The Philadelphia Eagles are the defending NFL champion and have an 8-2 document this season however quarterback Jalen Hurts has needed to come out swinging in protection of his latest performances.
Hurts has come underneath scrutiny after a report in The Athletic claimed his safety-first method was irritating team-mates and stunting their point-scoring capacity.
The Eagles rank twenty fifth in complete yards (300.1 per recreation), twenty eighth in passing (184.9) and twenty ninth in third down conversion price (33.87%) this season.
“I’m not stunned by something. That is type of the character of the place,” Hurts mentioned. “However I put my vitality and my give attention to attempting to go on the market and do my finest and attempting to be taught, attempting to construct, attempting to soak up the issues that I can to attempt to enhance.
“I suppose I get a variety of consideration when issues are going nicely and when issues usually are not going so nicely. I by no means run away from holding myself accountable, and I believe that’s precisely what I’ve taken the method of doing.
“I take nice delight in what we do on offense. I take nice delight in how we go on the market and play as a crew and what our circulation is. I believe we’ve bought work to do, and that clearly begins with me. That’s at all times my method. That’s at all times me trying internally first in the whole lot that we do after which in due time rising above.”
Stats present it isn’t all adverse for Hurts
Relying on which stats are used, Hurts is both having a nasty season or a superb one. He has the fifth-highest QB score within the league and his 16 passing touchdowns to at least one interception is the perfect TD-to-INT ratio within the NFL.
The Eagles go to the 4-5-1 Dallas Cowboys this Sunday seeking to improve their record atop the NFC East.
“In the end, it’s about the way you navigate what’s in entrance of you and the way you reply to those issues,” Hurts added. “I believe the response is extra vital than something. It’s about pushing ahead; it’s about discovering methods to develop.
“There’s at all times going to be one thing. There’s at all times unknown. There’s at all times one other dynamic to a scenario. In the end, it’s about progress.”
Eagles coach Nick Sirianni was requested in regards to the report however dismissed it out of hand.
“I don’t essentially imagine the whole lot that’s being written. I simply don’t,” Sirianni mentioned. “I simply don’t fall into the entice of believing the whole lot you see or learn.”
