chof360 Sports NFL writer Frank Schwab and Jori Epstein examine the career of the Philadelphia Eagles quarterback after his first Super Bowl win and MVP. Hear the full conversation on “Inside Coverage” - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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A couple of years ago, Jalen Hurts had this magical season.
He probably is gonna win the MVP if he doesn't get hurt late in the year and misses two games.
It's gonna be very close.
He has a Super Bowl that I've talked about.
I thought he should have been MVP off the losing team.
That's how good he was.
He was the best player in that game.
And then it kind of like he got his contract and it became lukewarm on Jalen, especially this year, but Jalen Hurts had the best passer rating of his entire career.
He was just very efficient.
Saquan Barkley just kind of took over the offense because he's Sequan Barkley.
Now that Jalen has this ring, and now he start looking at his career, and like this dude has, has won a lot of games and he's affected winning in a lot of different ways.
It's not all about passing yards for quarterbacks.
It's about how they affect the game in different ways, whether it's their, their mental aptitude and and figuring out a defense on how to beat it, whether it's Jalen Hurt's running the ball, he was the leading rusher in this entire game.
Like this was, he took over the game in that way, including his passing.
Where, where do you think Hurts stands after this?
Does he vault back up to that conversation he was in with the burrows and the Uh uh Josh Allen's and Lamar Jackson's of the world, or are we a step behind with Jalen?
Does he need another ring to start?
I think, where are we at with Jalen Hurts and kind of where he fits in the NFL hierarchy right now?
I'm glad you bring up two Super Bowls ago, Frank, because I think probably what I got most wrong in my prediction of this game is I thought, ultimately, Patrick Mahomes would win it and Jalen Hurts would not.
But you have to remember that Jalen Hurts played better in the Super Bowl that the Eagles lost to the Chiefs than Patrick Mahomes did.
And so the Chiefs didn't necessarily have the quarterback advantage.
And it's interesting because it is not just a media criticism.
Problem.
There are some people who the league is much higher on than the media, and I don't even mean media in the sense of reporters.
I mean social media, I mean fan reaction.
I mean the online conversations.
For example, both at the beginning of the season and at the end of the season this year, I had different GMs and executives telling me that the reason that the Eagles were such a run heavy offense was because the Eagles understood.
Jalen Hurts two years ago when they had the Super Bowl and he was a very prolific passer, that that was an outlier year rather than the norm for him, and that that's not who Jalen is.
He's not actually going to be that good.
And I think it's fair to say that he's not actually going to be that prolific a passer every year if they want to win, but I don't think it's fair to say that that was an outlier in terms of how good he was.
Good looks different for Jalen Hurts now than it did then.
