The Eagles Gave Jalen Hurts The Starter spot Not The Endorsement.
“For Now. We’re Keeping The Main Thing The Main Thing.”
Can You recall A More Glib, Unglamorous, ignominious, Off-Season For The Quarterback Position? I Can’t Think Of Another Time When The Microscope pressed Down with This Much Force On The Games’ Most Notable Position With This Much Scrutiny. Of Course, the Number Of People Discussing sports Mushroomed But Every iota Of Quarterback Position Has At Some Pointed To Under The light.
EXcept Lamar Jackson Whose Been Quiet On His contract Situation.
I Wrote On This Topic Some Time Back But The Recklessness At The NFL’s Ambassodroialy Position Somehow Suffused. The Face Of NFL”s Sucess Has Turned Into A Stone monument Of Hubris And Self-Redacting Reverence To An idol Of Soured Self-indulgence. With The Highest Paid Player Setting The Standard.
Aaron Rodgers Played The Packers To The Tune. “Wait For U” The Toxic King retook his Thrown. After His Big Pay Day, He Turns To Publicly Expressing His Dissatisfaction With The Team While Blindly Glossing Over How The Contract He Signed Contributed To The Scars The Team generated To Fit Him Into the League's Unprecedented Highest-Paid Slot.
The Three Year Extension, Rodger Extol He Would Not Have Put His John Hancock To If The Packers Had Appreciated To Him To Lost Of Devante Adams. The Packers Aren’t Alone Stand Alone On Stage With No Hand To Hold For Their Commitments. The Price For Contract Money For A BIG quarterbacks. Along With Rodger’s Contract, The Cheifs Contract With Patrick Mahomes Back Log The Books and Cost Tye Defense And Tyreek Hill. The Cowboys Cut Back Daks Deal Because Soon They’ll Have No Offensive Line to Protect Forty Million Dollar Investment To Action And No Wide Receivers To Project Him Further. Who’s To Say What The Bills Will Pay For Josh Allen. Another Contract Extension Looms For Arizona Cardinals Kyler Murray. In His Fourth Season, Who Has Already Agitated People Around The Organization To Refer to Murray As “Self Centered” And “Immature,” Per Report.
For A Team To Have A Quarterback, They “Like” Means, More And More Absorbing some “Toxic” Kick Back In ONE form Or Another.
After Years Mired In Quarterback Purgatory, The Brown, Inherited Two Unyielding Head Cases. Sorry, But There are Both Head Cases. At This Juncture, It Appears The Browns May Have To Find A Way To Move Forward With Both On The Roster. Deshaun, He’s Been A Model Citizen, At Least As Far As A MAN facing 22 Counts of Sexual Misconduct Can Achieve Model Status.
Watson's Availability For His First Season In Cleveland Remains Up In There As Suspension Looms. With The Trade Market Shrinking For Mayfield After The Draft, The Browns Have To Consider Their Options And Turn Heel On Their Apparent Colluding To Move On From The Former Number One Pick For The Better Part Of Last Season. ‘We’re Sorry, Baker. You're Not The Guy To Lead Our Team, BUT the Guy Who’s Replacing You He’s Got Some Of The Feild Stuff. Can You Stick Around A Bit. Sorry About All The Dysfunction Lately. You’re Getting 18 Million Cheer Up.’ Mayfield's Not A Complete Wash. He’s A Project And A Conundrum, And Teams Are Becoming Timorous When Appropriating Quarterback casts Offs Who Haven’t Won An MVP.
The Browns PR Team Are Going Into Mini Camp With Fire and Brimstone Impaling The Ground Surrounding 100 Alfred Lerner Way, Cleveland, And First Energy Stadium.
Though If You Look At The Situation From Another Angle, From The Perspective Of An Opportunist. The Baker Mayfield Vs. The Browns Saga Generates Stream Conversation. Plaudits Can’t Find The Faucets Knob On Mayfield’s Name. He’s A Former Number 1 Pick. A Name To Chew For Nearly Every Voice An Pen Man In The Industry And Create A Buzzing Hive Around The Browns This Off-season. . Some Have Even Sunken As Deep To Consider Having Sympathy And Commiserating With A Guys Once Panned For Displaying A “Brash” And “Cocky” Personality. Mayfield Did Grab His Sack That One Time.
Speaking Of Inexorable, How About Carson Wentz, The former Eagles Star Whom The Colts Couldn't Wait To Kick Out Of The Nets. “The one thing I think [owner] Jim [Irsay] and I and [coach] Frank [Reich] are when we know something’s not a good fit, don’t just try to justify it.” Said Colts GM Chris Ballad, who Felictiouslyb Remark on the Revolving Door He’s Had At The Quarterback Position Since He’s Helmed The Team. “Every Year I Get A New One.” Most of The Colts Brain Trust Believe They’ve Scored A Mainstays in Matt Ryan, But There’s Still A lot of football To Play. Of His Former Quarterback Carson Wentz, Now Washington Commanders Reclamation Project. Ballard Squared. “Let’s move forward.”
Once Ryan takes the Feild, We’ll Have More Rendered Deduction On Whether Or Not The Colts were Wise Not To Double Down On Wentz. Until Then, The Shadow Of Wentz Hangs Over Indy Like A Cursed item Passed On From Philadelphia. Now The Colts Have Convictions That Matt Ryans Has The Power To “Redeem.”
The Eagles Got Up From Under Ye weight Od Wentz, whose “rogue,” Selfish, And “Egotistical” behavior Could No Longer Be Balance By His Superhero Talent. The 6’6 Tall Canon Arm North Dakota Star Became The Marvel of The Eagles Eyes, And They Rewarded Him So With a big Contract. Though the Sighs Of Wentz Capitulating Were No Secret, The CoachingFostered A Stature Too Grand, Too “Uncompromising”: “There’s A nasty Price For Seeing Only What We Want To See.”
Enter Jalen Hurts.
The Eagles Drafted Hurts In the 2nd Round In 2020. A Surprise Pock. Everybody Knew The Team Swore Pact With Wentz, Which Made The Eagles’ Conundrum A Colossus Conundrum. The Former Oklahoma Star wouldn’t Challenge Wentz’s Position; Instead, Hurts Came In To Inspire Wentz’ Return To Glory. Alas, Neither Saw The Situation That Way. Carson’s Took Umbrage To The Selection, and His Tense Relationships In Philly Grew Frothy Wentz’ Became Too Big To Fail. Coach Pederson Continued To Defend His Relationship, Even After He benched Wentz For Hurts Late In The Season. Once The Season Ended, Both Pederson And Wentz We’re Gone In Puff Of Smoke Within Weeks Of Each Other.
That Left Hurts, But Jalen Hurts Stood Alone. The Quarterback, Whom The Team Kind Of Used As A Proxy In Their Drama With Wentz, Took The Quarterback Position And Became The Center Of Their Replacement Efforts, Even If That’s Not How The Team Envisaged Things to Workout.
In Every Story, The Protagonist's Traits Are The Antithesis Of The Antagonist. Good and Evil. Quarterbacks, Of course, Are The Antagonist To Every Fan Base Except the One They Represent, Or In Aaron Rodgers's Case, Every Fan Base. Quarterbacks and their “Bling Bling” Diamond Crusted Veneer Live At The Top Of Mount Olympus And It's Crowded Below. When It’s Crowded Below, There’s Motivation To see You Fall.
Jalen's Hurts Throws From On A Lower Plateau Of Starting Quarterback. The quarterback Position Maybe The Only Position In Team Sports That Engenders Singularity.
He’s The Only One At That Position On The Field At any time In The Offense. Except for The Center But, Offensive Lineman.
Teams Don’t Just Encourage “Selfishness,” They Sponsor The Behavior. The Satr Standing Apart, It's Just An Necessary Evil, And Occupational Hazard: Except For A Guy Like Jalen Hurts.
In A Quarterback Zone Gutted With Harbingers Headline Of Doom At The Question, Hurts Brings A refreshing Perspective. He’s As Humble As Moses. A Trait He Shares And May Only Be Rivaled By His Former College Teammate Tia Tagovailoa.
On The GQSports YouTube Channel, Their Serial Broadcast, “My First Million,” A Show That’s Featured Other NFL Stars Like Marshon Lattimore, Tua Tagovlioa, and Justin Jefferson—Who Spent A Large Sum Of His Pay Out On Jewelry And Cars. Hurts Demonstrated How He Saved A Large Portion Of His First Million Rather Than Scathing Ostentatious Things.
Hurts Kept His Lifestyle Low-key. Even with His Jewelry: ”He[The Jeweler] DM’d Me With Reasonable Prices, So I Went In.”
To That Point In 2021, Heading Into His Second Season, Hurts Decided To Put 15 Bands Away For A “Future Vacation.” Once He Gets His Passport Corrected. Until then, He’s On The Football Field.
Since Taking Over The Full Job Time 2021, Hurts has Lead The Team In Rushing, Passing. Under First-Year Head Coach Nick Siriani The Team Won Nine Game And Arrived In the Playoffs For the First Time Since 2018. The Year Following their Super Bowl Win.
Hurts Had An Above Average Year of 3402 Yards, 17 touchdowns 823 Yards On The Ground With an 84.7 Passer Rating This Season, Above League Average. According To Profootballfocus.
Few Prospects Have Made The Strides Hurts as A Passer, Literally. Early On In His College Career, Nick Saban Would Mostly Utilize Hurts As Battering Runner. He’d finish Games Barely Above Fifty Percent As a pAsser With Eventually Precipitated Tua Replacing Hurts As The Starter. After A Year At Oklahoma, Hurts Entered The League Eager To Prove Himself A Prolific Passer. The Results Have Been A Mix Bag.
Hurts Still Has Limited Range On His Targets, Preferring To Stress The Boundary On His Right—Where He Ranked Third On Throws In That Direction. He Played To his Strength, those Intermediate Routes. Hurts Crushed On Targets Of 10-19 Yard Range, Earning A 100.8 Passer Rating In The Process.
But He Struggles To Address Targets Over The Middle In Tight Windows. He Lofts The Ball Too Much. Meaning Instead Of Using “Zip” Or “Force,” He Uses “Touch” When The Read Requires Otherwise, which Could Be an Arm Strength Dilemma.
Hurts On A General Level Doesn’t Have The “howitzer” Arm. No Humanoid Typhoons Coming Through Your Town When The Eagles Offense arrived, You are Sure Not To Mistake Hurts With Justin Herbert Or Even Derek Carr.
When Flushed Out Of The Pockets Hurts Shows Adept Touch Especially(72. passer Rating, Above Average) On His First Read But Plays Break Down Infrequent And Hasn’t The Focus In Structure. As Identifies By His Struggles When He Holds Onto The Ball Longer than 2.55 Seconds than The League Average.
When Head Coach Nick Siriani Took Over The Eagles, Particularly The Offense, He Didn't Quite Know What To Do With The Quarterback inherited. EarlyInnThe Season The Team Implemented An RPO System. Allowing Hurts To Que In Simpler Reads And His Athleticism. RPOs Are Also A Backhanded Way Of Saying, “We Dont Trust You To Run A Pro Offense.”
The Eagles Offense Didn’t Suffer. The Run Game Flourished In The RPO, Five Yard Per But The Success Rate Still Maxed Out At Around 43%. They were leaving Hurts With The Option Targets In The Flat.
The RPO's Philosophy: A On “Simple” Two Reads That The Quarterback Must Make Split Seconds. The Quarterback Must Read The “Conflict.” Usual A Safety, Linebacker of Defensive End. By Spreading The Formation Out Creates, And Blockers That Block Up And Not Slide Down Offenses Create A Numbers Advantage Because The Defense Must Account For the Threat Of The Quarterback, Otherwise By a Bystander Or King In Chess, Could Tuck And Run. The NFL VERSION Focuses On Getting their Premier Athletes In Space Or One On One. Meaning the RPO Team Place A premium On Physical Attribute Ahead Of Ability And Technical Ingenuity. In The Early 2010s, Team Found Themselves Force To Integrate RPO Structure Into Play Books To Accommodate Quarterback Talent. Almost A Full Decade In The Reads Have to Evolve Accordingly With The Demand For Downfield Marksmanship.
“If that defender – who is usually a linebacker, safety, or slot corner – extends wide enough from the box, the quarterback hands the ball off. If the conflict defender stays in tight to play the run, the quarterback pulls and throws.” or Run If He’s Gifted, But Thats A Less Favorable Outcome.
With Carson Wentz Under Center, The Eagles Ran Their Version of The RPO To the Edges. Wentz Nearly Won MVP That Season. Doug Pederson And Frank Reid’s Offense Didn’t Just Accommodate The Concept; They Flourished In it.
Mid-Way Through The Season, Siriani Couldn’t Trust Hurts To Make Long Developing Down Field Reads. Just Lie RPO long Developing Route Require That Spilt Second Processing, No Matter How Much Time A Quarterback Has In The Pocket Weighing The Decision. When he Did Target Out, He Favored In Breaking Routes Which Made Up (15%) But The Eagles Passing Attack Never Took Flight. Siriani Did The Smart Thing. Like a General Recognizing A Tactical Lost, He Stops.
Siriani Deployed His Offensive Troop On The Ground. For the Final Ten games Of The Season, the Eagles Ranked Top 10 In All Of Your Favorite Rushing Stats. EPA, Yards Per Rush, First Down Rushes. For A Seven Game Stretch, The Eagles Became The First Team With At Least 175 Yard Per In Seven Consecutive Games. They Recovered From A 2-5 Start To Make The Playoffs. With Hurts Missing Two Games Down The Stretch.
The Stratagem Work. Matter Of Fact, The Eagles We’re At Time Sleeper Spoilers Heading Into The Playoffs. Jalen Hurts, Spearheaded the offense. Hurts Finished The Season Leading The Team In Rushing Yardage. (3,144 passing yards, 16 touchdowns, and rushing for 784 yards and ten touchdowns)
He’s Effective, Judicious Even. Hurts don’t Love To Run. I Can Tell Because He Doesn’t Break Downfield Every Scramble Drill Like Maybe Lamar Or Vick Would. He Tends To Step Out Of Bound Even With Potentially More Yards To Gain If He Eluded Or Used His 220 Plus Pound Frame To Square Safety Who Attempt To Cut Him Off. Regardless, He’s a productive Runner. He’s More More “Mobile” Than “Running” Or “Dual Threat.” Those blades of Glory Didn't Hurt The Team By Taking Away From opportunities Downfield, The Way Colin Kaepernick Had Late In His Career.
Eventually, The Eagles Would Rumble Down Tampa To Grandpa’s(Tom Brady) House. Brady Had The hire Ground. And There Zion the First Round Against Tampa, The Eagles season Ended.
Except:
This Off-season Hurts, Has Unquestion Claim To The Starter Role In His second Campaign, He’s Earned That Much. But With That, The Vibe Around The Entire Affair Feels Hallow. He’s The Only Quarter On a short Leash So To Say. From Here Future Seems Suspect with Him And The Eagles.
From An Accessory To The Eagle's “Spat” With Carson Wentz To The Guy. When Then Eagles Coach Doug Pederson Inserted Hurts Into The Starting Line Up, He Called The Rookie to replace The Vet, A “the spark.” In relationship Lingo, A fling.
Now Its Time To Prove The Spark Can Generate Real-Buzz.
“It’s Understood,” Hurts Said. “It’s My Opportunity. It’s My Team.” No One’s Questioning That But For How along. How Jeffrey Laurie Spoke Of hurts In An Interview With The Athletic Sounded More Like A Referral Letter Than A Vote Of Confident.
The “Higher Ups” In The Organization Swirl Over His Intangibles and Not How He Measures Up As A Football Player And A Starter. Maybe The Guy You Want Dating Your Daughter No Running Your Offense.
The Eagles Added Star Wideout AJ Brown During The Draft. The All-Pro Will Give Hurts His First Alpha Receiver Of His Young Career. Along With Complimentary Option Like Devonta Smith, Dallas Goedert, and Zach Pascal. Through weeks 1-7, Hurts Racked Up 287 dropbacks and threw the ball 242 times. Nick Siriani’s Better Senses Got The “better” of Him, And He Tailor The Offense to The Personal Rather Than The Philosophy Brought Over From Indy. Still, it is No Stretch To Suppose Nick Siriani Would Welcome A Returned To A Down The Field Attack.
The Eagles Aren’t Committed To Hurts. Not How Other Teams Are Committed To Their Less Than Righteous Quarterback Options. With Hurts Playing another Year Nick Siriani Offense, The Expectations Are Raise Some. But the Offense Most Like Won’t Look The Same As The Run-Heavy, Power-Counter Option Offense Of Late Last Season. The Same Offense Would Be A Step Back. Will Hurts’ Upside Rise Under Heat Below Or Expose Him In The Light?
If Hurts Starts To Win, Would The Sparks that Fly Produce The “Jackal And Hyde” Media Fest Of Tebow John Elway Of A Decade Ago. A Front Office Tied To A Quarterback They Don’t Believe In But Forced To Ingest For The Placation of The Fan Base Because The Guy Can Win Games And Sell Jersey.
For Hurts Remains Focused On The Up And Up.
