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Are the Philadelphia Eagles “committed enough” to win football games right now?
Star quarterback Jalen Hurts doesn’t seem to think so.
“I’ve been talking about execution all year,” Hurts said after Philadelphia 20-17 loss to the Seattle Seahawks on Monday Night Football. “Being on the same page, everyone being on the same page. We didn’t execute. I don’t think we’re, we’re all, we’re committed enough. Just got to turn it around. You know, it’s a challenge that we have to embrace. Just continue to see it through.”
Asked to expand upon those comments, Hurts said simply “Commitment. I don’t have a dictionary on me now…I don’t know how else to say that.”
That landed him in some hot water as fans and analysts saw it as a shot at his teammates. Hurts, meanwhile, has struggled mightily in recent weeks.
“Not committed enough? Who is he talking about? He can’t say that. Not when he’s missing reads and passing up check-downs that would keep the sticks moving,” Mike Sykes of For The Win! wrote.
Now it appears Hurts is walking back those comments a bit. Or, at least, adding some very necessary context.
“It all starts with me,” Hurts said Thursday. “And so, when I say ‘we’ I mean ‘me’ because I’m the point guard out there. I’m the one that makes everything go, and I’m the guy that everyone trusts in to do, and set the pace, for everything. That’s in how I play, that’s in my leadership, that’s in every aspect of the game that comes with the shoes that I walk in.
And so, this is a challenge to myself. You challenge yourself and you challenge the people around you.”
See. That wasn’t so difficult, was it?
If Hurts had just said that on Monday night you could have avoided this whole drama.