Advice for Hurts-Bashers: Shut Up!
October 27, 2025
Just when it appeared that the 2025 season was heading into a ditch, Jalen Hurts led the Eagles right back onto the road to success with two of the best performances of his career.
Hurts was fantastic in back-to-back wins against the Vikings and Giants – including the 38-20 demolition of the New Yorkers on Sunday.
How fantastic, you ask?
Well, how is completing 34 of 43 passes for 505 yards, seven touchdowns, no interceptions and a passer rating of 142?
Is that good enough to shut up the many self-anointed quarterback experts who have been lying in wait the past six years to bash the best quarterback in modern-day Eagles history?
No, it isn’t.
I guarantee it won’t be long until network hacks like Chris Simms or Colin Cowherd or Dan Orlovsky roll out their tired criticism that Hurts is just a system quarterback, or that he is not an accurate passer, or that he risks injury too often by running.
To these attention-starved phonies, all it will take for their grumbling to resume will be a rare off-game like Hurts had against the Giants on Black Thursday. Then we’ll get to hear once again that Hurts is not on a level with Patrick Mahomes or Josh Allen or Lamar Jackson. Blah, blah, blah.
Well, here’s something for those frauds to consider as the Eagles reach the bye week. Hurts has been better than all of them. Hurts is the best quarterback in the NFL this season because he knows how to win and because he is doing so despite some clueless coaching.
Against the Vikings, Hurts clearly deviated wildly from the game plan to dial up the huge passes that buried the Vikings. And against the Giants, he shared the stage seamlessly with a revived run game that should have been available to him all season.
In all, the Birds gained 276 yards on the ground, with Saquon Barkley (150) and Tank Bigsby (104) running at will against the overmatched Giants.
How they did it – how the geniuses who call plays for the Eagles accomplished this feat – was almost too easy. They decided to take the best runner in the NFL and provide room for him to run. Imagine that.
Instead of aiming him repeatedly between the tackles, they got the ball to Barkley in the flats, around the ends and wherever else he could employ his extraordinary open-field talents.
I literally gasped five minutes into the game when Hurts flipped a screen pass to Barkley that went for 12 yards.
A screen pass to Barkley?
Where has that been all season?
Was it even in the playbook before Sunday?
The fact that it took novice offensive coordinator Kevin Patullo half a season to figure out what last season’s OC Kellen Moore realized from the first day of training camp last year should be worrisome to fans, even with the Eagles holding a secure lead in the NFC East and an early stranglehold on a playoff berth. It is to me.
The truth is, the Eagles are 6-2 right now for one reason above all others – because Jalen Hurts has gotten them there, with his composure on the field and his ability to make big plays in crucial spots.
That No. 1 on his jersey represents where Hurts ranks intellectually in the entire Birds organization.
He’s the one who has weathered six different OCs in his six years as an NFL player.
He’s the one who has to deal with sideline clown Nick Sirianni whispering in his ear every game.
He’s the one who has blended all of the disparate personalities into a team that can win even on its bad days.
And now he’s the one who has to take an inept play-caller like Patullo and actually make the head coach’s best pal look smart.
Finally, when he has secured the latest victory, Hurts then gets to hear from the Greek chorus of network fools that he’s not really all that good.
Watch the games, stupid.
Watch Jalen Hurts lead with a steady hand and elusive feet.
Watch him leverage the strength in his legs to succeed time and again with the Tush Push.
Watch him win a damn Super Bowl against a dynasty the way he throttled the Chiefs last season.
And then, when you have processed all of that information, do us all a favor, will you?
Shut up.
Just shut up.
Maybe I was the only one who felt it during the Eagles’ romp over the Giants on Sunday, but I missed A.J. Brown.
The best wide receiver in Birds’ history couldn’t play because of a hamstring injury, amid rampant talk that he may be traded soon because he’s not happy with his role on the team this season.
Howie Roseman has just about a week now to make the biggest mistake of his long and distinguished tenure as GM of the Eagles.
Will he trade A.J. Brown?
I doubt it.
Should he trade Brown?
Hell, no.
Haven’t we reached the point yet in sports where the mood of the $100-million athlete shouldn’t matter? Is it really necessary to shower these ingrates with riches and then have to worry about whether they’re happy enough?
Incessant whining or not, A.J. Brown is a terrific wide receiver. He makes the Eagles a much better team. He is under contract for the next five seasons.
If I’m running the Eagles, I’m telling Brown that he’s either playing for the team that just won the Super Bowl or he’s retiring. (And since he’s scheduled to make $32 million a season until 2030, he’s not retiring.)
Brown will give his full effort on the field. That’s why he’s such a great player. He wins most of the 50-50 throws because he wants it more. He isn’t going to give less because he has some misgivings about his coaches or his teammates.
At this point, unless Justin Jefferson suddenly becomes available, Brown is irreplaceable.
It’s time, right now, to stop worrying about rich players who aren’t happy. Bryce Harper is sad because his boss said he wasn’t elite any more? Too bad. Joel Embiid is tired of being misunderstood? Suck it up.
And A.J. Brown is going back on social media to say something stupid again?
Go right ahead, A.J. It doesn’t matter.
If you aren’t playing here, you aren’t playing.
It’s really that simple.