Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts raised some eyebrows when he curiously said following his membership’s 55-23 thrashing of the Washington Commanders on this previous Sunday’s NFC Championship Recreation that head coach Nick Sirianni “let me out of my straitjacket a bit of bit.”
Sirianni spoke with reporters on Tuesday and responded to Hurts’ remark.
“I suppose he was having enjoyable after the sport,” Sirianni defined, as shared by Bob Brookover of NJ Advance Media for NJ.com. “We’ve been profitable a few alternative ways this yr and I believe he was simply having enjoyable after the sport. However I do know this, and he has mentioned this loads of instances, he doesn’t care how we win and I don’t care how we win so long as we win. We do all the things we are able to to have the ability to win.”
It is hardly a secret that operating again Saquon Barkley has served as essentially the most useful participant of Philadelphia’s offense all through the playoffs. In the meantime, Hurts failed to succeed in 135 passing yards within the Eagles’ first two postseason wins earlier than he accomplished 20-of-28 passes for 246 yards and a landing towards Washington. The 26-year-old additionally notched three scores on the bottom within the blowout victory that propelled the Eagles to a Tremendous Bowl LIX matchup versus the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs.
“We talked rather a lot about how there have been completely different circumstances of how video games have went and the place we’ve been at late in video games, however we discovered a approach to win and rattle off 15 out of 16, so I believed [Hurts] was having enjoyable with that after the sport,” Sirianni added. “I simply liked how he went out and executed and ready for this sport. I at all times admire the heck out of how arduous he works whatever the scenario and the way he’s the identical man every single day.”
Hurts and Sirianni are reportedly now “in a better place“ relating to their relationship than the place they allegedly had been roughly 12 months in the past. They’re going to want to remain on the identical web page by the second Sunday of February to cease the Chiefs from becoming the primary crew in NFL historical past to three-peat as Tremendous Bowl champions.
As of Wednesday morning, DraftKings Sportsbook listed the Eagles as 1.5-point underdogs in that matchup. That same outlet had Hurts third among the many betting favorites at +350 odds to assert the Tremendous Bowl MVP Award.
