{"id":685970,"date":"2026-01-18T07:20:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T07:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/685970\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T07:20:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T07:20:19","slug":"philadelphia-eagles-nick-sirianni-isnt-wrong-about-jalen-hurts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/685970\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Eagles&#8217; Nick Sirianni Isn&#8217;t Wrong About Jalen Hurts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The conversations about Jalen Hurts seem to come up every offseason, no matter how much winning he\u2019s done in a Philadelphia Eagles uniform.<\/p>\n<p>Whether it\u2019s about his passing struggles, being more like a running back, or how the offense should look but doesn\u2019t, a lot of people aren\u2019t happy with him again this offseason.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>While Hurts had a decent year and did some good things, he could\u2019ve been better.<\/p>\n<p>However, head coach Nick Sirianni made it clear that improving isn\u2019t something the Eagles are going to take lightly, especially when it comes to their quarterback.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about Hurts being able to get better, Sirianni loves how flexible he\u2019s become with this offense<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou saw this year that he\u2019s open to doing a bunch. We were under center more than we have been,&#8221; Sirianni <a href=\"https:\/\/insidetheiggles.com\/nick-sirianni-says-what-every-philadelphia-eagles-fan-has-known-about-jalen-hurts-for-6-years\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:said;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">said<\/a>, per Inside the Iggles. &#8220;Different motions, different things. Jalen (Hurts) will do whatever it takes to win football games. Sometimes that\u2019s throwing it a bunch, sometimes it\u2019s running it a bunch, sometimes it\u2019s handing it off a bunch. All I\u2019ve ever known from Jalen is the man will do whatever he has to do to win football games. He pushes himself to excel at the things he\u2019s done so well, and he\u2019s proven to everybody year in year out that all he cares about is winning and holding that trophy up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia has embraced versatility with its quarterback and Hurts has delivered, at times.<\/p>\n<p>As defenses continue to adjust to running quarterbacks, the ability to win in multiple ways becomes important, and at times, that was an issue this past year. Hurts doesn\u2019t need to post gaudy passing totals every week to win, but he needs to do more as a passer.<\/p>\n<p>Hurts\u2019 growth under center this past season was one of the quieter developments in Philadelphia\u2019s offense. That was due to how poorly the offense played for a lot of the season.<\/p>\n<p>However, he showed some nice signs, and if he continues to do so, things might be better moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll see if that will be the case in 2026 and beyond, but the Eagles need some help, so he\u2019ll need to be on his A-game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The conversations about Jalen Hurts seem to come up every offseason, no matter how much winning he\u2019s done&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2068],"tags":[25,7,492,6,5351,242,109,2476,425],"class_list":{"0":"post-685970","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-eagles","8":"tag-eagles","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-jalen-hurts","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-nick-sirianni","13":"tag-philadelphia","14":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","15":"tag-philadelphiaeagles","16":"tag-the-eagles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115914894466534817","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}