers in 2019, with an insane game against the packers in the nfc championship game.
Bro was always good, just always hurt
@@machoboys8884 yeah, but the point is that he never started until this year other than 2019 when he went on that linsanity run
@@5roductionz1466 yeah I was agreeing with you saying he’s always been able to have a great season lol
I will forever be thankful for Nick Foles and the rest of that team seeing them win a super bowl was one of the happiest points in my life
Eagles are garbage and your franchise will never see another ring you bum
my personal favorite linsanity run is 2013 josh gordon. pretty sure he still has the record for most receiving yards across a 4-game stretch
you can probably add josh dobbs to this list
Which run did he have
@@VarsityAthlete04this year, he had that couple-game stretch with the Vikings when he was put onto the field after being on the team for like 5 days. he pulled multiple wins out of his ass before the clock struck midnight on his run and he got benched for Nick mullens
Man Jonas Gray if only he made it to practice on time.
Blount >>>>
Samkon Gado’s run with the Packers was a sight to behold as a kid. Whole fanbase loved him that year.
Foles got a few Linsanity runs lowkey. First with chip Kelly, throwing for 7 TDs in one game and having a 27TD-2INT season. Then some years later he comes back to Philly, replacing wentz to lead them to the first SB win. Almost had another run the next year too. Dudes a legend
In many ways, Nick Foles’ 2018 run was even more magical than his 2017 run - Super Bowl MVP and all!
Instead of taking over for an 11-2 powerhouse, in 2018 Foles got a badly banged up, left for dead 6-7 Eagles team. He went on the road, back to LA of all places, and knocked off the eventual NFC Champion Rams, on a prime time game no one thought Philly would win.
Then versus the playoff bound Texans, playing for the no.2 seed, with Deshaun Watson firing on all cylinders, Nick went out and set a franchise record 471 yards passing, 4 TDs, and even after getting speared in the chest by Jadeveon Clowny, Foles still pulled off a game wining drive, setting up a short, walkoff FG for Jake Elliott.
Week 17, the Eagles dominated the Redskins, with Foles tying the NFL record for consecutive completions, allowing Philly to sneak into the playoffs, where they ran straight into the team with the number one defense in the league, Chicago. Despite it not being one of Foles’ best games, he led a last minute, game wining drive, capped off by a 4th and Goal TD pass to Golden Tate. The Double Doink did the rest.
The divisional loss the no.1 seed Saints in the Superdome, was still incredible. Just a few weeks earlier, this team, led by Carson Wentz, had played this exact Saints squad in the Dome as well, and got annihilated 48-7, setting an NFL record for the worst defeat of a reigning SB Champion. Nick Foles takes them on in the divisional, with an even more banged up Eagles squad, makes some big plays early for TDs, coming within a last minute, dropped pass of perhaps knocking off the NFC’s top seed on the road. All things considered, It was incredible.
This flacco run would count right?
If you do another one of these, I'd love to see a segment on Patrick Jeffers. A journeyman redeiver who might catch one or 2 a game, absolutely exploded for 700 yards and 8 TDs in the last 5 games of '99.
I remember that, I think what did him in was he blew his knee out right around the time he was arriving, could never get healthy and was just never the same player afterwards.
I remember watching Samkon Gado go off in four of the five weeks Ahman Green was out for the Packers in 2005, that was insane
He’s a ear nose and throat doctor in Wisconsin now
Samkon “In Gado We Trust” -Chris Berman
Wisconsin hero. Is a doc and was the honorary capitan for Sunday's game
@@claymathewselevator8121 Dang that’s awesome. I haven’t talked with him in awhile glad to hear he’s back in the community up there
You just had to be there for the Tebow run. It was absolutely magical
I remember Tebowmania, that man turned half my grade religious for a year
I'd add Vic Beasley to that list. In 2016, he led the league in sacks and forced fumbles and was a first team All-Pro. He never came close to his 2016 numbers, was out of the NFL after 2020, and was last seen in the XFL.
Great vid! A part 2 of this would be dope!
This was actually a great video for the nfl side !
That Foles swerve...LOL!
Danario Alexander was a beast for the Chargers in 2012. Got cut from the Rams after 2 seasons and went off for the Chargers after getting signed mid season, but sadly got hurt in the 2013 offseason and never played another down in the NFL.
thank you for only covering real genuine insanity runs and not random flashes in the pan from the last year people on twitter pretend are “linsanity runs”
Weird mix of 1 yr wonders and "insanity" runs i guess. Not sure how jonas gray a one game wonder made the cut ahead of peyton hillis a one yr wonder.
My buddy still has a Fulgham hoodie he bought after that Pittsburgh game.
Caepernik was had a sweet run!!! That was fun to watch!
great video mikeytn!!
You absolutely baited me with the intro for Foles. No way I’m not subscribing after that. 😂
Jay Ajayi's back to back 200+ rushing yard games as well. Got him to the probowl that year.
Foles linsanity run was in 2013 when he had 30 td 10 int smtg like that. 2017 he won it all, that's like 10 steps above jeremy lin
i always thought it was Tebow Time
Case Keenum with the Vikings. Jimmy G with the 49ers. Geno smith with the Seahawks. Flacco with the browns. Brock Purdy (debatably.) Andrew Luck. Gardner Minshew (Minshew Mania.) Linval Joseph with the Vikings. Earl Morrall for Christ sake.
We are currently watching a potential Linsanity run by Flacco
jay ajayi one of the great linsanity runs
IMO, Matt Cassell went on a run after Brady went down in the 2008 season and got PAID in KC. Also,Matt Flynn parlayed a single performance to get PAID in Seattle. Small other one was Toby Gerhart running wild for like a season....him and Peyton Hillis (who managed to continue the Madden curse 🤬)
Nick Foles is such a great story
I trained in high school with Travis fulgham. Great guy
It was not Tebowmania. It was Tebow TIME 😂
Tommy DeVito
Derek Anderson, QB for the Browns. Had about a half season of great play throwing to Kellen Winslow and Braylon Edwards, then his carriage turned back into a pumpkin and that was that. For about 7 or 8 games in ‘07 though I thought the Browns just might’ve found a franchise QB.
I’m pretty sure he made the Pro Bowl that year too. Wild.
1:37 *in my Stannis Baratheon voice*: Its "FEWER".
Josh McCown in 2013 with the Bears. And Derek Anderson in 2007.
Bears McCown with Marshall and Jeffrey was elite
Josh Dobbs this season
Tebow got screwed by the system. Dude won games, and I still love him.
Tebow couldn't throw a rock in the ocean
I loved watching Tebow play, it just sucks that his career ended so quickly
You totally forgot Nick Foles was a Pro Bowler and had a 7 TD game in 2013
Bill belicheck single-handedly ruined a mans life over one mistake
Glad I got a signed Foles picture! At the Linc as a kid. Practice game in 2013. I wanted a known player. Got his for $5 I think. I still have it.
Tebow does not fit this category ...he was god in college everybody knew him coming into the league. he wasn't a surprise for some ppl..... he belongs on a 1 hit wonder or biggest fall off list....not a Linsanity List
Solid point
Vic Beasley 2016
Foles has like 3 l insanity runs, first in 2013 where he led the eagles to win the division throwing 27 TDS to only 2 INTS and then comes back in 2017, leads Philly to their first ever ring, and then almost does the same the next yesr
Tim Tebow was "Linsanity" before Jeremy Lin started his run. I remember both runs and the media comparing the two.
That game against the Niners is the one where we see Aiyuk fly over a defender on his way to scoring.
Joshua dobbs is the definition of linsanity
Jonathan Williams ex colts player, Tarik Cohen run with bears, and Eric Ebron
I think enough time has passed to put Jalen Hurts here
ryan fitz-magic had some linsanity to it. also. Jow Flacco this season
I think Josh Norman earns a spot on this list!
Foles had a few linsanity runs. But his super bowl 52 run is the greatest linsanity run of all time.
Kurt Warner was a linsanity run in 1999. It just turned into a HoF career after.
Same with Brady tbh.
I remember fulgham on the eagles because I’m a birds fan and picked him up for fantasy 😭
Wentz was the Linsanity run… NOT Foles
That one season Josh Gordon had in 2013 greatest fantasy pick of my life
you should do the ones from this year that ended like josh dobbs and the vikings, Joe Flacco, the packers and Broncos
James Robinson
Eli Manning in 2007 and 2011
foles lowkey was pretty good earlier in his career when he had chances, i think age just caught up and st louis ruining him
Gary Barnidge deserves a nod.
Foles was his own run. 27-2 TD-INT season. Tied most TDs in a game record. Won a SB from the backup position and the SB MVP. Linsanity was what a week long?
Made this a month to early considering we have 2 players who could possibly be added to this list rn
Foles is easily the greatest backup player in the history of sports
Kind of an irrelevant player but…: Jerome Harrison in 2009. He was pretty much a nobody. Although the browns sucked that year, he was on fire the final 3 games of the season and one of those games having 286 rush yards. If he would’ve had 11 more, he would’ve broken AP’s record. After that, never the same and out of the NFL after 2011. U should make a part 2 :)
I'd put Victor Cruz in that category.
In a few years we’ll be talking about the Brock Purdy Linsanity run
How is it a “linsanity run” if he only had one good game??
Just wanted to add a note that Foles did not look good as the season closed out. He had one decent game vs the giants and then played like complete garbage vs the raiders and cowboys. When you look at the context, it makes those 2 games vs the Vikings and Patriots that much more amazing
Fulgam wasnt a linsanity level run
Tommy Devito😂
The Fact Peyton Hillis wasn't on here is insane. He was on the Madden Cover
If Alshon doesn’t drop that pass, and obv the Eagles go on to win against the Saints, I wouldn’t be surprised if they actually move on from Wentz right then and there
I remember thinking Jay Ajayi was gonna be the next goat
The black brit blitz!! He was fast af
Matt Cassel filling in for an injured Tom Brady
Oreleans Darkwa run was kinda good too
Omfg 😂 I forgot Tebow was on the Eagles. Think that’s when I got an autographed Foles picture. My mom was excited when she told me “You want to go and see Tim Tebow?” (Not verbatim) but I think she heard his name a lot & associated him with being good. 😂
this a banger!
i think the 2 or 3 game 2018 Fitzmagic run isn't brought up enough
How is Josh Dobbs not on here?
I got a few of them, I call it the Cleveland Special:
Peyton Hillis
Trent Richardson
Derek Anderson
Josh Gordon (kinda)
Braylon Edward
Terrelle Pryor
Jamal Lewis deserves some credit for the DA run
No Jay Ajayi mention?
Eagles legend Large Richard Nicholas
We called it tebow time