Would the Eagles bench Jalen Hurts?

Would a high school coach sit dak to preserve him for a couple more years if we are out of the playoffs? Would a high school coach want to evaluate the backup since we have nothing to play for, or would he want to rack up stats?
 
The talk in Philly is real.........

https://bleacherreport.com/articles...-or-kevin-patullo-real-problem-eagles-offense

Is Jalen Hurts or Kevin Patullo the Real Problem for the Eagles Offense?​

Alex KayDec 9, 2025
Benching Hurts and Moving On
If the Eagles do make the once unfathomable choice to bench Hurts and ultimately go on to fare better with McKee at the helm—potentially even defending their title with the backup under center—it could lead to one of the most intriguing quarterback controversies in league history.
It wouldn't be unprecedented for a backup to emerge as a superstar after supplanting the starter. Hurts himself stepped in for an ineffective Carson Wentz just over a half-decade ago and never relinquished the role. Wentz hadn't won a Super Bowl the previous season, nor made it to the big game a couple years prior, which makes this one of the more interesting hypothetical scenarios that has a chance (albeit an extremely small one) of playing out over the next few months.


If hed play Dak-like for sure. That would have happenend a long time ago. In the end the Eagles are determined to have success and are not like us bound to certain players because those are spineless figureheads around whom you can creat wondefull feelgood stories. And so bind the casual not-so-bright fan to buy your merchandize products and even feel great that he now can call himself a "real fan".

Even moreso if hed trash talk like our trashcan and crap the bed afterwards not feeling any kind of stupidity he would been long gone. You just cant have such low level wanna be leadership on a team you wsnt to win with.

But the guy performs even thru his lesser games.

So: No.
 
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I think Hurts is basically punished for being a good runner and not 6'4 in height.
Punished? No idea what that means.

Shorter QBs have trouble seeing the field. Running QBs are easy to shut down if they are not competent passers. Is that punishing him?
 
Punished? No idea what that means.

Shorter QBs have trouble seeing the field. Running QBs are easy to shut down if they are not competent passers. Is that punishing him?
Punished was the wrong word. Overly criticised and at times underrated. His performances in two Superbowls were superb. Rare to put up 35 points and lose.
 
Dak has no ring,... he sure got the money for it though.

This entire team has been rebuilt around Dak in that time. I know Jerry is partly to blame, and Dak is looking a bit better now, but we are 10 years in. He has one or 2 more shots to stop being a highly paid deer in the headlights sucking the life out of our salary cap before he needs to be cut loose.
That's OK, that you're too dense to understand what I'm saying, your comprehension skills are ridiculous,

people try to explain to you that team records, success and failures ,are just that, they're not on the quarterback, I don't care how much money he makes, or doesn't make, I don't care if he's on a rookie contract, or making 60 million,

he still needs a team to play well when it counts, and the Cowboys have had not had that!!:facepalm:

So you blaming the quarterback for not having a ring and yet somehow you think that we can list 12 to 14 quarterbacks who got carried and have rings, and by the way you're not going to like this hot button topic but Troy Aikman and Roger had all in teams, they didn't play great all the time, they were not flawless, But their team showed up when it counted for the most part.

That's not what's happened with the Cowboys, the last 30 years in the playoffs, I don't care how good the players were, all pros, Pro Bowlers, Rookie of the Year candidates, MVP candidates IN THE REGULAR season, they didn't play well inthe olayoff games we lost,

our quarterbacks not the reason we don't have a ring, not his salary, and not his play on the field....

You don't get it,

I'm tired of talking about it, you can have your opinion but the reason Jalen Hurts has a ring and Prescott doesn't, is because of the team he landed on, not because how well or not well he played, it's easy to play quarterback when you have a defense special teams coaching everybody around you is playing well, when your defense can shut down Patrick Mahomes in the Super Bowl, When the coaching staff can out coach Andy Reid, it's much easier to be so comfortable sitting back there with a 2000 yard running back, and a great offensive line, and just be yourself, not have all the pressure on your shoulders that it all runs through you, and you will be blamed for any lack of success..


So again...

IF I Have to explain football to you, or team sports, but generally football, is the ultimate team sport ,

prescott has not been the reason ,just like Romo has not been the reason, we have not made it in these playoff games, it's been A lack of a run game ,not being physical in the trenches, just getting out coached , too may penalty's, and beat up, our best players have chosen to find the playoff games or games like the Lions game to have their worst games...Facts

look at the Lions game, that is a culmination how most of those playoff losses has went, we look back at the 2023 playoff loss kind of look eerily familiar to that Lion's loss, The way we lost to Denver ,the way we keep losing to the Cardinals, the quarterback play has had nothing to really do with the direct link to the losses, it's everything else....

If you don't understand that ,I'm sorry, but you're one of those people you look at rings and you think that somehow a lot of these quarterbacks are the SOLE reason those teams won rings, and no the teams won the rings because the teams that played as teams as most complete teams and the players are the ones that won..

I Can't give you a better example of Matthew Stafford leading the league in interceptions, throwing two interceptions in the Super Bowl, and his defense being so good ,his coaching staff so good, that they neutralized those two turnovers, and didn't blame him for making mistakes, they picked him up, and they made sure that the team got him a ring, they all played their part during the regular season, stepped it up in the playoffs, and all ended up with a ring,

all of them have a ring, so if you think they're punter who has a ring is better than Prescott, then I understand why you think the rings are direct reflection of the quarterback, and they are not always that way most of the time it's the other way around...

And lastly let's just talk about Danny White who somehow is talked up around here like he was some kind of good quarterback he was a Taysom Hill type player that ended up on a super team, and while he played in championship games, he was the reason they didn't get to the Super Bowls, he had an upside down turnover to touchdown ratio, literally had more interceptions and more fumbles and mistakes made in those big games then he had positive plays, and somehow he's talked about as well at least he got to the championship games..

no he didn't,

tom Landry and that defense and that run game in offensive line, Danny White somehow have some kind of glory around here when he is nowhere near as good as Prescott or Romo, that's a fact just because a man can punt the ball, because you remember him playing in championship games, no what I remember is he's the reason we didn't get past the championship games..

Mark Sanchez come to mind? Blake Bortles, they played in championship games.. Guess what there's a reason they didn't get past the Championship games, because their team was good enough Their coaching staff was good enough to get them to a championship game but now when they really needed the quarterback to step up, they couldn't...

If We cant agree on anything more than you should understand that if you don't think Prescott and Romo were better than Bortles and Sanchez that I can't help you..

I think Prescott or Romo on those Danny White teams would have made the Super Bowl multiple times and won a couple of times you can substitute Troy and Roger for Romo or Prescott, and they don't miss a beat, that's how good those teams were, but that's how good those quarterbacks are, they don't have to be elite or special they are franchise quarterbacks that could have done the same thing with a super team, just like Stafford...

That is the point and whether you read this or not and I understand you don't want to,

because you're going to keep claiming the quarterback we have here his money and the fact that you think he's the problem in the playoffs or from Jerry building this team without looking around and figuring out that other teams have found a way to pay all their players build a good enough team to get past the 2nd round of the playoffs where ours did not..
 
Exactly. Dilfer won a Super Bowl. If that isn't proof that it takes more than just a QB to win a title then I am just about out of words.
We all know this and yet the haters just won't get past it,

There's a 12 or 14 names, I mean even if you're saying we can't get past the second round guys like Mark Sanchez, Blake Bortles ,Colin Kaepernick, these dudes were not better than Romo or Prescott... they were on better teams including Danny White, that's right, i'm throwing him under a bus because the dude had an upside down touchdown interception ratio he had more negative plays in the playoffs then he had positive plays ,and yet around here because he made a championship games, he must have been special he has to be better than Prescott or Dak...

nope.. That's not how that works...
 
I think Hurts is basically punished for being a good runner and not 6'4 in height.
The national sports media establishes a narrative about quarterbacks and when the ones they adore are not successful I think they resent having to explain why they’re wrong. The moment Hurts struggles they over criticize him in an effort to convince viewers/readers they were right about him.

Have to wonder what Atlanta Falcons fans or New York Jets fans think when they listen to Eagles fans booing the team and suggesting Hurts be benched.
 
The national sports media establishes a narrative about quarterbacks and when the ones they adore are not successful I think they resent having to explain why they’re wrong. The moment Hurts struggles they over criticize him in an effort to convince viewers/readers they were right about him.

Have to wonder what Atlanta Falcons fans or New York Jets fans think when they listen to Eagles fans booing the team and suggesting Hurts be benched.
Well that's kind of easy to deduce that You can use the term that used to be common here is those teams you can add in the Browns They have a different pedigree and expectation of course they 'd want a Jalen Hurts but whenever the goal is now for the Eagles are to win Super Bowls or bust it's a new narrative...

Eagles fans and now the media their expectations now are the Eagles are going to be a dynasty in some ways, now they're expecting them to win it big every year, and when they don't they fall short, they're going to look for a scapegoat and the quarterbacks are the easiest targets on any team..

I mean it's very similar to Dallas I mean most of these teams would love Prescott or Romo they see us complaining about them the media complain about them they're going what are you complaining about it's because the expectations have been different for these types of teams one just would love to win on a regular basis and at least get to the playoffs and the others are super disappointed when they don't make the Super Bowl...
 
Punished was the wrong word. Overly criticised and at times underrated. His performances in two Superbowls were superb. Rare to put up 35 points and lose.
Ah, now that makes sense!!!!
Hurts is a good QB, but limited as a passer. He must run the ball to be effective. I mean, that's not even a criticism. Same as saying Tom Brady must NOT run the ball to be effective. It's all about playing to a player's strengths.

I have no idea why Hurts is refusing to run at this point. My conjecture is that he isn't healed from the knee injury he sustain just a couple or so games ago. He also had a shoulder injury this season, could be affecting his passing.
 
We all know this and yet the haters just won't get past it,

There's a 12 or 14 names, I mean even if you're saying we can't get past the second round guys like Mark Sanchez, Blake Bortles ,Colin Kaepernick, these dudes were not better than Romo or Prescott... they were on better teams including Danny White, that's right, i'm throwing him under a bus because the dude had an upside down touchdown interception ratio he had more negative plays in the playoffs then he had positive plays ,and yet around here because he made a championship games, he must have been special he has to be better than Prescott or Dak...

nope.. That's not how that works...
No he didn't. Danny was 155 TDs to 132 INTs.

Stop w/ the "hater" stuff, makes you sound juvenile.
 
That's OK, that you're too dense to understand what I'm saying, your comprehension skills are ridiculous,

people try to explain to you that team records, success and failures ,are just that, they're not on the quarterback, I don't care how much money he makes, or doesn't make, I don't care if he's on a rookie contract, or making 60 million,

he still needs a team to play well when it counts, and the Cowboys have had not had that!!:facepalm:

So you blaming the quarterback for not having a ring and yet somehow you think that we can list 12 to 14 quarterbacks who got carried and have rings, and by the way you're not going to like this hot button topic but Troy Aikman and Roger had all in teams, they didn't play great all the time, they were not flawless, But their team showed up when it counted for the most part.

That's not what's happened with the Cowboys, the last 30 years in the playoffs, I don't care how good the players were, all pros, Pro Bowlers, Rookie of the Year candidates, MVP candidates IN THE REGULAR season, they didn't play well inthe olayoff games we lost,

our quarterbacks not the reason we don't have a ring, not his salary, and not his play on the field....

You don't get it,

I'm tired of talking about it, you can have your opinion but the reason Jalen Hurts has a ring and Prescott doesn't, is because of the team he landed on, not because how well or not well he played, it's easy to play quarterback when you have a defense special teams coaching everybody around you is playing well, when your defense can shut down Patrick Mahomes in the Super Bowl, When the coaching staff can out coach Andy Reid, it's much easier to be so comfortable sitting back there with a 2000 yard running back, and a great offensive line, and just be yourself, not have all the pressure on your shoulders that it all runs through you, and you will be blamed for any lack of success..


So again...

IF I Have to explain football to you, or team sports, but generally football, is the ultimate team sport ,

prescott has not been the reason ,just like Romo has not been the reason, we have not made it in these playoff games, it's been A lack of a run game ,not being physical in the trenches, just getting out coached , too may penalty's, and beat up, our best players have chosen to find the playoff games or games like the Lions game to have their worst games...Facts

look at the Lions game, that is a culmination how most of those playoff losses has went, we look back at the 2023 playoff loss kind of look eerily familiar to that Lion's loss, The way we lost to Denver ,the way we keep losing to the Cardinals, the quarterback play has had nothing to really do with the direct link to the losses, it's everything else....

If you don't understand that ,I'm sorry, but you're one of those people you look at rings and you think that somehow a lot of these quarterbacks are the SOLE reason those teams won rings, and no the teams won the rings because the teams that played as teams as most complete teams and the players are the ones that won..

I Can't give you a better example of Matthew Stafford leading the league in interceptions, throwing two interceptions in the Super Bowl, and his defense being so good ,his coaching staff so good, that they neutralized those two turnovers, and didn't blame him for making mistakes, they picked him up, and they made sure that the team got him a ring, they all played their part during the regular season, stepped it up in the playoffs, and all ended up with a ring,

all of them have a ring, so if you think they're punter who has a ring is better than Prescott, then I understand why you think the rings are direct reflection of the quarterback, and they are not always that way most of the time it's the other way around...

And lastly let's just talk about Danny White who somehow is talked up around here like he was some kind of good quarterback he was a Taysom Hill type player that ended up on a super team, and while he played in championship games, he was the reason they didn't get to the Super Bowls, he had an upside down turnover to touchdown ratio, literally had more interceptions and more fumbles and mistakes made in those big games then he had positive plays, and somehow he's talked about as well at least he got to the championship games..

no he didn't,

tom Landry and that defense and that run game in offensive line, Danny White somehow have some kind of glory around here when he is nowhere near as good as Prescott or Romo, that's a fact just because a man can punt the ball, because you remember him playing in championship games, no what I remember is he's the reason we didn't get past the championship games..

Mark Sanchez come to mind? Blake Bortles, they played in championship games.. Guess what there's a reason they didn't get past the Championship games, because their team was good enough Their coaching staff was good enough to get them to a championship game but now when they really needed the quarterback to step up, they couldn't...

If We cant agree on anything more than you should understand that if you don't think Prescott and Romo were better than Bortles and Sanchez that I can't help you..

I think Prescott or Romo on those Danny White teams would have made the Super Bowl multiple times and won a couple of times you can substitute Troy and Roger for Romo or Prescott, and they don't miss a beat, that's how good those teams were, but that's how good those quarterbacks are, they don't have to be elite or special they are franchise quarterbacks that could have done the same thing with a super team, just like Stafford...

That is the point and whether you read this or not and I understand you don't want to,

because you're going to keep claiming the quarterback we have here his money and the fact that you think he's the problem in the playoffs or from Jerry building this team without looking around and figuring out that other teams have found a way to pay all their players build a good enough team to get past the 2nd round of the playoffs where ours did not..
This is getting ridiculous, really! You think most posters will read all this crap? smdh
 
This is just ridiculous.

It goes to show that every fandom has ridiculous fans.

 
Exactly. Dilfer won a Super Bowl. If that isn't proof that it takes more than just a QB to win a title then I am just about out of words.
What gets me is you think anyone thinks otherwise. People jump from critiquing Dak to you're a hater and solely blame him for not singlehandedly going undefeated every game of his career. You're making a point literally to nobody. You're seeing ghosts and they aren't responding to you and you wonder why.
 
Well that's kind of easy to deduce that You can use the term that used to be common here is those teams you can add in the Browns They have a different pedigree and expectation of course they 'd want a Jalen Hurts but whenever the goal is now for the Eagles are to win Super Bowls or bust it's a new narrative...

Eagles fans and now the media their expectations now are the Eagles are going to be a dynasty in some ways, now they're expecting them to win it big every year, and when they don't they fall short, they're going to look for a scapegoat and the quarterbacks are the easiest targets on any team..

I mean it's very similar to Dallas I mean most of these teams would love Prescott or Romo they see us complaining about them the media complain about them they're going what are you complaining about it's because the expectations have been different for these types of teams one just would love to win on a regular basis and at least get to the playoffs and the others are super disappointed when they don't make the Super Bowl...
The narrative on Justin Herbert is the most amusing. He’s done nothing notable in the playoffs except be part of blowing a huge lead to Jacksonville. He’s regarded, and paid, like a top five quarterback. His coach referred to him as the “best quarterback ever”. If it’s accepted this is all true it’s an indictment of someone or something else about the Chargers franchise. If Philly can win with a comparatively marginal QB like Hurts, who and what is to blame for the Chargers’ lack of success? Something must be woefully inadequate with the LA Chargers to consistently fail despite having an all time great quarterback.
 
A tale of 2 QB's


QB #1 ....... Leading the Division and just won the Superbowl ......... bench that guy!

QB#2 ......... 6-6-1 MVP! MVP! Highest payed player ever! Starter forever!
 
On Jalen Hurts? You don’t bench a guy who has the second best winning % in the league and has been to multiple SBs in the last 3 years because of a bad stretch. If anyone has earned the right to play through it wouldn’t be him? How many years did Eli get of sloppy football? And nobody questioned whether or not he earned it

My personal opinion would be similar to firing a HC: Is there a clear upgrade available? Are we expecting Tanner McKee to step in and immediately do better than the 8-5 reigning SB MVP?
I agree with some of that although I'm not going to talk to an Eagles fan or whatever you're a fan of I have you on Ignore for a reason But right about hurts.

You're nuts what were you 5 years old when Eli Manning was playing they blamed him for everything the guy had a 500 record he led the league and at least three seasons and interceptions and yes he was carried into those Super Bowls those catches that some of those receivers made that are now in a lot of highlight reels that defense with the NASCAR package yeah the defense the players they stepped up at the right time and got on a run that's what it takes..

You must have been really young because Eli Manning got torched in places like this on social media I mean this was a Carson Wentz level player that got lucky with some of the teams that were built around him..

Not saying he wasn't talented but he definitely got the criticism people did talk about him all the time and how he basically might have been holding the team back yes he had some good runs and some good throws in the playoffs but so did Nick Foles guys like that that didn't do it often they got lucky in little stretches that's how guys like Mark Sanchez and others have gotten into championship games it's the team carried them yes it has been talked about with other players they have been criticized just as much when they've had stretches like this or worse...

But I'm also in agreement that you don't bench a guy like her tonight hate the Eagles with a passion but I agree with that... I mean no one's talking about benching Patrick Mahomes and he's going through struggles hell he didn't look the same last year If you look around and look at the team some of it is on the team they got lazy in the off seasons the last three or four years and it's starting to catch up to them but nobody has mentioned benching him so yeah they're they're exaggerating a bit if anyone believes that..
 
Ah, now that makes sense!!!!
Hurts is a good QB, but limited as a passer. He must run the ball to be effective. I mean, that's not even a criticism. Same as saying Tom Brady must NOT run the ball to be effective. It's all about playing to a player's strengths.

I have no idea why Hurts is refusing to run at this point. My conjecture is that he isn't healed from the knee injury he sustain just a couple or so games ago. He also had a shoulder injury this season, could be affecting his passing.
Maybe they are saving his running ability for the play offs...but it has reached the point whereby if that's the case they will probably let him run as they might have to win out if the Cowboys do as well.
 

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