Doug Gottlieb: “It’s fascinating to me because Nick Sirianni is a very easy and unlikable target. Unless you’re an Eagles fan, I don’t know anybody who is like ‘YOU KNOW WHO I REALLY LIKE?? NICK SIRIANNI! HE’S NOT ANNOYING AT ALL!’... Sirianni takes all the heat and loves being a professional wrestler, and this is sort of what comes with it. I’m not going to give Hurts a pass. That’s because everybody I know in the sport has told me that Jalen Hurts is not easy to deal with. He has concocted and constructed a really, really good public image, but the reality is: he doesn’t read a defense great, he’s not a progressive thrower, and now he has all the power because of the new contract, and he doesn’t have to exactly do what his coach wants him to do.
We all know how this works, the coach goes first and then the quarterback goes second. I’M TELLING YOU that this is a Jalen Hurts kind of pattern. Public image is great, good looking, great smile, he’s got his thing together in how he purports himself, but there’s a limitation on how good he actually is, and when more is thrust on his plate he can’t do it. And yeah, they were dominant two years ago, but were they dominant because of Jalen Hurts, or were they dominant because of the scheme and the fact they just put people on their heels and used him as a runner? Now people have made him into a thrower and he’s just not that good. This is what happens when you give a player too much money, too soon, and they get too entitled and they think they run the place.
You don’t go from a guy who two and a half seasons ago they’re playing Tampa in the playoffs and you’re like ‘yeyyyy, we need to find a new quarterback’ to ‘GREATEST QUARTERBACK EVER! HIGHEST PAID GUY IN THE LEAGUE! WE WANT HIM ABOVE EVERYBODY ELSE!’... Nobody makes that kind of jump. The truth is somewhere in the middle. Jalen Hurts carries himself in a way with the level of confidence/arrogance that he doesn’t think his ‘stuff’ stinks, and if there’s something wrong it’s gotta be the coach, it’s not the player.
None of this surprises me. Jalen Hurts is almost always better than you think he should be and then once he gets solidified, then he becomes difficult to deal with. That’s what happened at Oklahoma, that’s what happened at Alabama, that’s my guess the pattern of what’s happening in Philadelphia. Is he so good that you can put up with him being a pain in the know you what?”
Listen to Doug Gottlieb of Fox Sports Radio’s The Doug Gottlieb Show discuss the developing reports of beef between Philadelphia Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni and quarterback Jalen Hurts, as Gottlieb believes the onslaught of public disdain for Sirianni might actually be unfair and more deserved for Hurts.
Check out the segment above as Gottlieb says Hurts’ sparkling public image is covering up a diva quarterback that is difficult to deal with, and that Hurts only looks like the good guy here because Sirianni comes off as thoroughly unlikeable.
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