Jalen Hurts just keeps finding ways to win, even when his team tries its best to make it tough. The Philadelphia Eagles snatched a 24-20 victory against the Tennessee Titans at Nissan Stadium on Sunday, a win fueled almost entirely by Hurts’ sheer will, delivering the game-winning touchdown with only nine seconds left on the clock. He finished the day completing 26 of 37 passes for 264 yards, including two touchdowns, despite also throwing two interceptions.
The Clutch King Does It Again
Seriously, this dude is built different. When the chips were down, when everyone was watching, Hurts went into what folks are calling “Jordan mode” and carried the Eagles to victory. He led a 65-yard game-winning drive, hitting Darius Cooper for a three-yard score with literally seconds to spare. On that final drive, Hurts completed six of eight passes for 61 yards, including converting a pair of crucial third-and-six plays. It wasn’t always pretty, with him throwing down the middle to “mixed results,” but you know what matters to Hurts? The win. He scrambled, he made plays, and he never let those two mistakes drag him down. This guy idolizes Michael Jordan, and right now, fresh into a new season, you’d be hard-pressed to find a more clutch performer in the NFL. He says he doesn’t listen to the “outside noise,” but you know he does, and he loves it. He feeds off the doubt, using the negative to push himself even harder. That’s a true competitor.
Battling Adversity, Inside and Out
The fact that Hurts pulled this off is even wilder when you look at what he was up against. Forget the Titans for a second, he was battling his own team’s issues! The Eagles were missing Saquon Barkley for much of the first half and Dallas Goedert for most of the game. Plus, the on-field turf temperatures at Nissan Stadium hit a scorching 157 degrees by the third quarter. And let’s not even start on the “revamped offensive line,” which is stirring more questions than answers heading into Week 3. Even with all that, and the Eagles’ offensive line struggling mightily against Titans’ game-wrecking defensive tackle Jeffery Simmons, Hurts finally solved Titans’ head coach Robert Saleh. This was a big one, as it marked the first time Hurts beat a Saleh-led defense after going 0-2 against him previously with the Jets and last year’s Wild Card loss. It was also the Eagles’ first win in Nashville since the Titans moved from Houston way back in 1997.
What’s next for the Eagles? They’re heading into Week 3 with a lot to clean up, especially that offensive line. But one thing’s for sure: with Jalen Hurts under center, they’ll always have a shot. He’s embracing the doubt, and that fire is what makes him so dangerous.
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Originally reported by Bleeding Green Nation.
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