Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts enters the 2026 NFL season going through extra query marks than ever earlier than, believes Sky Sports activities NFL’s Neil Reynolds.
The Eagles leaned closely on Vic Fangio’s star-studded protection alongside a sputtering Hurts-led assault on the best way to profitable the NFC East title final season.
It might culminate in a playoff defeat to the San Francisco 49ers and the firing of offensive coordinator Kevin Patullo, whereas a disgruntled AJ Brown departed within the offseason after an obvious breakdown in his reference to Hurts each on and off the sphere.
“Solely Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes have accounted for extra offensive touchdowns than Jalen Hurts within the final 5 years,” mentioned Reynolds on Contained in the Huddle.
“He is a Tremendous Bowl MVP, however these whispers about how he can influence the offense, how he will get alongside together with his team-mates, all of that is grown about as loud because it’s ever been throughout this offseason, about how he can run an offense, what he can do, what his limitations are.”
Hurts was named Tremendous Bowl MVP after a commanding efficiency to steer the Eagles to victory over the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs two years in the past, denying Andy Reid’s facet a historic three-peat.
Nonetheless, doubts of his skills would comply with amid a laboured 2025 marketing campaign.
“It is arduous, I feel he could be a polarizing character at instances as a result of he is really simply so stoic all through or nearly maintains the identical feelings. And folks need to see him get comfortable or mad or something like that,” mentioned Sky Sports activities NFL’s Phoebe Schecter.
“I really feel like there’s a lot of different folks making use of how they really feel he ought to assume or really feel. Then you will have folks his profession by way of criticising the run recreation, criticising his passing recreation, criticising who he throws the soccer to, and Philadelphia is just not a simple place to play.
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On the Inside The Huddle podcast Neil Reynolds, Jeff Reinebold and Phoebe Schecter give their predictions on who will make the Tremendous Bowl in 2027
“We all know that there is numerous exterior stress from the Eagles followers, whether or not you are profitable or dropping, but it surely looks like a crew that has constantly been pushed by what the skin noise desires, or perhaps the coordinators are permitting that to occur the place they assume, ‘oh, they assume we have to cross it to this individual, they assume we must always throw it’.
“It nearly simply wants all these doorways shut, which might be why Jalen Hurts may be very very like that. Even spending time with him this offseason he just about is precisely the identical. He does not actually get too excited.
“It is going to be fascinating now, is it that addition by subtraction with regards to AJ Brown, what does the offense appear to be?”
Hurts and the Eagles start their season towards one other quarterback going through queries within the gentle of a disappointing marketing campaign marred by harm.
Jayden Daniels missed 10 video games for the Washington Commanders final season, failing to construct on his Offensive Rookie of the Yr-winning marketing campaign.
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Talking on the Contained in the Huddle podcast, Neil Reynolds and Phoebe Schecter look at whether or not the Broncos are able to mount a real Tremendous Bowl problem
“He advised me in the summertime he was going to study to stay to battle one other down,” mentioned Reynolds. “I’ll consider it once I see it, when you get within the warmth of the battle.
“There’s numerous questions on Jayden Daniels, as a result of if he is wholesome, let’s not overlook two seasons in the past, they had been within the NFC championship recreation towards these very Eagles.”
Schecter added: “Jayden Daniels is so fascinating as a result of he does have such a slim match body and we have seen how that may have a destructive influence, however we have additionally seen how his pace and athleticism has actually helped the crew at instances is evasive strikes within the pocket, and even simply when he is scrambling or operating down discipline.
“And you then’ve obtained on prime of it, the quantity of off-field work that he does from a preparation perspective. The additional conferences that he is doing within the morning to stroll by means of the play script or the digital actuality that he is watching, not each quarterback does that.
“Its simply ensuring that his offensive line can shield him lengthy sufficient towards an Eagles protection and particularly an Eagles defensive position which might be simply identified for his or her aggression.”
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